Major General Jamil Al-Sayyid, in a post on the “X” platform, recalled the memory of his arrest with 3 Lebanese officers on August 30, 2005, against the backdrop of the investigation into the assassination of the martyr Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, directing a series of accusations against judicial, security and political figures, and demanding the reopening of the investigation.

Al-Sayyid said that on the morning of August 30, 2005, the Lebanese people woke up to news reported by local and international media, stating that Cassation Prosecutor Saeed Mirza and the head of the Information Branch, Wissam Al-Hassan, along with the International Investigation Committee headed by the Germans Detlev Mehlis and Gerhard Lehmann, arrested him, along with 3 senior Lebanese officers, on charges of assassinating President Rafik Hariri with the participation of Syrian officers.

He added that less than 3 months after that, it became clear, according to his account, that their arrest was based on the testimonies of 13 false witnesses, led by Syrians Muhammad Zuhair Al-Siddiq and Hussam Hussam, accusing the March 14 team of adopting these witnesses, and the International Investigation Committee of recruiting them in collusion with Saeed Mirza, Wissam Al-Hassan and others, and with the blessing of Saad Hariri.

Al-Sayyed confirmed that these facts were “definitely proven,” as he put it, in the documents he later received from the International Court between 2009 and 2018.

He pointed out that the International Court released the officers in 2009, but refused to try false witnesses on the grounds that it was not valid, even though, according to him, investigating them would have led to revealing the parties that recruited them to mislead the investigation, and thus reaching the real killers.

He pointed out that, under pressure from his reviews, the International Court was forced to hand over to him the files of the false witnesses and their testimonies, before ruling on August 18, 2020, according to what he said, that the United Nations and the Lebanese state must apologize to him and his colleagues and compensate them for 4 years of detention, which he described as “political and arbitrary.”

Al-Sayyed explained that he submitted those documents to the Lebanese judiciary, in the person of Saeed Mirza and the Beirut Public Prosecutor at the time, Ghassan Oueidat, to prosecute the false witnesses, but they rejected the case under the pretext of their lack of jurisdiction, considering that Mirza had relied on these witnesses to arrest the four officers and mislead the investigation over a period of 4 years, and that refusing to prosecute them meant, according to his accusation, covering up for Hariri’s killers.

He said that the International Tribunal documents in his possession show, according to his account, the involvement of Wissam Al-Hassan, along with Saeed Mirza and the Deputy Chairman of the International Investigation Committee, the German investigator Gerhad Lehmann, along with figures from the March 14 team, in managing the false witnesses file.

Al-Sayyid singled out Muhammad Zuhair Al-Siddiq, whom he described as “the king’s false witness,” claiming that Wissam Al-Hassan and Liman met him repeatedly in Saudi Arabia and then in France to teach him his testimony, with the participation of Saad Hariri and his presence in Paris during September 2005, according to the official documents that he said he received from the court.

He continued that the case did not end there, as Wissam Al-Hassan was assassinated in October 2012, without knowing who carried out the assassination until today, accusing the concerned authorities of fabricating the investigation and smuggling what he described as a “spy,” whom he said was inside Al-Hassan’s apartment in the morning and left before the explosion.

He also touched on the assassination of Major Wissam Eid in 2008, claiming that Gerhad Lehmann and Wissam Al-Hassan had tasked him with tampering with the identity of the owners of 6 telephone lines that participated in the Hariri assassination, with the aim of accusing other parties, and confirming that his team had uncovered those lines immediately after the assassination.

He considered that no serious investigation had been conducted into the assassination of Wissam Eid, as happened later in the case of Wissam Al-Hassan, and that the truth has been obscured to this day.

Al-Sayyed accused the relevant authorities of preventing serious investigations into the series of assassinations that took place between 2005 and 2009, from Gibran Tueni to others, and being content with directing political and media accusations against Syria, instead of revealing the perpetrators.

He asked: “Who killed Rafik Hariri?” And why did the serious investigations that Saeed Mirza and the Information Branch were supposed to conduct into the subsequent assassinations, from Samir Kassir to Gibran Tueni, Antoine Ghanem, Pierre Gemayel and others, stop?

He pointed out that some of those he linked to the false witnesses file were successively assassinated, including Wissam al-Hassan and Wissam Eid, considering that countries involved in major international conspiracies, such as the Hariri assassination and the false witnesses file, do not leave their secrets with those he described as “little ones,” but rather get rid of them.

He said that other people are still alive and possess information, and he named Presidents Saad Hariri and Fouad Siniora, judges Saeed Mirza, Ralph Riachi, Saqr Saqr and Elias Eid, in addition to journalist Fares Khashan.

He added that, according to him, Brigadier General Samir Shehadeh and his former security team were on the verge of revealing the real killers at the end of 2005, before he was removed from the head of the Information Branch and Wissam Al-Hassan was appointed in his place, then an attempt was made to assassinate him in 2006, so he could survive and leave Lebanon for a while.

Al-Sayyed concluded by saying that Rafik Hariri was “assassinated twice,” the first at the hands of the perpetrators of the St. George bombing, and the second, according to his accusation, at the hands of his son Saad, his judges, officers, the media, and some of his allies, who he said participated in the false witness conspiracy, and ensured the indoctrination, marketing, financing, and protection of the main witness, Muhammad Zuhair Al-Siddiq, and politicized the investigation to achieve financial, political, and personal interests.

He addressed the fans of the martyred president in various regions, considering that most of what they see and hear on platforms on the anniversary of February 14 are “crocodile tears” from those he accused of assassinating Rafik Hariri for the second time through false witnesses and protecting the real killers.

Al-Sayyed confirmed that he is responsible for every word contained in his post, calling for the investigation to be reopened.