Syria says U.N. murder team cannot question Assad
Syria said on Thursday it would not let a U.N. murder inquiry question President Bashar al-Assad about the death of Lebanese ex-premier Rafik al-Hariri. But Information Minister Mahdi Dakhl-Allah said Damascus had not ruled out any meeting between Assad and the investigators. “There is a difference between a questioning and an audience. The president receives visitors from Syria and outside Syria,” he told Reuters. Full Story