Former Belgian prosecutor named as new head of UN probe into Hariri murder
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named a former Belgian prosecutor as the new head of the United Nations investigation into last year’s assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. In a letter to the Security Council, Mr. Annan said Serge Brammertz, currently a Deputy Prosecutor with the International Criminal Court (ICC), will serve as the Commissioner of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) into the 14 February 2005 bombing that killed the Premier and 22 others. Full Story