| by AL ARABIYA
( October 2, 2012, UAE, Sri Lanka
Guardian) In May, a shopping mall blaze in Qatar killed 19 people, most of them
children at an unlicensed Doha nursery.
The fire which began in a
sporting goods store in Doha’s Villagio Mall had started, according to official
statements, “due to faulty electrical wiring in a fluorescent light.”
All 19 people killed in the
inferno on May 28 were foreigners, including two fire fighters, 13 children and
four teachers.
Officially, the fire was not
premeditated.
The Villagio mall blaze in May which killed 19 people
in the Qatari capital. (Reuters)
However, leaked files reveal that
the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad might have planned the Villagio
blaze.
The leaked documents are
highly-classified Syrian security files obtained by Al Arabiya from opposition
sources.
The channel said that it has
verified and authenticated hundreds of these documents and that it has decided
to disclose ones with substantial news value and political relevance.
'Embarrassing Qatar'
A telegram from Syrian Major
General Dhu al-Himma Shaleesh to the Syrian ambassador in Qatar, asking to find
ways to ‘embarrass’ Qatar. (Al Arabiya)
A telegram sent in February from
the presidential palace in Damascus to the Syrian Embassy in Qatar unveils
important information on the Syrian strategy to “embarrass” the Qatari state.
Syrian Major General Dhu al-Himma
Shaleesh, head of the president’s Special Security force, wrote to the Syrian
ambassador in Qatar, Hajem Ibraheem, requesting from him to serve “the supreme
interests of the (Syrian) state.” Shaleesh informed the ambassador of the need
to humiliate Qatar after its supposed role in supporting the Free Syrian Army,
the country’s main armed opposition group.
A letter sent from Shaleesh to
President Assad stating the Villagio Blaze mission was accomplished. (Al
Arabiya)
Shaleesh had requested from the
Syrian ambassador in Qatar to provide him with suggestions on how Syria would
proceed to implement its strategy and put the Gulf state in a critical
situation to weaken its image and alter public opinion of the state.
A second highly secretive
document dated June 2, also sent from Shaleesh but this time addressed
personally to President Assad, acknowledges the “success” of the first
operation aimed to destabilize Qatar and embarrass it in front of the world.
Shaleesh named the operation
“Villagio blaze.”
Al Arabiya's exclusive series on
the newly-leaked security documents continues tomorrow.
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