A leading German prosecutor has been chosen to lead a 50-person international investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, the United Nations said on Friday. Detlef Mehlis, the chief prosecutor in the office of the attorney general in Berlin, was selected by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at least partly because of his involvement in the investigation of a 1986 bombing of a Berlin discotheque frequented by US soldiers, UN diplomats said. A Berlin court ruled in 2001 that the Libyan secret service was behind the attack at the West Berlin "La Belle" night-club, in which a Turkish woman and two US soldiers were killed and more than 200 people injured.
The UN Security Council on April 7 ordered an outside inquiry after a UN fact-finding mission, led by Irish Deputy Police Commissioner Peter Fitzgerald, concluded that Lebanon's own probe into the killing had "serious flaws" and could not reach a credible conclusion.
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