Now Lebanon - As-Safir: Geagea says Sayyed will be arrested if he does not cooperate - September 16, 2010

As-Safir newspaper reported on Thursday that Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea informed his party’s officials that former General Security chief Jamil as-Sayyed will be summoned for questioning over his recent statement, adding that “if Sayyed refuses to [cooperate with] the Lebanese judiciary, the latter will arrest him.”

“Geagea said that his party will confront those who object to the judiciary’s decision,” the daily added.

An-Nahar newspaper reported on Thursday that Attorney General Judge Said Mirza summoned Sayyed “to question the latter over his threats against the Lebanese state, judiciary, and Prime Minister Saad Hariri.”

Sayyed said on Sunday that Hariri “should take a lie detector test to prove he did not support or fund false witnesses in the STL,” the court investigating the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri. The former General Security chief also vowed to take his right “with his own hands.”

Sayyed—who was placed in temporary detention in Lebanon in 2005 for his alleged involvement in the Rafik Hariri murder and released in 2009 due to lack of evidence—filed a request in March to the president of the STL, Antonio Cassese, to gain access to certain court files.