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Mon 09 Sep 2010Lebanese leader retracts Syria charge
Lebanon's prime minister Saad al-Hariri has said he was wrong to accuse Syria of killing his father, Rafik al-Hariri, in 2005 and said the charge against Damascus had been politically motivated.
Mr Hariri's comments to Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, published today, were the clearest repudiation to date of his earlier accusation that Syria was behind the Beirut bombing which killed his father and 22 others five years ago.
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