Assad's Brother to be Implicated in Hariri's Assasination?

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Friday, September 16. 2005

Assad's Brother to be Implicated in Hariri's Assasination?

From UPI:

A source close to Syria's President Bashar Assad confided that the UN dossier on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri prepared by Detlev Mehlis, the German prosecutor appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, quite possibly might include the names of high-ranking Syrian officials including the president's brother Maher.

Upon completion of his investigation, sources close to the Syrian regime fear Mehlis may include on the suspects list Brig. Gen. Rustum Ghazaleh, former chief of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon who recently retired, and Maher Assad.

"Ghazaleh may be handed over as quick as a fax," [sic] a source said. "But there is no way the president will hand over his brother to an international tribunal....The president would rather face sanctions than turn on his brother."

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