STL Funding Faces March 8 Obstacles

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March 8 forces are holding onto their stance refusing to pay Lebanon’s dues to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Thursday.

Sources told the daily that the funding of the STL, that is expected to be tackled by the cabinet soon, will not be approved whether it was discussed during a session or away from the media spotlight.

However, PM Najib Miqati, President Michel Suleiman and more than 10 ministers agree on committing to the international obligation, the newspaper noted.

Sources said that the government is waiting for an official request by the United Nations to carry out the issue knowing that the funding must be made by the end of September, but Speaker Nabih Berri said that Lebanon’s payment of its share is not at the end of Sept. as some expected.

Miqati told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat that the funding of the STL is in everyone’s interest, he said: “I am betting on the patriotism of all sides inside the cabinet.”

“The funding and the implementation of international resolutions fall in Lebanon’s interest and I don’t think that anyone is against it,” he stressed.

Comments 17
Thumb jabalamel over 12 years

is anyone really wants to know who killed harriri:

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7244

Thumb geha over 12 years

hahahahahaha
thank you for making me laugh....

Thumb jabalamel over 12 years

sure...laugh now...you will cry when rockets starts falling

Default-user-icon playboy82 (Guest) over 12 years

what rockets are u talking about jabalamel?

Thumb geha over 12 years

if rockets start falling you would have started to run to iran as fast as your legs can carry you.
it will be the last time we see you! we will miss you. :)

Default-user-icon jojo (Guest) over 12 years

very funny video

Thumb jabalamel over 12 years

the filthy zionist information war department is pretending that:

1. the video revealing who killed hariri is funny
2. they don't know that rockets will fall on them

keep on pretending you fool yourself only

Thumb jabalamel over 12 years

no wander that zionist information war department finds the killing of hariri to be funny.

after all, the filthy zionist militia killed it's own prime minister because he believed in peace

Thumb geha over 12 years

unfortunately we know that when rockets will start falling they will fall on our heads too especially aoun is hiding some of hizbshaitan rockets.
nevertheless and unlike you, we are her to stay, so while you will be running to hide in iran, we will stand up and defend our country.

Default-user-icon Jabal In Wanderland (Guest) over 12 years

When a fossil tongued pro-baathist says that a militia assassinated PM Hariri, and that it is filthy militia we all must believe his part of the story.That is what I call His-Bella Vista

Default-user-icon Mountain of Head Lice (Guest) over 12 years

Jabal Amel: Mountain of head lice

Don't you get tired of repeating the same old thing over and over again? Do you have an imagination? Does your repertoire limit itself to "Zionist propaganda machine", "Zonist militia", "Zionist..."

So, "Mountain of Head Lice" or Jabal Amel: Scratch your head a little harder and come up with something less predictable. Who knows? You might have something worthy to say once in a blue moon in a distant solar system.

Thumb thepatriot over 12 years

b- He said he was part of the masterminds of the assasination but had never met personally Abu Adas.
c- He had nothing to do with the Hariri killing!

So before eating up everything you can feed upon on the internet, get your information straight and try to analyse yourself instead of falling for cheap conspiracy theories ya habal!

Thumb thepatriot over 12 years

I Loooooved the video..... ya habal!
1- Harriri ordered the "execution" of A quaeda activists! Really!!!???
2- I thought that the salafists were Hariri's allies! Well this is what habal, mowaten and the dudes keep telling us anyway ;-)
3- This group has had 0 activity since 2003. All their activities resumed to assasinations by firearms and a failed car bomb of the Mac Donald's! And you think they could have planed this masterminded assasination!? Hahaha...
4- Abu Adas is nowthe real deal....yeah...and Elvis will be singing tonight at the Ceasar's Palace!
5-He forgots to mention that the note sent with the tape of Abu Adas to Al Jazira contained a note saying that the "shahid" was Abu Adas himself...turns out (after DNA expertise) it wasn't! ;-)
6- Faisal Akbar, told his interrogators 3 different stories:
a- He trained Abou Adas for a month before the suicide bombing and bid him fairwell on the day of the bombing.

Thumb thepatriot over 12 years

Also note that Garet Porter is one of those controversial journalists who like to publicise themselves. Amongst other crap he wrote, he "challenged claims that mass killings were being carried out by the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia" for example.

Nice one habal! ;-)

Thumb jabalamel over 12 years

the filthy zionist information war department got very nervous because i shown the truth about murdering hariri.

they try to discredit this reliable information by making several posts with a lot of garbage inside.

your attemps are failed.

Thumb thepatriot over 12 years

Layk ya ahbal!

I'm not filthy, I'm not nervous, I'm not zionist, and I have nothing to do with any "information war department" (should that exist)!

I'm just a dude, in his office, in Beirut, playing with you, and slashing down your ridiculous propaganda with FACTS.

The nervous, lunatic, desperate and lonely person that you are doesn't know much about anything... you're a sad pathetic person.

Yallah, have a good one anyway ya ahbal!

Thumb thepatriot over 12 years

You kind of sound to me like sylvester (the cat that chases tweety) when you sputter "filthy zionist information war department"... hehehehe...;-)