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Bashar and Lahoud 'ordered Hariri's murder'
An exiled former Syrian intelligence officer has claimed that Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and his Lebanese counterpart, Emile Lahoud, ordered the assassination of former Leb-anese premier Rafik Hariri.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 September 11, 2006
Beirut: An exiled former Syrian intelligence officer has claimed that Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and his Lebanese counterpart, Emile Lahoud, ordered the assassination of former Leb-anese premier Rafik Hariri.
"Bashar Al Assad and Emile Lahoud gave the orders for Hariri's murder," Mohammad Zuhair Al Saddiq was quoted by the Beirut daily An Nahar yesterday as saying in an interview with the Dubai-based Al Arabiya television channel.
"No other Syrian or Lebanese officer could have done this," he said in the interview broadcast on Saturday night.
Saddiq also claimed that "former Lebanese officials and certain Arab officials", whom he did not identify, "also participated in this crime".
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