March 14 MP Marwan Hamadeh
said Monday that the alleged apprehension of Hussam Hussam by Syrian rebels was
“very important” for the Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for
Lebanon.
LBC television broadcast a
YouTube video on Sunday purportedly showing Syrian rebels
detaining Hussam, one of the false witnesses in the case of the assassination
of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
However, Hamadeh told Voice of Lebanon (100.5) radio station that “the most important [achievement would be the detention of Syrian Intelligence General] Mohammad Mefleh [who] arrived in Turkey.”
However, Hamadeh told Voice of Lebanon (100.5) radio station that “the most important [achievement would be the detention of Syrian Intelligence General] Mohammad Mefleh [who] arrived in Turkey.”
Hamadeh, who escaped an
assassination attempt on October 1, 2004, added that it was important to arrest
former Syrian military intelligence chief in Lebanon Rustom Ghazali.
The MP said Ghazali “is
among the [people who are part of this Syrian] security system, and who created
Hussam Hussam and other agents [used to] delay the international investigation”
into Hariri’s killing in past years.
Hariri was assassinated in
a massive car bombing in Downtown Beirut in 2005.
The STL is presently
probing Hariri’s killing. Four Hezbollah members were indicted in the
assassination, but Hezbollah, which is mainly backed by Damacus and Tehran, has
strongly denied the charges and refused to cooperate with the tribunal.
Following Hariri’s murder,
popular protests rocked Beirut’s Martyr’s Square, during which demonstrators
called on Syrian forces to withdraw from Lebanon.
Syria pulled out its troops
from Lebanon by the end of April 2005.
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