Jumblat Calls Addoum 'Bastard,' Vows to Stone him
Druze leader Walid Jumblat has publicly called Justice Minister Adnan Addoum "bastard, dirty and vulgar," vowing "we shall not forget to stone him one day," An Nahar reported.
The tongue-lashing was a response to a thinly-veiled threat by Addoum that he might summon Marwan Hamadeh for interrogation about his recent declaration that the outcome of the preliminary investigation into the attempt to assassinate him had been hijacked by a state intelligence apparatus.
Addoum has also threatened to start legal action against the leftist Beirut daily As Safir for reporting that a videocassette showing the car-bomb used in the Oct. 1 assassination attempt and the face of the driver had 'vanished' and that a person resembling the driver was found murdered in southeast Lebanon 3 days later.
Jumblat attacked Addoum at a press conference in Paris Friday. His Progressive Socialist Party had simultaneously released a statement in Beirut accusing Addoum of trying to 'mislead the investigation' and of turning the victim into a suspect.
Hamadeh in the meantime called from his sick bed at the American University Hospital Speaker Berri by telephone and demanded a stand by parliament against the justice minister's "rude threat to conduct a booby-trapped prosecution of a legislator who has been targeted for assassination by a booby-trapped car."
AUH doctors said Saturday that X-rays of Hamadeh's brain after surgery showed complete recovery from a minor bleeding case.
The tongue-lashing was a response to a thinly-veiled threat by Addoum that he might summon Marwan Hamadeh for interrogation about his recent declaration that the outcome of the preliminary investigation into the attempt to assassinate him had been hijacked by a state intelligence apparatus.
Addoum has also threatened to start legal action against the leftist Beirut daily As Safir for reporting that a videocassette showing the car-bomb used in the Oct. 1 assassination attempt and the face of the driver had 'vanished' and that a person resembling the driver was found murdered in southeast Lebanon 3 days later.
Jumblat attacked Addoum at a press conference in Paris Friday. His Progressive Socialist Party had simultaneously released a statement in Beirut accusing Addoum of trying to 'mislead the investigation' and of turning the victim into a suspect.
Hamadeh in the meantime called from his sick bed at the American University Hospital Speaker Berri by telephone and demanded a stand by parliament against the justice minister's "rude threat to conduct a booby-trapped prosecution of a legislator who has been targeted for assassination by a booby-trapped car."
AUH doctors said Saturday that X-rays of Hamadeh's brain after surgery showed complete recovery from a minor bleeding case.
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