October 21, 2005

Syria and the Hariri conspiracy

By Rick Moran
The report  released by the United Nations today that details Syrian involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri reads like a bad spy novel. It seems unbelievable, but the facts are clear; so many people were involved in the conspiracy to kill the popular Lebanese nationalist that it was inevitable that the truth would eventually come out. The list of accomplices is staggering. Not only Syrian President Bashar Assad himself, who personally threatened the life of Hariri by telling him in a meeting on August 26, 2004 he would 'break Lebanon over your head' unless Hariri backed an extension of the term of office of Lebanon's puppet President Emil Lahoud for three years, but also the Syrian intelligence service, a faction of the Lebanese armed forces loyal to Syria, and even the personal bodyguards of Hariri himself. The detailed report was authored by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis and involved more than 400 interviews and a review of more than...(Read Full Article)