The UN probe into the murder of Lebanon's late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri made a significant breakthrough following new information which had been provided by a Syrian defector to Chief UN Investigator Detlev Mehlis. 

According to Paris-based intelligence specialist Intelligence Online, the defector, Colonel Mohammed Safi, provided information regarding the types of explosives used in the bombing which killed Hariri last February.

Safi revealed that the explosives had been purchased from Slovakia.Safi, who had previously directed the office of General Ali Khalil, Syria's former intelligence chief, had supposedly been convinced to defect from Syria's ranks by US and Saudi intelligence services. The former colonel initially left Syria for Saudi Arabia, where he was interrogated by Saudi intelligence services and later handed over to US authorities.

وُلِدَ الشيخ شفيق الخازن بن بربر بك الخازن أمير آلاي الجند اللبناني ، والسيدة تريز غندور بك السعد شقيقة حبيب باشا السعد سنة  1905 في غوسطا.

تلقّن مبادىء الدراسة لدى أستاذ خاص، ومن ثمّ أُدخِلَ مدرسة عينطورة حيث أتمّ دراساته الثانوية حائزا" على شهادة الباكالوريا