person:muhammad zuhayr

  • La réaction de Angry Arab aux mandats d’arrêts émis par le TSL.
    http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/06/hariri-tribunal_30.html

    I rarely comment on this silly exercise. Comrade Omar Nashabe of Al-Akhbar has written extensively on all the problems that mar the process of this potato court. Where do you begin?
    – The first German investigator Mellis who gave political interviews right and left and never hid his political agenda?
    – The fact that the Western press has UNIFORMLY covered up the corruption of the case? Did any US newspaper report that the second-in-command of the court went around offer sales of tapes of interviews with key witnesses and New TV obtained them and aired them?
    – That what we heard from those tapes show beyond the shadow of a doubt that this was a most unprofessional and corrupt proceeding, even in comparison to the corrupt justice system in Lebanon?
    – That the Hariri family were allowed to control the entire affair and to provide witnesses some of whom turned out to be false witnesses?
    – That we have a tape in which Hariri and his aides are feeding and influencing the testimony of the worst false witness in the case, Muhammad Zuhayr As-Siddiq?
    – That the meetings with the tirbunal’s people were clearly (from the tapes of New TV) chit chat sessions? American traffic courts are run more professionally.
    – Or the negotiations between the court and the Hariri family to delay the release of the four generals? Or the arrest of the four generals for purely political reasons? One of the four generals talked about how he got an offer for cooperation if he fingered Syria.
    – And what about those Wikileaks documents that show court’s higher ups taking instructions from US diplomats?
    – And about an investigation that started with a premise and ruled out any ally of the US from the suspects’ list?
    – And what about the shift in targeting from Syria to Hizbullah following shifts in US and Saudi foreign policies?
    – What about the timing? All this time and just as the cabinet in Lebanon was forming, they release the report and leak the names? All this is a coincidence?
    – And was one Israeli official ever questioned (although I believe that Rafiq Hariri was a good friend of Israel and its interests in Lebanon and for that I never mourned him but I did mourn the innocent civilians who died there – car bombs are nasty, man).
    – And what about the series of resignation from the court? And what about the way in which the court officially refused to address legal concerns of the four generals? Do you have doubts that the court is run from the Near East section of the State Department? Who are you fooling?

    Today, they leaked that they will accuse Syria and Hizbullah, but why not Venezuela and Cuba? Why not point the finger at every enemy of the US and Israel? Why not Hamas too? You think anyone is taking the court seriously? Look at public opinion polls in Lebanon, even among Sunnis. Hasan Nasrallah did an excellent job in discredit the court in Lebanese and Arab eyes. This is a joke, really.

    So they leaked the name of four Hizbullah members (supplied by ISRAEL NO DOUBT). What is next? Will Sa`d Hariri take his supporters to the southern suburbs to arrest the accused? What will the “international community” – how I hate that word which is used to hide not so sneakily the heavy handed US role in international affairs – do? What can they do? Freeze the assets of Hasan Nasrallah in the US and Europe? Or will they ban him from traveling with his grand kids to Disneyland?

    As we say in Lebanon, go play in the garden. Israel killed more than 1300 civilians in the July war on Lebanon in 2006, and you want me to spend sleepless nights wondering who killed a man who did so much to cause destruction and discord in Lebanon? I don’t care to know who killed Hariri and Sa`d Hariri is not the first creature to lose his father. I lost my father but never brought Lebanon to the brink of civil war. Take down all the pictures and statues of Rafiq Hariri and move his grave site to Sidon – to the Garbage Mountain there.

    PS. It bothers me how submissive the mainstream US press is to the dictates of US government. I don’t recall reading one negative article about Hariri in any US newspaper. Not one. I cant recall reading one in the British press – and I am not talking about Robert Fisk who is an unreliable weaver of tales and peddler of Hariri press office releases.

  • Stop the press!

    FLASH: New TV has its own Audio-LEAKS: EXPLOSIVE
    http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/01/flash-new-tv-has-its-own-audio-leaks.html

    New TV in Beirut just aired an audio tape with mini-Hariri and his chief of intelligence, Wisam Hasan, and German Hariri investigator, Gerhard Lehmann, and... the FAMOUS FALSE WITNESS, MUHAMMAD ZUHAYR AS-SIDDIQ (the most famous of the false witness who has woven so many fabrications about who was responsible for the Hariri investigation and who has been aided by French intelligence and Dubai intelligence). The significance of the audio tape can’t be overstated: this will officially put the last nail in the coffin of the Hariri tribunal. Hariri has officially denied any knowledge of the “false witnesses” and in this meeting he seems to be receiving orders from Siddiq himself. Now we know why the Hariri camp has been fiercely opposing the demand by the opposition to refer the “false witness” matter to the Justice Council in Lebanon. Of course, the testimony of Saddiq was the only reason why the “four generals” were incarcerated. Now you see why I never bothered to take the Hariri tribunal seriously. It was a joke before it was formed by an Israeli/US decision. This is the biggest gift to Hizbullah for the new year. Expect a press conference by Nasrallah this week.

    #Liban #TSL

    • قناة الجديد : الموقع الرسمي - حقيقة "ليكس" الجديد: لقاء الحريري، الحسن، ليمان، ومحمد زهير الصديق
      http://www.aljadeed.tv/wsg/newsdetails.aspx?ln=4918

      قناة الجديد تكشف في تقرير خاص جلسة حوار بين رئيس الحكومة المستقيلة سعد الحريري ورئيس جهاز شعبة المعلومات وسام الحسن ومساعد المحقق الدولي غيرهالد ليمان ضِمن وثائقَ “حقيقة ليكس”، ومن خلال هذه الجلسة المسجلة صوتياً يكشف لماذا الصديق اصبح اقوى من الدولة وكيف استحصل على الحصانة التي مكنته من اتهام سوريا واربعة ضباط ومن تعطيل جلسات مجلس الوزراء وصولا الى هدم الحكومة ووفاقها.

