LBC television broadcast on
Sunday a YouTube video purportedly showing Syrian rebels detaining Hussam Hussam, one of
the false witnesses in the case of the assassination of former Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri.
The video showed Hussam
saying that he had information regarding the 2005 Hariri assassination, adding
that he wants to be taken to Beirut where he would reveal a “big surprise.”
One of the rebels in the
video addressed former PM Saad Hariri—Rafik’s son—saying that Hussam would be
sent to Beirut “as a gift.”
Hussam, an alleged Syrian
intelligence officer, had provided testimony in 2005 to the United Nations
International Independent Investigation Commission blaming senior Syrian and
Lebanese officials for the assassination.
However, Hussam later
recanted his testimony in a Damascus press conference in 2005, saying that
March 14 had forced him into his statements.
Hariri was assassinated in
a road-side explosion that targeted his convoy in Downtown Beirut.
The UN-backed Special
Tribunal for Lebanon, which is probing the Hariri assassination, indicted four
Hezbollah members in the killing. However, Hezbollah strongly denied the
charges and refuses to cooperate with the court.
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