[AFP/Globe and Mail-Canada] Mark MacKinnon - Syria's leaders have "devilish plans" to drive Lebanon into civil war in order to avoid facing justice in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, his son Saad charged in an interview Thursday. Saad Hariri said that Shaker al-Abssi, the leader of the Muslim fundamentalists who have been battling the Lebanese army in the north since May 20, was in a Syrian prison last year before suddenly being released. "Free people in Syria [get] a sentence of 20 years for their opinions, and someone like Shaker al-Abssi, who is a murderer, gets out of Syrian prison? Under what reason? If you follow that, you will see a Syrian trail," he said.
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