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| Syria killed Lebanon's minister Pierre Gemayel |
| 2006-11-23 |
| Kuwaiti Newspaper Alseyassah has reported that a SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency) editor has contacted a Lebanese pro-Syrian newspaper 55 minutes prior to the assassination. The call took place at 3:05 pm Beirut local time. Alseyassah did not name the Lebanese newspaper to protect its identity. The Alseyassah added that the Lebanese newspaper was extremely surprised about SANAÂ’s call which prompted the SANA reporter to call 10 minutes later and apologize for the original call. Both PSP leader Walid Jumblatt and parliament majority leader Saad Hariri have accused Syria of being behind the murder in order to avoid the implementation of the UN tribunal for trying the murderers of former PM Hariri. Social Affairs Minister Nayla Moawad also laid blame on Damascus for seeking to kill ministers to force the collapse of Siniora's government. It is clearly obvious that if SANA knew in advance of the murder, the Syrian regime of Bashar el Assad must have been behind the murder. As if to confirm of being behind the murder, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Fayssal Mekdad rejected any of his citizens be brought to justice by an international tribunal into former PM Rafik Hariri's murder, al Hayat newspaper reported Wednesday. "Syria will not allow to turn in any of its citizens before an international judiciary because we are confident of our" judicial system, Mekdad was quoted as saying by the daily. Alseyassah was the first newspaper to report about the involvement in Hariri murder of the 4 generals that report directly to president Lahoud. All the 4 generals are now in jail pending trial. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 OK. And the point is...what? Nobody is going to do anything. Assad and Syria will continue to do as they pleaase...emboldened by successful forays with Iran in Iraq and Isreal. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2006-11-23 10:14 |