Hariri probe asks for Hezbollah's evidence

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Anyone, including Hezbollah, with evidence pertaining to the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri should hand it over to a tribunal, a prosecutor said.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah presented video evidence Monday allegedly taken from Israeli drones that he said suggested the Israeli military had a hand in the 2005 assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister.

"We accuse the Israeli enemy of this assassination," said Nasrallah.

The secretary-general said the July arrest of employees at cell phone network provider in Lebanon shows Israeli intelligence has infiltrated Lebanon, adding phone data used by Hariri investigators proved the tribunal was "an Israeli project."

The German news magazine Der Spiegel in 2009 published a report saying it had evidence from the STL that linked cellphone records from Hezbollah to the Hariri assassination.

Nasrallah admitted in July that the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon had interviewed members of Hezbollah regarding the 2005 assassination. Hezbollah and Syria are widely implicated in the plot.

Daniel Bellemare, the prosecutor at the STL in The Hague, said Hezbollah or anyone with information on the plot should hand over the evidence it had regarding the Hariri slaying.

"I invite anyone who has relevant information to submit it to my office," said Bellemare in a statement. "I can assure those who bring this information that it will be thoroughly assessed."