(New York Times) Hassan M. Fattah - A Lebanese prosecutor on Thursday charged four former security officials, once feared as Syria's proxies in Lebanon, with the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a Feb. 14 bombing. Mustafa Hamdan, commander of Lebanon's Republican Guard; Jamil al-Sayyed, Lebanon's former head of general security; Ali Hajj, former chief of the Lebanese police; and Raymond Azar, a former military intelligence chief, "took some part in the planning of the assassination," Detlev Mehlis, a former prosecutor in Germany's attorney general's office who leads a UN team investigating the bombing, said Thursday.
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