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Hezbollah Member of Parliament Mohammad Raad called for Lebanon to sever all contact with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. “[Cooperation] with the tribunal should be severed because the court is targeting the Resistance,” Raad said.

A Hezbollah Member of Parliament said the terror group has no intentions of disarming. “Hezbollah will keep its weapons and will not be affected by any views or any US-Israeli innovation or the [Special Tribunal for Lebanon] so long as Israel maintains an arsenal of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction,” Hussein Mousawi said.

Opposition leader and former prime minister Saad Hariri lashed out at Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah for its opposition to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which investigated the murder of his father and indicted four senior Hezbollah leaders and operatives.

Interpol issued a notice for Lebanon to execute arrest warrants for four Hezbollah operatives indicted by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. Among those indicted is Mustafa Badreddine, Hezbollah’s military commander.

The US indicted Faouzi Ayoub for passport fraud. Ayoub, who was born in Lebanon and is a US citizen, tried to illegally enter Israel in 2000 to conduct a bomb attack for Hezbollah. Ayoub is currently missing.

Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem said the Special Tribunal for Lebanon is an “Israeli-American project” and threatened the March 14 movement for its support of the indictment. “Reevaluate your choices because this path will harm Lebanon and it will especially harm you,” he said.

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah rejected the indictment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon that implicated four Hezbollah leaders and operatives in the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. Nasrallah called the STL an Israeli plot and said the four operatives would never be arrested.

Lebanon’s interior minister confirmed that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has indicted Hezbollah operatives Mustafa Badreddine, Salim Ayyash, Assad Sabra, and Hussein Anaissi. Badreddine is the brother-in-law of slain Hezbollah military leader Imad Mugniyah.

The UN-supported Special Tribunal for Lebanon has indicted four Hezbollah operatives in the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. The four have not been publicly named, but are reported to be Mustafa Badreddine, Salim al Ayyash, Hasan Aineysseh, and Asad Sabra.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon is expected to release its indictment for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri within the next week. A senior Hezbollah commander is said to be named in the indictment.

Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah called on Syrians to back their government and not protesters. Nasrallah also said Hezbollah would retain its arsenal of rockets and that “no one will be able to take it away.”