Lahoud Praised For Support of Resistance, Criticised For Allowing Generals Arrest
Major General Jamil As-Sayyed, former director of General Security and one of the four generals being held on suspicion of involvement in the Rafik Hariri assassination, praised former President Emile Lahoud’s support for the Resistance and Lebanese-Syrian relations.
However, he also expressed his wish that Lahoud had not mentioned the four generals during his last interview, with a Lebanese channel.
In a statement issued by his media office on Wednesday, he added that Lahoud was supposed, when he was still a president, to follow the steps of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who, he said approved the investigations of the International Independent Investigation Commission with Syrian generals and preserved their rights and dignity.
He also said that Assad refused to hand his generals to his political enemies as Lahoud did with Lebanese generals.