March 21, 2010 - Naharnet - STL, Hizbullah Say No Comment on Wahab Info that Investigators Asked to Question Hizbullah Members

Tawheed movement leader Wiam Wahab has created a new commotion in the country after saying that the committee investigating ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's murder has summoned Hizbullah members for questioning.
However, Wahab's statement was neither confirmed by Special Tribunal for Lebanon prosecutor's office nor by Hizbullah.

"A problem could take place in the country because the investigating panel will create strife," Wahab told al-Jadeed TV on Saturday.

The former minister also advised Premier Saad Hariri to "avoid the trap of the international tribunal."

Earlier in the week, Wahab asked President Michel Suleiman to resign, unleashing a wave of support for the head of state.

Spokeswoman of the tribunal prosecutor's office, Radhia Achouri, refused to deny or confirm Wahab's information. "Work at the prosecutor's office is ongoing as you know and meetings and interviews take place with people," she told An Nahar daily in remarks published Sunday.

"However, we don't give information or details about the course of our work," Achouri said.

About reports that 11 international investigators have been in Lebanon for investigations on Hariri's assassination and for the questioning of several witnesses, the spokeswoman said: "No comment on this issue and no details on it."

"This is the policy we adopt on not giving information about the investigation," she told An Nahar.

On Wednesday, Achouri told Naharnet that having investigators in Beirut is not something new. "I just want to reiterate that we always have investigators in Beirut, be it those based in there or those who go on mission," she said.

Hizbullah on Sunday was also hush-hush on the issue. "We don't comment on everything related to the international tribunal," MP Nawaf Moussawi told al-Jadeed TV on Saturday when asked about the court's summoning of Hizbullah members.

"No one can cross out the resistance," he stressed.