The Syrian masked witness to UN investigation team into the killing former Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri has dropped on Sunday his testimony to the group as baseless and untrue.
“All what I had said to the UN investigation committee are “untrue and baseless,” The masked witness Husam Taher Husam said in an interview broadcast by the Syrian T.V., stressing that all testimonies he offered were imposed on him “by force and practicing threats, pressures and torture.”
UN investigators Chief Detlev Mehlis has considered Husam as “ the main witness” in his report to prove Syrian and Lebanese intelligence involvement in the assassination of Hariri.
Husam unveiled role of Walid Jumblat and Marwan Hmadeh in fabricating lies of the witness Zoheir al-Sedeq where they handed him a big sum of money insuring him the needed protection at one of the Arab embassies.
“Syria and the four Lebanese arrested officers are innocent from the assassination crime,” Husam stressed, unveiling that Sa’d Hariri, his two advisors Fares Khashan and Ghattas Khouri, in addition to Lebanese politicians and press men instructed and obliged him to give a “ perjury ” on an alleged role for Syria in the crime of assassination.
According to SANA, regarding the booby-trapped Mitsubishi car he said: “ They instructed me to say that it was trapped in Syria then brought to the 10th division in Qatana to be evacuated after that the explosives transported by ambulance to Lebanon where the car disappeared in Bekaa for 15 days,” Husam said adding: “ I was demanded to claim that i saw the car in Hammana in Feb 11,12,13,14 where it moved to Beirut heading to the crime place.”
On explosives used in the crime and its kind Husam emphasized: “ Head of information branch in Lebanon major Samir with the attendance of Fares Khashan has brought me the explosives, claiming they came from Syria but in fact they came from the Lebanese government,”
