What do we know about Hariri? Has anyone been following this

[texpatriot2004]

story? Is it tied to anything we know about Treasongate? I am curious now that this bogus, mysterious "report" is being discussed and Chumpy is using it to approach the UN. Who can tell me?

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Why 'bogus' and 'mysterious'? (n/t)

[texpatriot2004]

3. Why not? nm

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. You have something against the Berlin Senior Public Prosecutor?

Do you have reason to not trust him?

[texpatriot2004]

5. No, it's just that in your question you didn't state your reasons

to the contrary. Look, I started the this thread so that I could learn some things about this story. I don't know what I think yet because I don't have enough information to make a determination one way or another right now.

Bogus, in my opinion, because Chumpy is using it...that doesn't give me reason to believe in it, in fact, it makes me automatically suspicious.

Mysterious because I have only heard the word "report" used in the media without being told anything about it. For all I know, maybe there isn't even a "report."

[texpatriot2004]

6. What do you know about this person you refer to? What can you

tell me about him/her?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Press release of Mehlis's appointment by Annan

Mr. Mehlis is currently the Senior Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General in Berlin. He has 25 years of prosecutorial experience and has led numerous investigations into serious, complex transnational crimes.

Mr. Mehlis has been a senior public prosecutor since 1992 and has, over the course of his career, been responsible for prosecuting terrorism and organized crime cases. Since 1998, he has been the Chief of the Contact Office of the European Judiciary Network and Coordinator for the fight against organized crime in the State of Berlin.

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2005/sga922.doc.htm

Reuters profile

Complete report (488K PDF file)

[enigma000]

2. RAFIK HARIRI

RAFIK HARIRI
Prime minister 1992-98 and 2000-04
Self-made billionaire
Trained as a teacher, but founded successful construction firm in Saudi Arabia
Born in 1944 to a poor Sunni Muslim family in the southern Lebanese port of Sidon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4266587.stm

He was assassinated last February in Beruit. The report, implicating Syria in the assassination, was prepared by the UN.

[texpatriot2004]

7. Thanks for the info. Did you see this about Kanaan? nm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4334626.stm

Obituary: Ghazi Kanaan
Former Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan
Kanaan was a dominant figure in Syrian and Lebanese politics
Ghazi Kanaan was appointed interior minister in a major cabinet reshuffle in October 2004.

Before joining the government, he was head of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon.

The 63-year-old brigadier-general was born in the coastal governorate of Lattakia in 1942.

He graduated from military college in 1965 and rose to become head of intelligence for the central region.

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[texpatriot2004]

9. kick it for help with this n/t

[texpatriot2004]

10. Still wondering about this. nm