Report: Syrian Probe Holds Fishermen Responsible for Arida Incident
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Syrian authorities have said in their official report on the probe into the death of a 16-year-old Lebanese fisherman that his boat was in Syrian territorial waters when he was shot, informed sources told An Nahar daily published Friday.
The sources said that the head of the Higher Syrian-Lebanese Council, Nasri Khoury, handed over the report to President Michel Suleiman on Thursday.
Maher Hamad was killed on Saturday after the Syrian navy opened fire on his boat off the northern Lebanese town of Arida. His uncles Fadi and Khaled Hamad, who were with him, were seized and handed over to the Lebanese army the next day.
Khaled, 35, was treated for gunshot wounds to the leg while his brother Fadi, 36, said he was taken to a military intelligence center in the Syrian coastal town of Tartus where he was beaten and interrogated on whether he was an arms smuggler.
While An Nahar’s sources refused to give more details on the report, they stressed that no one can approach the area where the incident took place without any prior permission from the Lebanese army.
But informed sources denied to al-Joumhouria newspaper that Khoury handed over the report to Suleiman.
They said that Khoury only explained to the president the circumstances of the incident and the contacts made by high-ranking Lebanese officials, including Suleiman, which led to the release of the two fishermen and the body of the teen.
Khoury also met with Premier Najib Miqati at the Grand Serail on Friday.
When asked about the incident, he said: “The Syrian side carried out a full investigation and I believe the Lebanese army has all the information linked to the probe.”
“If Lebanon wants to have a copy of the investigation, then Syria is ready to provide it,” he added.
27 January 2012, 12:28
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Cookie ya 7aywen then those dying in the South are responsible for their own death knowing that the Israelis might shoot them.
27 January 2012, 13:55
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Cookie_Monster my fellow Shiite brother in Syrian regime eternal love , you are correct . The Syrian authorities have always been very truthful and accurate when describing the actions of Lebanese idiots . I remember how the idiots in Achrafieh , Ain el Remeneh and Zahleh where responsible for causing the magnificent Syrian army rockets falling onto their homes and killing their children . Also the idiots in the Lebanese army were responsible for lying in front of the Syrian tanks and being crunched to death when those tanks moved . And the hundreds of idiots innocent Lebanese citizen for going to jails in Syria , locking themselves in , throwing away the keys after they had destroyed any records they ever existed . And the idiots Lebanese Christians for believing the magnificent GMA promises that he will be the last one to leave and will even fight to the death when the glorious Syrian army attacked .
27 January 2012, 20:04
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Le phénicien, the people of Achrafieh , Ain el Remeneh, Zahleh, their children, the Lebanese army soldiers, Lebanese in jails Syria, were filthy crazies that the Syrian army had to terminate for our own good.
27 January 2012, 21:25
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Something's real fishy with the Syrian authorities version of things.
28 January 2012, 05:59
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Monster ...you always miss the point, according to you everything is always everyone else's falt except the Syrians governments ...and this is the results of an official investigation? ... "When asked about the incident, he said: “The Syrian side carried out a full investigation and I believe the Lebanese army has all the information linked to the probe.”
“If Lebanon wants to have a copy of the investigation, then Syria is ready to provide it,” he added.
What a joke!!
28 January 2012, 14:16
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the filthy zionist information war department is trying to call upon the past events in lebanon, where some domestic traitors, collaborating with zionist genocidal entity, got some bombs and rockets on their houses.
what did you expect?
