August 13, 2010 - Naharnet - Hizbullah Ready to Provide Data to Lebanese Authorities: 'And The Rest is Their Business'

Hizbullah announced readiness to hand over to Lebanese authorities footage allegedly intercepted from Israeli surveillance planes of the site of the murder of ex-PM Rafik Hariri prior to his 2005 assassination. "Data and evidence in Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's possession has been made public … Hizbullah, however, doesn't trust the International Tribunal or the international investigation," Hizbullah MP Nawaf Mousawi said in remarks published Friday by Ad-Diyar newspaper. He said Hizbullah was ready to provide such the information to the Lebanese judiciary. In response to a question about Lebanese authorities giving the data to Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare, Mousawi said: "So what, it's their business." Bellemare has demanded Lebanese authorities to provide all the information in possession of Hizbullah. A well-informed political source, however, expressed concern that Bellemare's request was "merely an attempt to enhance the credibility of the International Tribunal." "We hope that they (tribunal) will take this issue seriously," the source told Ad-Diyar. "We will wait and see."