23 Oct 2012
Five
Lebanese, Members of Parliament received death threats via Short
Message Service (SMS) from a Syrian telephone number just 24 hours prior
to the bomb attack that killed the country’s internal intelligence
chief Wissam-Al-Hassan, media reported.
““On the eve of the [Friday] attack, we received an SMS from a Syrian number that read: ‘Sons of bitches, we will get you one by one,’” Ammar Houry said on television on Monday night. He named the other MPs as Ahmad Fatfat, Hadi Hbeish, Khalid Al Daher and Nuhad Al Mashnuk.
“At the time, we didn’t pay any attention to it, until the assassination of General Wissam Al Hassan,” the intelligence chief killed in a Beirut bombing widely blamed on Damascus that also left two others dead.
“After the assassination, we received a second SMS that read: ‘Congratulations, the countdown has begun. One of 10 eliminated.’”
The assassination of General Hassan has caused a political storm in Lebanon the last few days. Hassan was involved in investigations into violent incidents carried out by Syrians in Lebanese soil.
The members of the Parliament belong to opposition March 14, a party that is led by Sa’ad Hariri a strong critic of Syrian President Al-Assad, man suspected of being behind the 2005 hotel bombings in Lebanon that killed
““On the eve of the [Friday] attack, we received an SMS from a Syrian number that read: ‘Sons of bitches, we will get you one by one,’” Ammar Houry said on television on Monday night. He named the other MPs as Ahmad Fatfat, Hadi Hbeish, Khalid Al Daher and Nuhad Al Mashnuk.
“At the time, we didn’t pay any attention to it, until the assassination of General Wissam Al Hassan,” the intelligence chief killed in a Beirut bombing widely blamed on Damascus that also left two others dead.
“After the assassination, we received a second SMS that read: ‘Congratulations, the countdown has begun. One of 10 eliminated.’”
The assassination of General Hassan has caused a political storm in Lebanon the last few days. Hassan was involved in investigations into violent incidents carried out by Syrians in Lebanese soil.
The members of the Parliament belong to opposition March 14, a party that is led by Sa’ad Hariri a strong critic of Syrian President Al-Assad, man suspected of being behind the 2005 hotel bombings in Lebanon that killed
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