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Der Spiegel's tale of Hezbollah's direct involvement in the Hariri assassination irresponsible

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Franklin Lamb, Beirut

 

Time for transparency at Der Spiegel?

 

"We don't know where the Der
Spiegel magazine did get their information from and we don't know where they
brought this story from. No one in the prosecutor's office has spoken to the
German magazine about anything. We have a clear policy of not leaking any
information about the tribunal through media outlets, and we have been stressing
this since the beginning.  When Der Spiegel spoke about Bellemar's spokesperson,
they meant me. They emailed me and asked a few questions. My answer was that the
tribunal does not deal with investigation files through the media and adopts the
policy of direct announcement by the part of Mr. Bellemar.If we had something to
say, we would have said it directly, not through media outlets."
Radiya Ashouri, Spokeswoman for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) (5/24/09)

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