Botros Harb Under Threat

Former Lebanese MP and minister Boutros Harb recounts being targeted politically, beginning in 1994 with an unsubstantiated accusation that he had received money from the Iraqi Embassy. The investigation found the accusation baseless for lack of evidence, but did not identify who had promoted it. On July 5, 2012, two electric detonators were found above the elevator in the building where he lives, in what he described as an assassination attempt. He said the investigation faced obstructions, including Mahmoud al-Hayek’s failure to appear and the withholding of phone records. Hezbollah intervened to secure al-Hayek’s appearance without his being arrested. A judgment was issued against al-Hayek in absentia, but he later died in fighting in Syria, while the identity of those who planned the attempt—and key questions surrounding it—remain unresolved.

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