 Rishdiyeh Al-Absi wife of Shaker Al-Absi, the fugitive leader of Fatah al Islam retracted to Lebanon's examining magistrate Ghassan Owaidat , her earlier statement about the body of her husband. She said she may have made a mistake when she identified the body at the Tripoli hospital as that of her husband.
| "Now that I think of it, Shakey was a little taller than that. And he wasn't bald. And he had two legs. And his doinker wasn't quite that big..." |
Magistrate Owaidat will also be questioning members of the Islamic Scholars who have also identified the body as that of Shaker al-Absi.
| "Yeah. Other than that, this guy looked a lot like Shakey." |
| The results of DNA tests conducted on the body which was believed to belong to Shaker Al-Absi showed that the body in fact belongs to a man in his thirties, while Al-Absi is 53 years old. |
On several occasions Rishdiyeh was questioned about her earlier statement and always insisted that she was able to identify her husband's body marks and that her husband is definitely dead. The results of DNA tests conducted on the body encrypted as "a 16" and which was believed to be belonging to Shaker Al-Absi showed that the body in fact belongs to a man in his thirties, while Al-Absi is 53 years old.
| "Actually, I never saw his face. He always wore a mask when he was around me or the kids." |
The army confirmed few days ago that Shaker al Absi was able to escape and filed legal charges against Rishdiyeh and Islamic Scholars accusing them of lying to the Lebanese army and misleading it to help Absi escape. |