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Evidence suggests the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated by a "criminal network", an investigating UN team has said. | Evidence suggests the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated by a "criminal network", an investigating UN team has said. |
No suspects were named, but the investigators said a "Hariri Network" had Mr Hariri under surveillance before the assassination. | |
The ex-PM and 22 other people died in a huge car bombing in Beirut in 2005. | The ex-PM and 22 other people died in a huge car bombing in Beirut in 2005. |
Past UN inquiries suggested that Syrian and Lebanese intelligence forces had played a role - which Syria denied. | Past UN inquiries suggested that Syrian and Lebanese intelligence forces had played a role - which Syria denied. |
The UN panel, headed by Canadian former prosecutor Daniel Bellemare, said in the 10th report on the case that it could now confirm that "on the basis of available evidence... a network of individuals acted in concert to carry out the assassination", said the news agency AFP. | |
The commission suggests this network was responsible for other attacks against high-profile Lebanese figures, and at least part of the network continued to operate after Mr Hariri's killing. | |
The report suggests progress is being made in identifying the bomber who killed Mr Hariri, reports the BBC's Matthew Price at UN headquarters in New York. | |
He says the commission is using forensic information and DNA profiling in its investigation. |