 Syria has invited a UN investigator to Damascus to discuss cooperation in a probe into the killing of a former Lebanese premier, the state news agency said yesterday.
| I thought they'd decided it was the Mossad and the C.I.A. before they started? |
Syria last month dismissed a UN report implicating its officials in the murder by bomb of Rafik Hariri, saying it was politically motivated. A UN resolution demanded it cooperate fully with the inquiry or face unspecified action. âAs we hope that you would agree on the visit ... we propose in this regard the signing of a memorandum of understanding with your committee to achieve the desired cooperation,â Judge Ghada Murad, who heads a Syrian panel investigating the killing, said in a letter to UN investigator Detlev Mehlis. The letter did not directly refer to a request by Mehlis to question six Syrian officials in Lebanon.
A Lebanese source has said the six include Syrian President Bashar Assadâs brother-in-law, Maj. Gen. Asef Shawkat. A spokesman for the Syrian probe panel said yesterday the committee was interrogating six officials named by the UN team and banned them from traveling abroad.
| That would seem to include Beirut. |
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