Lebanese Republican Guards Staff Brigadier Khalil Al-Musinn has temporarily taken over the command of the Republican Guard Division after its commander, General Mustafa Hamdan was taken into custody in connection with the continuing UN-led probe into the February 14 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri. "Al-Musinn, who was Hamdan's assistant, has assumed the new status as a normal and legal procedure in cases of absence of his superior for more than two days," a Republican Guard source told KUNA Friday.
Hamdan and three other generals, were detained earlier this week for interrogations as suspects in the February 14 murder of Hariri. The head of the UN probe into the murder, former Germen Prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, has already interrogated the four and has handed them to Lebanese judiciary authorities to be prosecuted according to Lebanese laws. |