A bomb that exploded today 27th
Dec, 2013 in a Central District of Damascus in Syria killed at least five
people including Mr Chattah a Sunni Muslim who was adviser to ex-PM Saas Hariri
and about 70people were wonded.
Former Lebanon prime minister
Saad al-Hariri accused Hezbollah of involvement in the killing of Chatah, his
62-year-old political adviser, saying it was "a new message of
terrorism."
"As far as we are concerned
the suspects ... are those who are fleeing international justice and refusing
to represent themselves before the international tribunal," Hariri said. Chatah's
killing occurred three weeks before the long-delayed opening of a trial of five
Hezbollah suspects indicted for the 2005 bombing which killed former prime
minister Rafik al-Hariri, Saad's father, and 21 other people. The trial is due
to open in The Hague in January. The suspects are all fugitives and Hezbollah,
which denies any role in the Hariri assassination, has refused to cooperate
with the court, which it says is politically motivated. Mr Chatah was on his
way to a meeting of the anti-Syrian March 14 bloc, led by Saad Hariri, when his
convoy was hit.
About an hour before his death,
Chatah posted a message on Twitter, criticizing Syria and the Lebanese militant
group Hezbollah, which has sent fighters to Syria in support of President Assad
in the country's civil war.
God have mercy
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