Syrian judiciary issued 33 arrest warrants for Lebanese, others

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On Sunday the Syrian judiciary issued 33 arrest warrants for judges, officers, politicians and journalists of Lebanese, Arab and other nationalities in the case brought by former Lebanese General Security chief Jamil as-Sayyed, according to a statement from Sayyed’s office.

Sayyed along with 3 other generals was detained from 2005 to 2009 on suspicion of involvement in former PM Rafik Hariri’s murder. In April 2009, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL ) ordered their release without charges due to insufficient evidence. STL prosecutor made it clear at the time they were set free that their release did not mean they are Innocent and that once more evidence is available they could be back in jail.

In December 2009, he filed a lawsuit in Damascus against various defendants whom he alleges were involved in a conspiracy of false testimonies against him.

Detlev Mehlis, former head of the U.N. commission investigating former PM Rafik Hariri’s murder, and his aide Gerhard Lehmann are among the 33 people named by the Syrian warrants, Sayyed’s press office noted.

On September 25, the Lebanese daily Ad Diyar reported that the Syrian judiciary was waiting for the appropriate time to send the warrants to its Lebanese counterpart.

“If the Lebanese judiciary does not comply with the Syrian demand, then Syria will take the appropriate measures to have Interpol issue arrest warrants for those individuals,” the newspaper added.

“The game is bigger than (Premier) Saad Hariri. It is related to international schemes, starting from the new Middle East, which used Rafik Hariri’s blood to strike Syria,” Sayyed said in remarks published Sunday by the Syrian daily al-Watan.

“But today, after failure of the plot, they moved to accuse the Resistance seeking a new scheme based on creating a Sunni-Shiite strife to divert attention from the struggle against the Israeli enemy and transfer this conflict to one between Arabs and Muslims themselves instead of having Israel as their common enemy. ”

Sayyed said “some” surrounding Hariri from Lebanon and “a large portion” from outside the country convinced the prime minister that Syria and its allies in Lebanon are the ones who killed his father.

“This is why he (Hariri) allowed, contributed to, turned a blind eye and supported a political, media, judicial and security structure of his advisers who chose Syrian false witnesses picked from Lebanese prisons, and provided them with temptations, particularly Zuhair Siddiq, Hussam Hussam and others, to accuse Syria and the four Lebanese officers (Sayyed one of them),” said the former detainee.

“But soon after our release and the fall of the hypothesis that Syria is behind the killing, they shifted their accusation within a month from Syria to Hezbollah, and this is no coincidence, of course, where police intelligence under Col. Wissam al-Hasan began arresting Israeli spy networks immediately after the release of the four generals in April 2009.”

Sayyed said the Government of national unity agreed to finance the Special Tribunal for Lebanon “because we thought we were paying for justice and truth, not for an international tribunal looking for politics.”

“But we found out four years later that the international law used the money to hit Syria and a portion of Lebanese through the false witnesses,” he said.

Describing MP Walid Jumblatt as “unstable,” Sayyed said he has no faith in the Progressive Socialist Party chief.

“I don’t believe everything Walid Jumblatt says, whether he is with us or against us, because he changes his positions from one moment to another,” Sayyed said.

Primary false witness

March 14 MP Okab Sakr told Akhbar al-Yawn news agency on September 23 that Sayyed is “the primary false witness” in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

“Hezbollah must start penalizing the primary false witness, which is now known and uncovered,” Sakr said.

Sakr’s remarks came after he accused Sayyed of fabricating the story published by German magazine Der Spiegel last year about the alleged involvement of Hezbollah in former PM Rafik Hariri’s assassination.

“What was published by the German Der Spiegel was fabricated by Jamil Sayyed,” Sakr said during a press conference.

The other , so called false witnesses , Zuhair Siddiq, Hussam Hussam were Syrian intelligence officers. While Siddiq is living in Australia , Hussam is living in Syria and many Lebanese leaders have urged the Syrian government to try him.

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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14 responses to “Syrian judiciary issued 33 arrest warrants for Lebanese, others”

  1. guss043 Avatar

    Syrian Judiciary ,wow, do such thing exist in the Baath ? Assad mother of all terrorism nation, ,what a joke, an arrest warrant should be send for the assassin Assad first to release all the Lebanese from Jail and

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    Anonymous

    Syrian Judiciary ,wow, do such thing exist in the Baath ? Assad mother of all terrorism nation, ,what a joke, an arrest warrant should be send for the assassin Assad first to release all the Lebanese from Jail and

