Posted on 05/31/2007 11:25:38 AM PDT by KJC1
BEIRUT: The militant Hezbollah group and its ally Syria denounced the United Nations on Thursday for its decision to establish a tribunal to prosecute the killers of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Meanwhile, officials in Beirut reopened the road where Hariri was killed by a suicide truck bomb in February 2005. Mayor Abdel-Monem al-Ariss said the spot would remain "a historic symbol in the heart of Beirut."
The tribunal has been at the core of a political crisis between the pro-Western government in Beirut and the Hezbollah-led opposition that has erupted into street clashes in recent months, killing 11 people.
Hezbollah called the UN Security Council's decision Wednesday a violation of Lebanon's sovereignty and "an attack on its internal affairs."
"It amounts to a flagrant violation that makes the resolution illegal and illegitimate at the national and international level," the Shiite Muslim group said in a statement, adding that the resolution placed Lebanon under "international tutelage, without decision-making and sovereignty in an unprecedented development in the history of sovereign states."
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The Hezzies and Syerians are calling the resolution illegal? They have broken EVERY international law of war there is! They have a lot of nerve, I must say!
Hezbollah preaching about international law. Excuse me while I barf.
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