The Culprits Dialed 'M' For Murder; Phone records suggest assassins linked to Syria.(United Nations investigation into murder of Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri)

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 31-OCT-05

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Byline: Christopher Dickey And Kevin Peraino (With John Barry and Mark Hosenball in Washington)

Sheik Ahmed Abdel-Al was a busy man last Feb. 14, the day an enormous truck bomb in Beirut killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and 22 other people. The sheik is a central figure in the benign-sounding Association of Islamic Philanthropic Projects in Lebanon, and says he was in his office the whole time, innocent of any crime. But the calls made on his cell phone in the minutes before the bombing and the hours and days afterward have led the United Nations commission probing the murder to conclude that Abdel-Al, more than "any other figure," is "linked to...

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