Posted on 03/01/2009 8:15:38 AM PST by NormsRevenge
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands – An international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the slaying of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri opened Sunday with a moment's silence and a pledge to impartially investigate the politically charged case.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Special Court for Lebanon, prosecutor Daniel Bellemare said he will continue his investigations without political interference and said he will call "as soon as possible" for Lebanese authorities to turn over four pro-Syrian generals who are suspects in the case.
Bellemare, a Canadian, said he could issue several indictments as a result of his wide-ranging investigation into the Feb. 14, 2005, suicide bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others on a Beirut seaside street, but he would not say when.
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the Special Court for Lebanon .. the world’s “first international anti-terrorist tribunal” . that’s a mouthful.
The chief prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Canadian Daniel Bellemare, pictured in The Hague at the start of a landmark international tribunal to try the suspected killers of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. (AFP/ANP/Marcel Antonisse)
A woman prays in front of the grave of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut March 1, 2009. The prosecutor in a U.N. court that hopes to try the murderers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri said he would ask Lebanon to hand over four generals held in connection with the case. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon near The Hague has 60 days from when the prosecutor takes office to ask Lebanese authorities to hand over people and evidence. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON)
“first international anti-terrorist tribunal” ??????
Does that mean that they are in support of terrorism?
I remember the War Crimes Trinunals after WW2. I never heard of an Anti-War Crimes Tribunal.
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