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| UN Hariri tribunal begins 3D crime scene filming |
| 2010-03-24 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] A U.N. team investigating the assassination of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri on Tuesday began filming the site of the 2005 Beirut murder in three dimensions, a U.N. spokeswoman said. It has been five years. Detlev Mehlis had the case cracked in about 90 days. They've been treading water and throwing dust ever since. "We are undertaking an actual 3D modeling of the Hariri crime scene to reconstruction the scene and whatever happened there using digital scanning techniques," spokeswoman Radhia Achouri told AFP. A U.N. tribunal based in The Hague was set up by a Security Council resolution in 2007 to try suspects in the murder of Hariri, killed in a massive bomb blast on the Beirut seafront in February 2005. Achouri, the tribunal's spokeswoman, said the filming would be finalized within 10 days but denied it was linked to recent progress in the investigation. "It is happening now because it is possible and has nothing to do with the actual progress of the investigation for the time being," she said. "It was an issue of establishing the need. We deemed it necessary and can now afford to do it physically and in terms of resources," Achouri added. An AFP photographer at the scene said members of the U.N. team wearing identity cards around their necks were filming and photographing the assassination site outside the once popular Saint Georges Hotel. Before the tribunal was set up, a U.N. commission of inquiry said it had found evidence to implicate Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services in the Hariri murder, but there are currently no suspects in custody. |
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