Palestinian Mufti Ikrima Sabri on Rafiq Hariri's Assassination and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The following are excerpts from an interview with Palestinian Mufti Ikrima Sabri. Al-Majd TV aired this interview on February 20, 2005:

Ikrima Sabri: Anyone who studies The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and specifically the Talmud will discover that one of the goals of these protocols is to cause confusion in the world and to undermine security throughout the world. This is one thing. Another point is that anyone who follows the explosion in Beirut – this could not have been an operation by any organization, party or faction. What happened was technologically very complex, which means a country must have been behind it – a superpower that wants to set Lebanon and Syria against one another. It would be a mistake to rush and point an accusing finger at Syria, because those who carried out this operation intended to hurt Syria…