Cars and Women in Lebanon

Omar Hayssam, a fugitive businessman of Syrian origin accused of faming the kidnap of three Romanian journalists, told Romanian prosecutor Ciprian Nastasiu in a wired telephone conversation that he can meet him in Lebanon whenever he wants. Moreover, he added that the prosecutor can enjoy a nice holiday in Lebanon with expensive cars and women. Hayssam confessed that he left Romania, while on a leave from the hospital where he wastreated of cancer, with a fake passport. According to conversation transcripts included in Hayssam's file, Nastasiu tried several times to find out where the Syrian businessman is hiding. Finally, on September 6 the two established a meeting point but Omar Hayssam changed his mind, saying that he preferred to meet him in Lebanon if he wished to join him there. Hayssam told Nastasiu that he would suffer a surgical intervention at the American University in Lebanon as the illness he was accusing while in a Romanian jail apparently got worse. Omar Hayssam is accused and convicted of terrorism for faming the kidnap of three Romanian journalists in 2005 in Iraq. He was convicted to 20 years in prison in absence.