Hariri Admits Al Jadeed Audio Leaks on Secret Meetings True
Al Jadeed TV broadcast a leaked audio recording Saturday of a meeting held in a hotel outside Lebanon joining PM Saad Hariri, Information Branch Chief Colonel Wissam Hassan, Deputy Chief Investigator in the Rafiq Hariri assassination case Gerhard Lehmann, and top false witness in the case Mohamad Zuheir Siddiq.
Caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri met with the discredited witness at the request of U.N. investigators probing the death of his father, Hariri's office said Sunday, admitting the meeting did happen and claiming it came in the framework of luring Siddiq into coming to Lebanon.
However Hariri's statement did not clarify why Siddiq was speaking to him and Colonel Hassan with haughtiness, nor did it explain why Siddiq had Hariri's personal number and reproached the head of the Future Movement and son of martyr Hariri for not answering his calls and messages in one incident.
"The telephone call in which I told you that they would send 20 people. The telephone call in which I told you that the explosions would begin. Didn't it happen? You're seeing it. I called you the night before last, do you remember? Did you see the call? I called you the night before last. You didn't answer. I called a second time and you didn't answer. I said maybe he went to sleep and he'll call me in the morning. [I was calling] to tell you that there was a bomb going to the LBC. It ended up being for May [Chidiac]. May was lost," Siddiq told Hariri during the meeting.
On Sunday night also, Al Jadeed TV broadcast excerpts from a 2007 meeting between Hariri and tribunal investigators. They appeared to show how Hariri told court representatives that the Syrian intelligence services hated his father and former U.N. envoy Terje Roed Larsen had called Hariri senior to warn him of Syria's assassination designs.
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