General Security Director General Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim stressed in a statement to “Al-Mayadin” that “the General Security did not have any information regarding an assassination attempt targeting political figures in Lebanon.”
This comes after Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported on Sunday that western intelligence agencies warned former Lebanese prime minister Saad al-Hariri of an assassination plot against him. It cited unnamed sources close to Hariri.
Hariri announced his surprise resignation on Saturday, citing a plot to kill him, and saying the climate in Lebanon resembled that before the assassination of his father Rafik Hariri, who was also prime minister, in 2005.
He criticized Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah for their role in Lebanon and other Arab countries.
Hariri traveled to Riyadh on Friday and did not return to Lebanon. His resignation was made in a televised statement from an undisclosed location.
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