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| Sayyed to Hariri: Assad Hugged You Rather Than Hanging You |
| 2010-09-13 |
| [An Nahar] Former head of the General Security Department Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed on Sunday launched a vehement attack on Prime Minister Saad Hariri for saying it was a mistake to accuse Syria of involvement in his father's assassination. "After all you have done to Syria, (Syrian President) Bashar Assad hugged you rather than hanging you to death," Sayyed said during a press conference addressing Hariri. "It's not enough for Hariri to admit that he erred, he has to pay the price of his mistakes," the former security chief told reporters about Hariri's latest statement to pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat. "At a certain stage we made mistakes and accused Syria of assassinating the martyred premier. This was a political accusation, and this political accusation has finished," Hariri told the newspaper earlier in the week. Accusations against Syria were not political, they were crimes of slander that require trial, according to the former general. While saying the tribunal knows that Hariri's political, security and judicial team were behind false witnesses in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination case, Sayyed said Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare should have summoned them and questioned them. He also slammed the premier's supporters for denying there were false witnesses in Hariri's murder case, saying all those who have lied during an investigation are called false witnesses although "they are inexistent for the Hariri team." Sayyed said the tribunal doesn't want to prosecute the false witnesses because "big heads would roll." "I swear to you Saad Hariri that I would take my rights with my own hands someday if you don't give them back to me," he vowed. Sayyed urged the Lebanese people to reject the status quo and work on change even if that requires the toppling of the government by force. |
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