CBC Investigation Finds Fault With UN Review Of Hariri Assassination
The CBC has found multiple problems with the United Nations investigation into the assassination of Lebanese leader Rafiq Hariri. It’s not surprising that the investigations all lead back to Syria and Iran via their proxy force Hizbullah, but the UN not only has dragged its feet, but the investigation was penetrated by Hizbullah to thwart a proper investigation and exposing the assassination plot to Syria and Iran:
# Evidence gathered by Lebanese police and, much later, the UN, points overwhelmingly to the fact that the assassins were from Hezbollah, the militant Party of God that is largely sponsored by Syria and Iran. CBC News has obtained cellphone and other telecommunications evidence that is at the core of the case.Instead of laying out the evidence for all the world to see, the UN basically engaged in a half-assed investigation that covered for a regime that has repeatedly sought to exercise dominion over its neighbor by hook and crook - Syria.
# UN investigators came to believe their inquiry was penetrated early by Hezbollah and that that the commission’s lax security likely led to the murder of a young, dedicated Lebanese policeman who had largely cracked the case on his own and was co-operating with the international inquiry.
# UN commission insiders also suspected Hariri’s own chief of protocol at the time, a man who now heads Lebanon’s intelligence service, of colluding with Hezbollah. But those suspicions, laid out in an extensive internal memo, were not pursued, basically for diplomatic reasons.
UN investigators refused to utilize telecommunications analysis that could tie the plot together and instead sought to limit the diplomatic fallout as it related to Syria, rather than attempting to put Hariri’s assassins on trial.