'UN investigator wants to interview Syrians
The chief UN investigator examining the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister has requested interviews with six senior Syrian intelligence officers, a paper reported on Sunday quoting Lebanese sources.
Detlev Mehlis made the requests to the Syrian government via the United Nations to question the officers, who include Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law Assef Shawkat, the pan-Arab daily newspaper al-Hayat said.
It said that Mehlis wanted the interviews to take place in Lebanon, not in Syria.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Mehlis, the German prosecutor trying to identify the killers of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, has complained that Syrian security figures interviewed in Damascus last month appeared to give only prepared responses.
The UN Security Council demanded October 31 that Syria cooperate fully with Mehlis's inquiry into the Beirut bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others or face "further action."
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