Friday, January 27, 2006

Dirty tricks of Hariri Inc in....Tunisia: "Anou-Khanir continued: “Al-Shabi has initiated a court case this week in the Lebanese courts against the Al-Mustaqbal newspaper in regards to what the plaintiff described as a ‘crime of defamation and distortion. Al-Shabi, leader of the Progressive Democratic party told Al Arabiya.net that he ‘hired a Lebanese lawyer early this week to sue the Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal and Al-Liwaa newspaper for the ‘crime of defamation and distortion’… he also accused the Tunisian government of supporting the two newspapers who had published the article word for word off of a Tunisian daily newspaper (close to the government) ‘al Sareeh’ [Honesty] “[the Lebanese] newspapers Al Mustqbal and Al-Liwaa both published in the last weeks, similar anonymous articles that accuse Al-Shabi of ‘recently joining the international organization, Muslim Brotherhood, after a meeting with the Egyptian leader of the organization Mehdi Akef.’ Al-Shabi told Al Arabiya.net that these articles were aimed at ‘defaming him and the October 14 group’ and denied ‘ever meeting the Egyptian Mehdi Akef or talking to any individual in that organization’. He continued, ‘I have never joined this organization and don’t intend to in the future.’" (thanks Laurie) (I dont have a link for you, but I trust my source. Al-Mustaqbal and Al-Liwa' are owned by Hariri Inc.)