Hizbullah Denies Involvement in Gebran Tueni Assassination
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Hizbullah on Monday denied involvement in the 2005 assassination of prominent journalist and MP Gebran Tueni, chairman of the board of directors of An Nahar newspaper, after Al-Arabiya television broadcast Saturday a report claiming that Damascus and Hizbullah's intelligence department were behind the operation.
“Al-Arabiya's document on Hizbullah is fake and not everything published is a real document and you can tell that from the content,” Hizbullah's State Minister for Administrative Development Mohammed Fneish told reporters as he entered a cabinet session at the Grand Serail.
Later on Monday, Hizbullah issued an official statement denying “any involvement whatsoever” in Tueni's assassination, saying it is “awaiting the judiciary's ruling in this case.”
The party also slammed the comments of "some March 14 figures and websites" that were voiced after the airing of the report.
"The stances voiced by the March 14 forces on several issues are always based on fake documents and fabricated info,” said the statement.
It accused the March 14 camp of taking advantage of the “baseless accusations fabricated by the Saudi network Al-Arabiya and attributed to Syrian opposition activists, including those related to the assassination of MP Gebran Tueni.”
“It was not surprising that those who had excelled in fabricating false witnesses have resorted to fake documents whose authenticity has been questioned by their regional allies, topped by the Qataris and the Turks, who have described Al-Arabiya's documents as false, fabricated and baseless,” Hizbullah added, wondering whether the March 14 forces have received “an American memo to inflame the domestic situations.”
“Hizbullah denies any involvement whatsoever in the assassination of MP Gebran Tueni and stresses its condemnation of political assassinations,” the party said, noting that “some of those claiming keenness on the security of the country and its citizens do not enjoy the minimum sense of responsibility.”
“With the help of members of the intelligence department of Lebanon's Hizbullah, Mission 213, which was assigned to them on December 10, has been successfully accomplished with excellent results,” said an allegedly leaked Syrian document obtained by Al-Arabiya.
The document, dated December 12, 2005, was sent by head of the operations department in the Syrian intelligence, Hasan Abdul Rahman, to then chief of national security department Assef Shawkat, according to Al-Arabiya.
“In concurrence with Assef Shawkat's letter on accomplishing the mission and on the same day the letter was sent to the Syrian presidential palace, a booby-trapped car was awaiting Lebanese lawmaker Gebran Tueni to end his life while on his way to work, in an assassination operation described as mysterious back then,” Al-Arabiya added.
A leaked U.S. Embassy cable dated December 19, 2005 said Syria was likely behind Tueni's assassination in 2005, which was aimed at silencing his caustic remarks against the regime of President Bashar Assad.
The WikiLeaks cable, which was published exclusively in al-Jumhouriya newspaper, added that the assassination was also a message to the Lebanese opposition that “no one can protect them.”
08 October 2012, 17:43
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Liars....they have lied about everything that affecting Lebanon: They started an offensive war, they killed Lebanese by plan on May 8, they are killing Syrians, they build on church land, The sell drugs, and they are drowning the country in debt from electricity so they can "protect us". Now we see they did assasination with Syria of Lebanese.
Nothing is confirmed until officially denied.
08 October 2012, 20:26
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Living in a bubble of 'denial' you scum Farsi schizo motormouth. Same denial you have been preaching on this site for ages about all past HA assassinations! Same denial you just posted last week about "It was not the Syrian regime that fired on Turkey" to hear later that Syrian regime admission of assault. What a worthless sewage you are and those few naive like you! Go back to Iran. Lebanese don't want your kind around!
09 October 2012, 02:00
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Another propaganda employee in defense of his employer. Come one quick fill this column up with your theories.
09 October 2012, 07:52
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dear mouwaten, what's your arguments for Harb and Hariri. don't you see that's not about justice or evidence. it's only about having no respect for anybody. tell us what instance or tribunal you recognize that we can ask fot justice.
08 October 2012, 17:45
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They are pathological liars. They deny deny deny.
Come on , we are not stupid.
Our tolerance level is coming to an end!
08 October 2012, 17:52
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hizbushaitan has no other alternative but to deny :)
however we all know this is true.
08 October 2012, 18:37
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Deny, deny, and insist--that's the Iranian/syrian/hizb way.
Of course, they haven't denied fighting in syria yet--I am sure they are trying to make up a good lie as we speak.
08 October 2012, 19:23
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I am sort of disappointed. I always knew that the neo-stalinist syrian regime is behind the killing of each great man in lebanon.
