Lebanon has asked the United Nations to help it investigate a car bomb that killed a top general this week in the latest of a string of political assassinations, the world body said on Thursday. In a letter to the Security Council, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had received a letter from Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Wednesday requesting "technical assistance."
"The government requested the International Independent Investigation Commission be in touch with the relevant Lebanese authorities for that purpose," Ban said, referring to the U.N. body already investigating political attacks in Lebanon. The commission is investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, who died with 22 others in February 2005 in a Beirut car bomb blast, as well as 18 other political murders or attempted murders. |