The former Lebanese leader, Rafik Hariri was killed alongside 22 others in the capital Beirut on February 14, 2005 as a result of massive car bombings, triggering a whole host of recriminations including between Lebanon and neighboring Syria.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon was subsequently formed within the year in an attempt to defuse the tensions.

"Interestingly enough, we found that 60 percent of the respondents found that the international investigation is politicized and not honest," statistical analyst Alicia Obeid Jamal from Beirut-based independent regional research and consultancy firm, the Information International -- which conducted the study -- told Press TV.

"55 percent of the respondents considered the documents presented by Seyyed Hassan Narallah during speech to be very very convincing," Jamal added.

The distrust came after the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah's Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said last month he had been informed by the slain leader's son and successor, Saad Hariri, that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will accuse some Hezbollah members.

Nasrallah rejected the allegation and warned that the plot was part of "a dangerous project that is targeting the resistance."

Speaking earlier in the month, the Hezbollah leader presented video materials, captured by Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), as well as recorded confessions by Israeli fifth columnists, substantiating that Israel had masterminded the assassination.

Hezbollah has submitted the evidence to the Lebanese government for due consideration.

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Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:6PM

Source: Press TV - http://www.presstv.ir/