Ahmed Hariri: Saad Hariri’s Convoy was Recently Subjected to Tight Surveillance
Al-Mustaqbal movement Secretary-General Ahmed Hariri confirmed that former Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s convoy was closely monitored after a report said that the Syrian regime was planning to assassinate him.
“The security caution taken by Hariri is very serious,” Ahmed Hariri told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in remarks published Sunday.
“We have information that Hariri’s convoy was recently subjected to tight surveillance,” he said, adding that the data is with Lebanese security agencies and not al-Mustaqbal movement.
“Security is an obsession for us and since (former Prime Minister) Rafik Hariri’s assassination we are taking the necessary precautions,” Ahmed Hariri told Asharq al-Awsat.
His remarks came after the French daily Liberation said that the Syrian regime plotted to assassinate Saad Hariri.
Turning to the local dispute between March 8 and 14 officials, the Mustaqbal secretary-general accused Free Patriotic Movement chief Michel Aoun of turning into a corporal in the Mahdi army.
He said Aoun was provoking the former Premier the same way Marada movement leader Suleiman Franjieh provoked MP Jebran Tueni who returned from Paris and was assassinated in December 2005.
He said the current situation of Saad Hariri is similar to his father’s.
“Back then they advised PM Rafik Hariri to leave the country and this is what’s happening today with Saad Hariri although what we are witnessing now is worse,” he added.
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