More nuggets from the CBC report on the role of the late Captain Wissam Eid (the report is a page turner, I’m telling you):
The Eid report was entered into the UN’s database by someone who either didn’t understand it or didn’t care enough to bring it forward. It disappeared. [...]A year and a half later, in December 2007, when the Eid report finally resurfaced, the immediate reaction of the UN telecom team was embarrassment. And then suspicion.
Eid claimed to have performed his analysis using nothing but Excel spreadsheets and that, said the British specialist, was impossible.
No one, he declared, could accomplish such a thing without powerful computer assistance and the requisite training. No amateur, which is how the specialists regarded Eid, could possibly have waded through the millions of possible permutations posed by the phone records and extracted individual networks.[...]
A deputation of telecom experts was dispatched to meet Eid. They questioned him and returned convinced that, somehow, he had indeed identified the networks himself.
Eid appeared to be one of those people who could intuit mathematical patterns, the sort who thinks several moves ahead in chess. Even better, he was willing to help directly. He wanted Hariri’s killers to face justice, Hezbollah’s warning be damned.
Just in case you don’t know it, captain Eid was also assassinated.
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Did you read the bit about Wissam el Hassan being involved? please comment!!
In the tradition of Middle Eastern intelligence chiefs, Col. Hassan is a puzzling, even feared figure in his own country.
He was on the UN radar from the beginning, for two reasons: He quickly became one of the inquiry’s main liaisons with the ISF; plus he was in charge of Hariri’s security at the time of the assassination.
Except he hadn’t been in the convoy the day of the blast. And his alibi was flimsy, to put it mildly.
Col. Wissam Hassan, the ISF intelligence chief who was Hariri’s chief of protocol at the time of the bombing. (CBC)
On July 9, 2005, Col. Hassan told UN investigators that he was enrolled in a computer course, Management Social et Humaine, at Lebanese University.
He said that on the day before the assassination, Feb. 13, he had received a call from his professor, Yahya Rabih, informing him he was required to sit for an exam the next day.
Twenty minutes later, he told investigators, Hariri had phoned, summoning him. Col. Hassan said he arrived at Hariri’s residence at 9:30 that evening and obtained his boss’s permission to attend the exam the next day.
He spent the entire next morning studying for the exam, he told the UN, and turned off his phone when he entered the university, which was at just about the time Hariri died.
“If I wasn’t sitting for that exam,” Hassan told investigators, “I would have been with Mr. Hariri” when he died.
A different story
But Hassan’s phone records told another story entirely.
I like to get more info on Col. Wissam Al-Hassan! Copycat said that: “Hassan’s phone records told another story entirely.” Do you or anyone has a copy of his phone records?
It’s in the report, nimrod..the one Mustapha linked to but forgot to mention in his exuberation to judge Hezbollah guilty that the CBC report says that Wissam Hassan was involved
Hold your horses there copy-cat. I think I’m entitled to spread out my posts throughout the day.. Anyway, Wissam Hassan post coming soon..
R.I.P
hero
he knew he was going to get killed and continued anyway
I’ve just heard about this man and am pleased he is being recognized (perhaps this has already happened in Lebanon) around the world. Thanks, Mustapha, for putting this together in English.