Nassrallah: No evidence linking Syria to Hariri murder
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 1/20/2006

Secretary General of the Lebanese Hizbullah party, Hassan Nasrallah, emphasized Thursday that Syria has nothing to do with the crime that claimed the life of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq al-Hariri, expressing astonishment for excluding Israel from the investigation.

Neither the Lebanese judiciary nor the UN committee have ever made any investigation about the possibility that Israel is involved in the assassination, Nassrallah said in an interview published by London-based paper al-Hayat.

He said no one with ties to Israel and trained there or anyone of those who have expertise in explosives and assassinations from there side was arrested.

Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nassrallah underlined Wednesday that Syria's stance regarding the Lebanese national resistance is governed by strategic and pan-Arab considerations and by the Arab-Israeli struggle.

In an interview broadcast by Lebanese satellite television New TV, the Secretary General said Syria has stood by the resistance during its struggle with the Israeli occupation since 1982, and has supported the resistance as well as the Lebanese people to face the Israeli aggressions until the greatest part of South Lebanon was liberated.

"Syria has a strategic position in the region, I don't deny her role, her alliance with the resistance or our friendship with her although that many Lebanese pretended to have forgotten that there is an enemy called Israel which is still targeting us and constituting a danger to the Lebanese people," Nasrallah said.

The Secretary General went on saying that the resistance considers Syria as a strategic ally, stressing that relations with Syria is dominated by full understanding. Nassrallah emphasized that the resistance is not a militia, US officials are issuing diktats in Lebanon and the US tutelage is destroying any agreement among the Lebanese," he added, expressing rejection to any kind of foreign custody upon Lebanon.

Hizbullah is an ally to Syria and this alliance exists for strategic considerations and not for personal advantages, Nassrallah indicated.

As for tension between Hizbullah and Lebanese MP Walid Jumblat, he indicated that "Jumblat's statements increase unrest in the Lebanese public, and he wants Hizbullah to participate in his project which aims at toppling the Syrian regime... how can I accuse Syria if I have no evidence," he said.

Regarding demarcation of borders between Syria and Lebanon, the Secretary General noted it is impossible to demarcate borders in occupied Shabba farms under the Israeli occupation in the absence of the two states involved.

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