UN investigator needs more time on Hariri assassination
Lebanon-UN, Politics, 8/15/2005

It was announced in Beirut on Sunday that the chairman of the investigation commission to the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri will ask for a time extension to complete his mission.

The spokesman at the UN regional office in Beirut, Najib Freiji, said that the UN investigator, the German Detlive Meles, will submit on August 25th a report to the UN secretary general Kofi Annan requesting the extension of his mission which was set earlier to a three months period.

Freji refused to specify the period which Meles will ask for, however, the Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora indicated on Friday that the UN investigator will need other several weeks.

The team which includes 30 investigators, and technicians from three European states, completed interrogation for 110 persons as witnesses to the case, including one suspect believed to be the chairman of the Republic's Guards, lt. gen. Mustafa Hamdan.

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