Sunday, September 07, 2008
I have been riveted. Reading the new book by Ghassan Sharbil, Asrar As-Sunduq Al-Aswad, which contains interviews he conducted with George Habash, Anis Naqqash, Carlos, and the son and assistants of Wadi` Haddad. So many of the secrets of that era were explained and discussed. (The interviews were previously published in Al-Wasat magazine. By the way, the story that Sharbil keeps repeating since 2005 that Rafiq Hariri helped in extinguishing a fire in Wadi` Haddad's car in the early 1970s after an Israeli missile attack. Hariri was in Saudi Arabia at the time. Also, between the accounts of Anis Naqqash and the account of Carlos of the Vienna attack, Naqqash's account is more credible.)