Monday, November 28, 2005
Syrian witness reveals shocking truth
In what will soon become the farce of the century, the Syrian military intelligence showed its idiotic face Sunday by airing more than an hour-long "confession" by somebody claiming to be Mehlis’s masked witness. Husam Taher Husam, a Syrian Kurd, recanted his alleged testimony and claimed he was coached and/or bullied by more than a dozen people including:
Saad Hariri with two English speaking "friends", Marwan Hamade, Walid Jumblatt, An-Nahar’s Gibran Tueni, al-Moustaqbal’s Fares Khashan, LBC's May Chidiac, the French ambassador, Hassan Sabaa (Lebanon’s interior minister), Ghattas Khoury, and of course the UN commission headed by Detlev Mehlis whose car apparently is no match to Husam’s donkey in his village (the commission allegedly gave him a car that he left at the border while escaping. Of course, he also says he tried to escape prison three times. Have you ever hard of a prisoner who is given a car to roam freely OUTSIDE the prison?).
Saad Hariri and Fares Khashan allegedly coached him, with the former offering him through his advisors more than $1.3 million “that were placed on Sabaa’s table.” Husam offered his apologies to the Lebanese security officials for testifying against them, claiming he made the confession under torture (they injected him with needles, which never stopped him from arguing back at his captors and then roaming Lebanon freely in his car.. but wait, he was in prison!) The killers of Hariri, he said, are his inheritors.
And then he reveals the earth-shattering truth: it’s all a Lebanese-French-American conspiracy against “Syria, Iran and Hizbullah.”
The televised confession tried to cater to an increasingly weary Syrian population by including statements like the following: "they were under the impression that the kurds were against Syria but they didn't know that we are Syrians."
Interestingly, all this allegedly happened without Mehlis's knowledge. "I felt he had no relation to anything or knew anything," Husam said. I guess Assef and Maher don't want to get on Mehlis's bad side yet, so they picked easier targets: the Lebanese, US and France!
I will spare you the rest of this nonsense. Read more here, here and here.
As I said in my previous post, the Syrian regime is in its last throes. The only way from here is down.
Update: Read the full transcript here. (Arabic)
Saad Hariri with two English speaking "friends", Marwan Hamade, Walid Jumblatt, An-Nahar’s Gibran Tueni, al-Moustaqbal’s Fares Khashan, LBC's May Chidiac, the French ambassador, Hassan Sabaa (Lebanon’s interior minister), Ghattas Khoury, and of course the UN commission headed by Detlev Mehlis whose car apparently is no match to Husam’s donkey in his village (the commission allegedly gave him a car that he left at the border while escaping. Of course, he also says he tried to escape prison three times. Have you ever hard of a prisoner who is given a car to roam freely OUTSIDE the prison?).
Saad Hariri and Fares Khashan allegedly coached him, with the former offering him through his advisors more than $1.3 million “that were placed on Sabaa’s table.” Husam offered his apologies to the Lebanese security officials for testifying against them, claiming he made the confession under torture (they injected him with needles, which never stopped him from arguing back at his captors and then roaming Lebanon freely in his car.. but wait, he was in prison!) The killers of Hariri, he said, are his inheritors.
And then he reveals the earth-shattering truth: it’s all a Lebanese-French-American conspiracy against “Syria, Iran and Hizbullah.”
The televised confession tried to cater to an increasingly weary Syrian population by including statements like the following: "they were under the impression that the kurds were against Syria but they didn't know that we are Syrians."
Interestingly, all this allegedly happened without Mehlis's knowledge. "I felt he had no relation to anything or knew anything," Husam said. I guess Assef and Maher don't want to get on Mehlis's bad side yet, so they picked easier targets: the Lebanese, US and France!
I will spare you the rest of this nonsense. Read more here, here and here.
As I said in my previous post, the Syrian regime is in its last throes. The only way from here is down.
Update: Read the full transcript here. (Arabic)
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Hehehehe. I already saw this. It's quite funny.
Did you also see the article in al-Iqtisadiyyah? Another shocker, so brace yourself: Washington has instructed its puppets in the March 14th movement, first among which are Saad and Jumblat, to mobilize to open the file of the presidency, leading up to disarming HA and the full implementation of 1559. All this is the "second phase" of the plot against... (you all know the words, sing together) "Syria, Hizbullah and Iran."
They might want to introduce some variety in this last refrain. You know, so it doesn't sound as stale as "the unity of track and destiny" (wihdat al-masar wal-masir) or what was that other one about the Syrian presence being "temporary, necessary," and something else I forgot, that used to be recited in order.
Ammar is right. There's an element of pitifulness involved with such thugocracies.
Did you also see the article in al-Iqtisadiyyah? Another shocker, so brace yourself: Washington has instructed its puppets in the March 14th movement, first among which are Saad and Jumblat, to mobilize to open the file of the presidency, leading up to disarming HA and the full implementation of 1559. All this is the "second phase" of the plot against... (you all know the words, sing together) "Syria, Hizbullah and Iran."
They might want to introduce some variety in this last refrain. You know, so it doesn't sound as stale as "the unity of track and destiny" (wihdat al-masar wal-masir) or what was that other one about the Syrian presence being "temporary, necessary," and something else I forgot, that used to be recited in order.
