Now Lebanon - Sayyed to Jumblatt: I expect an apology - September 17, 2010

Former General Security chief Jamil as-Sayyed responded to Democratic Gathering bloc leader MP Walid Jumblatt’s Thursday interview—in which he rejected Sayyed’s Sunday statements—saying that “he expects an apology from Jumblatt.”

Sayyed said on Sunday that “[Prime Minister 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),” 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.

In his Thursday statement, Sayyed reiterated his position, adding that Attorney General Judge Said Mirza, Internal Security Forces (ISF) General Director Ashraf Rifi and head of the ISF – Information Branch Wissam al-Hassan were all accomplices of the witnesses who allegedly gave false testimony to the international commission investigating the Rafik Hariri assassination.

On Thursday, Mirza requested to summon Sayyed for “threatening PM Hariri, the Lebanese state and its judiciary.”