UN used garda probe to investigate Hariri assassination

THE United Nations report implicating senior Syrian figures in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri drew heavily on an earlier investigation carried out by three senior members of the gardaí.

A team headed by Deputy Commissioner Peter Fitzgerald was sent to Lebanon a few weeks after the fatal explosion and charged with investigating the initial inquiry.

The report was scathing and demanded a fresh international investigation after concluding Lebanese authorities messed up or even manipulated the probe.