Mansour Receives Complete Report on Burgas Attack Investigation
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour received on Tuesday the complete file on the Burgas investigation report ahead of referring it to the Justice Ministry, reported the National News Agency.
Bulgarian Embassy charge d'affaires Plamen Tzolov handed the minister the file, stressing that Bulgaria is “keen on maintaining its strong ties with the Lebanese state, people, and society.”
He said after meeting Mansour: “The two countries enjoy historic and important ties in all fields.”
“We are not only working on preserving them, but on developing them,” Tzolov added.
“Lebanon has to study the file in order to make a proper response to Bulgaria,” he said.
“Prime Minister Najib Miqati was clear in saying that Lebanon is prepared to cooperate fully with Bulgaria in the investigation,” he added.
Asked about the possibility of handing over the suspects in the Burgas bombing to Bulgaria, he responded: “This issue concerns the Lebanese and Bulgarian justice ministries.”
Asked by reporters how Hizbullah came to be linked to the attack, Tzolov replied: “I have no information on this matter as all information on the issue can be found within the Bulgarian investigation and interior minister.”
“All that has been said has been reported by Bulgarian and Lebanese media,” noted the diplomat.
Five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian driver were killed in a bus bombing at Burgas airport on the Black Sea in July, the deadliest attack on Israelis abroad since 2004.
Bulgaria recently formally blamed the attack on Hizbullah, triggering renewed pressure on the European Union to follow Canada, the United States and others in formally designating the movement a “terrorist group.”
The Bulgarian government said two people behind the attack held Canadian and Australian passports, but lived in Lebanon and were members of Hizbullah.
In light of the accusation, Miqati stressed that his government was "ready to cooperate with Bulgaria to shed light on the circumstances" of the attack.
12 February 2013, 13:15
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again hizbushaitan accused of terror. I really wonder sometimes what is there to be proud of this filthy militia of muderers, thieves, drug smugglers, kidnappers,....
12 February 2013, 15:12
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what's your point?!? if the opposition party disagrees it means they're wrong? you believe what you want to hear!! most opposition parties disagree with goverments on almost every topic!!! besides when Aoun hadn't joined march 8 yet, you would have went to great length to argue your point of view which was 100 % opposite to your new Aoun point of view! how did you choose which one is right and which is wrong? Aoun did a 180 degrees on his over 20 year policy which all along you defended it as right and just! so are you admiting he was wrong all that time? how do you know he's not wrong this time?
12 February 2013, 20:33
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Hey idiot, the Bulgarian opposition is NOT a member of government, that is the point of being the "opposition". The information in the investigative report is confidential, and not released to the public. Since the opposition members are not part of the government, that means they are not allowed access to the evidence in the report. Of course they say the conclusion is unjustified, they haven't seen the report!!! So STFU
12 February 2013, 13:39
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Cant argue with facts, there are going to be a whole lot of "in absentias" from the Hariri, Harb, Burgas-cases...
12 February 2013, 14:07
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Re mowaten: If there arent any facts, then why do always the Hizbollah-operatives that the judge wants to question always disappear mysteriously? Surely the mighty Hizbollah cannot be scared of facing a court as long as they are innocent?
12 February 2013, 13:55
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Asia Times ~
"False flag evidence ignored"
"The distinct possibility of an Israeli 'false flag' operation can be garnered by a careful and methodical examination of the public information, including the photographs, amateur videos and instant reports on the bus attack that occurred at exactly 5:30 pm last July 18, on the anniversary of the 1994 bombing in Argentina that Israel insists was the work of Iran and Hezbollah. That was perfect timing for Israel's propaganda machine."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/OB07Ak01.html
12 February 2013, 14:13
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As much as I dislike Israels politcs against the palestinians, but does someone REALLY believe that a country that is prepared to go to war over the kidnapping of its citizens, a country that is willing to trade hundreds of palestinans/lebanese for the remains of one of its soldiers....does someone REALLY believe that Israel bombed their own tourists abroad in order to frame Hizbollah. Then I presume that you also think that 9/11 was the act of Mossad/CIA?
12 February 2013, 14:22
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The reports indicate that the bomb went off prematurely ... Israel has used real explosives in previous false flag attacks in Tbilisi, Mumbau and Bangkok. They needed an attack on EU soil to get the EU to label Hezbollah a terrorist organization.
12 February 2013, 15:14
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anyone can make up consipracy theories! it doesn't make them facts! there's a lot of consiracy theories that go the other way too you know!
12 February 2013, 15:32
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The story in the Asian Times makes more sense than the information that has been leaked about the report by Bulgaria ...
Of course you know that the US and Israel were prominent in pursuing the investigation of the bombing in Burgas.
Both make no secret of their desire to have the EU declare Hezbollah a terrorist entity ...
People should wake up and realize that "false flag" and "framing" "conspiracies" are real and a lot more common than they realize.
12 February 2013, 15:30
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Bangkok, yeah.... I remember that one....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/25/bangkok-bombing-suspects-iranian-embassy
12 February 2013, 15:55
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Did you know both Israel and the US are training Iranian terrorists from Jundallah and the MeK because of their Iranian identities ???
US provided material support for MEK foreign terrorists in Nevada ...
http://www.examiner.com/article/us-provided-material-support-for-mek-foreign-terrorists-nevada
Israel trains Jundallah ...
Israeli agents posed as CIA to recruit terrorists
http://rt.com/usa/news/israel-cia-mossad-iran-763/
12 February 2013, 14:26
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British firm to be used in a false flag attack in Syria using chemical weapons to trigger US involvement ...
"The information about Western and Middle East special services recruiting militants with Slavic features to play a role of Russian ‘mercenaries’ allegedly captured by Syrian opposition fighters was released by the Russian media in the middle of January. They quoted a well-informed source as saying that ‘actors’ are being selected in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine."
Britamgate: Staging False Flag Attacks in Syria
http://www.voltairenet.org/article177357.html
12 February 2013, 16:18
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Couldn’t agree with you more. there is a reason hardly any money goes into education in Lebanon. The last person that put a lot of money into that aspect of it was assassinated.
12 February 2013, 17:47
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No my friend, the US wrote the book on false flag operations. Just look at Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran in 1953. And there are dozens and dozens of cases just in Latin America ...
So spare me until you understand how the weapon of public relations was born and implemented in the US by Edward Bernays for use in marketing, nationalistic propaganda and covert operations.
