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"...Hariri is due to head a large delegation in his two-day visit to Iran. Iran, along with Syria, provides Hezbollah with finances, weaponry and training....
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Al-Manar: Canadian Media Enters Race: Hezbollah behind Hariri’s Murder
22/11/2010 After the Israeli media, the Canadian media entered on Monday the race and published a detailed report about investigations in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
An investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp claimed that a Lebanese police officer and UN investigators unearthed “extensive circumstantial evidence” implicating Hezbollah in Hariri’s assassination.
The UN International Independent Investigation Commission's findings are based on an elaborate examination of Lebanese phone records, the Canadian report said. It added that the work of the commission, whose mandate has expired, has been given to the UN Special Tribunal, which will carry out prosecutions.
A spokesman for the United Nations, Farhan Haq, declined to comment Sunday night on the substance of the allegations, referring questions to the tribunal. But he said the UN has made it clear to CBC that the UN documents cited in its report "are United Nations documents enjoying inviolability under Article II of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations. Inviolability entails that United Nations documents cannot be disclosed to a third party, copied or used without the consent of the United Nations. Beyond that, I have no further comment on the documents at this stage."
The CBC report said that the head of the UN tribunal, Daniel Bellemare, declined a request to comment, and others in his office did not respond to phone calls.
The CBC's reporting also uncovered an internal UN document indicating that a top Lebanese intelligence official, Colonel Wissam al-Hassan, who serves as Lebanon's key liaison with the UN investigators, was considered by some UN sleuths as a potential suspect. Hassan oversaw security for Hariri at the time of the assassination but had taken the day off to take an examination at a university.
A confidential internal UN memo, dated March 10, 2008, prepared for the commission's top investigator, Garry Loeppky, said Hassan's "alibi is weak and inconsistent" and recommended that he be "investigated quietly" to determine whether he played a role in Hariri's killing. But the CBC report stated that the commission's management "ignored the recommendation" to investigate Hassan.
The report also faulted the UN for misplacing a vital piece of evidence - a complex analysis of Lebanese phone records that allegedly pinpointed the phones used by Hariri's killers - in the early months of the investigation. It also criticized the UN commission for failing to provide sufficient security for a key Lebanese officer, Colonel Wissam Eid, who was killed after helping the UN unravel the crime mystery.
Canadian CBC Channel Reveals Veil off STL Report over PM Hariri’s Assassination
Local Editor
Concerning the latest news on the media leakages related to the suspicious indictment expected to be issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), the Canadian CBC TV Channel broadcasted information and documents related to former PM Rafiq Hariri's assassination, which it purchased from UN sources.
The information revealed that a Lebanese army officer claimed, informing STL investigators, that there are strong evidences that prove the involvement of Hizbullah in Rafiq Hariri's assassination.
In a detailed report over Hariri's assassination, the CBC Channel referred that the results which the international investigation committee reached are based on information and data from the Lebanese telecommunication network.
According to the report, Hizbullah officials called owners of cellular phone which were used in conducting the explosion of the late Lebanese PM.
Col. Wissam Hassan, the ISF intelligence chief who was Hariri's chief of protocol at the time of the bombing. (CBC) |
On the other hand, the report further added that there was a UN internal memorandum which was issued on March 10 2008, including recommendation to conduct a calm investigation to specify whether Al Hassan was involved in Hariri's assassination.
According to CBC, the recommendation was not implemented, and Al Hassan therefore was not investigated.
In another context, UN spokesperson refused to comment on this report, referring that the international organization clarified to the TV Channel that the UN documents which it referred to, are protected documents and shouldn't be published without the UN's approval. (Looks like the Documemt is removed from CBC is removed - CBC Investigation: UN Tribunal 2008 report on Col. Wissam Hassan
STL General Prosecutor, Daniel Bellemare, on his part also refused to comment on the report broadcasted by the CBC Canadian Channel.
In this context, the "Israeli" Enemy Radio mentioned that a Canadian TV channel revealed the veil off the report expected to be issued by the STL, which is concerned with Hariri's investigation.
The Enemy Radio also added that the report will be accusing Hizbullah of the assassination.
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THIS is BIG: "Wissam Hassan & Hezbollah in cahoots? '"...
First it was Der Speigel, now it's the Canadian CBC
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CBC Investigation: Who killed Lebanon's Rafik Hariri?
In the tradition of Middle Eastern intelligence chiefs, Col. Hassan is a puzzling, even feared figure in his own country.
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