Canada Fears Hizbullah Reprisals over STL Indictments
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Canada's security service identified possible Hizbullah reprisals over Hariri murder indictments as a national security threat, said a report Thursday.
A classified document cited by the Montreal French-language daily La Presse, entitled "Special Tribunal for Lebanon: does Hizbullah have recourse for violence in 2011?" outlines the concerns of Canada's Integrated Threat Assessment Center.
The U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) investigating the 2005 murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri indicted Salim Ayyash, 47, Mustafa Badreddine, 50, Hussein Anaissi, 37 and Assad Sabra, 34, for the 14 February 2005 suicide car bomb attack in Beirut that killed Hariri and 22 others.
All four are members of Hizbullah, which is now a key player in Lebanon's coalition government and has refused to allow the arrest of the four suspects.
The STL prosecutor in the case, Daniel Bellemare, is Canadian. Two dozen of his compatriots also work for the tribunal.
"Many Lebanese see the STL's investigation as being run by Canadians since it is headed by a Canadian," the said Integrated Threat Assessment Center document penned in March.
It notes that "Canada has considerable interests in Lebanon" and the Lebanese diaspora in Canada includes Hizbullah sympathizers. As such, it goes on to say, Ottawa must remain vigilant against possible reprisals.
Hizbullah is blacklisted by the Canadian government.
18 August 2011, 19:22
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We don't care. Nobody can scare us anymore. Bring on the truth
18 August 2011, 20:03
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What if the accused (sorry I meant saints) managed to enter Canada somehow and live there now!? Wouldn't that be ironic?
18 August 2011, 20:04
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Yes, Hezbollah has WMD and wants to invade in USA and Canada.
Crazy people who believe all this western BS.
18 August 2011, 20:30
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There will be many threats and even actions from terrorists like this. The big stuff that happens in Iraq is probably from them and Assad. They are is serious decline. Terrorists only know terror, not politics, finesse, or good words.
18 August 2011, 22:23
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Seriously, now hizeb will attack Mars and, and and....Stop making them look big. Ma 7addan akbar min ALLAH. Fee janneh aw fi Nar ya 3alam.
18 August 2011, 22:32
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BullsEye ure laughing but ironically i think thatswhere they are, since i know ALOT of people back home (lebanon) that are coming here (canada) wiothout any papers or fake papers, RAN BY HIZBALLAH, so how does the Canadian gvmnt know how to protect its national security? Canada i hate you i hate living here and i hate your stupid non sense comments when harper has no clue about whats going on in the world.
19 August 2011, 00:10
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No No No... Lebanese Know Very Well Canada the country has nothing to do with the tribunal.
● ● ● Nobody, and nothing can come between Lebanese and Canadians!
This article by La Presee is very very bad publicity to Lebanese in Canada.
Canada is a friedly nation and Lebanese have an intimate and close relationship to the friendly nation.
It is true however that Harper is pro-Israeli, a position Canada has never taken, from it's previous admirable neutral position.
19 August 2011, 01:21
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Oh, because Bellemerde is Canadian, Canada becomes under threat. And Otto Von Hable is German, so Germany is under threat. The Egyptian Tabbello Yawad is Egyptian, so Egypt in under threat. Barmino Bouzoni is Italian, so Italy is under threat.
19 August 2011, 05:32
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I heard that 1 of them lives around Toronto and travel between there and Michigan........
19 August 2011, 12:01
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...and because Hassan is a terrorist all Shiites should support him.
19 August 2011, 18:09
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LOL all u guys are canadian lovers, soft, these guys cant even take care of their ministry of transportation. as it is an experience i am experience at the moment as i type this. were are all of you guys when people here get descriminated by authorities because youre hanging out with ure friends in a partking lot something everyone does here cuz theres NOTHING ELSE TO DO ! eff this country, and eff who told you guys its a free country, Lebanon is free, no one bothers u on ure own free will. here uncle sam is always watching always snooping around always taking ure money always interfering in ure internal affairs. let me see you guys survive in this shithole ull go running back to libnen.
