UN Names Lebanon Assassination Suspects
The United Nations named four pro-Syrian generals and a former legislator as suspects Tuesday in the February assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri – the first major break in a crime that transformed Lebanon.
U.N. investigators were interrogating the men at a hilltop hotel overlooking Beirut after searching the generals’ homes. The Lebanese government, acting at the request of the U.N., detained three of the suspects in Hariri‘s murder; a fourth surrendered for questioning and a fifth returned from Syria, promising to cooperate.
The moves against such once-powerful generals and politicians – who had readily executed Syrian policy in Lebanon – would have been unthinkable a few months ago when the country and its government were still under Syrian control.
Source: AP.
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