Al-Murr holds Lebanese security responsible for assassination attempt

Lebanese defense minister Elias al-Murr said he had received information that he might be exposed to an assassination attempt, noting that he notified the specialized Lebanese security of these threats.

In a televised interview with al-Mustaqbal TV, al-Murr added he had since last march information about the assassination attempt. He stressed he sent last week a message to the attorney general including this information.

Murr indicated, in the interview which he had made on his bed from the hospital, that this information was available to the state security and that it reached him "unexpectedly," giving no further details.

Minister al-Murr, son-in-law of the Lebanese President Emil Lahoud, held the state security department responsibility for any security action endangering him.