Now Lebanon - Criminal Investigations Bureau officers visit Sayyed’s residence - September 16, 2010

AFP quoted an unnamed Lebanese judicial source as saying on Thursday that members of the Criminal Investigations Bureau went to former General Security Chief Jamil as-Sayyed’s residence after he was summoned by Attorney General Judge Said Mirza for questioning, but found that Sayyed and his family were out of the country.

Sayyed travelled to Paris following his Sunday press conference to wait for Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen’s decision regarding Sayyed’s request to access certain court files.

The source said that, based on Lebanese law, Sayyed will be informed of Mirza’s decision after he returns to Lebanon.

This comes after Sayyed said on Sunday that “[Prime Minister Saad Hariri] should take a lie detector test to prove he did not support or fund false witnesses in the STL,” investigating the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri. The former General Security chief 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 Rafik Hariri’s 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 the tribunal’s files.

-NOW Lebanon