Assad intervened personally to ensure STL funding

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad personally “intervened ” to ensure that Lebanon will finance the UN court probing former PM Rafik Hariri’s murder, Kuwaiti newspaper As-Seyassah reported on Saturday.

Assad “personally intervened to ensure the funding in order to prevent the collapse] of the Lebanese government,” after Prime Minister Najib Mikati threatened to resign if the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) was not financed.

According to the daily , Syrian president met with envoys from Hezbollah and the Shiite Amal Movement to discuss the STL before Mikati announced on Wednesday that Lebanon has financed the UN-backed court.

The daily also reported that Assad recently held talks with Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Health Minister Ali Hasan Khalil in a meeting that lasted three hours and the talks were preceded by high-ranking Iranian contacts.

Assad considers Mikati’s government “vital for Syria,” as Damascus faces international pressure over its violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests, the paper said.

Mikati announced on Wednesday that he transferred Lebanon’s share of the funding of the tribunal to the court, while Nasrallah on Thursday rejected the funding, reiterating Hezbollah’s rejection of the tribunal.

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15 responses to “Assad intervened personally to ensure STL funding”

  1. how repulsive that he has any say over lebanese matters and his blessing is required  is prior to decision making.  

  2. how repulsive that he has any say over lebanese matters and his blessing is required  is prior to decision making.  

  3. beyondreason1022 Avatar
    beyondreason1022

    it is not a surprise ! jokers to the end.. 

  4. beyondreason1022 Avatar
    beyondreason1022

    it is not a surprise ! jokers to the end.. 

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    it is not a surprise ! jokers to the end.. 

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    it is not a surprise ! jokers to the end.. 

  7. MeYosemite Avatar
    MeYosemite

    This is repulsive on how Syria has a say in this matter. Perhaps HA believecin bigger syria. But how can the aounists digest this information. To go quiet on this, aoun must have been promised something or the presidency, and the aounists have a duct tape on over their mouth. Unbelievable!

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    This is repulsive on how Syria has a say in this matter. Perhaps HA believecin bigger syria. But how can the aounists digest this information. To go quiet on this, aoun must have been promised something or the presidency, and the aounists have a duct tape on over their mouth. Unbelievable!

  9. You mean Mikati couldn’t decide on his own? you mean he got no balls to do that ?!!! so Assad told Nasrallah, Berri and Aoun ,using French langauge to ” Couche ” (used for dogs ) and they did ?!!! oh thanks for telling us, we didn’t know !!

  10. You mean Mikati couldn’t decide on his own? you mean he got no balls to do that ?!!! so Assad told Nasrallah, Berri and Aoun ,using French langauge to ” Couche ” (used for dogs ) and they did ?!!! oh thanks for telling us, we didn’t know !!

  11. Who is he to have to give his fxxking blessing? Doesn’t he know he has no more power??? Do these idiots in my beloved Lebanon, who ask for his permission not realize he is on his way out, and they are right behind him??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THESE PEOPLE ARE THAT STUPID?????
    He and his axxhole father, NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAD ANY POWER TO BEGIN WITH. SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE PUT A BULLET IN THE OLD MAN’S HEAD, YEARS AGO, AND SAVED LEBANON AND THE MIDDLE EAST 45 YEARS OF SUFFERING. Finally, people will be able to breath…!!! 

  12. Who is he to have to give his fxxking blessing? Doesn’t he know he has no more power??? Do these idiots in my beloved Lebanon, who ask for his permission not realize he is on his way out, and they are right behind him??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THESE PEOPLE ARE THAT STUPID?????
    He and his axxhole father, NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAD ANY POWER TO BEGIN WITH. SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE PUT A BULLET IN THE OLD MAN’S HEAD, YEARS AGO, AND SAVED LEBANON AND THE MIDDLE EAST 45 YEARS OF SUFFERING. Finally, people will be able to breath…!!! 

  13. Who is he to have to give his fxxking blessing? Doesn’t he know he has no more power??? Do these idiots in my beloved Lebanon, who ask for his permission not realize he is on his way out, and they are right behind him??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THESE PEOPLE ARE THAT STUPID?????
    He and his axxhole father, NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAD ANY POWER TO BEGIN WITH. SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE PUT A BULLET IN THE OLD MAN’S HEAD, YEARS AGO, AND SAVED LEBANON AND THE MIDDLE EAST 45 YEARS OF SUFFERING. Finally, people will be able to breath…!!! 

  14. and this is news? everything about M8 = Syria’s will….M8 leaders cant fart without Assad saying its ok, people who find this surprising are as clueless as I feared… 

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    and this is news? everything about M8 = Syria’s will….M8 leaders cant fart without Assad saying its ok, people who find this surprising are as clueless as I feared… 

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