Chief U.N. investigator Daniel Bellemare has reportedly prepared an official request for the transfer to Holland of the four Lebanese generals accused of involvement in the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri.The daily ad-Diyar, which carried the report, said Bellemare's request calls for providing an international jet between Dec. 5-20 under the protection of both police and Lebanese army troops.
According to ad-Diyar Bellemare is to present his request to Prosecutor General Saeed Mirza. This request is to be later approved by the Minister of Justice Ibrahim Najjar and the Lebanese Cabinet.The paper stated that the process is already underway.A special Lebanese army unit assigned to protect the international investigative commission has received instructions to prepare securing the transfer of three containers of documents to a court in The Hague, Netherlands.Bellemare wants the timing of the transfer to be secure and confidential allowing Lebanese security forces to transfer the detainees from Roumieh prison to the aircraft, ad-Diyar stated.Hajj's wife on Monday denied her knowledge of the details reported by ad-Diyar."I hope that judge Mirza will inform the defense attorney of the four arrested generals of this step when it happens if the Diyar story is true," Samar al Hajj told New T.V. "And I don't think this will happen."The official spokesperson for the commission Radhya Ashouri had explained to Naharnet that "the tribunal will not disclose the name of anyone during the course of its work as stated by Bellemare in his first report to the U.N. Security Council last April."
According to ad-Diyar Bellemare is to present his request to Prosecutor General Saeed Mirza. This request is to be later approved by the Minister of Justice Ibrahim Najjar and the Lebanese Cabinet.The paper stated that the process is already underway.A special Lebanese army unit assigned to protect the international investigative commission has received instructions to prepare securing the transfer of three containers of documents to a court in The Hague, Netherlands.Bellemare wants the timing of the transfer to be secure and confidential allowing Lebanese security forces to transfer the detainees from Roumieh prison to the aircraft, ad-Diyar stated.Hajj's wife on Monday denied her knowledge of the details reported by ad-Diyar."I hope that judge Mirza will inform the defense attorney of the four arrested generals of this step when it happens if the Diyar story is true," Samar al Hajj told New T.V. "And I don't think this will happen."The official spokesperson for the commission Radhya Ashouri had explained to Naharnet that "the tribunal will not disclose the name of anyone during the course of its work as stated by Bellemare in his first report to the U.N. Security Council last April."
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