BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 22 (UPI) -- The U.N. investigation into the 2005 slaying of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri could create trouble for speaking with Hezbollah, officials said.
Wi'am Wahhab, the leader of the pro-Syrian Tawhid Movement, said there could be "problems" after allegations surfaced that the U.N. panel examining the Hariri assassination spoke with members of Hezbollah, Lebanon's Daily Star newspaper reports Monday.
German news magazine Der Spiegel in 2009 said it obtained evidence from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon that showed Hezbollah was involved in the plot.
Der Spiegel said cellphone records linked Hezbollah operatives to the planning of the February 2005 operation, which killed several others in a massive suicide bombing in Beirut.
Hezbollah and Syria were linked to the plot to kill the pro-Western Hariri as his motorcade traveled through downtown Beirut.
Nawwaf Moussawi, a lawmaker with Hezbollah, said the Shiite resistance movement would comment on the U.N.-backed probe "in due course."
Lebanese lawmakers said, even if the panel interviewed Hezbollah, it doesn't mean there is a link to the assassination.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah issued a public statement on the Der Spiegel report in 2009, saying it was "fabricated" in an attempt to "create sedition and conflict between the Sunnis and the Shiites, mainly Hezbollah."
