August 15, 2010 - Now Lebanon - Wahhab: Bellemare is a liar and ministers should resign if STL funding continues

Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Prosecutor General Daniel Bellemare is a “liar and a crook” and opposition ministers should resign if the STL’s funding is not withdrawn, Tawhid Movement leader Wiam Wahhab told NTV on Sunday.

Bellemare is “tricking people” by requesting any information Hezbollah has related to former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s 2005 assassination, Wahhab said.

Minister of State for Administrative Reform Mohammad Fneish said Friday that Hezbollah will submit to the Lebanese authorities information requested by the STL, after Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah showed video footage in a Monday press conference which Nasrallah said implicates Israel in Hariri’s assassination.

“Opposition ministers” should propose withdrawing the STL’s cabinet funding, Wahhab said, and should resign if the funding is not withdrawn. He added that “the prepared indictment is a coup to which we will respond with a coup,” and that cabinet change is not a coup.

Nasrallah said in July that the STL will indict some of his party members and warned that the tribunal is an “Israeli project” aiming to incite domestic strife.

Wahhab also said that Prime Minister Saad Hariri has become a “prisoner of certain slogans” and should resign to spend a year outside the country.

-NOW Lebanon