Aridi: Probe Into Twin Murder Reached Advanced Stage
| Aridi said Friday after a ministerial-security meeting at the Grand Serail that the probe has “reached an advanced stage and is very positive.” “Maybe some members of the (Shamas) family had something to do with” the crime, Aridi said when asked if that family was involved in the killings. Defense Minister Elias Murr said on Thursday that the slaying of the two youths was linked to the January 25 incidents during which Adnan Shamas, a member of the Amal movement, was killed. The opposition had accused Druze Leader Walid Jumblat’s Progressive Socialist Party followers of killing Shamas, but police later arrested a Syrian over the crime. The families of Ghandour and Qabalan are PSP members. Aridi also denied media reports that Jumblat had called Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah after the bodies of Ghandour, 12, and Qabalan, 25, were found southeast of Beirut Thursday, three days after being kidnapped from their car. |
| Beirut, 28 Apr 07 |
