BEIRUT: A former Lebanese minister has
confessed to plotting sectarian killings along with Syria's security chief,
according to alleged leaked security documents published by a local newspaper
on Monday.
Former Information Minister Michel Samaha, who
has close links to the Damascus regime, was charged earlier this month by
Lebanon's chief military prosecutor with planning attacks in Lebanon and of
transporting explosives.
Al-Joumhouria newspaper published Monday a
picture of Samaha allegedly giving a bag stuffed with cash to an undercover
agent at his Beirut home, along with 10 pages of documents alleged to be
records of the investigation.
"I put the bombs in my car while I was at
Mamluk's office in Damascus," Samaha was quoted as saying in the
documents, referring to feared Syrian security chief Ali Mamluk.
Samaha allegedly singled out religious and political
figures suspected of supporting the Syrian opposition as targets for
assassination, including Malek Al-Shaar, the highest ranking Sunni cleric in
the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
A senior Lebanese security official told AFP
on condition on anonymity that the documents published by Al-Joumhouria were
"most probably" the official investigation file.
Lebanon has been rocked by several incidents
of Syria-related violence, including a spate of kidnappings of Syrians and
deadly clashes between pro- and anti-Damascus communities in Tripoli this
month.
Syria dominated its smaller
neighbour for nearly three decades until 2005, when its troops were forced to
pull out of Lebanon under international pressure.http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2012/Aug-27/185836-lebanon-ex--minister-admits-planning-killings-report.ashx#axzz24lZrSlqk
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