WE KNEW IT ALREADY, but it’s still news that he’s saying it:

The chief U.N. investigator into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said in remarks published Saturday that he believed Syrian authorities were behind the killing.

It was the first time that Detlev Mehlis has unequivocally accused Syria of responsibility for Hariri’s assassination since opening the U.N. probe in June.

Stay tuned.