[A few minutes after the bombings, anonymous callers rang the Al-Jazeera and Reuters news bureaus to claim the attack was the work of a hitherto unknown group called Al-Nasra wal Jihad. (Records show calls had been made to Sheik Abdel-Al from those same phone booths in the past.) Al-Jazeera was told where to find a videotape of a young man named Ahmad Abu Adass, giving his reasons for becoming a] martyr ... that Mr. Abu Adass left his home on Jan. 16, 2005 and was taken, voluntarily or not, to Syria, where he has since disappeared. |
[BEIRUT: Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said yesterday that Defense Minister Elias Murr's comments about threats against Lebanese officials are common, but they have not been spoken about.] Had we known more about these threats, then maybe what happened to May Chidiac could have been avoided. Days will reveal what was hidden, ... we would not have witnessed this series. |
[The report said the killing had been planned] over many months ... itineraries recorded in detail. |
affirms to the Lebanese that he will continue to shoulder the responsibility in safeguarding the constitution and the laws. |
But Lebanon will never be ruled from Syria. This will no longer happen. |
could not have been taken without the approval of top-ranked Syrian security officials and could not have been further organized without the collusion of their counterparts in the Lebanese security forces. |
Hariri was a big problem to Syria. |
I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head. |
I prefer to settle this matter after a peace agreement is signed between Lebanon, Israel and Syria and Israel, |
I think we will soon be able to prove the contrary. |
is to get the truth behind the assassination of Hariri in response to the demands of the Lebanese people themselves. There are some people who want the truth to remain hidden and are threatened by what the truth may reveal and I think that that's the link with the May Chidiac attack yesterday. |
Lebanon is a center of terrorism and regional instability, and we have all seen what happened yesterday in this regard, |
made it very clear ... that the United States is engaged in the peace process. |
Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did. |
Right now we have to think of our country, |