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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report of plot to kill Nasrallah dismissed as 'lies'
2007-11-18
Security sources on Friday dismissed reports of a plot to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
"Yeah, right. Figger the odds!"
The pro-Syrian newspaper as Safir had reported that security forces uncovered a plot to kill Nasrallah. It said the plot was uncovered during the course of ongoing investigations into a terror cell arrested in the summer in the Iqlim al-Kharroub region in the Chouf mountains southeast of Beirut.
As Safir said large quantities of cyanide, a fast-acting, potentially deadly chemical, were found during a raid on the Iqlim al-Kharroub house of a Libyan suspect. It said the Libyan, who is in police custody, hid around 100 kilograms of cyanide in a rural area in Iqlim al-Kharroub, 30 kilograms of which had been shipped to Iraq. Authorities confiscated only 70 kilograms of the chemical.

A security source told The Daily Star that it was highly unlikely that Sunni fundamentalist terror cells could have gotten access to Nasrallah at any time or known of his movements, which are highly secretive, in order to poison him. Poisoning would require intimate and close contact with the subject. "The suspects, whether those arrested in Iqlim al-Kharroub or Fatah al-Islam terrorists from Nahr al-Bared, are all trained to lie and mislead investigators to the point of repeating the same sentences which they appear to have memorized verbatim," the source told the English language newspaper. He dismissed as lies much of the information in the As-Safir report.
Posted by:Fred

#1  A security source told The Daily Star that it was highly unlikely that Sunni fundamentalist terror cells could have gotten access to Nasrallah at any time or known of his movements, which are highly secretive, in order to poison him. Poisoning would require intimate and close contact with the subject. "The suspects, whether those arrested in Iqlim al-Kharroub or Fatah al-Islam terrorists from Nahr al-Bared, are all trained to lie and mislead investigators to the point of repeating the same sentences which they appear to have memorized verbatim," the source told the English language newspaper.

Muslim legal investigators encounter routine Muslim taqiyya. Effing priceless.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-11-18 02:18  

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