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| Lebanon MP: Witnesses to Hariri crime face death threats |
| 2008-04-07 |
| Lebanon MP Mustafa Alloush, a member of the Mustaqbal Parliamentary Bloc, said Saturday witnesses to the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri face death threats. Allloush, in a newspaper interview, accused the so-called "regional axis" of seeking to assassinate such witnesses. The phrase regional axis, in Lebanese political parlance, refers to Syria and Iran. Such an axis, according to Alloush, "could also chose some personalities that could become witnesses and assassinate them one way or the other." Israel, according to Alloush, "could launch war on Lebanon." Probably so, but I'd call that one of your less pressing worries. "Lebanon would not be spared in any war that would spark in the region due to the nature of Hezbollah and its affiliations," Alloush added. Perhaps if the effect is war with Israel, you should look to the cause, which is Hezbollah? In a related development Mohammed Zuhair Siddiq, a major Syrian witness in the assassination of Lebanon's former PM Rafik Hariri, had mysteriously left his self-chosen exile in France to an unknown destination, the daily newspaper as-Safir has reported. Siddiq had implicated Syria in the Hariri crime. Damascus had denied the charge. |
| Posted by:Fred |