Gen. As-Sayyed to Hariri: Your Father’s Crime Doesn’t Justify Committing Other Crimes at The Hands of False Witnesses

Former head of the Lebanese Security General, Major General Jamil As-Sayyed expressed "huge shock" at PM Saad Hariri's latest remarks during Tuesday's Cabinet session.

According to As-Sayyed's statement, Hariri said that "the issue of the four generals cannot be compared to the blood of martyr Rafiq Hariri and the other 20 martyrs..." as well as "the generals who were jailed are now back to their homes, but what about the blood of my father the martyr and the other martyrs."

Four top security generals were arrested for four years over accusations that they were involved in the (former PM Rafiq) Hariri assassination, among which was Gen. As-Sayyed. These accusations were based on false testimonies of which Saad Hariri acknowledged, adding also that accusing Syria in the past five years was "wrong."

As-Sayyed wondered of the nonsense in comparing between rights of the martyrs and those of the officers. He addressed Hariri saying that "the conspiracy of the false witnesses and their associates was behind injustice to the officers as well as the martyrs. He added "False witnesses have deluded the investigation and deliberately diverted it from the real perpetrators, to accuse Syria and the four generals as PM Saad Hariri himself acknowledged."

As-Sayyed's statement read "Upon this, we have always demanded that this conspiracy be uncovered and its players be held accountable. This continues to be Hariri's only way to find out the truth and give back martyr Hariri, the martyrs, and the generals their rights. The way is not to desperately protect the false witnesses and their associates."

As-Sayyed pointed "the assassination of (Rafiq) Hariri and others was a big and heinous crime that should not go unpunished, and so is the conspiracy of the false witnesses, misleading the investigation, destroying ties with Syria, and putting Lebanon on the edge of civil war."

"The arrest of the four generals is also a big and unjust crime, maybe less important to Saad Hariri than the first crime, and this is his undisputed right, however, who says that the assassination of your father justifies other crimes by your close aids against Lebanon, Syria, and the four generals?" former general asked.

The statement concluded saying: ‘Yes Prime Minister, as much as your wound is sincere and deep, the crime of assassinating your father does not justify other crimes in his name, and certainly does not justify being unjust to him twice; the first at the hands of the killers and the second at the hands of the false witnesses."

It added "Any other logic that some opinion traders of your associates encourage you on would harm you and pull you deeper into their schemes and stupidity. He added finally "Wouldn't be best for you to replace all of those with people like Minister Bahij Tabbara to be your guide to wisdom and justice? Do you consider that your father, the martyr, was unaware of the human nature when he set all of them away and chose Tabbara and his peers to be his aids and consultants?"