A source in the general
directorate of the Internal Security Forces denied that former General Security
chief Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed accompanied ex-minister Michel Samaha to Syria to
allegedly smuggle explosives to Lebanon.
In remarks to al-Akhbar
daily published on Wednesday, the source said MTV station’s report “is not true
and the interrogation of Samaha and his bodyguards did not reveal any such
thing.”
The denial came a day
after MTV quoted a security source as saying that police are trying to verify
the unconfirmed reports that Sayyed was in the car with Samaha when the former
minister allegedly smuggled explosives from Syria to carry out bombing attacks
in northern Lebanon.
Both men are close to
the regime of President Bashar Assad.
A military judge is set
to interrogate Samaha for the second time on Thursday.
He was charged over the
weekend by the military tribunal along with Syrian officer Maj. Gen. Ali
Mamlouk and another officer identified as Brig. Gen. Adnan of being part of a
terror network aimed at destabilizing the country by planting explosives in
northern Lebanon, as well as planning to assassinate religious and political
figures.
The former minister was
arrested by the ISF Intelligence Branch last week during a raid on his house in
the North Metn town of Jwar al-Khenshara after an informant, Milad Kfouri, told
police about the alleged plot.http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/50093
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