In its news cast on the eve of 26/05/2008, Al Manar TV aired a lead story in which it claimed that Der Spiegel's report on "an alleged "involvement" of Hezbollah in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was not a scoop since the Syriatruth.net electronic site published the same information six months ago".Here are some thoughts on Al Manar's story that turned out to be merely a scam
Almanar's story about a report attributed to Nizar Nayouf and mirrors what was published in Der Spiegel seems to be a huge scam.
First, the URL www.syriatruth.net which Almanar's reporter referred to does not exist anymore. It was jammed and you could only cash it for the time being.
The other site related to Nayouf is www.syriatruth.org.
This site was last updated in 21/07/08, almost four months before the date of the claimed report which was dated 24/12/2008.
On top of that, there is no trace for the claimed article on Nayouf's site. "Search" retrieves no results no matter what inquiry you use.
The only trace all over the web of Nayouf's claimed article is this fishy page http://vcoders.org/forum/
It is telling as well that the claimed article was immediately echoed by Filkka and Quds Press, probably the two farthest sources from reality...
The whole story is invented and the claimed Arabic article which mirrors Der Spiegel's report simply doe not exist
On a different note, Nizar Nayouf whom Al Mannar referred to as a member of the opposition who lives in Paris, is a former political prisoner in Syria.
However, he is thought to have been recruited by the Syrian intelligence. Based on these suspisions Nayouf is being avoided by, virtually, all the factions of the Syrian opposition.
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