Fundamentalist Arrested in Hariri Killing
The son and political heir of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Saturday called for an international tribunal to try his father’s killers after a U.N. probe implicated top Syrian and Lebanese intelligence officials.
Lebanese security officials, meanwhile, said police had arrested an Islamic fundamentalist in connection with the assassination – the first since chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis released his findings into the investigation of Feb. 14 killing of Hariri in a Beirut car bombing.
Saad Hariri, the former premier’s son and a Lebanese legislator, made the appeal two days after Mehlis handed his report to the U.N. Security Council. He praised the U.N. investigation, which said there was a clear link between Syrian and Lebanese intelligence officials in the bombing.
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