Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare has named a fifth civilian suspect in ex-Premier
Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 2005 assassination, informed diplomatic sources said on
Tuesday.
The sources told al-Liwaa daily that
the suspect is a politician and not a party militant or a member of a secret
security service.
Bellemare will name the new suspect
in an amended version of the indictment that was issued last year accusing four
Hizbullah members of involvement in Hariri’s murder, an international judicial
source said.
Bellemare thanked the Lebanese in an
open letter released Monday, just over a week before he is to resign from his
position. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon hasn’t yet named a new prosecutor.
Al-Liwaa’s report came after
al-Akhbar daily quoted sources close to the prosecutor’s office as saying last
Friday that Bellemare referred a new indictment to Pre-Trial Judge Daniel
Fransen in the assassination attempts of MP Marwan Hamadeh, ex-Defense Minister
Elias Murr, and the murder of former Communist party leader George Hawi.
The three attacks have been linked to Hariri’s
assassination.http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/30723
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