Irish finish investigation into former Lebanese Prime Minister’s death

THE Irish-led UN fact-finding team has finished its probe into the killing of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and will report its findings to Secretary-General Kofi Annan soon.

A statement from the presidential palace said the head of the team, Irish Deputy Police Commissioner Peter Fitzgerald, told President Emile Lahoud at a meeting that his job was completed.

It said Mr Fitzgerald thanked Lahoud for the co-operation of the Lebanese authorities investigating the February 14 assassination of Mr Hariri in a bomb attack in Beirut.