WE SHOULDN'T SIT BACK AN LET ASSAD KILL ANY MORE LEBANESE POLITICIANS

PENINSULA (QATAR):

Lebanese parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri said yesterday that he had evidence of Syrian assassination plots against himself and Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.


Hariri made the claim in response to a question about alleged assassination plots against the leaders by Syrian President Bashar Al Assad's brother-in-law and head of intelligence Assef Shawqat.

"We have intelligence about this and we are following it up," he told reporters.

"The intelligence is correct and our security services are working on it.

"There is cooperation between Lebanese security services and Arab security services to avoid such assassinations," he said, without specifying which countries were helping in the investigations.

Asked about Hariri's comments, an official at the Western-backed Siniora's office said: "It is true and we have been informed about it."

Several anti-Syrian figures have been assassinated in Lebanon since Hariri's own father and former premier Rafiq was killed in a February 2005 bombing.

We mustn't wait for one of these assassination attempts to be successful.

We should push hard on the UNSC/ICC Hariri Tribunal while putting as much pressure on Assad as possible.

WE SHOULD ALSO ISSUE AN ULTIMATUM: the next time an anti-Syrian Lebanese leader is killed, we will kill him. Dead.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.