Assad threatened Hariri: Syrian vice president
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad threatened former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri just months before he was assassinated, Syria's ex-vice president Abdel Halim Khaddam said Friday.
"I will destroy anyone who tries to hinder our decisions," Assad told Hariri during a meeting in Damascus, Khaddam told Dubai-based television Al-Arabiya in an interview from Paris in which he also announced his resignation.
"I will destroy anyone who tries to hinder our decisions,"
Khaddam was the top Syrian planner of the Syrian "brotherly" relations with Lebanon over more than 35 years. I remember him very well one day of April 1981 on the stairs of the presidential palace of Baabda pronouncing his famous ultimatum of 14 demands that the lebanese government has comply with or face destruction. His flip-flop of last minute does not make of him a good man.