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September 19, 2010

Now Lebanon - Sayyed should have been arrested at the airport, Rahhal says - September 19, 2010

Security agencies should have arrested and questioned former General Security chief Jamil as-Sayyed upon his return to Beirut on Saturday, but instead he was “appointed as a second secretary general to Hezbollah,” Lebanon First bloc MP Riyad Rahhal said in a statement issued on Sunday.

Sayyed returned to Beirut from Paris on Saturday, days after Attorney General Judge Said Mirza summoned the former for questioning over his threatening speeches. He was received at the airport by a delegation that reportedly included members of Hezbollah and other March 8 coalition parties.

In a statement issued on Friday, Hezbollah called on the judiciary to revoke Mirza’s decision to summon Sayyed “for questioning over [Sayyed’s] threats against the Lebanese state, judiciary, and Prime Minister Saad Hariri.”

On September 12, Sayyed warned Hariri to “give me my right, [or] I swear on my honor that I [will] take it with my own hands.” He also called on the Lebanese people to “revolt against authority and attack officials in their houses.”

-NOW Lebanon
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