U.S. Aims to Establish International Tribunal in Hariri Assassination

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 16, 2007| Author: Colum Lynch - Washington Post Staff Writer | Copyright information

The United States will introduce a draft Security Council resolution as early as this week to establish an international tribunal that would try alleged perpetrators of the 2005 car-bomb assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri and 22 others, according to Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Khalilzad's announcement came one day after Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora asked the 15-nation council to help break an impasse in Lebanon over...

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