Al-Sayyed Urges STL to Bring False Witnesses to Court to Gain Credibility
Former General Jamil al-Sayyed refused to comment on the indictment that was published by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
“This indictment only received dull comments, despite the desperate attempts by al-Mustaqbal movement media to provoke people,” he said on Thursday in a statement published by his press office.
The STL published on Wednesday the indictment after it said there was enough evidence to try four Hizbullah members in the murder of Hariri.
Al-Sayyed said: “There was no reaction from the Arab nations or the international community (on the indictment).”
The statement said that he referred this Lebanese, Arabic and international negligence “because the tribunal lost its credibility after the false witnesses conspiracy” that former PM Saad Hariri made in coordination with the international community to accuse Syria and the four former Lebanese officers to win the elections and control the state.”
Al-Sayyed added that Hariri should’ve convinced the public that the tribunal is credible instead of attacking Hizbullah Chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
“What ensures that the accusations and arrests (if made) were not aimed at hitting the resistance just like the accusation against the four officers was a way to hit the Lebanese state and Syria and the opposition back then,” the statement said.
Al-Sayyed stressed: “The international tribunal will not regain its credibility unless the Lebanese, Arabs and the world see that it tries the false witnesses and their accomplices, and detains” former chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis, General Prosecutor Saeed Mirza, State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr, Magistrate Elias Eid, officers Ashraf Rifi and al-Hassan and Mehlis’ aide Gerhard Lehmann.
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