Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: E se Assad fosse innocente?

Curveball II?
Namib
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http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=11679&lang=en
Hamburg, 22 October - The most prestigious German political news-magazine,
Der Spiegel, revealed today that the central witness, Zuheir al-Siddiq on
whom Detlev Mehlis had relied during his investigations into the assault on
Rafiq Hariri, was a dubious person with a criminal record as a convicted
felon and swindler. Even the UN Commission which had submitted the Mehlis
report to the UN Security Council yesterday, is raising serious doubts about
the reliability and credibility of al-Siddiq's declarations, since it was
revealed that the alleged former officer of the Syrian secret services had
in reality been convicted more than once for penal offences related to money
subtraction.
The German magazine reports that the UN investigating Commission is well
aware that it had been lied by Siddiq, who at first had affirmed to have
left Beirut one month before the assault on al-Hariri, but then had to admit
at the end of September his direct involvement in the implementation of the
crime. It is quite evident by now that the witness had received money for
his depositions, considering that his siblings reveal to have received a
phone-call from him from Paris, in late summer, in which Siddiq announced "I
have become a millionaire". Doubts regarding the credibility of the man were
further fuelled by the revelation that Siddiq had been recommended to Mehlis
by the long-term Syrian renegate Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the Syrian
President who more than once offered himself as "alternative President of
Syria".
To Mehlis the central witness Siddiq is supposed to have declared that he
had put his apartment in Beirut to the disposition of the conspirators to
kill Hariri, among them several Syrian intelligence officials. Of himself he
had declared to have gathered intelligence for the Syrian services regarding
Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. But the Syrian government, revealed
Der Spiegel, had sent weeks ago a documentation regarding the man to various
Western governments, hoping that Detlev Mehlis would not get caught in the
trap of a notorious imposter.

 felon and swindler. [cut]
Un link all'art. dello Spiegel:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,381056,00.html
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Purtroppo, io non leggo il tedesco. Anime buone disposte alla trad.?
Namib

 Namib
Alcune parti di quell'articolo sono incluse in Spiegel International
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,381321,00.html
nella seconda pagina si parla di Suheir al-Sadik
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,381321-2,00.html
PS "Sadik" significa "amico"? Pura curiosita'

Il solito trappolone preparato per "punire i nemici della democrazia"?
Non mi stupirebbe.

 Non mi stupirebbe.
Possibile ovviamente; d'altronde e' anche possibile che Bashir sia piu'
simile al padre Hafez che al riformatore che voleva far credere di
essere nel 2000, e che sappia molto dell'attentato.
Oppure che Bashir Assad non conti molto a Damasco, e che l'attentato
sia stato preparato dai servizi segreti siriani senza che lui ne fosse
a conoscenza.
Tutti motivi in piu' per continuare con le indagini IMHO

 Purtroppo, io non leggo il tedesco.
Ero convinto che "Il Capitale" lo avessi letto in lingua originale...;-)
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Chaos A.D.		|	Raging crowd
Tanks on the streets	|	Burning cars
Confronting police	|	Bloodshed starts
Bleeding the Plebs	|	Who'll be alive?

 Ero convinto che "Il Capitale" lo avessi letto in lingua originale...;-)
Magari! L'ho letto, ma in italiano (quella curiosa edizione in un unico
vol., più largo che lungo, della Newton Compton: all'epoca costava 5800
lire: quasi un Kapital...). Tu leggi il dòicio?
Namib