Syria 'trying to obstruct Hariri assassination probe'

Syria is trying to obstruct the UN investigation into the assassination of Lebanon’s Rafik Hariri, but will not succeed, the head of the commission into the killing of the former prime minister said today.

Detlev Mehlis was speaking of Syria’s presentation in repeated television broadcasts of a Syrian witness to the commission who recanted his testimony, claiming he had been bribed to give false evidence by the son of Hariri, Lebanese politician Saad Hariri.