April 14, 2010 - Naharnet - Sayyed Warns Tribunal against Slipping into New Conspiracy

Former General Security Chief Jamil Sayyed warned the international tribunal against falling into a new conspiracy in light of recent remarks by discredited witness Zuheir Siddiq.
Sayyed accused in a statement on Tuesday "the same Lebanese political, media, judicial, and security circles of fabricating the new conspiracy as they did when they presented Zuheir Siddiq and his companions as false witnesses."

He continued that these circles were attempting to accuse Syria and the four generals of being behind former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's 2005 assassination.

Sayyed added that once the four generals, himself included, were acquitted of being involved in the assassination, the Lebanese circles tried to once again bring Siddiq into the picture in order to turn attention towards Hizbullah's alleged involvement in the crime.

Sayyed went on to refute Siddiq's recent statements to the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah newspaper in which he said that he is living in a European country by saying that he is in fact still living in the UAE.

"The UAE is coming under immense Lebanese and Arab pressure to prevent it from handing him over to his country," Sayyed noted.

If Siddiq is deported to Syria, then he is likely to expose all the "big Lebanese heads" that conspired against Syria and the four generals, he concluded.

Siddiq, a Syrian, was once considered a key witness in Hariri's assassination but his testimony was later proven to be false. His testimony resulted in the imprisonment of four generals who were in charge of Lebanon's security in 2005, but they were released last year due to lack in evidence.