Samaha says of bomb plots ‘that’s what Assad wants’
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Former Cabinet Minister Michel Samaha, who allegedly admitted to his role in a plot to carry out attacks in Lebanon, was captured on video saying that such attacks are desired by Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to security sources.
“Bashar wants this,” security sources quoted Samaha as saying in the video shot some two weeks before his arrest by a Lebanese policeman monitoring the two-time Information Minister.
Security sources told The Daily Star Friday that the planting and the timing of the bombs were meant to coincide with a planned visit to the northern region of Akkar by Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai.
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Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said in comments to several media outlets Friday that Samaha admitted to his involvement in a “specific security case, but the issue remains undisclosed.”