Mehlis Accuses Assad of Assassinating Hariri over Alleged Coup Plot
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Former chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis has accused Syrian President Bashar Assad of ordering the assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri for allegedly seeking to topple his regime.
Mehlis said in an interview with the German radio Deutsche Welle on Thursday that Assad ordered Hariri’s Feb. 2005 killing after Damascus “suspected that he was seeking to topple the Syrian regime and disarm Hizbullah in cooperation with France and U.S.”
He said that witness testimonies confirmed that the “structure of the regime in Syria doesn’t allow carrying out such crimes without orders from Assad.”
Mehlis stressed the importance of former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam’s testimony.
The ex-investigator remarked that the regime in Syria depends on “enrichment,” saying that “all those close to the top of the pyramid become rich,” however when they feel that the regime is about to fall “they would overthrow it as is the case of all dictatorships.”
Mehlis expected that the Assad regime would “collapse” in a year or two, but said he doesn’t know how “powerful the Syrian opposition is.”
17 June 2011, 14:30
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Yes, but who carried it out? That's the delicate point.
Assad giving the order is an important information, but it will not affect us Lebanese as directly and immediately as the information about who carried it out.
17 June 2011, 14:33
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He may sound, look like an idiot, and be one. It doesn't invalidate the whole STL, especially since he was replaced by someone else a while ago.
17 June 2011, 14:44
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Double standards!!! will this, German, individual DARE fire accusations like that, without providing proof, had he been addressing an issue concerning Germany? I do not think so, he would have been heavily fined by now for defamation, and maybe sentenced to a suspended jail term.
17 June 2011, 15:30
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This is just one theory among others. We need actual evidence,which Mehlis has never provided. We are fed up with his speculations.
17 June 2011, 15:53
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Michel Aoun also accused Syria of R.Harriri assasination and all assasinations in Lebanon. Before Aoun became an idiot!
17 June 2011, 19:26
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I don't believe Mehlis but I believe him .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Cof503i80
17 June 2011, 19:35
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He's another idiot saying the same thing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFmoINybxaU
17 June 2011, 19:42
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Who the hell does this guy think he is?
President al Assad wouldn’t waste his breath on any harri,
No one has any proof about shit; we all know what Israel wants,
to take down Hezbollah, well let me direct this to the Israelis you will never bring down Hezbollah, as a matter of fact they will be bring use down before you know it, i would sit and worry about that if i were them
And to be honest we are getting over who killed harri this is a new century so how about everyone get the ell over it let the man rest in peace,
17 June 2011, 19:46
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Bye Bye Hariri , bye bye Mahkama , bye bye Mehlis and all that junk .
Today we have a new government , a page is turned , we will bring all these terrorists and false witnesses to justice ... in the mean time , keep hiding and keep running , not for long Saad .
We are in power , and you are on the trottoir .
