| New evidence implicates Syria in Hariri death - UN(Reuters)
 Updated: 2005-12-13 08:30
 
 A U.N. inquiry on Monday reported it had fresh evidence to reinforce earlier 
findings of Syrian involvement in the murder of former Lebanese prime minister 
Rafik Hariri and said Damascus had hindered the probe. 
 The report presented to the U.N. Security Council by German Prosecutor Detlev 
Mehlis also said that Syria had burned some papers relating to Lebanon and 
pressured one witness to recant his testimony. 
 It said there were 19 suspects, whom it did not name, including five 
witnesses questioned by U.N. investigators in Vienna this month. 
 The Security Council has demanded that Syria cooperate fully with the 
investigation or face "further action" which could lead to sanctions. It will 
hear from Mehlis on Tuesday. 
 "That is not cooperation," the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, told 
reporters, after reading sections of the report. "That is obstruction of justice 
by the government of Syria." He said no decision had been made on further action 
in the council. 
 
 
 
 Hours before the report was delivered, a 
prominent lawmaker and fierce critic of Syria, Gebran Tueni, was killed in a car 
bomb in Beirut, along with his driver and bodyguard.
 |  A Lebanese supporter of slain anti-Syrian 
 journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni holds a poster of Tueni and a candle, 
 in down town Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. 
 [AP]
 |  A report by Mehlis in October implicated top Syrian security officials and 
their Lebanese allies in the death of Hariri and 22 others in a truck bombing on 
February 14 in Beirut. 
 "In the interval since the presentation of that report, the investigation has 
continued to develop multiple lines of inquiry which, if anything, reinforce 
those conclusions," Mehlis said on Monday. 
 
 
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