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| UAE holds suspect in LebanonŽs Hariri case: TV |
| 2009-04-20 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] The United Arab Emirates arrested a suspect in the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, Al Arabiya TV reported on Sunday. Mohammed Zuhair al-Siddiq was arrested in the emirate of Sharjah and was being held by UAE security authorities, the TV report said, giving no more details. An international court convened in The Hague in March to try suspects in the murder, four years after the politician's death. Lebanese authorities recently released on bail three men held in connection with the killing, but still hold four generals who were the commanders of Lebanon's pro-Syrian security establishment at the time. The whereabouts of Siddiq, a former Syrian intelligence officer, have been unknown since March 2008 when he left France. Lebanon's prosecutors believed Siddiq had an indirect role in the Feb. 14, 2005, killing of Hariri and 22 others, and they charged him with murder in October 2005. |
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