More Lebanese arrested in Hariri assassination investigation

The Lebanese security forces arrested one Lebanese clergy named Sheikh Hassan al-Mazloum over investigations into the explosions carried out by unidentified persons in various places in East Beirut after the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri on February 14.

News reports quoted Lebanese judicial sources as saying that al-Mazloum was accused of practicing terrorist acts and explosions at the directives of officers in the Syrian intelligence. Thereby, the number of persons accused over these explosions increased to 6.

Al-Jazeera satellite TV said that the Lebanese security forces launched a campaign of warrant of arrest targeting 417 persons, some of them are accused of terrorists cases, adding that among the arrested persons were 8 Iraqis who entered Lebanon, secretly.