Mehlis asks for interrogating Syrian officials in Lebanon

Official Lebanese sources disclosed that recent developments in international investigation into the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, that Mehlis officially asked Damascus to interrogate 6 senior security officials.

On top of the wanted Syrians for interrogation is Asef Shawkat, the brother in law for the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is the chairman of the military intelligence; the former chief of internal intelligence Bahjat Suleiman, former chief of the Syrian intelligence in Lebanon Rostoum Ghazaleh, chairman of the Syrian intelligence in Beirut, Jame Jame, the official at Palestine branch in the Syrian intelligence Maj. Gen. Abdul Karim Abbas; and the expert in communications and the Internet in the intelligence Maj. Zafer al-Youssef.

For its part, the Syrian foreign ministry received a request from Mehlis to interrogate several Syrian officials but their identities were not disclosed, noting that the Syrian government is studying the Mehlis report, giving no more details.