Imad Mughniyeh's assassination, a Saudi/Israeli conspiracy?
Finally this piece of news comes down in print and in English. I have heard for the past 2 or 3 weeks from interviews with Lebanese military and political strategists that Syria has arrested a senior Saudi intelligence officer that it had found to be involved in the Imad Mughneyeh assassination which took place in Damascus on the 12 of February 2008. The strategists and analysts I heard discussing the issue all knew the name of the Saudi in custody, but they refused to say the name on aid. The Syrians refused to release the Saudi agent and were going to make public their results of the official investigation before the Arab League meeting. I guess that explains why Saudi Arabian foreign minister ran to Washington for a secret meeting with Bush, then decided that he wouldn't attend the Arab League meeting.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2051107264
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Mughniyeh was killed on 12 February in a car bombing in Syria.
Unnamed sources told Fars that Syria's delay in announcing the results of an investigation into Mughniyeh's death "cannot be explained other than by the pressure exercised by some Arab states."
Fars is said to be close to the government of hardline Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Fars report said that the Syrian commission of inquiry should have already concluded its probe into the killing and the results should have been made public before the recent meeting of the Arab League in the Syrian capital Damascus.
"Pressure by Kuwait convinced the government in Damascus to postpone everything till the day after the [Arab League] meeting ended," said the Fars report.
The news agency goes on to say that the additional delay has come about because of pressure from Riyadh.
One of the sources cited by Fars also pointed the finger at the Saudis and suggested that Riyadh was behind Mughniyeh's death.
"Through a Syrian woman, a Saudi secret service agent who works in Damascus acquired two cars that were used by Israeli secret service agents to kill the commander Haj Imad Mughniyeh," said the Fars report.
According to the Iranian news agency, the people involved in organising the attack which killed the military leader of Hezbollah, were Palestinian, Jordanian and Syrian citizens.
The source cited in Fars also said that it knew the place where the killers had lived in the days leading up to the 12 February car bomb attack.
According to this source, the Palestinians and Jordanians who gathered in Damascus to kill Mughniyeh, lived with their family members in certain apartments in the Kafr Sousa quarter of the city, so as not to raise suspicion.
The Fars report said the former US ambassador to Washington, Bandar al-Sultan, ordered the killing of Mughniyeh and that the Saudis did so to avenge the attack against a US military base in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
A carbomb attack on 25 June 1996 at the Abdul Aziz airbase in Khobar, near Dhahran, killed 19 US soldiers and injured 446 people, including 173 Americans.
The Saudis have always suggested Mughniyeh planned and organised this attack.
Fars also cited an attempt by the governments of Qatar and Kuwait to bring about mediation between Damascus and Riyadh, so that the results of the investigation into Mughniyeh's death are not made public or at least do not contain any reference to Saudi Arabia.
The publication of this information in an Iranian news agency could be interpreted as an attempt by Tehran to neutralise this effort at mediation.
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I have however seen and listened to interviews as specified above, discussing this situation in no uncertain facts. They just preferred not to give out names... namely the name of the Saudi under arrest in Syria now.
Through a Syrian woman, a Saudi secret service agent who works in Damascus acquired two cars that were used by Israeli secret service agents to kill the commander Haj Imad Mughniyeh," said the Fars report.
and from what I've heard, the Saudi secret service agent has been under arrest in Syria since... and Syria isn't releasing him... and Saudi is furious....
Thanks Claymore, great to find a reference admiting that he is a senior Saudi official!! Wonder who??? No wonder the Saudi didn't go the Arab League meeting...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/144658
(IsraelNN.com) Syrian forces have arrested a Saudi official in connection with the killing of arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, according to Iran’s Fars news agency. The official who was detained is a senior defense official working in Damascus, said an Iranian source quoted in the Fars report.
The source said that Israel planned the assassination, but that the killing itself was carried out by local Arabs with Syrian and Jordanian citizenship who rented apartments in Mughniyeh’s upscale Damascus neighborhood. Saudi Arabia was heavily involved, he said.
The Saudi detainee is reportedly linked to a Syrian woman who is also suspected in the killing. The woman purchased two cars and parked them near Mughniyeh’s residence, the source said. One of the cars was used to hide the bomb that killed Mughniyeh, he said.
Was half the shaudi klan not hangin' out with the dushes on 9/11? Gee, they AND the MOSSAD terroists were simply let go by.. the dOOSH regime.. all dancin to rottenshill's f*lute.
i KNOW that event was a deal between many devils.
Do you think Syria's intelligence chief being sacked recently had anything to do with this specific case?
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That is a good question... for which I have no definite answer... It is a possibility. Something fishy is going on around this character... but what it exactly is requires several hours of reading. The Syrian are ready to give the names of the responsible out. But they have again been convinced to delay such action until God knows what else happens...
What I would like to know, is who the high ranking Saudi under Syrian custudy is???
Joe, why don't you post your article here so that there is some continuity to the story. Just an idea.