Canadian tapped for Hariri inquiry
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has nominated Canadian prosecutor Daniel Bellemare to lead the politically sensitive U.N. investigation of the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
In a letter to the Security Council made public Tuesday, Ban said he planned to appoint Bellemare, a former deputy attorney general of Canada, to succeed Belgium’s Serge Brammertz.
Hariri and 22 others died in Beirut in a February 2005 car bombing that preliminary U.N. findings linked to Syrian and Lebanese security officials. Syria has denied involvement, but the outcry forced it to withdraw its troops from Lebanon.
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