WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The son of Lebanon's assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said Friday he believes his name is at the top of a hit list.
Speaking to reporters in Washington, Saad Hariri, himself a politician, said that three months ago the U.N. official in charge of investigating his father's death, Detlev Mehlis, warned the Lebanese Security Services of the existence of an assassination hit list.
Mehlis told them at the Lebanese that leading newspaper editor Gibran Tueni was the number one target.
Tueni was killed on Dec 12, 2005, when a car bomb detonated near his own armored limo.
"I didn't believe the story until Gibran was killed. Now I believe there is a target list, and I am at the head of it," Hariri said.
Rafik Hariri also lost his life on Feb 14, 2005 in a car bomb attack.
