My latest story on the Hariri trial. One major WTF aspect for the Syria did it camp is why the hell Bashar al Assad would threaten Hariri in front of a UN envoy days before he was supposed to be killed? A senior U.N. envoy advised former Premier Rafik Hariri to leave Lebanon three days before he was assassinated, after Syrian President Bashar Assad used “angry and threatening” language to describe the Lebanese leader, judges at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon were told Monday. “According to Hariri, [U.N. envoy Terje Roed-]Larsen said that the language of Assad toward Hariri was very angry and very threatening and he advised him, as we did before, that he should leave Lebanon,” former Economy Minister and Hariri adviser Marwan Hamade told the U.N.-backed tribunal during his fifth day of testimony. Hamade said Hariri informed him of the conversation with Roed-Larsen on the eve of his assassination. Roed-Larsen, a Norwegian diplomat, was appointed U.N. representative in 2004 to ensure compliance with Security Council Resolution 1559, which ordered the departure of foreign troops from Lebanon. Syria had a substantial troop presence at the time.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 06:11:24 +0000
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