Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Syria has demanded new U.N. and Lebanese inquiries into the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister after a witness recanted his testimony implicating Syrian officials. Syria’s U.N. Ambassador Fayssal Mekdad made the demand on Wednesday after Husam Taher Husam, a Syrian barber and self-proclaimed intelligence operative, came forward with claims that he had been offered money by the family of slain former prime minister Rafik Hariri and by Lebanese officials to frame Syria.

Husam’s accusations, made on Sunday, were immediately rejected by the Lebanese government and Hariri’s family. And the head of the U.N. commission into the killing, Detlev Mehlis, said in remarks published Thursday that Syria was trying to obstruct the U.N. investigation. But Mekdad said Husam’s claim that he lied to investigators about Syria’s involvement was “a new, important development” that requires re-evaluation of the initial findings of the U.N. inquiry into the Feb. 14 bombing that killed Hariri and 20 others in Beirut.

Beirut, 1 Dec. (AKI) – Detlev Mehlis, head of the UN commission of inquiry into the death of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, may resign if the UN extends the commission’s mandate beyond its current 15 Dec. deadline, according to several Lebanese newspapers. The English language Daily Star, citing commission sources, says Mehlis is considering an offer for a top job in the German judiciary.

The Arabic language daily As-Safir suggests that Mehlis is under pressure to leave the commission from political forces in Germany who are concerned that the German judge’s high profile role could harm the country’s relations with the Arab world.Another Arabic newspaper An-Nahar also suggests Mehlis is on the verge of quitting, but, citing UN Undersecretary-general for Political Affairs, Ibrahim Gambari, says that the UN commission will continue its work "with or without Mehlis, because the truth in the assassination [of Hariri in February] cannot be established within the next weeks [in time for the 15 Dec. deadline]."

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Lebanese former security chief arrested in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri has been taken to hospital with heart trouble, his lawyer said on Wednesday.Security sources said Brigadier General Raymond Azar, former head of military intelligence, was taken from prison to a Beirut hospital late on Tuesday and was in intensive care.

"He suffered from high blood pressure which affected his heart after the prison authorities asked his family to meet him in the same waiting room with dozens of ordinary detainees," Naji al-Boustani, Azar’s lawyer, told Reuters by telephone."They cited lame security excuses for this… He was moved to hospital but he is not in a critical condition," he added. Azar and three other top pro-Syrian former security chiefs have been detained in Lebanon on murder charges over the February 14 killing of Hariri and 22 other people in a Beirut truck bombing. U.N. investigators last week questioned Colonel GhassanTufayli, whose surveillance unit in military intelligence constantly wiretapped Hariri’s telephone calls and passed transcripts to Azar and Army Chief General Michel Suleiman.