"Imad Mughniyeh's assassination, a Saudi/Israeli conspiracy?"
"Finally this piece of news comes down in print and in English. I have heard for the past 2 or 3 weeks from interviews with Lebanese military and political strategists that Syria has arrested a senior Saudi intelligence officer that it had found to be involved in the Imad Mughneyeh assassination which took place in Damascus on the 12 of February 2008. The strategists and analysts I heard discussing the issue all knew the name of the Saudi in custody, but they refused to say the name on aid. The Syrians refused to release the Saudi agent and were going to make public their results of the official investigation before the Arab League meeting. I guess that explains why Saudi Arabian foreign minister ran to Washington for a secret meeting with Bush, then decided that he wouldn't attend the Arab League meeting.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2051107264
Security
Mughniyeh was killed on 12 February in a car bombing in Syria.
Unnamed sources told Fars that Syria's delay in announcing the results of an investigation into Mughniyeh's death "cannot be explained other than by the pressure exercised by some Arab states."
Fars is said to be close to the government of hardline Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Fars report said that the Syrian commission of inquiry should have already concluded its probe into the killing and the results should have been made public before the recent meeting of the Arab League in the Syrian capital Damascus.
"Pressure by Kuwait convinced the government in Damascus to postpone everything till the day after the [Arab League] meeting ended," said the Fars report.
The news agency goes on to say that the additional delay has come about because of pressure from Riyadh.
One of the sources cited by Fars also pointed the finger at the Saudis and suggested that Riyadh was behind Mughniyeh's death.
"Through a Syrian woman, a Saudi secret service agent who works in Damascus acquired two cars that were used by Israeli secret service agents to kill the commander Haj Imad Mughniyeh," said the Fars report.
According to the Iranian news agency, the people involved in organising the attack which killed the military leader of Hezbollah, were Palestinian, Jordanian and Syrian citizens.
The source cited in Fars also said that it knew the place where the killers had lived in the days leading up to the 12 February car bomb attack.
According to this source, the Palestinians and Jordanians who gathered in Damascus to kill Mughniyeh, lived with their family members in certain apartments in the Kafr Sousa quarter of the city, so as not to raise suspicion.
The Fars report said the former US ambassador to Washington, Bandar al-Sultan, ordered the killing of Mughniyeh and that the Saudis did so to avenge the attack against a US military base in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
A carbomb attack on 25 June 1996 at the Abdul Aziz airbase in Khobar, near Dhahran, killed 19 US soldiers and injured 446 people, including 173 Americans.
The Saudis have always suggested Mughniyeh planned and organised this attack.
Fars also cited an attempt by the governments of Qatar and Kuwait to bring about mediation between Damascus and Riyadh, so that the results of the investigation into Mughniyeh's death are not made public or at least do not contain any reference to Saudi Arabia.
The publication of this information in an Iranian news agency could be interpreted as an attempt by Tehran to neutralise this effort at mediation.
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I have however seen and listened to interviews as specified above, discussing this situation in no uncertain facts. They just preferred not to give out names... namely the name of the Saudi under arrest in Syria now.
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