This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

Referring to the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in a lecture televised by Al-Jazeera TV. The report by the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission, as headed by investigator Detlev Mehlis (known as the Mehlis report), implicated Syria in Hariri's murder.