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Assad asked Hariri to resolve issue of false witnesses, report

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Syrian President Bashar Assad was reportedly disappointed at PM Saad Hariri for not seeking to adopt a government decision to refer the issue of false witnesses to the Lebanese judiciary.

The pro-Syrian Al-Akhbar newspaper said Thursday that Assad asked PM Hariri during their last meeting in Damascus on August 30 for “an official and honest stance from false witnesses.”

However, Hariri only admitted to Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that false witnesses had misled the investigation into his father’s assassination.

While Assad welcomed the Lebanese PM’s acknowledgment that it was a mistake to accuse Syria of killing Former prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Assad was frustrated at a lack of an official stance over the issue of false witnesses, al-Akhbar said.

According to the al-Akhbar, Assad warned Hariri during their meeting that the Syrian judiciary would issue arrest warrants in absentia against several Lebanese personalities who have been summoned to Damascus to stand trial unless the premier resolves the issue.

“Maybe there has been political pressure, but I can’t prevent the Syrian judiciary from issuing the arrest warrants,” al-Akhbar quoted Assad as telling Hariri.

The study of the false witnesses issue has reportedly been completed, An-Nahar newspaper said Tuesday.

An-Nahar said Lebanon Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar has completed the “legal study” on this issue and will present it to Cabinet at its next meeting.

The justice minister, however, declined to disclose the content of his study prior to submission to Cabinet.

According to Ya Libnan legal advisers there is no such a thing as a false witness before indictments are made . Only the courts during the trial can determine whether a witness is for real or false. At this stage no body knows who will be indicted, despite the fact that Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has revealed that some members of the party will be indicted. Such information is not coming from STL …such information is most probably assumptions or extrapolations coming from Hezbollah members that were interrogated by the Investigators. The trials will start after the indictments are made . There are 12 judges , 4 of them are Lebanese .

Many Lebanese legal experts believe that the issue of false witnesses is being used by Hezbollah and its allies to undermine and discredit the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

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6 responses to “Assad asked Hariri to resolve issue of false witnesses, report”

  1. Tony Smith Avatar
    Tony Smith

    Hariri should have told Assad to go burry his face in his father’s ass…What goes on in Lebanon is a lebanese matter and not Syrian.

  2. Guss Avatar
    Guss

    That’s what happened when you show your weakness to a tyrant,I think Hairiri rushed and did big mistake as he still a kid politically and didn’t take any advise except from His Saudi sponsors to exonerate the Syrian politically from the killing.It is very wrong what he said that we rsuhed and accused Syria ,even sppose we rushed , it was a great thing, the smartest things that happened that you managed to get 70% of the Lebanses in one hand to kick the Tyrant corrupted Syrian regime and his collaborators in Lebanon down, it wasn’t a rush , when you say rush it means it was planned , the Cedar revolution was a reaction to years of opression, of assasination ,of torture ,of stealing goods from and humilating the lebanese people, it was a raction for Killing of a good man like Hariri that build a city back, and Hariri shouldn’t sell the blood of his father cheaply,because it suit saudis, we don’t need saudi interference except for the good of Lebanon and not for their relation of Syria and trying to get SYria ou of the Iranian influence . Hariri better stick to hsi figure as a man defending the freedom as he was because he;s not mature enough to get into the mud of Syrian politics and its labyrinth full of dirt. They are the killers even if they dint do it themselves, nothing could escape their intelligence , and secret service,they prepared o his killing with their dogs in lebanon prior to his killing and made him a traitor, the presidential guard of Lahoud Hamdan was heard saying” we are going to send him in a trip he will never come back from it”.

