Hezbollah MP: Samaha’s arrest targeting Syrian leadership

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Hezbollah MP Walid Succariyeh said Sunday that the arrest of former Information Minister Michel Samaha is aimed at targeting the Syrian leadership.

“The target Michel Samaha’s arrest operation is the Syrian leadership, due his ties with prominent Syrian officials , including Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,” National News Agency quoted Succariyeh as saying.

He also said that there could be attempts to blame the Syrian regime for the alleged bombing plot that Samaha is accused of facilitating, but added: “ I do not blame or acquit anyone . We are still waiting for the facts to be revealed.”

His comments come after Judge Sami Sader , the government’s deputy commissioner at the Military Tribunal, indicted on Saturday Samaha and nd Syrian National Security Bureau head Maj.General Ali Mamlouk for setting up an armed group to incite sectarian strife through “terrorist attacks,” National News Agency reported on Saturday.

The indictment also included a second Syrian army officer who was only identified as Brig. Gen. Adnan.

On Thursday, Lebanese security forces arrested Samaha in a case linked to a bombing plan aimed to create a strife in Lebanon

Following his arrest, several reports revealed that Samaha confessed under interrogation that he had transferred “explosives from Syria to Lebanon in order to carry out bombings in North Lebanon, particularly in the area of Akkar, with Syria’s knowledge.”

“This is what Bashar wants,” Lebanese security sources quoted Samaha as saying of Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a video shot by a Lebanese undercover agent for the Internal Security Forces Information Branch.

He was referring to the bombing plan that was meant to be carried out in north Lebanon.

The security sources also said that, in the video, Samaha can be seen and heard as saying that Syrian Maj. Gen. Ali Mamlouk had handed him the bombs in addition to $170,000 cash that was meant to be distributed to would-be executors of the bombing plan in Lebanon.

Samaha is known for being a staunch ally of the Syrian regime and Hezbollah even years before he was appointed a minister in the cabinet. He was among several pro-Syrian Lebanese officials who were sanctioned in 2007 by the United States for “contributing to political and economic instability in Lebanon.”

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23 responses to “Hezbollah MP: Samaha’s arrest targeting Syrian leadership”

  1. MeYosemite Avatar
    MeYosemite

    We don’t want Syrian leadership in Lebanon, we want only a Lebanese leadership. We don’t want an Iranian leadership in Lebanon either.

    1. breakthemould Avatar
      breakthemould

       Walid should care about the Syrian leadership such as it is if his son or wife or daughter was a victim of Bashar’s bombs. When do these people wake up to the simple things in life. Not fit to be an MP, I say. Member of Parliament is in my mind and any school boy is a person who is engaged in making the life of the people he represents BETTER. WHAT ARE THIS MAN’S CONTRIBUTIONS? ASSAD TO HIM IS JESUS,  and the people he is supposed to represent are  garbage. Blame any one who voted for him. Do not blame this real 24 carrot idiot. He does not know the ABC of what is good for Lebanon.

  2. MeYosemite Avatar
    MeYosemite

    We don’t want Syrian leadership in Lebanon, we want only a Lebanese leadership. We don’t want an Iranian leadership in Lebanon either.

    1. breakthemould Avatar
      breakthemould

       Walid should care about the Syrian leadership such as it is if his son or wife or daughter was a victim of Bashar’s bombs. When do these people wake up to the simple things in life. Not fit to be an MP, I say. Member of Parliament is in my mind and any school boy is a person who is engaged in making the life of the people he represents BETTER. WHAT ARE THIS MAN’S CONTRIBUTIONS? ASSAD TO HIM IS JESUS,  and the people he is supposed to represent are  garbage. Blame any one who voted for him. Do not blame this real 24 carrot idiot. He does not know the ABC of what is good for Lebanon.

    2. bs244846 Avatar

      we dont want hariris wahabis saoudis geagea-is and salafils we will convert them to falafils

      1. faqihi ignorant as usual came out from the airport suburb…..go to syria if you want to eat falafils

        1. bs244846 Avatar

          i dont need to retaliate…your answer proved who among us is the ignorant…..let it be a lesson for you….next time try to be more intelligent…..dont despair you neverr know…miracles can happen

        2. yu sung fu mr

  3. Fauzia45 Avatar

    All you care about is the ¨Syrian Leadership¨!!!!

  4. Fauzia45 Avatar

    All you care about is the ¨Syrian Leadership¨!!!!

  5. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Nothing wrong with targeting the Syrian leadership, seems to me – wherever it is.

  6. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Nothing wrong with targeting the Syrian leadership, seems to me – wherever it is.

  7. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Nothing wrong with targeting the Syrian leadership, seems to me – wherever it is.

  8. ferdy21 Avatar

    all the lebanese collaborators with the syrian facist, racist, and demented government must be tried for treason. We need pure lebanese politicians who care about their country and serve their people in a civilized and caring manner. If you serve the interest of another country that means you are an enemy of the state. It is time for change.

    1. bs244846 Avatar

      pure lebanese politicians…i bet you meant kharahiri rafic kharakiri the saoudi ….lol he was biggest syrian collaborator or maybe you meant geagea…he was begging on his knees to be received by assad and assad rejected him…btw both should be tried for crimes especially the maffiosi geagea

  9. ferdy21 Avatar

    all the lebanese collaborators with the syrian facist, racist, and demented government must be tried for treason. We need pure lebanese politicians who care about their country and serve their people in a civilized and caring manner. If you serve the interest of another country that means you are an enemy of the state. It is time for change.

    1. bs244846 Avatar

      pure lebanese politicians…i bet you meant kharahiri rafic kharakiri the saoudi ….lol he was biggest syrian collaborator or maybe you meant geagea…he was begging on his knees to be received by assad and assad rejected him…btw both should be tried for crimes especially the maffiosi geagea

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