Naharnet - Sayyed: Hariri's Murder Doesn't Justify Another Crime Based on Falsification of Facts - September 22, 2010

Former General Security Department chief Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed on Wednesday expressed dismay at Premier Saad Hariri's alleged statement that the imprisonment of the four generals for four years could not be equivalent to the blood shed my 20 martyrs.
Hariri was quoted by Beirut media as telling Tuesday's cabinet session that the four generals were imprisoned but returned home. "How about the right of my martyred father and the others?"

"The assassination of Hariri and others is a big and heinous crime that should not go unpunished, the same as the false witnesses plot, misleading the investigation, destroying ties with Syria, putting Lebanon on the edge of civil war and the arrest of the four generals are big and unjust crimes," Sayyed said in a statement.

"For Saad Hariri, these might be less important than the first crime … but your father's assassination Mr. Prime Minister does not justify moves by your closest aides to commit another crime by falsifying facts," the former general told the prime minister.

The former premier's killing also "doesn't justify that you become unjust against your father twice," Sayyed said.