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<font face="Arial" size="2">Chief U.N. investigator Serge Brammertz
will reveal in his report Monday Syria's direct involvement in
ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination, the Saudi Okaz newspaper
reported.</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="2">The report, that Brammertz will hand over
to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York at 9:30 am Monday,
will disclose details about a tape that former Syrian Interior Minister
Ghazi Kanaan had recorded about the planning of the Feb. 14, 2005
murder.</font><br>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">The newspaper did not mention whether the
recording was made on a videotape or a cassette. But it said that
senior Syrian officers and former Lebanese Environment Minister Wiam
Wahhab planned the assassination.</font><br>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">It added that Kanaan cut a deal with
Brammertz's predecessor Detlev Mehlis to escape to Cyprus via the
Lebanese northern port city of Tripoli. But a close person to Kanaan
had reported him to the Syrian authorities that later announced his
suicide.</font><br>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Okaz also said that Brammertz will disclose
in his second report in-depth information about the planning and
execution of Hariri's assassination.</font><br>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">It added that the report will also reveal
the names of those involved in the murder, including Syrian President
Bashar Assad's brother-in-law Gen. Assef Shawkat and Bahjat Suleiman,
the former head of the Security Department. </font><br>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">The newspaper said that the name of an
Iraqi, who detonated the white Mitsubishi van that was seen at the site
of the one-ton bomb explosion on Beirut's seafront, will be made public.</font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Michel Rbeiz<br>============================<br>Mail: PO Box 20141, DHCC, New York, NY 10017<br>Email: <a href="mailto:mrbeiz@alum.mit.edu">
mrbeiz@alum.mit.edu</a>