UN Report Links Assasination to Syria

- U.N. investigators have found "converging evidence" of Lebanese and Syrian involvement in the February killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a report released Thursday has concluded.

The report, by German prosecutor Detleve Mehlis, stated that "many leads point directly towards Syrian security officials as being involved with the assassination," and it calls on Damascus "to clarify a considerable part of the unresolved questions."

Syrian officials have denied any involvement in the February 14 bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others. But given Syrian domination of its allied government in Lebanon, "it would be difficult to envisage a scenario whereby such a complex assassination plot could have been carried out without their knowledge," Mehlis concluded in a report delivered to Secretary-General Kofi Annan earlier Thursday.