Reax to Hariri probe implicating Syrian, Lebanese intelligence

(21 Oct 2005) APTN Beirut - 21 October 2005 1. Wide street scene, pan from tank to traffic 2. Soldier on tank 3. Close up of soldier 4. Wide of street with army on patrol 5. People reading newspapers 6. Close up of newspaper headline 7. Various of newspapers 8. Close up of photograph on newspaper 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox Pop (no name given): "For 15 years the Syrians have been torturing us in Lebanon, for fifteen years. I think it is time for them now to face what they have done and to change their politics of killings." 10. Various of grave of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri 10. Exterior shot for Grand Serail 11. PM Fuad Saniora receiving the UN report from UNIIC representative Judge Gerhard Lehman 12. Various of meeting 13. Set up shot for Free Patriotic Movement (Gen. Michel Aoun movement) MP Ibrahim Kanaan 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ibrahim Kanaan, Free Patriotic Movement MP: "In the last 15 years, Syria was putting Lebanon under its hands politically, security wise and everything. So I don't believe that by refusing the report or trying to, you could have a sensible response to it. I think there should be real cooperation with the International community." 15. Entrance of Bourj Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut 16. Picture for former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat inside camp 17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anwar Raja, Representative of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (General command) in Lebanon: "There is an attempt to conceal the truth and to show hatred through this report to everyone who says anything or rejects the US policy. Therefore he pays the price for its regional political coalitions. And this is clear we are allies with Syria." Sidon 18. Street scenes from Sidon 19. People gathered to read newspapers 20. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Vox pop: "The most important thing is that we proved to the world public opinion that we know who killed Rafic Hariri but we want you to show us who killed him" 21. People watching TV APTN FILE Beirut 23. Hariri with Rustum Ghazale (siting on the left side) and late Syrian interior minister Ghazi Kenaan, sitting on the right 24. Close on Syrian Rustum Ghazale 25. Kanaan and Ghazaleh 26. Close on Hariri 27. Zoom out from Hariri to meeting 28. Hariri walking with Ghazaleh and Kenaan APTN FILE Beirut - 14 February 2005 29. Various of aftermath assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri STORYLINE: Security was heightened on the streets of Beirut on Friday as Lebanon digested the release of a UN report into a car bombing in February which killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Top Syrian and Lebanese intelligence officials have been implicated in the report, drawing the first official link between Damascus and the slaying of the popular opposition leader. The exhaustive report into the attack - which killed Hariri and 20 others - was issued to the UN Security Council late on Thursday and featured prominently on the front pages of Lebanon's Friday newspapers. While the report from chief investigator Detlev Mehlis stopped short of accusing Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle, it accused Syria of failing to cooperate and said the plot to kill Hariri must have had the blessing of Syrian security officials. Mehlis was careful not to assign blame but cites witness testimony that strongly implicates several officials as conspiring to assassinate Hariri. Lebanon has already arrested four of them, all Lebanese generals with close links to Syria. They included Brig. Gen. Rustum Ghazale, the Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...