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January 4, 2010

Naharnet - Sayyed: Ready to Withdraw Lawsuit after an Official Request by Suleiman and Hariri - January 4, 2010

Former head of the General Security Department Maj. Gen. Jamil al-Sayyed has announced that he was ready to withdraw a lawsuit filed in Damascus against Lebanese officials if President Michel Suleiman or Premier Saad Hariri invited him for talks at Baabda Palace or the Grand Serail.Sayyed told OTV Saturday night that he would withdraw the lawsuit if Suleiman or Hariri asked him to make the move "to preserve Lebanese-Lebanese consensus and Lebanese-Syrian rapprochement."The former security official warned Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar that he would sue him "if he continued to obstruct the judicial summons" by not informing the Lebanese politicians, journalists, and security and judicial figures of the Syrian lawsuit. Najjar is only a "transit point" in the Syrian summons and should not put obstacles to them, according to Sayyed.Sayyed also told OTV that after Hariri's visit to Damascus last month, he felt it would be appropriate to withdraw the lawsuit but said people would think that he backed down under Syrian pressure.
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