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Al-Hariri uncovers plot
30/10/2007 18:29 - (SA)
Cairo - The leader of Lebanon's
anti-Syrian coalition said on Tuesday that he had information about a plot to kill him and Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, which he said was planned by a senior Syrian official.
Saad al-Hariri, son of slain former Prime Minister Rafik
al-Hariri, said after talks with Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak that Lebanese security agencies were investigating the
information in co-operation with other Arab agencies.
Asked whether Assef Shawkat, the director of Syrian military
intelligence and brother-in-law of Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad, was behind the alleged plot, he said: "We have
information about this, and we're following up on it.
Banned from entering the US
"It is accurate information, but the security agencies are working and there is co-operation between the Lebanese security agencies and Arab security agencies on the attempt to
assassinate not just me, but also (Prime Minister) Siniora."
Shawkat is among 10 Syrian officials and Lebanese
politicians Washington accuses of undermining the Lebanese
government, and who are banned from entering the United States.
The anti-Syrian coalition accuses Damascus of orchestrating a series of political killings in Lebanon, which began with the assassination of former Prime Minister Hariri on February 14 2005.
Syria denies the allegations.
Around 40 members of the coalition have moved into a hotel
to protect themselves from assassins who have struck against
their bloc three times in less than a year. The last attack came
on September 19, when a car bomb killed lawmaker Antoine Ghanem.
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