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Right off hand, isn’t it strange the Israelis announce beforehand the result of the UN Tribunal. And it is someone’s cousin!! This person himself was murdered in Lebanon by a bomb explosion in 2008. Most recently, the Lebanese government has arrested 70 persons for spying for … Israel. The mobile telecommunications network in Lebanon has been bugged for years by the Israeli Mossad.
Hariri hit suspect is Hizbullah bigwig
Jerusalem Post: UN tribunal to announce “chief suspect” is Mughniyeh’s cousin.
The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon is reportedly set to announce that Mustafa Badr al-Din, a senior Hizbullah operative and close relative of the former Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh, is the main suspect in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
According to an Israel TV report on Thursday night, Hariri’s son, the current Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, asked the tribunal to postpone releasing Din’s name, because of the potentially incendiary implications for Lebanon of such an announcement.
Din, the cousin and brother- in-law of Mughniyeh, who was killed in a car bomb in Damascus in February 2008, was also reportedly responsible for planning the attempted assassination of the ruler of Kuwait in 1985, among other operations.
Many in Lebanon have worried that if the tribunal implicates Hizbullah, it could lead to another round of clashes between Lebanon’s Shi’ite and Sunni communities, like the bloody conflict that convulsed Beirut in 2008.
Tensions in Lebanon have generated so much concern that Syria’s President Bashar Assad was expected to travel to Beirut on Friday, his first trip there since his troops were forced out.
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah made a rare journey to Damascus on Thursday, in a visit apparently intended to indicate a united front as regional tensions mount over the pending indictments in the Hariri assassination.
Al-Manar TV – Israel Doesn’t Surrender: Hezbollah behind Hariri’s Murder!
Of course, the first [false] witness reports had accused Syria’s intelligence service and President Assad for the sophisticated detonation and large bomb explosion killing Rafik Hariri and 16 other civilians in Beirut in 2005. The Western intelligence community has always put the blame on the Iranians, its Quds forces and Hezbollah affiliate in Lebanon.
Similarly, the CIA first put blame on Iran and its counterparts Hizbollaf for the bombing of the Khobar Towers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. Now evidence has ultimately proven it was Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden who were behind these bombings.
- The attack was the work of Hezbollah, Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim political party (Party of God), under the banner of the Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO). Led by the Shiite cleric Fadallah, Hezbollah was closely tied to the Islamic regime in Iran.
I’d entered NE Division during its darkest hour. The darkness grew thicker a few months later when the man dispatched as the new chief in Beruit, William Buckley, was kidnapped by Hezbollah. Hezbollah wanted the government of Kuwait to release Mustafa Badr al-Din (the brother-in-law of Imad Mughniyad, Hezbollah’s IJO terror chief), who was responsible for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City. But the United States would not allow itself to be blackmailed by terrorists.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
