Just few hours after Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered his speech, Hariri calimed that Sayyed Nasrallah “tried to put the Shiite sect at risk”.

Just few hours after Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a speech commenting on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon indictment content, former premier Saad Hariri said the speech wasn’t successful, claiming that Sayyed Nasrallah “tried to put the Shiite sect at risk”.

“You were not successful, Sayyed Hasan, particularly in terms of the non-innocent speech which tried to put the Shiite sect at risk as if you are seeking to direct accusations made against four party members in the assassination of martyr Rafik Hariri and his comrades against the entire Shiite sect,” Hariri said in a statement.

Earlier, Sayyed Nasrallah said that the contents of the unsealed indictment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon revealed nothing new and that earlier reports had leaked the details of the indictment.
His eminence stressed that the indictment only boosts Hezbollah confidence today that what is happening is a high level of injustice and politicization, and stressed that these honorable members of the resistance should not even be described as accused.

Hariri said Sayyed Nasrallah’s remarks in the wake of Wednesday’s release of the indictment by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the 2005 assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, were “ultimate distortion and an effort to turn-around facts.”
“The accused have been identified and Hezbollah admitted hiding them,” said Hariri in the statement which was released after midnight.

He said the Shiite sect is “more honorable” than being accused of involvement in the Hariri killing.
“Anything that threatens the Shiite sect threatens all Lebanese. We are all in the same boat and we will continue to live in one nation,” Hariri stressed.

“There is no meaning in manipulating the emotions of the Shiite brethren and place them [Shiites] on alert to confront imaginary schemes which Sayyed Nasrallah knows are fabricated,” Hariri concluded.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) announced Wednesday that Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen has ordered that his decision confirming the court’s indictment for the assassination of Hariri, as well as the indictment itself, be made public.