The U.N. Commission probing the 2005 murder of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri said Wednesday it would not publish names of culprits in the crime, but would refer them to the International Tribunal.

Radhya Achouri, spokesperson for the commission, told Naharnet "As Commissioner Daniel Bellemare stated in April 2008 when he presented his first report to the U.N. Security Council, no names will be disclosed by the Commission throughout the duration of its mandate. Names would only be known when indictments will be issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon when and if sufficient evidence is established for issuing indictments."

She made the remark in answering a question about a report by the daily al-Anwar that Chief U.N. investigator Bellemare will reveal the names of 120 suspects involved in the Hariri assassination.

The daily Al-Anwar, which carried the information, said the names would be made public in Bellemare's final report, which is to be published Dec. 2.

It said the 120 names in Bellemare's report had been classified under the following headings: Planner, executor, interferer and information withholder.

The report said the exposure of the names would cause a "political earthquake," considering the importance of the role the suspects played in the period prior to the assassination of Hariri in February 2005.

Al-Anwar quoted local sources as saying that the report reveals that Hariri's murder took about eight months of planning, even before the assassination attempt against MP Marwan Hamadeh.

The report also uncovers that the executors, at the final stages of carrying out the bombing attack, made three try-outs, using the same number of escort cars and trucks, including one similar to the Mitsubishi with the same amount of explosives used in the real assault.

Al-Anwar, citing reliable sources, said the report has reached a "very dangerous phase," by mentioning that members of an official security apparatus were among those involved in the try-outs and that at one point the head of the security authority was overlooking the operation.

The report also includes wiretapping of mobile calls.

"It's over. We got rid of him," excerpts of a conversation with one of the suspects said.