Exclusive Sources: UN Investigator of Hariri assassination: I received good information from Israeli intelligence
Chief UN investigator Detlev Mehlis reports good information from Israeli intelligence helped his probe into the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in Beirut on February 14 and other Lebanese figures. Mehlis names his prime suspect as the pro-Syrian President Emil Lahoud’s presidential brigade commander Brig. Gen. Mustafa Hamdan.
The UN investigator, a Berlin prosecutor, made these disclosures in an interview published by the Parisian daily LeFigaro, Wednesday, July 20. Mehlis now plans also to interrogate Syria’s former military intelligence chief in Lebanon Brig. Gen. Rustom Ghazaleh. But Hamdan was among the first persons questioned, said Mehils, because he was one of those who gave orders “to change the scene of the crime just after the attack.”
On June 21, UN investigators took Hamdan, known as Lahoud’s inseparable military shadow, for prolonged interrogation and searched his office in the Baabde presidential palace and Beirut home. “He has cooperated,” said Mehlis.