    • Présenté dans ce blog :
      http://qifanabki.com/2011/01/15/saad-al-hariri-caught-on-tape-with-false-witness-muhammad-zuhair-al-siddi

      Well this is embarrassing. Lebanese TV station al-Jadeed has a major scoop tonight: a leaked recording of a meeting between Saad al-Hariri, Information Branch chief Colonel Wissam al-Hassan, STL deputy chief investigator Gerhard Lehmann, and Muhammad Zuhair al-Siddiq. You can watch the entire report below.

      Blog qui s’accroche à l’idée que ça ne va pas trop abîmer l’image de Saad Hariri...

    • Mentionné par L’Orient-Le Jour :
      http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/Liban/article/685229/La_chaine_New_TV_diffuse_un_entretien_presume_entre_Hariri_et_Siddiq.

      Selon l’enregistrement, M. Siddiq affirme au Premier ministre « détenir toute la vérité » sur l’assassinat de son père, et que le rapport de l’enquête « devrait inclure le nom de neuf Syriens et quatre Libanais ».
      Surnommé le « témoin roi », cet ancien officier syrien avait affirmé devant la commission d’enquête que l’ancien président libanais Émile Lahoud et le président syrien Bachar el-Assad avaient donné l’ordre d’assassiner Rafic Hariri, devenu opposé à l’hégémonie de Damas, ancienne puissance de tutelle au Liban. Le TSL avait indiqué par la suite que M. Siddiq ne l’intéressait pas.

    • Johsua Landis en parle sur Syria Comment :
      http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/?p=8097

      Al-Jadid TV [New TV] in Lebanon just aired this taped recording of a meeting that took place between Saad al-Hariri, Information Branch chief Colonel Wissam al-Hassan, STL deputy chief investigator Gerhard Lehmann, and Muhammad Zuhair al-Siddiq, one of the false witnesses whose testimony was used by Mehlis to accuse Syria for plotting the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri. It records the four men laying out a plan for how to convince the international community of Syria’s culpability. They all believe Syria to be the instigator of the killing. They agree that they must present the world with an air-tight case and lots of proof. Saddiq explains to Hariri that he tried to warn him of May Shidiyyaq’s attempted assassination two days ahead of time, but claims Hariri refused to answer it. Hariri asks Saddiq why he didn’t text him. Hariri calls Saddiq a “diarrhea mouth” to Mehlis’s lieutenant, but goes on to explain that he should be believed and is trustworthy. This is damaging to the Tribunal and Hariri because it shows how tainted Mehlis’ reports were and how eager the European investigators were to take at face value trumped up evidence. For Hariri, it is damaging because he swore that he had not met with Saddiq or any of the false witnesses.

    • Même le Nahar en a une dépêche :

      TV Station Broadcasts Alleged Conversation Between Hariri, Siddiq - Naharnet Newsdesk
      http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&24742291C4E41CACC225781A003308CD

      The TV station said the broadcast was intended to show a link between Hariri and Siddiq, whom March 8 forces describe as a false witness and the international tribunal does not recognize.

      Al-Jadid accused the caretaker premier of “hiding the truth and playing with the bloods of February 14 martyrs” in reference to the bombing that killed the former PM and 22 others.

      The meeting was also attended by former chief investigator Detlev Mehlis’ assistant Gerhard Lehmann and police intelligence chief Col. Wissam al-Hassan, according to the tape.

      In the audiotape, Siddiq told Hariri that the report of U.N. investigators probing his father’s assassination should name six Syrians and four Lebanese.

      [...]

      Al-Jadid did not give details as to how it obtained the audiotape but said that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon had a copy of it.

      New TV (Al Jadeed) a annoncé la diffusion d’un deuxième enregistrement ce soir dimanche.

    • Le bureau d’information de Hariri : la conversation de Siddiq en présence de Lehman a eu lieu à la demande de la commission d’enquête internationale - Politique - iloubnan.info
      http://www.iloubnan.info/politique/actualite/id/54362/titre/Le-bureau-d'information-de-Hariri:-la-conversation-de-Siddiq-en-présence-

      BEYROUTH - Concernant le rapport relatif à l’enregistrement de conversations ayant eu lieu dans le cadre de l’enquête sur l’attentat de Rafik Hariri et diffusé samedi soir par la chaîne de télévision Al-Jadid, le bureau d’information du Premier ministre sortant Saad Hariri a diffusé un communiqué indiquant ce qui suit :

      "La dernière conversation attribuée au président Saad Hariri et au colonel Wissam Hassan avec Mohammad Zouhair Siddiq en présence de l’adjoint du procureur général Gerhard Lehman a eu lieu à la demande de la commission d’enquête internationale qui a organisé cet entretien et chargé Lehman d’y assister. « La conversation a eu lieu mais la chaîne Al-Jadid a émis des paragraphes empreints de provocation médiatique afin de l’extraire de son contexte d’origine. Cette chaîne n’ajoute d’ailleurs aucun élément susceptible d’accélérer ou de retarder le cours de l’enquête », selon le bureau de Hariri.

      La contre-attaque est assez minable :

      « Cet enregistrement attribué à des témoins devant la commission d’enquête internationale est une affaire de renseignement par excellence qui nous pousse à nous poser des questions sur les visées de sa diffusion médiatique. »