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05 November 2012 By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed More than 20 Lebanese figures
have been assassinated, including former Prime
Minister Rafik Hariri, not to mention senior
politicians, media figures and military leaders. All
of those assassinated have been affiliated to a single
political movement, namely the March 14 movement.
Following the assassination of Hariri, Hezbollah and
the Syrian regime sought to promote the story that a
youth, Abu Adas – a member of a terrorist Islamist
organization – was responsible for Hariri's death as
part of a suicide attack. They claimed that Abu Adas
had recorded a video confession, which he left in a
tree, which was later discovered by the media. Only the stupid and ignorant would believe such a
story! We knew, from the first moment, that the Syrian
regime was behind the assassination of Hariri, and
that its closest ally, Hezbollah, had carried out this
operation. Of the estimated 20 people who have been
killed in the past period, the conspirator and party
responsible for the actual assassination have been one
and the same. The latest assassination victim was Wissam Hassan,
who was practically the only security official in
Lebanon who was outside the authority of Hezbollah.
This man, along with his team, succeeded in compiling
a lot of the evidence that implicates the Syrian
regime and Hezbollah. Only the stupid and ignorant are
not aware that the conspirators and perpetrators, in
this case, are the al-Assad regime and Hezbollah.
However the problem is that the pro-Syrian and
Hezbollah media believes that such lies work, and
attempted to propagate this again. Syria's ambassador
to Lebanon, who cannot acknowledge that his country
was behind the crime, had no other option but to
accuse takfirist jihadists of being behind the
assassination of Wissam Hassan! Why would they do
this? The Syrian ambassador claimed that this was
because they want to spread chaos! If spreading chaos
is the true objective, then why are all of those who
have been killed affiliated to the same political
party? As for the latest, an Al-Akhbar newspaper
journalist with ties to Syria and Hezbollah, Hassan
Aliq, published a report claiming that Jordanian
intelligence warned the Dahieh [southern suburbs of
Beirut] that Israel is angry with Hezbollah and may
seek to target the area. Once again, we must not be
stupid enough to believe this story, despite the
writer's attempt to propagate this. Why would Israel
assassinate a courageous security investigator who
dared to reveal Hezbollah and Syria's crimes? In the
same manner a liar always betrays their deceit by
adding too many details to their story, the writer put
forward a second story regarding the UAE intelligence
apparatus. He wrote "here is the surprise. An Emirate
official informed Hassan that information in their
possession confirms that Al Qaeda was behind the
assassination [of Hariri], specifically a group
operating from the Ain al-Hilweh camp." If the writer
was in possession of such valuable information, why
did he not reveal this in his first article following
the assassination of Wissam Hassan? Therefore in
reality, of course there is no Jordanian or Emirati
story, rather this is complete fiction and something
that nobody in the region, even those within the
Hezbollah camp, can believe!
Al Rashed is the general manager of Al -Arabiya
television. He is also the former editor-in-chief of
Asharq Al- Awsat, and the leading Arabic weekly
magazine, Al Majalla. He is also a senior Columnist in
the daily newspapers of Al Madina and Al Bilad. He is
a US post-graduate degree in mass communications. He
has been a guest on many TV current affairs programs.
He is currently based in Dubai. |
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