Former head of General Security Jamil as-Sayyed “wants to replace state and judicial institutions with his wishes and hatred,” the National Bloc Party said in a statement issued after its weekly meeting on Thursday.
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 Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL),” the court investigating the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri. The former General Security chief vowed to take his right “with his own hands.”
Sayyed 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.
An-Nahar newspaper reported on Thursday that Attorney General Judge Said Mirza has summoned Sayyed “for questioning over the latter’s threats against the Lebanese state, judiciary, and Prime Minister Saad Hariri.”
Some Lebanese politicians have not learned from past experience and are trying to use external covers to further their local ambitions, the National Bloc’s statement said, adding, “The greatest loser [from such actions] is Lebanon, and the greatest beneficiary is the Syrian regime.”
-NOW Lebanon
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