{"id":1245,"date":"2005-12-10T23:15:54","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T05:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2005-12-10T23:16:26","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T05:16:26","slug":"un-wants-to-question-more-syrians-in-hariri-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"UN Wants to Question More Syrians in Hariri Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The investigation into a murder that spurred a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&#038;post=764\">surpising<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&#038;post=907\">changes<\/a> in Lebanon continued, as the U.N. sought to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/L10725464.htm\">question even more Syrians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A U.N. inquiry into the murder of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri will summon more Syrian witnesses in the next few days, its chief investigator Detlev Mehlis was quoted on Saturday as saying.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview published in Lebanon&#8217;s al-Mustaqbal newspaper, which was owned by the murdered ex-premier, Mehlis said he would ask Syria in the next few days if U.N. investigators could question new Syrian witnesses in Vienna, but did not identify them.<\/p>\n<p>International investigators questioned five Syrian officials in the Austrian capital this week in connection with the Feb. 14 truck bomb that killed Hariri and 22 other people in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Syria nor the United Nations has identified the five but diplomatic sources say they included senior Syrian security officials, including Lieutenant-General Rustom Ghazali, Syria&#8217;s former intelligence chief in Lebanon, and his aide Jamae Jamae.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In an interim report in October, Mehlis implicated senior Syrian security officials and their Lebanese allies in the murder and requested more cooperation from Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has strongly denied any role in the murder but the report prompted a unanimous Security Council resolution threatening Damascus with unspecified action if it failed to cooperate with the investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is the U.N. Security Council in a nutshell &#8212; it can unanimously agree to threaten, but it is rare that it can agree to act.  Indeed, Russia has already hinted that it will veto any sanctions against Syria, despite the years of Lebanese blood on Syrian hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investigation into a murder that spurred a series of surpising changes in Lebanon continued, as the U.N. sought to question even more Syrians. A U.N. inquiry into the murder of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri will summon more Syrian witnesses in the next few days, its chief investigator Detlev Mehlis was quoted on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}