[A-List] Raimondo: The Syrian Gambit Unravels

[Erik Freye <efreye@xxxxxxxxx>]

  The Syrian Gambit Unravels
      When the main witnesses recant, you don't have a
case

by Justin Raimondo

The effort to demonize Syria and, in effect, Saddamize
 its ruler, Bashar al-Assad, has run up against a
brick wall: the recantation  of the prime witness, who
says he was bribed, intimidated, and tortured into
going along with the  narrative being sold by UN
prosecutor Mehlis ? that Syrian intelligence pulled
off the  Feb. 14 assassination of Lebanese
entrepreneur and politician Rafik  Hariri in Beirut.
The New York Times reports:

"Hussam Taher Hussam, said he had been held in Lebanon
by supporters of Saad Hariri, the son of the former
prime minister, and subjected to torture  and drug
injections to force him to testify. Saad Hariri, he
said, offered him $1.3 million if he would lie about
senior Syrian officials. ?

"He said Mr. Hariri and his associates had asked him
to tell investigators  that he had seen a truck used
in the assassination at a Syrian military camp, and to
present false evidence implicating Maher Assad, the
younger brother of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria,
and Asef Shawkat, the president's brother-in-law, in
the killing in February."

Full at:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8233



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