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Time Magazine Interviews One of the Four Accused of Killing Hariri

August 19, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

Nicholas Blanford gets the scoop:

“I don’t care about the indictments. Let them come to arrest me,” one of the four told TIME in an exclusive interview, which he gave on condition of anonymity despite having been publicly named among the four suspects. “If I was guilty, Hizballah would have turned me over from the first day to the so-called international justice. I said it once and will repeat it for the last time: I am innocent of all charges against me.”

Hezbollah can turn him over if they want to. So they know where he is. But the Lebanese government, to which Hezbollah belongs, officially threw its hands in the air because it tried everything but couldn’t find the accused.