KUWAIT CITY, 26 February 2005 — Lebanon’s security chief said yesterday he would sue a Kuwaiti newspaper editor who accused him of assassinating former Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri.
Five days after Hariri was killed in a bomb blast in Beirut on Feb. 14, Kuwait’s Al-Siyassah accused Maj. Gen. Jameel Al-Sayed and two senior Syrian intelligence officials of plotting and carrying out the murder.
“I will file a personal lawsuit against (Al-Siyassah editor) Ahmad Al-Jarallah,” Sayed told a news conference in Kuwait City.
The security chief said Al-Siyassah’s accusations had caused him great harm and vowed to press the case until the end.
Kuwaiti lawyer Abdulhameed Al-Sarraf, said he would file a complaint on Monday.
The charges in the daily were not attributed to any source, but Jarallah, who also owns the newspaper, expressed no remorse and said he was prepared to meet the lawsuit head on.
