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UN Hariri Probers Seek Assad Interview
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=1069E52:3919ACA Commission
investigating murder of former Lebanese PM is asking for interview
with Syrian president, his foreign minister The United Nations
commission investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri is asking for an interview with Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad.

A spokesman for the commission says Monday a request has already been
sent to Damascus, seeking permission for investigators to interview
President Assad and his foreign minister, Farouq al-Shara.

The U.N. commission also wants to meet with former Syrian Vice
President Abdel-Halim Khaddam, who resigned last year and now lives in
Paris.

Mr. Khaddam has implicated President Assad in the assassination plot
against Mr. Hariri, who was killed in Lebanon last year by a
remote-controlled bomb that destroyed his armored limousine. Syria's
ruling Baath Party reacted to the former vice president's disclosure
by expelling Mr. Khaddam and demanding he be tried in Syria for
treason.

Syria has denied any role in Mr. Hariri's death.

Some information for this report provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.


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