Posted on 02/25/2009 10:43:47 PM PST by james500
Lebanon on Wednesday released three men who had been detained for more than three years in connection with the murder of Rafiq Hariri, former prime minister, in 2005. But the authorities kept four senior pro-Syrian generals, heads of the police and security services at the time, in jail.
The release on bail of the three – two Lebanese and one Syrian – comes just days before the official start of the United Nations-mandated international tribunal that is to try the case. The special tribunal, based in The Hague, will open on Sunday.
In a series of interviews in the Lebanese media tribunal officials have hinted that indictments will not be issued immediately but that the four generals will be transferred to The Hague before the Lebanese elections in June.
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