Lebanese security forces on
Thursday arrested Michel Samaha, a former information minister who is
considered close to Syria's embattled regime, a senior official said.
"The security forces
have arrested the [former] minister at his residence" at Khenshara in
Mount Lebanon, said the source, declining to elaborate on the reasons for his
detention.
Samaha was information
minister in the government of Rafiq Hariri, who was killed in a massive car
bombing on the Beirut seafront on February 14, 2005.
A security official told
AFP that the intelligence services arrested Samaha on orders of the attorney
general.
Meanwhile, LBC television
station reported that a number of Lebanese officials were aware in advance of
the operation’s details, especially Interior Minister Marwan Charbel.
The Internal Security’s
Information Branch troops “meticulously” searched Samaha’s house, LBC added.
The Lebanese National News
Agency also reported on Thursday that the security forces had raided the
minister’s residence in Beirut and searched it before undertaking the raid on
his residence in Khenshara.
Later on, MTV reported that Samaha was arrested after information
emerged that he was involved in an assassination attempt against Future bloc MP
Khaled al-Daher.http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=426319#
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