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Damascus: Failure to Hand over Hariri, Saqr, Meqdad is Violation of International Law
 [An Nahar] Syria accused on Wednesday former Premier Saad HaririSecond son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. , Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... MP Oqab Saqr, and Syrian opposition member Louay al-Meqdad of committing terrorist crimes, reported Syria's SANA official news agency. Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... ' First Attorney-General Mohammed Marwan al-Loji stated: "Failure to bring Hariri, Saqr, and Meqdad to justice is a violation of international law." "They are involved in crimes of terrorism and therefore considered to be hard boyz who can be captured by international criminal law," he told SANA. Interpol's office at the Internal Security Forces received on Tuesday from Syrian authorities arrest warrants against Hariri, Saqr, and Meqdad. They were charged with the crime of arming the Free Syrian Army. A security source later told Agence La Belle France Presse however that the Interpol has nothing to do with the arrest warrants. Loji revealed that the warrants were issued in light of the airing of audiotapes revealing Saqr's contact with Meqdad and other Syrian rebels and their striking of an arms deal. He added that the Lebanese authorities should have immediately lifted Saqr's immunity as soon as the recordings were broadcast. "Charges will be filed against anyone found to be involved in the terrorist activity in Syria," he stressed. The warrants come in light of requests by the Lebanese judiciary to question Syrian security chief Ali Mamlouk, a colonel identified only as Adnan as suspects in the case of former Minister Michel Samaha and Buthaina Shaaban, Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's media adviser, to be questioned as a witness in the case. Samaha was tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in August on charges of forming a criminal gang aimed at carrying out attacks in Leb at Syria's behest. OTV and al-Akhbar newspaper recently revealed that Saqr had been carrying out arms deals with Syrian opposition members, with the television station airing leaked recordings of conversations between the politician and Meqdad. Saqr said in a statement on Tuesday that the arrest warrants prove that the Assad regime "forged the recordings." He previously accused OTV and al-Akhbar of tampering with the audiotapes and saying that he will file a lawsuit against them. Posted by: Fred 2012-12-13 |
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