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Lebanon Arrests Man in Connection with Hariri Assassination
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Mahmoud Abdel-Al, a member of pro-Syrian Al-Ahbash Sunni Muslim
Orthodox group, detained early Saturday Police in Lebanon have
arrested a man under investigation by a U.N. commission probing the
assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Officials in Beirut say Mahmoud Abdel-Al, a member of the pro-Syrian
Al-Ahbash Sunni Muslim Orthodox group, was detained early Saturday
based on an arrest warrant issued by Lebanese prosecutors.

A U.N. investigative report issued earlier this week said the man
telephoned pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud minutes before Mr. Hariri
was killed. A spokesman for Mr. Lahoud has strongly denied the
president had been in contact with Mr. Abdel-Al.







Saad HaririMeanwhile, the son of Mr. Hariri, Saad Hariri, called for
an international tribunal to punish those responsible for his father's
assassination.

In Damascus, Syrian officials dismissed the credibility of the U.N.
report, which named senior Syrian security officials and their
Lebanese allies as suspects in Mr. Hariri's death.

 


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