Revenge or silencing assassinations fears in Lebanon

The summoning of the four former Lebanese security leaders to the UN investigation panel came at a time when the fear of new assassinations against leaders of the Lebanese opposition which had caused many of them to leave the country for fears they might be killed.

Saad Eddine al-Hariri, the son of the assassinated Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, said that his existence since two weeks in Paris is because he was exposed to death threats, noting that that those who killed Rafiq al-Hariri may decide to kill all of the al-Hariri family.

He explained that he is not on a vacation in Paris, rather just to be far from danger, and to make contacts with all in Lebanon and the Arab states over developments in his country.

Walid Junblat made the same comments as Saad al-Hariri after he had won the legislative elections in June, and continued to be in his chosen residence in al-Shouf mountain, southeast of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for most of his time.

Lebanese parliamentarian and journalist Jubran Tweini disclosed that the UN committee in charge of investigating the assassination of al-Hariri notified the Lebanese security of a list of Lebanese figures vulnerable to assassination.