MP Fadlallah: PM Group Revealed Involvment In Scheme against Lebanon

MP Fadlallah: PM Group Revealed Involvment In Scheme against Lebanon

18/09/2010 Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc MP Hasan Fadlallah said Saturday that “the Prime Minister’s group, through its sectarian rhetoric, has revealed its involvement in the sedition that is being schemed for Lebanon.”

MP Fadlallah was speaking to Al-Jadeed TV to retort to Mustakbal MP Ammar Houri’s accusation to Hezbollah of “threatening the leader of the Sunni community in Lebanon.”

“We are witnessing a blatant bid to ruin the country,” Fadlallah said, stressing Hezbollah will not be dragged to any sectarian rhetoric.

The Hezbollah MP noted that sectarian incitement by PM Saad Hariri’s bloc coincided with what the American administration is preparing for Lebanon and the region, through the direct Israeli-Palestinian Authority direct talks. “Their (Hariri’s bloc) resorting to sectarian rhetoric is an attempt to use their last card after the false witnesses (in the Rafiq Hariri assassination) have been exposed,” Fadlallah stressed.

Moreover, the MP pointed that the “political decision to persecute General Jamil Sayyed has harmed the Lebanese judiciary the most…and we had heard this decision from political powers before it was issued.”

The Loyalty to the Resistance bloc member stressed judicial authorities should have been mobilized to counter the false witnesses, those who unjustly put the four generals behind bars for four years, and those who have been bragging about their alliance with Israel.

False witnesses, on top of whom is Mohamed Zuheir Siddiq, testified to international investigators probing the assassination of Hariri, and their false testimonies led to the imprisonment of Sayyed, who was the general director of the General Security apparatus, Brigadier General Reimond Azar, the military intelligence chief, General Ali Al-Hajj, the general director of the Internal Security Forces, and Brigadier General Mustapha Hamdan, who was the head of the Republican Guards Brigade. The four Generals were released in 2009 after the Special Tribunal for Lebanon decided that no evidence link them to the Hariri murder.

Sayyed accused General Prosecutor Said Mirza among other senior security and judicial officials of standing behind his apprehension.

"I demanded that General Prosecutor Saeed Mirza step down because I consider him as my opponent and therefore any decision he issues will be rejected," he stated from Paris.

Mirza had earlier summoned Sayyed for questioning about his remarks, however the former general said that Mirza’s request was illegal. Sayyed had brought two lawsuits against Mirza in Lebanon and Syria, and therefore, according to a statement by Sayyed’s media office, Mirza cannot take such action because “he is an opponent in a lawsuit filed by Sayyed.”

“I will return to Lebanon as scheduled (today...and it makes no difference if I were arrested because the law is not on their side.”

"The tribunal's decision to hand us evidence is a new setback for the sides that have been trying to cover up the facts in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri," Sayyed Said.

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