Musharraf asks for British help with Benazir death probe

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Hariri and 15 other people died when a bomb blew up his six-car convoy on a downtown Beirut street. The News on Monday gathered salient features regarding investigations and circumstances leading to the involvement of the United Nations in the probe into the death of the former Lebanese prime minister.

Sources revealed that the UN investigation focused on the powerful brother-in-law of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Asif Shaukat as the main suspect who was the military intelligence chief of Syria.

“It was a carefully planned terrorist act organised by high-ranking Syrian and Lebanese intelligence officers.” The report stated that the killing was carried out by “a group with an extensive organisation and considerable resources and capabilities”.

The report says: "There is converging evidence pointing at both Lebanese and Syrian involvement in this terrorist act.