See below for an outstanding CBC investigative report into the Hariri assassination and the subsequent UN investigation:
CBC Investigation: Who killed Lebanon's Rafik Hariri?
Last Updated: Sunday, November 21, 2010 | 10:54 PM ET
By Neil Macdonald CBC News
Quite apart from the insight it offers into the killing, it is well worth reading for a detailed account of how SIGINT and network analysis were used to link Hizbullah to the killings....
A months-long CBC investigation, relying on interviews with multiple sources from inside the UN inquiry and some of the commission's own records, found examples of timidity, bureaucratic inertia and incompetence bordering on gross negligence.
Among other things, CBC News has learned that:
- Evidence gathered by Lebanese police and, much later, the UN, points overwhelmingly to the fact that the assassins were from Hezbollah, the militant Party of God that is largely sponsored by Syria and Iran. CBC News has obtained cellphone and other telecommunications evidence that is at the core of the case.
- UN investigators came to believe their inquiry was penetrated early by Hezbollah and that that the commission's lax security likely led to the murder of a young, dedicated Lebanese policeman who had largely cracked the case on his own and was co-operating with the international inquiry.
- UN commission insiders also suspected Hariri's own chief of protocol at the time, a man who now heads Lebanon's intelligence service, of colluding with Hezbollah. But those suspicions, laid out in an extensive internal memo, were not pursued, basically for diplomatic reasons.
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