Appointments Launched Next Week, Assassination Plans Uncovered
The weekends' book closes its pages on a foggy atmosphere.
Arabs claiming care for the Syrians' blood and solving the Syrian crisis moved to
UN.
In summary: the Arabs of Gold and oil are seeking internationalization to Syrian crisis, and all this under the pretext of saving and protecting Damascus.
But here are some of the uncovered realities.
The "Times" newspaper revealed that Saudi Arabia and Qatar have secretly agreed to fund the Syrian opposition to buy weapons, after Qatar played an important role in importing weapons to the Libyans protesting against toppled President Muammar Qaddafi in 2011.
The British newspaper quoted a so-called Syrian dissidents saying that the secret agreement between Qatar, Saudi Arabia and figures from the Syrian opposition took place after Arab Foreign Ministers' last week meeting in Cairo, at which the Gulf states decided to withdraw their observers from the Arab League's monitoring mission in Syria.
"Intelligence and security crews from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, "Israel", the US, France and Turkey are in charge of these camps that are hosting leaders of criminal militias and convicted prisoners from Arab and foreign countries.
This came as the diplomatic confrontation is witnessing escalation in the United Nations.
AL moved with US support to UN. However, the Russian response was ready by threatening to use veto against any resolution that calls for toppling al-Assad regime.
In Lebanon, the week closes its doors on stuck political keys that move between appointments, and assassination threats.
Diplomatic Appointments Next Week
In its Saturday edition, "as-Safir" Lebanese daily confirmed that Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour accomplished 86 diplomat formations of the third category secretariats."
As political sources reflected that the "appointments' file is not to exceed the span of next week," the daily stated that "Mansour send the formations to the Council of Civil Service Friday."
"Informed political sources said that this issue will not remain stuck in the Civil Service Board for a long time and predicted that it will be settled within a couple of days in order to proceed to the definitive settlement of this issue next week," the paper stated.
"At the end of this stage, the formations of 69 ambassadors are to be launched to fill vacancies in key capitals," "as-Safir" added.
Uncovering Plans of Assassinations
At another level, the Lebanese dailies shed light on a "leaked discovered plan to assassinate Internal Security Forces chief Ashraf Rifi and Intelligence Bureau head Wissam al-Hassan."
Under the title "War of Data Communications Declassifies Preparation for Assassination," "al-Akhbar" Lebanese daily pointed out that "a high level source in the Directorate General of Internal Security Forces confirmed that the Information Branch received "credible" information regarding the preparation of the assassination of a senior security official".
"Despite the denial of existence of an apparent link between the information that talked about the assassination attempt, and the Data Communications' crisis ," the paper noted to the "the scrutiny of what is said that the two files show a link between them, or at least, between the leaking of the first and happening of the second."
Libya: Al-Sadr Alive Till 1994
Meanwhile, "as-Safir" tackled the issue of Sayyed Moussa al-Sadr and his two companions' disappearance in Libya.
According to the paper, the Libyan delegation visiting Lebanon presented important information that "Sayyed al-Sadr was alive until the year 1994."
"That means that al-Sadr remained alive over sixteen years of presence on the Libyan land since 1978," the paper added clarifying that "after this date nobody knows if he is alive or died."
Bellemare Ends Beirut Visit
At another level, General Prosecutor of Special Tribunal for Lebanon Daniel Bellemare's ended his visit to Lebanon.
"An-Nahar" sources quoted him as saying to that he has "formed a solid and strong case regarding the assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri of which he shall be proud for the rest of his life."
For its part "as-Safir" mentioned that the man "tried to reduce the importance of campaign launched against the STL accusing it of being politicized and unfair."
Source: Lebanese newspapers, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org
