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Article: LEBANON - Oct 24 - Campaign For Lahoud To Resign Intensifies After Mehlis Report.(Emile Lahoud, Detlev Mehlis, United Nations investigator)
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- October 29, 2005
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Pressures intensifie for Pres Emile Lahoud to resign, after the UN report names his top four security chiefs as suspects in the killing of former premier Rafik Hariri. The security chiefs were all arrested even before the publication by UN Chief Investigator Detlev Mehlis of his report into Hariri's assassination. All four, currently being held on charges of being involved in Hariri's murder, are known for their close connection to Lahoud and one of them is the head of Lahoud's Presidential Guards, Mustafa Hamdan. Prominent MP Butros Harb renewed his attack on the beleaguered head of state, saying: The President must resign", adding "there is a big gulf between MPs and ...