    Mr Hariri your role is very symbolic and Syria will not stop unless the Internaional court cease to exist, and they will never forgive you to what you said before, they need to apologize themselves the Assad regime and his collabrators for feedign the Lebanese war, for killing civiliand and shelling a Achrafien and Ain el roummaneh and the presidentail palace in 1978 , 100 days of war , of organ of staline landing in civilians areas ,burning oil and gas in Dora , they are no different of the Israelis in 1978 and 1980 surrounding Zahle, they were peace keepers and they enter as peacekeepers in 1976 and they killed tortured ordinary people ,and stole cars, fridges, machinery, tiles, toilet seats from houses, destryed castles in the Dhour Choueir and Bolonia area and made them as torture places and washrooms, they need to apologize, they need to return the Lebanese kidnapped , Mr Hriri your father doesnt belong to you , so be a man , peace is bowing down to a criminal is not a peace, Assad should apologize for his father of Killing Kamal Joumblat, Hasan Khaked, Sobhi el Saleh, salim al laouzi, Maya el gemayel. Bashir el gemayel hwo’skiller live in Tartous Syria, a criminal is criminal no differenc between israelis crims and syrian crimes, Syrian crimes are not Halal.if Hariri the son want to settle on his father blood to gain Syrian friendship, the people shouldn’t settle. his father was a symbol for many also many paid the price, if Hariri wasn’t killed by Hezbollah for sure Syria has hand in it , no one can bring 10,0000 of high explosives, only a state can have access to such amount , the Syrian intelligence knew and still until now know who move ,or sneeze and when any go to washroom from any party , and such operation will not escape them . Do you wonder why no one dare to open the file of Renez Mouawad,because Syria is behind it, when Bashir died and a week after there was a banner in Btegrine posted for “every traitor there is Habib” , and Habib shartouni live currently in Tartous.Syria and Hezbollah and all the dogs of Syria opened fire on Rafiq Hariri prior to his death ,to prepare Psychologically the people that his death is not a bad idea . Also Iran has a big role , just go on you tube and watch the open war between the Sunni clerics and Shiite clerics on all subjects ,Shiite are swearing on all Sunni religious figure from Osman to the prophet himself, and Sunni attacking the shiites in all ferocity , including Nasrallah had fiery speeches against the Sunni historical religious figures, and Hariri was the symbol of regaining power in Lebanon by Saudi Arabia ,and the decree 1559 by the UN that Hariri pushed meant for HEZBOLLAH and Syria that he’s a traitor who deserve to die and they killed him . Syria was extorting 6 billion dollars and still to certain level from Lebanese economy from their worker, drugs and prostitution rings,Syrain prostitute currently are at large in Lebanon, and many of them are intelligence .Syria had for long time places all over Syria run by officers to sell Syrian the stolen cars and goods from Lebanon , that’s a big gold mine for them, and Hezbollah in the name of Mokawama ( lah yerkabouna bil moukawama) were the executors fo Syria and Iran and they still openely. Hariri was trying to end this as he couldn’t continue kissing the asses of the sYRIAN AND ALLOW LAHOUD TO EXTEND HIS DICTATORSHIP AND TOLD SYRIA OPENLY, and so is Joumblat and so is Kasir and Tueini. And let’s say Syria wasn’t behind it or as to be fair no one knew 14 February who killed Hariri,but it was the smartest thing to do to have a revolution to kick the corrupt and tyrant out , the smartest thing we did in 30 years of war was the 2005 Cedar rev,70% of the Lebanese united to kick the Syrian and they should have continue and kick lahoud from the palace as he was illegally extended . And now i SAY WE SHOULDN’T STOP EVER!!!! even if it takes more lives to achieve the complete independence , and the dignified state , we should never stop and never allow Syria back , it is better to lose the life and not live without dignity ,it is not matter of Hariri anymore it is matter we need to punish the killers as Serbia leader were tried and jailed , as the Nazis were tried in 1945, the regime in Syria killed ,tortured and bombed civilian with no excuse ,they bomb innocent civilian in Achrafieh in 1978 and Ain El roummaneh for 100 days day and night when they were suppose to be a peace keepers, what was the differenc between the Syrian shellign of Buildings and killing civilians and burning the Dora Gas tanks and Isreal invasion in 1982, what right they got to do that !!!!! simply murderers !!!they played with fire between all communities, their canons shelled East and West Beirut to feed the civil war in 1975-76 , we don’t want them to interfere in our life , we are Lebanese free people and we refuse to live like Syrian . Syrian national on daily basis are arrested and interrogated , and tortured and killed, and from 1975 and especially from 1990 -to 2005 they manage to install a puppet goverenment in Lebanon and transformed Lebanon to mini Syria , the Lebanese army need a major cleanup from the Syrian Intelligence , and we will not accept and will continue with Hariri the son or without , live or die and we will win, because freedom is the nature of the human being and no matter how the wind will blow and how long it will take , the freedom win will blow in the direction of Syria and the people there will revolt and the tyrants will fall so is their collaborators in Lebanon

  3. JadM Avatar
    JadM

    How many Lebanese are in Syrian prisons till this date without standing a trail??? 100s, thousands…??!!! maybe the syrain Judiciary system should look onto those cases before starting calling LEBANESE PERSONALITIES for standing trial.

    What does Mr. Assaas mean when he says he cannot stop the Judiciary court to issue arrest warrants…LOL they take orders from him, or does he really expect us to believe he has a democracy and an Independent judiciary system.

    FREE OUR PRISONERS

  4. JadM Avatar
    JadM

    How many Lebanese are in Syrian prisons till this date without standing a trail??? 100s, thousands…??!!! maybe the syrain Judiciary system should look onto those cases before starting calling LEBANESE PERSONALITIES for standing trial.

    What does Mr. Assaas mean when he says he cannot stop the Judiciary court to issue arrest warrants…LOL they take orders from him, or does he really expect us to believe he has a democracy and an Independent judiciary system.

    FREE OUR PRISONERS

  5. JadM Avatar
    JadM

    How many Lebanese are in Syrian prisons till this date without standing a trail??? 100s, thousands…??!!! maybe the syrain Judiciary system should look onto those cases before starting calling LEBANESE PERSONALITIES for standing trial.

    What does Mr. Assaas mean when he says he cannot stop the Judiciary court to issue arrest warrants…LOL they take orders from him, or does he really expect us to believe he has a democracy and an Independent judiciary system.

    FREE OUR PRISONERS

  6. Avatar
    Anonymous

    How many Lebanese are in Syrian prisons till this date without standing a trail??? 100s, thousands…??!!! maybe the syrain Judiciary system should look onto those cases before starting calling LEBANESE PERSONALITIES for standing trial.

    What does Mr. Assaas mean when he says he cannot stop the Judiciary court to issue arrest warrants…LOL they take orders from him, or does he really expect us to believe he has a democracy and an Independent judiciary system.

    FREE OUR PRISONERS

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