La timeline des brèves de Naharnet est à l’image de la qualité de l’information libanaise aujourd’hui :
4 hours ago - LBCI: Samaha’s driver confessed to taking part in preparing terrorist operations that were going to be carried out in the North.
4 hours ago - LBCI: The arrest of Samaha’s driver, Fares Barakat led to the former minister’s confession.
3 hours ago - Top security source to MTV: The intimidation campaign launched after Samaha’s arrest won’t prevent us from preserving security and we will cut off any hand that might try to harm Lebanon.
1 hour ago - LBCI: Former minister Samaha’s bodyguard Fares Barakat has been released and the Mercedes car has been handed over to him.
1 hour ago - Fares Barakat to LBCI: I did not smuggle any arms in Samaha’s car from Syria to Lebanon.
1 hour ago - Samaha’s bodyguard Fares Barakat: I did not meet minister Samaha during the interrogation and they are writing the investigation report the way they want and the minister is the last person who would think about such bombings. He visited Syria at the beginning of this week and I accompanied him.
Ce qui n’empêche pas les médias 14 Mars de continuer la diffusion de rumeurs invérifiables et non sourcées :
MTV: Assad telephoned the highest authorities to press for the release of Michel Samaha.
(Oui, allô, c’est Bachar Assad. A. S. S. A. D., oui : Assad comme ça se prononce. Je voudrais parler aux plus hautes autorités s’il vous plaît. Non je ne quitte pas.)