Amazing Details In That CBC Report

The report I linked to is turning out to be beefier than I thought. Check for instance this chart put together by the investigation of the mobile telecommunications network surrounding Hariri before his death (source):

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It seems the leaks are getting more concrete. This means that the indictment is coming very soon. Do also check this part of the report which talks about the background of the chart above:

the UN commission in Lebanon did no telecom analysis at all for most of its first three years of existence. It wasn’t until Brammertz was nearing the end of his term that one particularly dogged detective prodded him into letting the inquiry start examining phone records.

The breakthrough

At that point, in October of 2007, things began moving fast. Commission staff actually managed to obtain the records of every single phone call made in Lebanon the year of Hariri’s murder — a stunning amount of data — and brought in a British firm called FTS to carry out the specialized analysis.

Follow the networks. Investigators created a chart that showed the ever expanding connections between the suspected hit team and other cellphone carriers. (Opens in a separate window.)

UN clerks worked day and night inputting data into a program called IBase. Then, in December, a specialist from FTS began examining what the computer was spitting out.

Within two days, he called the UN investigators together. He had identified a small network of mobile phones, eight in all, that had been shadowing Hariri in the weeks prior to his death.

Fascinating stuff. Now expect the Hezbollah guys to carefully scrutinize it and explain to us how Israel put the whole thing together..