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| Mehlis summons six Syrian officials |
| 2005-11-06 |
| The chief UN investigator into the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister, armed with new powers from the Security Council, has summoned six senior Syrian intelligence officers, including President Bashar Al Assadâs brother-in-law, for questioning, a Lebanese official said yesterday. Surprising the Lebanese official could stop laughing long enough to leak this. The official, close to the UN team investigating Haririâs killing, said chief UN investigator Detlev Mehlis sent the summons to the Syrian Government via the United Nations last week. If he absolutely, positivley wanted it to get there overnight he should have used F-16 Express. âMr Mehlis has sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan demanding to question at least six Syrian officials,â the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity. Demanding of Kofi? Mehlis much have copies of some interesting money transfers. The London-based Al Hayat reported yesterday that Mehlis wanted to question six senior Syrian officers at the UN commission's headquarters in Beirut, and not in Syria. We have loudspeakers on the building. If you do not cooperate, we will broadcast your name loudly before we throw you out on the street. Are you ready to cooperate? Last weekâs Security Council Resolution 1636 gave Mehlis the power to question any Syrian at the location and under conditions of his choosing. Al Hayat said the men Mehlis wanted to question included Basharâs brother-in-law, General Assef Shawkat, chief of Syriaâs military intelligence service; Major General Bahjat Suleiman, former chief of Syriaâs internal intelligence apparatus; and Brigadier General Rustum Ghazale, the last Syrian intelligence chief in Lebanon who was in charge when Hariri was assassinated. Surprising those names aren't followed by four digit numbers The other officers listed in the summons did not include Basharâs brother Maher, whose name was mentioned in Mehlisâs report to the Security Council last month. |
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