UN Agrees to Help in Gemayel Assassination Probe

The 15-member Security Council responded swiftly to Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora's request for assistance in the Gemayel murder probe.

Mr. Siniora wrote to Secretary-General Kofi Annan asking that the Gemayel murder be added to the U.N. inquiry into last year's assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The request was delivered just over 24 hours after the prominent anti-Syrian minister was gunned down in a Beirut suburb.