Life goes on in Sidon and Tripoli


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SIDON/TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Despite spending the morning watching TV to follow up on the release of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon indictment, residents of the hometown of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri went about their day as usual.
The STL, established by the U.N. to try those who assassinated Hariri in 2005, handed over Thursday the Lebanon portion of the indictment, State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza said.
A judicial source told The Daily Star the indictment identified the suspects as Mustafa Badreddine, Salim al-Ayyash, Hasan Oneissy and Asad Sabra. The four suspects are Hezbollah members.
While examining his collection of more than 120 pins bearing slogans which call for unveiling the truth behind Hariri’s assassination, Khodr Habli told The Daily Star that the slogan had finally become a reality.
“I saved them because they are so precious for me and I memorized all these slogans because I believed a day would come when they will become true, and this day has come,” he said.
“God bless the soul of the martyred prime minister,” “The truth for Lebanon,” read some of the slogans.
The Future Movement in Sidon did not comment on the matter, while the movement’s offices in the city operated normally. Nasser Hammoud, the movement’s general coordinator, headed to Beirut, where he joined the meeting of the movement’s general secretariat.
For her part, Sidon MP Bahia Hariri, the slain prime minister’s sister, followed the news from her house in the village of Majdalyoun, keeping her schedule of meetings unchanged.
In the northern city of Tripoli, residents’ reactions ranged from indifference to joy.
Mohammad Ahmad voiced his hope that justice would be served. “We believe in justice and the indictment was released today … we seek justice and not punishment or revenge,” he said.
Ahmad questioned how some parties did not want anyone to speak about assassinations at a time “because [they say] this leads to sectarian strife while they committed the crime and seek civil strife.”

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