Great article in the German magazine Der Spiegel lays out the story. It's worth reading the whole bit. Spiegel details how investigators were able to pinpoint the Hezbollah assassins by their cell phone use. Nasrallah, of course, denies the charge but he's undoubtedly worried that the coming revelations and UN investigations will harm Hezbollah's standing in Lebanon.
PM Hariri was assassinated in 2005 in Beirut by a massive load of explosives detonated as his motorcade passed by the St. Georges Hotel. Hariri, a billionaire construction magnate, had rebuilt Beirut after years of civl war and was set to reenter politics. He was strongly anti-Syrian, therefore Syria has been the prime suspect in his murder. Till now. New evidence nails Hezbollah....
What the investigators did was filter out the numbers of cell phones that could be pinpointed to the area surrounding Hariri leading up to the attack, and those used on the day of the murder itself.
A secret unit of Lebanese security forces, led by intelligence expert Captain Wissam Eid, filtered out the numbers before he was assassinated in January 2008.
The investigators referred to these mobile phones as the "first circle of hell."
Captain Eid's team eventually identified eight mobile phones, all of which had been purchased on the same day in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. They were activated six weeks before the assassination, and they were used exclusively for communication among their users and -- with the exception of one case -- were no longer used after the attack. They were apparently tools of the hit team that carried out the terrorist attack.
But there was also a "second circle of hell," a network of about 20 mobile phones that were identified as being in proximity to the first eight phones noticeably often. According to the Lebanese security forces, all of the numbers involved apparently belong to the "operational arm" of Hezbollah, which maintains a militia in Lebanon that is more powerful than the regular Lebanese army.....
Then one of these dudes called his girlfriend with a "hot phone." Big mistake!
The whereabouts of the two Beirut groups of mobile phone users coincided again and again, and they were sometimes located near the site of the attack. The romantic attachment of one of the terrorists led the cyber-detectives directly to one of the main suspects. He committed the unbelievable indiscretion of calling his girlfriend from one of the "hot" phones. It only happened once, but it was enough to identify the man. He is believed to be Abd al-Majid Ghamlush, from the town of Rumin, a Hezbollah member who had completed training course in Iran. Ghamlush was also identified as the buyer of the mobile phones. He has since disappeared, and perhaps is no longer alive.
Ghamlush's recklessness led investigators to the man they now suspect was the mastermind of the terrorist attack: Hajj Salim, 45. A southern Lebanese from Nabatiyah, Salim is considered to be the commander of the "military" wing of Hezbollah and lives in South Beirut, a Shiite stronghold. Salim's secret "Special Operational Unit" reports directly to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, 48.
http://www.spiegel.de/...
Almost all those involved in the plot are dead or missing. That's a bit much to be merely coincidental. There`s no better way to keep a secret than to eliminate those who share it.
In addition, Lebanon recently released four generals held for nearly four years in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri after the U.N.-backed tribunal ordered them freed. Perhaps they've come upon new evidence!
So this is Bombshell!! information, which comes near the upcoming June 7 Lebanese elections.
Will Nasrallah be formally charged and arrested?
Stay tuned!
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