The London-based Arabic-language al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Monday that the special judicial authority set up to investigate the assassination ofLebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will soon indict five Hezbollah operativesin connection with the 2005 hit.
According to the report, the court will file a motion with Beirut's government to produce the five for questioning, but their identity is expected to remain a mystery at this time.
The London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Hayat also reported that legal proceedings are expected against several of the Shiite group's members, saying the indictment may be filed "in a matter of days."
Both reports are based on "Paris-based international sources" who claim that a Beirut judge is expected to receive the court's proposed indictment this week.
German Judge Detlev Mehlis, who was appointed head of the international inquiry into Hariri's assassination, said in a recent radio interview that the investigation concluded that the Syrian regime ordered the assassination.
Mehlis claimed in the interview that Syrian President Bashar Assad "ordered Hariri killed because he feared the premier was cooperating with France and the US in order to overturn the Syrian regime and disarm Hezbollah."