Ammar is right. There's an element of pitifulness involved with such thugocracies.
Engineeringchange-
The way the Syrian regime is dealing with this is a big insult to our intelligence, and this guy's confession falls under that. If this guy was really the big deal your Syrian friends say he is, then he could have been presented differently. Not that this is an issue of presentation. It is easy to dismiss him because what he said is implausible and illogical, although it is consistent with what we've been reading in the Syrian press.
What kind of concrete argument does one need not to dismiss this as an act of desperation? I don't know if you have Lebanese friends, but if you do, they would tell you that a confession like this would either never be aired on Lebanese television or at least if it was, the press and the Lebanese blogging community would shred it to pieces.
What's sad about your comment is that some people seem to be gullible enough to accept this hogwash as a "big deal" and proof of an anti-Syrian conspiracy. While there probably is some kind of campaign against syria, there was also a murder here, and all credible evidence points towards the Syrian regime. The testimony of this witness will not break the case against Syria. What's flimsy is not my argument, but the regime's defense, which so far has consisted of stuff like this.
Thanks for reading though.
The way the Syrian regime is dealing with this is a big insult to our intelligence, and this guy's confession falls under that. If this guy was really the big deal your Syrian friends say he is, then he could have been presented differently. Not that this is an issue of presentation. It is easy to dismiss him because what he said is implausible and illogical, although it is consistent with what we've been reading in the Syrian press.
What kind of concrete argument does one need not to dismiss this as an act of desperation? I don't know if you have Lebanese friends, but if you do, they would tell you that a confession like this would either never be aired on Lebanese television or at least if it was, the press and the Lebanese blogging community would shred it to pieces.
What's sad about your comment is that some people seem to be gullible enough to accept this hogwash as a "big deal" and proof of an anti-Syrian conspiracy. While there probably is some kind of campaign against syria, there was also a murder here, and all credible evidence points towards the Syrian regime. The testimony of this witness will not break the case against Syria. What's flimsy is not my argument, but the regime's defense, which so far has consisted of stuff like this.
Thanks for reading though.
This so called evidence is another demonstration of the total bankruptcy of the Syrian regime. It is one thing to keep an open mind but another thing to be asked to accept laughable and incoherent statements as truth. No one would stoop so low as to arrange for that bizzar confession except out of desperation. The current Syrian regime has demonstrated to the world one more time its utter incompetence ,its devotion to amateurish fabrications of facts, its untrustworthiness and its willingness to do whatever it takes to stay in power and prevent the truth from being revealed.
The Syrian regime has shot itself again and it will be impossible for such a regime to survive.
The Syrian regime has shot itself again and it will be impossible for such a regime to survive.
# posted by 
: 11:08 AM
: 11:08 AM
actually we should be happy about this... because the Syrian blew it. They could have tried to forge a credible witness, but no, they had to make fool of themselves!
I mean, he said that he tried to escape many times before succeeding, come on, what is that? Do they think that people are so dumb?
The good news is: if they try to get a new guy like that, nobody will believe them.
I mean, he said that he tried to escape many times before succeeding, come on, what is that? Do they think that people are so dumb?
The good news is: if they try to get a new guy like that, nobody will believe them.
# posted by : 8:14 PM
: 8:14 PM
If the syrian government is innocent and has nothing to do with the murder, which they want us to believe, wasnt it treason what Husam told Mehlis? Is he in prison now? What is syrias commissions answer, they promised cooperation with Mehlis commissin?
He is good for Hollywood, which sick brain created this crime?
An ashamed syrian
He is good for Hollywood, which sick brain created this crime?
An ashamed syrian
# posted by : 10:42 AM
: 10:42 AM
Engineering Change-
Perhaps you are not aware of the terror and murder that the Syrians have committed against Lebanese and on Lebanese soil over the past 20+ years.
You said: "Can the Lebanese turn the page? Or are they always going to carry a grudge against Syrians?"
What the hell do you think? You obviously are very ignorant to Syria's atrocities in Lebanon. The fact that you think the Lebanese had no right to point their fingers at Syria for Hariri's death, means you need to do some more research.
Perhaps you are not aware of the terror and murder that the Syrians have committed against Lebanese and on Lebanese soil over the past 20+ years.
You said: "Can the Lebanese turn the page? Or are they always going to carry a grudge against Syrians?"
What the hell do you think? You obviously are very ignorant to Syria's atrocities in Lebanon. The fact that you think the Lebanese had no right to point their fingers at Syria for Hariri's death, means you need to do some more research.
# posted by : 12:54 PM
: 12:54 PM
Did you notice the number of TV stations and journalists that attended Mr Hussam press conference?
He got a larger press coverage than Bachar speech at Damascus University.
The Syrians are convinced that they pulled the biggest rabit ever from a hat.
Anyway this shows the poor level of Syrian Mukhabarat.They just set traps and fall into it.
How they managed to hold Lebanon for 30 years is the biggest mystery!
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He got a larger press coverage than Bachar speech at Damascus University.
The Syrians are convinced that they pulled the biggest rabit ever from a hat.
Anyway this shows the poor level of Syrian Mukhabarat.They just set traps and fall into it.
How they managed to hold Lebanon for 30 years is the biggest mystery!
# posted by : 6:51 PM
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