The name of Lebanon's Christian Maronite Patriarch, Butros Nasrallah Sfeir appears on a hit-list uncovered by a UN commission probing the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, according to a well-placed political source in Beirut. Speaking on condition of anonymity the source told Adnkronos International (AKI) that publisher Gibran Tueni killed in a 12 December bomb blast in Beirut also appeared on the the list which was submitted by the former head of the UN panel, Detlev Mehlis to the Lebanese authorities. "I saw with my own eyes the letter signed by Mehlis [containing the hit list]. Gibran Tueni himself showed it during the first days of August [2005] following his return from Saudi Arabia where he had conveyed his condolences for the death of [Saudi] King Fahd. Besides Tueni another name which appeared on the list was that of Nasrallah Sfeir the Maronite Patriach, " the source said.Three different hit lists have surfaced in the Lebanese media in recent months. The last one which appeared on 13 January contained the names of several celebrity talk-show hosts and well-known anti-Syrian politicians including Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, his close aide and Lebanon's current Telecommunications minister, Marwan Hamade, Democreatic Left parliamentarian Elias Atallah, Social Affairs minister Nayla Muawad and Hariri's son, Saad ad-Din Hariri. All of those on the list were prominent in the wave of anti-Syrian demonstrations that took place in Lebanon after the killing of Hariri and 20 others in a bomb attack in Beirut on 14 February 2005.