Naharnet - Abdo Accuses Lahoud of High Treason and Aoun of Following a Similar Path, October 23, 2008.
Ex-ambassador Johnny Abdo on Tuesday accused former President Emile Lahoud of committing "high treason" by supporting Hizbullah at the expense of the state and said Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun is following the Lahoud example. Abdo, in an interview with the weekly as-Sayyad, said the charge sheet to be released by the U.N. commission probing the 2005 assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri "would result in an earthquake much stronger than the hurricane caused by the assassination." Political implications of the charge sheet, Abdo added, would be "graver than repercussions of the assassination.""During the nine years that Lahoud had spent as army commander, he and his intelligence focused on empowering a party and a militia at the expense of the army," Abdo said. "It would take at least 19 years to tackle the issue of Hizbullah weapons and regain the state strength," he added. Lahoud, Abdo said, "used to carry out instructions without realizing their implications. Aoun is aware of the implications but he is behaving like Lahoud." Abdo concluded by saying "one person in Lebanon, who is believed to enjoy immunity, would be able to expose (secrets) of more than 80 per cent of the bomb attacks and assassinations that were carried out in Lebanon in the past three years." He did not identify this person, however.
No comments:
Post a Comment