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September 18, 2010

Now Lebanon - Sakr criticizes Hezbollah’s support for Sayyed - September 18, 2010

Lebanon First bloc MP Okab Sakr told the Voice of Lebanon (VOL) radio station on Saturday that “Hezbollah’s support for [former General Security chief] Jamil as-Sayyed is a symbol to break up the government.”

He added that Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport was appropriated by an outlaw protected by parties of a similar outlaw nature, referring to Sayyed’s Saturday arrival to Beirut.

The former General Security chief said last week that “[PM Saad Hariri] should take a lie detector test to prove he did not support or fund false witnesses in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL),” the court investigating the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri. Sayyed also described numerous figures as counterfeiters.

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.

Sakr added that protecting a man who threatened Hariri is a huge mistake.

The MP’s statement is a possible reference to Hezbollah’s Friday statement that Attorney General Judge Said Mirza’s request to summon Sayyed was “political par excellence.”

-NOW Lebanon
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