Hezbollah says STL has gaps and failures

Hezbollah plans to outline alleged failures of a tribunal investigating the 2005 slaying of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a lawmaker said.The Special Tribunal for Lebanon in June named four members of Hezbollah in its investigation into the 2005 slaying of Hariri. Hezbollah leaders ruled out their arrest, maintaining the STL is part of an Israeli ploy meant to discredit the Shiite movement in Lebanon. Hasan Fadlallah, a Lebanese lawmaker loyal to Hezbollah, said the movement would strike out against the STL investigation. "The international tribunal is behind us in terms of its indictments but we will confront it in the same way we have done in the past by revealing its gaps and mistakes and its politicization targeting [the resistance]," he was quoted by The Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon as saying. Hezbollah has maintained it has evidence to suggest Israel played a role in the Hariri assassination. Interpol last week on behalf of the STL issued Red Notices for those formally accused in the Hariri plot. The international police force said the details of those notices, however, are sealed.