 "And we won't stop until we've found and brought to justice my political enemies Nicole's real killer..." |
President Bashar Al-Assad on Saturday formed a special judicial committee tasked with questioning Syrian people, civilian and military personnel, in relation to an international investigation over the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri. Al-Assad issued a decree to form the committee which will be chaired by the general prosecutor and the membership of the military prosecutor general and a judge to be named by the Minister of Justice. The committee members will be interrogating almost all Syrian civilian and military people linked with the murder of Hariri.| Oddly, I don't seem to recall that Mehlis needed the Number 7 truncheon for his report... |
The Syrian decree states that the newly-formed committee should cooperate with Mehlis team and the Lebanese judicial authorities in all investigations on Hariri's murder.The committee, to be in effect as of today, has the right to use the service of civilians or military officers, read the decree.| "Not necessarily in that order." |
The committee's formation is ahead of a UN security council meeting at a ministerial level next Monday that will discuss a draft resolution on Syria. The Syrian President sent letters to presidents of member states of the UN security council about his country's position vis-a-vis the Mehlis report. |