Now Lebanon - Chaos will ensue if Sayyed is prosecuted, March 8 source warns - September 17, 2010

An unnamed source from the March 8 alliance told Ad-Diyar newspaper in an interview published on Friday that “any legal step taken against [former General Security chief] Jamil as-Sayyed will wreck havoc in the country through the reoccurrence of new May 7 events.”

Gunmen supporting a Hezbollah-led alliance clashed with Druze and Sunni supporters of a rival alliance, killing 100 people in the week-long battle in 2008, also known as the May 7 events.

On Thursday, Attorney General Judge Said Mirza requested to summon Sayyed for “threatening Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the Lebanese state and its judiciary.”

Sayyed said on Sunday that “[PM Hariri] should take a lie detector test to prove he did not support or fund false witnesses in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL),” investigating the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri, and vowed to take his right “with his own hands.”

Sayyed was detained from 2005 to 2009 on suspicion of involvement in the Rafik Hariri murder. In April 2009, the STL ordered his release due to lack of evidence.