Saturday, December 31, 2005
Syrian Pol Claims Assad Threatened Hariri Before He Was Murdered
Former Syrian VP Abdul Halim Khaddam says that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad threatened former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri for opposing Syrian rule in Lebanon - right before Hariri was murdered by a truck bomb.
How sad that the BBC is reporting this.
Hariri 'threatened by Syria head'
Syria is now allied with Iran in pushing terrorism around the world - they are funding Hezbollah, terrorists in Iraq, and now are implicated in blowing up people in Lebanon. The world needs to bring Syria, a rogue state, to the bar of justice at the United Nations.
Former Syrian VP Abdul Halim Khaddam says that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad threatened former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri for opposing Syrian rule in Lebanon - right before Hariri was murdered by a truck bomb.
How sad that the BBC is reporting this.
Hariri 'threatened by Syria head'
A senior Syrian official has said President Bashar al-Assad threatened former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri only months before his death.
Syria's former Vice-President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, said "Hariri received many threats".
The ex-Lebanese premier, who had become a critic of Syria, died in a bomb attack in Beirut in February.
A UN investigation has implicated Syria in the assassination. Syria denies it was involved.
UN investigator Detlev Mehlis said several sources had said they had been told by Hariri that Mr Assad had threatened "to break Lebanon over [his] head", if he did not support the extension of Lebanese President Emil Lahoud's term.
Mr Khaddam told al-Arabiya television: "Assad told me he had delivered some very, very harsh words to Hariri... something like 'I will crush anyone who tries to disobey us'."
Syria is now allied with Iran in pushing terrorism around the world - they are funding Hezbollah, terrorists in Iraq, and now are implicated in blowing up people in Lebanon. The world needs to bring Syria, a rogue state, to the bar of justice at the United Nations.
