CRV Car Responsible for Assassinating Shatah Was Stolen, Moved to Ain Al-Helwe

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Minutes after a large explosion rocked Beirut down town, leading to the assassination of former minister Mohammad Shatah; March 14 group rushed to exploit the political crime, spreading their hatred and charges every here and there.
However, as-Safir Lebanese daily's information came to re-correct the direction.

On its website, the daily revealed that the Honda CRV used in the assassination of Shatah was stolen in early 2013 from the town of Rmeileh in the Shouf district, ahead of being moved to Ain al-Helwe camp for Palestinian refugees.

According to the newspaper, a black Honda CRV belonging to Internal Security Forces Warrant Officer Elie F. was stolen from the Shouf coast area before it was seized by the Lebanese army at one of its checkpoints at the entrance of the Ain al-Hilweh camp only several days after the theft of the first car.

It further added that the two men Ahmed A, Aka Abu al-Daoud, drove the black car ahead of being interrogated.
As they confessed, the two men admitted that they had stolen the olive green CRV that hit Shatah's convoy.

Moreover, they unveiled that their operation came in collaboration with a man called Moussa M. and another called Mohammed S. and nicknamed Mohammed al-Sarii.
The two arrested men also confessed that the car was carried a license plate with the number 177647/S.

In parallel, security informed the daily that the car used to assassinate Shatah entered the Palestinian camp and was given to a man nicknamed Talal al-Ordoni.
The sources noted that Moussa M and Mohammed al-Sarii were members of the Fatah al-Islam who receive their orders from the group's top official Haitham al-Shaabi.

Foreign inmate Morshed Abdul Rahman, who is jailed at the central Roumieh prison over the case of the two cars, confirmed to interrogators that Moussa M and Mohammed al-Sarii took the car to the Ain al-Hilweh camp and that they are members of Fatah al-Islam.

Source: As-Safir daily