Three senior security men and a parliamentarian were named as suspects in connection with the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafiq Hariri. Or at least, I think that's what
it says:
Trois anciens chefs des services de renseignements et de sécurité du Liban, le général de brigade Raymond Azar, le général-major Jameel al-Sayeed et Ali al-Hajj et un ancien parlementaire, Nasser Kandil figurent parmi les suspects » dans l'enquête sur l'assassinat de Rafic Hariri
Here's the English language translation
Massir Kandil is in Syria. Al-Sayeed, Azar, and al-Hajj are in custody. Gen. Mustafa Hamdan was summoned for a second interrogation.
I think this means that the UN believes there is a definite connection of Syria to the assassination. In
The Steven Emerson Lunatic Asylum, they're absolutely positive. Personally, I have always wondered whether this was not an American operation designed to implicate the Syrians. It has certainly been Bush that benefited, if only temporarily, from the assassination. Syria certainly did not, though observers like Robert Fisk think that they believed they would simply because they were very stupid.
The evidence the Fitzgerald Commission had to point to Syria was terribly thin, essentially that the attack was sophisticated.
Or maybe not, as I pointed out on this blog. I'm assuming that the UN has better evidence now, but I fear not.
# posted by
Charles @ 9/05/2005 02:39:00 PM