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MEHLIS TO QUIT HARIRI PROBE IN JANUARY

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December 6, 2005

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Beirut, 6 Dec. (AKI) - German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, the head of a UN probe into the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, will leave the post even if the investigation is extended beyond its 15 December deadline. A spokesman for Mehlis who asked not to be identified by name, said on Tuesday that the German prosecutor had indicated when he took on the job in June that he could only committ himself for a period no longer than seven months.

Mehlis would remain "available" to assist the commission of inquiry, but not as a full-time member, the spokesman said. On Tuesday Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak said he expected the commission of inquiry's mandate to be renewed beyond 15 December the date on which Mehlis has to submit his final report to the United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan.

Lebanon: Managing the Gathering Storm

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December 5, 2005

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Amman/Brussels, 5 December 2005: The international community must put aside its own agendas and take steps to sustain Lebanon

Arab Journalists Association to boycott Beirut meeting

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December 4, 2005

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CAIRO – The Union of Arab Journalists (UAJ) has decided to boycott a meeting, organised by the International Journalists Union (IJU) and …

Lebanon unearths mass graves in old Syria stronghold

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December 4, 2005

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ANJAR, Lebanon, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Lebanese forces excavated a suspected third mass grave on Sunday, a day after unearthing 25 decomposed corpses in an eastern town that was the headquarters of Syrian intelligence for three decades. Security forces were digging for more bodies at the third site near two other mass graves close to an old onion farm in the eastern town of Anjar, long used by Syrian intelligence as a notorious interrogation centre.

Security sources said the 25 bodies found so far -- most now only skeletons in scraps of underwear -- had lain in the shallow graves for over 12 years but it was not clear who they were and how they died, though one wore military trousers. The finds were the first directly linked to Syria's 29-year military presence, which ended in April, though the bodies of 13 Lebanese soldiers killed during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war were exhumed from Defence Ministry grounds at Yarze last month.