LEBANON - Oct 24 - Campaign For Lahoud To Resign Intensifies After Mehlis Report.

Pressures intensifie for Pres Emile Lahoud to resign, after the UN report names his top four security chiefs as suspects in the killing of former premier Rafik Hariri. The security chiefs were all arrested even before the publication by UN Chief Investigator Detlev Mehlis of his report into Hariri's assassination. All four, currently being held on charges of being involved in Hariri's murder, are known for their close connection to Lahoud and one of them is the head of Lahoud's Presidential Guards, Mustafa Hamdan. Prominent MP Butros Harb renewed his attack on the beleaguered head of state, saying: The President must resign", adding "there is a big gulf between MPs and Lahoud, especially after the arrest of his security chiefs". Harb added: This has led to local and international isolation of the president - a situation that has harmed the status of the presidency in Lebanon". Harb, who is often named by political analysts as a potential president himself, said that Free Patriotic Movement leader and MP Michel Aoun, also a presidential candidate, should also accept that Lahoud resign. Aoun had expressed fears that Lahoud's resignation would leave a political vacuum. Lahoud has stressed more than once he plans to stay in office until the end of his extended term two years from now. Aoun declared his candidacy for a future presidency openly. Meanwhile, Riad Salameh, governor of the Central Bank, said secrecy had been lifted on the accounts of five suspects under instructions of the Lebanese judiciary. Salameh said the bank had provided information on 15 accounts to UN investigators, but was legally prohibited from publicly identifying the account-holders. "I believe it is in the interest of the banking sector ... as now the whole world knows that the law will not obstruct investigations that are of a criminal nature", Salameh said. "The general rule in Lebanon is bank secrecy, and lifting it is the exception". Judicial sources said Oct 24 State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza will be pressing charges against three people arrested in connection with the string of bombings that rocked Beirut over the past few months, and the attempt on the life of television presenter May Chidiac. The sources said the three men had confessed to taking money from Syrian intelligence General Jamaa Jamaa to create chaos and terror in Lebanon after the Syrian withdrawal in April.