Syrians threaten witness against Assad with treasaon charge

Reuters:

Syrian lawmakers demanded on Saturday that former Vice President Abdel-Halim Khaddam be tried for treason and corruption after he publicly broke with President Bashar al-Assad.

Speaking from Paris, where he moved after resigning as vice-president in June, Khaddam launched an unprecedented attack on Assad, saying he had threatened Rafik al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister who was assassinated in February.

He also accused the government of making political blunders in Lebanon and of failing to deliver economic and political reforms at home, leaving millions of Syrians to go hungry.

"I ask the Syrian leadership to try him ... for humiliating 10 million Syrians when he said half of the Syrian people are eating from the garbage," legislator Umeima Faddoul told a session of Syria parliament.

"I tell him, those who eat from the garbage are traitors like you ... Treason is the darkest shade of black."

Khaddam told Al Arabiya television in an interview aired on Friday that Assad had threatened former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri before he was assassinated in February.

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Faddoul might have to worry about being charged with obstrucion of justice.

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