Prime Minister Najib Miqati will
receive on Thursday a copy of a new indictment in the attacks on the three
officials that have been linked to ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s murder,
al-Joumhouria newspaper reported.
Media reports had said that
Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen made a progress in preparing the indictments in
the assassination attempts of MP Marwan Hamadeh and ex-Defense Minister Elias
Murr, and the murder of former Communist party leader George Hawi.
Speculations have been made if
former prosecutor Daniel Bellemare will issue a new indictment before he leaves
his post at the end of February for health reasons.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon
named on Wednesday Norman Farrell of Canada as the new prosecutor of the
tribunal probing the 2005 assassination of Hariri.
Last week, Ban also extended the
mandate of the tribunal’s cooperation protocol with Lebanon for another three
years.
The Hague-based tribunal indicted
Hizbullah members Salim Ayyash, Mustafa Badreddine, Hussein Onaissi and Assad
Sabra and sent arrest warrants for them to Lebanese authorities in June last
year.
But the authorities in Lebanon have
so far failed to arrest them.
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