  3. josephphd Avatar
    josephphd

    oh! waah! since when syria was in charge of the united nations ?
    so syria can issue warrants for other people in other coutries hehehhehhe!
    how did they earn this right
    so all of you member of the united nations us,rusia,china,england, france, germany, turkey, egypt, etc…………………….. 165 countries
    syria is in charge of you hahhahhahahh

    ok the the us is going to ask the united nations to get permission to issue warrant for muallem and his gangs to arrest them
    for meddling in lebanon illegally but syria can isue their own warrants without getting the un approval hhahhahah

    beside sayed why all those lies and bullshits ;no one stopping syria from getting their golan heights back
    they should declare war on srael and liberate thier golan heights instead of meddeling and harrasing lebanon if they truly have intentions to be freind with lebanon and the lebaneese people ; but the facts doe,st show that
    the fact shows that they are acting like an ennemy of the lebaneese state and the lebaneese people because lebanon was vounerabale that is what the ennemy would do and stop all the lies about beeing lebanon friend the lebaneese people are intelligent and they know who is beeing friend with them
    then again the syrian regim are making a big mistake ; my advise to them come at peace with lebanon and change yor policies before its too late that means syria need to support the lebaneese state first not certain groups
    if you do,nt change your strategy mr assad you will wind up like saddam hosein
    its not too late for you yet
    you should issue a warrant of arrest for sayed instead ;for lying to you and conspiring to stir problems beteween you and the lebaneese
    and come at peace not only with aoun but also with the legal elected governement of lebanon
    if you treat them fair and right they will do the same in return

  4. josephphd Avatar
    josephphd

    oh! waah! since when syria was in charge of the united nations ?
    so syria can issue warrants for other people in other coutries hehehhehhe!
    how did they earn this right
    so all of you member of the united nations us,rusia,china,england, france, germany, turkey, egypt, etc…………………….. 165 countries
    syria is in charge of you hahhahhahahh

    ok the the us is going to ask the united nations to get permission to issue warrant for muallem and his gangs to arrest them
    for meddling in lebanon illegally but syria can isue their own warrants without getting the un approval hhahhahah

    beside sayed why all those lies and bullshits ;no one stopping syria from getting their golan heights back
    they should declare war on srael and liberate thier golan heights instead of meddeling and harrasing lebanon if they truly have intentions to be freind with lebanon and the lebaneese people ; but the facts doe,st show that
    the fact shows that they are acting like an ennemy of the lebaneese state and the lebaneese people because lebanon was vounerabale that is what the ennemy would do and stop all the lies about beeing lebanon friend the lebaneese people are intelligent and they know who is beeing friend with them
    then again the syrian regim are making a big mistake ; my advise to them come at peace with lebanon and change yor policies before its too late that means syria need to support the lebaneese state first not certain groups
    if you do,nt change your strategy mr assad you will wind up like saddam hosein
    its not too late for you yet
    you should issue a warrant of arrest for sayed instead ;for lying to you and conspiring to stir problems beteween you and the lebaneese
    and come at peace not only with aoun but also with the legal elected governement of lebanon
    if you treat them fair and right they will do the same in return

  5.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    oh! waah! since when syria was in charge of the united nations ?

    so syria can issue warrants for other people in other coutries hehehhehhe!

    how did they earn this right

    ok the the us is going to issue warrant for muallem and his gangs to arrest them

    for meddling in lebanon illegally

    beside sayed all thse lies and bullshits no one stopping syria from getting their golan heights back

    they should declare war on srael and liberate thier golan heiths instead of meddeling and harrasing lebanon if they truly have intentions to be freiend to lebanom and the lebaneese people ; but the facts doe,st show that

    the fact shows that they are acting like an ennemy of the lebaneese state and the lebaneese people because theire siste lebanon was vounerabale that is what the ennemy would do and stop all the lies about beeing lebanon friend the lebaneese people are intelligent and they know who is beeing fried with them

  6. josephphd Avatar
    josephphd

    you see senator hillary clinton what did i tell you few days ago
    that muallem cannot be trusted
    you should invade syria and hang him like you did with saddam this criminal lier only understand force

  7. josephphd Avatar
    josephphd

    you see senator hillary clinton what did i tell you few days ago
    that muallem cannot be trusted
    you should invade syria and hang him like you did with saddam this criminal lier only understand force

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    Anonymous

    you see senator hillary clinton what did i tell you few days ago

    that muallem cannot be trusted

    you should invade syria and hang him like you did with saddam this criminal lier only understand force

  9. josephphd Avatar
    josephphd

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_massacre
    that is the justice system works in syria hahahhahahah

  10. josephphd Avatar
    josephphd

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_massacre
    that is the justice system works in syria hahahhahahah

  11. josephphd Avatar
    josephphd

    http://www.ssnp.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=002469
    it looks that the criminal machine has not stopped yet against the lebaneese god know who.s next
    mr saad harriri and junblat be aware you mabe next make sure you have excellent security

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    Anonymous

    SAYED YOU GOT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR MOUYH IN THE PCTURE SHOWN IT,S YOUR INSTINCT YOU ARE TELLING YOURSELF TO SHUT UP BEACUSE YOU KNOW YOU ARE LYING TO YOUR TEETH

  13. Fauzia45 Avatar

    It seems they always wait¨for the appropriate time¨and always take¨appropriate measures¨ !!Nothing has changed!!!!

  14.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    It seems they always wait¨for the appropriate time¨and always take¨appropriate measures¨ !!Nothing has changed!!!!

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