New Germany 10.15.2010 / international / Page 7
Lebanon: investigation of the Hariri murder charge of internal power struggle
By Jürgen Cain Külbel
The murder of Hariri, even after more than five Years, an unsolved history. That its political impact on Lebanon goes beyond the search for the culprit does not get any easier - quite the contrary.
The Beirut Cabinet has postponed the question of how to proceed in the matter of Rafik Hariri, for now. Politicians such as the scion of a successful entrepreneur Sunni family from Saida was for ten years to 2004, Lebanese Prime Minister and come 2005, an assassination attempt killed. Since then, it is determined in the framework of a UN Security Council set up tribunals, which, however, got itself into the twilight. Soon will the Lebanese government on the next step in the legal prosecution so-called false witnesses to decide which should have led the UN investigation by means of false omissions on the wrong track.
The next Cabinet meeting is on 20 Taking place in October, but a short respite for Prime Minister Saad Hariri, son of the murdered man, and he led "Alliance 14th March "that confronts this day probably with mixed feelings.
last week reported the Beirut newspaper Ad Diyar ", the Berlin public prosecutor and former UN special investigator Detlev Mehlis Beirut have a" paid top-secret "lightning visit to" the Alliance's official 14th to meet in March. " The sheet was wonder whether the appearance of the man, "the conspiracy against Lebanon and its people is accused of and known for its corruption and close relationship" to the Israeli secret service.
Mehlis, 2005 was a special agent of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission, the Tribunal also. The German then worked in the spirit of the Bush administration, which the government in Damascus to pin all alone to blame. According
Mehlis to have a conspiracy of Syrian and Lebanese pro-Syrian intelligence forces given. However, now is the German to have purchased used by witnesses to four Lebanese security chiefs four years bar court-proof evidence on suspicion of false statements and put behind bars without charges.
is now Premier Saad Hariri under enormous political pressure, but he acknowledged in September that it was a mistake to enter Syria for the murder of his father's fault. This was a "political prosecution was." General Jamil Sayyed, former chief of Lebanon's domestic intelligence service and one of the detainees complained that after his release in 2009 in Damascus against prominent Lebanese judges, army officers, politicians and journalists - mostly close friend of Saad Hariri - and accusing them of false statements.
Mehlis also is under pressure because Sayyed complained against him and his deputy, the first detective chief the BKA Gerhard Lehmann. Syria then adopted Justice against 33 persons, including two Germans, arrest warrants. The dispute is now from 20
October at Beirut's cabinet if the regular Lebanese judiciary or the Judicial Council, responsible for crimes against state security, the case with the false witnesses to pursue. The opposition - the Shiite Hezbollah, Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement General and the Amal movement in parliament speaker Nabih Berri - the speedy processing of requests by the Judicial Council. Hariri's camp is against it.
The Fingerhakeln wants the "Alliance 14th flay March «time, for allegedly wants the current UN chief investigator Daniel Bellemare accuse the end of this year, members of Hezbollah into the murder of Rafik Hariri. Saad Hariri, the rumor mill had registered Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah already get a list of names of suspects. Anonymous sources, he sent word, that Nasrallah could proceed at will: morally condemnable, handed over to the judicial killing.
A Déjà vu? A similar, but under different circumstances, General Sayyed was offered: "On 31 May 2005 ... I received in my apartment, the chief investigator of the International Commission, Gerhard Lehmann ... (He) asked me to assist in investigation in the following way to help: I was an oral message to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad forward and convince him to form an independent Syrian Judicial Commission and select a> substantiate-elles Syrian victims, 'which would admit, committed the assassination without the knowledge of the Syrian regime have to. Said> Victims' would be killed were discovered and the Act would be so closed, so the path is for a political solution, analogous to that used by (Libyan) President Muammar al-Gaddafi, in the case of Lockerbie in a car accident or a suicide . '
Belle Mare refused to date the publication of statements the false witnesses. Ammar Houri, a member of the Beirut parliament and of the "Alliance's 14th The Lebanese authorities should a lawsuit against the false witnesses after an open trial by the special tribunal "
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