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Posted by Qifa Nabki<\/strong>  <\/strong><\/p>\n

“Major Hariri Investigation Breakthrough”
<\/strong>By Jacob Tafnis, Associated Press Writer
1 April, 2008  — 1 hour, 27 minutes ago<\/p>\n

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Fresh on the heels of its 10th Report, the UNIIIC has released an 11th Report which is likely to increase the pressure on the various players currently embroiled in the Lebanon-Syria standoff. Canadian head prosecutor Commissioner Daniel Bellemare’s latest report clarifies in detail what was described in the previous report as “a criminal network of individuals acting in concert to carry out the assassination,” and goes so far as to identify the nationalities of six key figures in the plot, suggesting that indictments will be issued within a matter of days.<\/p>\n

Official sources have informed AP that this move was likely in response to widespread criticism among the upper ranks of the Bush adminstration of the initial report’s ambiguity with regard to the anticipated implication of Syria in the murder of the Lebanese politician. <\/p>\n

The relevant paragraph in the report states: “Evidence now confirms, on the basis of DNA testing and isotope analysis conducted at the CERN laboratories in Geneva that the perpetrators of the assassination were almost certainly Syrians (although possibly also Lebanese), due to the high concentration of trace quantities of z-7UMuS\/BT71Ni, a compound found at unusually high levels within the chemical ’signatures’ of inhabitants of the region.” Scientists confirm that while the substance is also found in Lebanese individuals as well, the specific compound identified in the suspects’ DNA traces conforms more to the Syrian strain.<\/p>\n

The news is expected to deal a major blow to Syria’s efforts to emerge from its current isolation. <\/p>\n

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