Don’t Aid Hariri Tribunal, Hezbollah Warns

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/world/middleeast/29lebanon.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=don't%20aid%20hariri%20tribunal&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Subject: re:Don’t Aid Hariri Tribunal, Hezbollah Warns
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To the Editor:

    Hassan Nasrallah has a clearer view of Lebanon's past than of her future. In 2006, he conceded that Hezbollah wouldn't have seized those two Israel soldiers if he had known that Israel would respond by waging war on Lebanon. Now he warns that the tribunal investigating the assassination of Rafik Hariri must be stopped. We are left to complete the thought--that the tribunal would find Hezbollah's involvement. 

    Politics in Lebanon is a difficult as it is anywhere in the world, but some truths are universal. If any group reserves the right to assassinate the nation's elected leaders, you have only the name of a nation, and not a nation.

Barry Levine