Terror organization: Hezbollah

Status: Member at unit 121, Hezbollah assassination squad.

Role: Was part of the squad in the assassination team that plotted and executed Hariri’s assassination. His charges included conspiracy aimed at committing a terrorist act by means of an explosive device and being an accomplice to the felony of intentional homicide with premeditation by using explosive materials.

Oneissi was accused of having participated prior to the attack in the selection of a suitable individual – Ahmed Abu Adass, a Palestinian man, to make a false claim of responsibility, and of having participated in his disappearance. Abu Adass has been missing since 16 January 2005.

Oneissi and Sabra acted together immediately after the bombing in order to disseminate statements falsely attributing responsibility, and to ensure the delivery and subsequent broadcast of the video-taped false claim of responsibility to the Al Jazeera news network’s Beirut office.

Al Jazeera received a video in which Abu Adass said he planned to blow himself up on behalf of a what prosecutors said was a fictional Sunni fundamentalist group called “Victory and Jihad and Greater Syria”.

Location: Lebanon.

Charges:
– Conspiracy aimed at committing a Terrorist Act;
– Being an Accomplice to the felony of Committing a Terrorist Act by means of an explosive device;
– Being an Accomplice to the felony of Intentional Homicide (of Rafik HARIRI) with premeditation by using explosive materials;
– Being an Accomplice to the felony of Intentional Homicide (of 21 persons in addition to the Intentional Homicide of Rafik HARIRI) with premeditation by using explosive materials; and
– Being an Accomplice to the felony of Attempted Intentional Homicide (of 226 persons in addition to the Intentional Homicide of Rafik HARIRI) with premeditation by using explosive materials.

Also Known As: Husein Hassan Oneissi; Hussein Hassan; ISSA

Date of Birth: 11 February 1974 in Beirut, Lebanon

Gender: Male;

Address: Lebanon;

Activities:

HUSSEIN HASSAN ONEISSI (ONEISSI) (also known as ‘Hussein Hassan ISSA’) was born on 11 February 1974 in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the son of Hassan ONEISSI (also known as ‘Hassan ISSA’) (father) and Fatima DARWISH (mother). He has resided in the Ahmad Abbas Building, at Al-Jamous St, near the Lycee des Arts, in Hadath, South Beirut. He is a citizen of Lebanon. His Lebanese civil registration is 7/Shahour.