I also dont really trust Hezbollah. for many reasons, one of them, HA doesnt really value human life, (their own included)- so killing someone is not this big deal to them
However, HA is our partner in society since he is the only one feeding dollars to chiites, and hence they like him. I see HA like a father sees a criminal son. Cant kill him. Must find other methods to get him to mend his ways... Patience, persistance, constant pressure, waiting for change in the regional scene, but we cant fight it and marginalize it. Eventually HA will weaken and join the lebanese mosaic.
08 October 2012, 20:38
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I am not suprised that Hizbullah is involved in this crime; what surprises me is not the fact, but the form. Hizbullah seems to operate like an extension of the Syrian security (and terror) agencies. They send them an order, and 2 days later it is executed, no questions asked, just like a direct order. Oh well. You have to give Aoun credit, he was the first to call Hizbullah terrorists when no one dared to say it, now his words are being proven right every day.
08 October 2012, 21:04
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Seriously, asif they are going to admit they were involved! Haha.
08 October 2012, 23:08
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Enough with the finger pointing. Everyone is guilty of destroying this country by siding with civil war militias to follow in their family's steps, or by pure infatuation with war. EVERYONE.
It is sad that none of you, absolutely none of you, see that and you have the audacity to brandish your stupid symbols in the face of the Lebanese flag to exert or imagine some kind of dominance in your little heaven that suits your interests.
After 22 years, you still march to the war drums and sing to death, whether Christian, Muslim, or whatever domination you want to proclaim.
Pathetic.
09 October 2012, 01:59
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The only thing that is fake is your resistance. Bunch of thugs nothing more
09 October 2012, 02:03
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What comes around goes around, these scumbags got another thing coming, it's just a matter of time.
09 October 2012, 02:08
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The only thing that is fake is your resistance. Bunch of thugs nothing more
09 October 2012, 03:30
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Does anyone remember Aoun holding up the picture of the gunman with the Lebanese Forces emblem on his shirt, only later to be embaressed when it was found he had photoshoped it on an israeli soldier! Talk about false documents.........
09 October 2012, 06:07
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Here's what bothering Lebanon, as published on
http://www.mongabay.com/history/lebanon/lebanon-sectarianism.html
: elections: last held on 7 June 2009 (next to be held in 2013)
election results: percent of vote by group - March 8 Coalition 54.7%, March 14 Coalition 45.3%; seats by group - March 14 Coalition 71; March 8 Coalition 57 [end of excerpt]
March 8 needed fifty percent more votes to get one of their Parliamentary candidates into office than March 14 needed to get one of their candidates in. A March 8 voter only counted for 2/3 of what a March 14 voter counted for.
Institutionalized inequality means no law. That's why there's so much shouting.
09 October 2012, 07:46
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وننتظر القضاء- كما في قضية اغتيال الحريري - او محاولة اغتيال حرب.
09 October 2012, 14:54
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If they are innocent, if the document is "fabricated", if you can "tell from the content", they should have no problems proving this in court.
The court isn't the media & the judge isn't the public ! The suspects should be handed over because Hizb-el-law are not above the law and if it's so easy to discredit those accusations and "fabricated" proofs, then they should have no problem doing so!
It's time for the lebanese shiites, sunnis and christians to hold Hizballah accountable for disregarding the law in every single aspect!
And shame on them for claiming to be a party of GOD... what a blasphemy! I'm not religious but all the morons who follow them think they are divine, untouchable, above the law, above lebanon, above religion itself! They should be punished for leading their own people to such a deep state of ignorance and stupidity.
Hizb el ghanam !
Hizb el shiyatin !
Hizb el moujermin !
Hizb el moukhadarat !
Hizb el kizb !
but never Hizb Allah
09 October 2012, 15:10
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Is it possible, that the Lebanese people who are bound to Hezbollah stupid to this level to defend the doctrine of Iran and Hassan Nasrallah against their own people and their families and Muslims to kill and torture innocent people in Syria, and to what purpose and they believe in what, they are defending the Iranian Hezbollah.
I guess every person who believes in God and Islam can not be performed such heinous acts.
I have visited Syrian refugee camp (Zaatari) in Jordan and heard of many of the people of the camp they Tags for this with their own eyes a lot of members of Hezbollah and Iranian individuals are slaughter and killing of innocent children, women and elders to cut their throats with knives.
I do not think The Following members belong to Islam but belonged to his mother hateful and do not know the real religion of Islam.
Fanatical Shiites believe they are people of religion, the fact Shiite Muslim has not and will not do the work of criminals, murderers.
