Bandar bin Sultan’s confession on Hariri, Mughniyeh assassinations to be aired on Syrian TV http://www.tehrantimes.com/index.php/middle-east/3659-bandar-bin-sultans-confession-on-hariri-mughniyeh-assassinations-to-be-aired-on-syrian-tv

The taped confessions of a high-ranking Saudi Arabian official about the assassinations of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and Imad Mughniyeh, a senior member of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, will reportedly be broadcast on Syrian state television, the Mashreghnews website reported on Sunday. Rafik Hariri was assassinated in a bombing in Beirut on February 14, 2005. Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated in a car bombing in Damascus on February 12, 2008.

The arrest of Bandar bin Sultan, a Saudi prince and the secretary general of Saudi Arabia’s National Security Council, by Syrian security forces a few weeks ago has been widely reported.The reports came after the U.S. claimed on October 11 that it had broken up a plot by individuals linked to Iran’s security agencies to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir. According to some Arab media outlets, the Saudi prince, who had intended to enter Damascus incognito, was arrested by Syrian security forces at Damascus Airport upon his arrival.

The Lebanese newspaper Athabat has recently published information never before released to the public on the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. The report said that during his interrogation in Syria, Prince Bandar, confessed that he had a hand in the assassination of Hariri through encouraging and supporting certain groups in Iraq affiliated with Al-Qaeda.