Naharnet - Sayyed Renews Campaign against Hariri, Mirza, al-Hasan - September 24, 2010

Former head of Lebanon's General Security Department Brig. Gen. Jamil Sayyed on Friday renewed his campaign against Prime Minister Saad Hariri and State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza and police intelligence chief Col. Wissam al-Hasan.
He called on Hariri to provide "clarifications" to some of his MPs and the Lebanese public opinion, in general, and to the Islamist Salafi Movement, in particular, on what his aides – particularly Mirza and al-Hasan -- have done by distorting and blurring the investigation with the so-called 'cell of 13' which is headed by detainee Hasan Nabaa.

Sayyed noted that members of Nabaa cell "admitted without pressure that the group hid Ahmed Abu Adas and his comrades, particularly closest buddy Khaled Taha, at al-Ansar group at Ein el-Hilweh camp at the end of 2005."

Members of the so-called "cell of 13" were found to have had close operational links to Khaled Taha.

The arrests of the 13-member cell took place in Lebanon in Jan. 2006. The detainees were also linked to the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri.

Khaled Taha, one of the ring members who remains at large, is believed to have recruited Ahmed Abu Adas, the militant who made a dubious taped confession about his involvement in the Hariri murder.

Mirza and al-Hasan "distorted investigations with the so-called cell of 13 in harmony with March 14's political decision," Sayyed claimed.