The assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is sending shock waves all the way to Damascus.
The just released Mehlis Report is at the epicenter.
It implicated Syrian and Lebanese intelligence chiefs and military generals, all the way up to members of Assad�s family. The commission was also extended up until December in order to allow for further investigations into more recent developments and leads. And, speaking of those leads, Mehlis deleted the names of some of those suspected of conspiring in Hariri’s murder for reasons not yet known.
The reasons were “Kofi Annan”.
Update –Bob Tarantino on the silence of the Canadian press this morning;
Anyways, you’d think that nigh-irrefutable proof of the efforts of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to whitewash a report about a dictatorship ordering the assassination of an opposition leader in another country would prompt some sort of the response from the various acolytes arrayed throughout the Canadian media. No such luck: as at 11am on Saturday morning, none of the major Canadian papers are mentioning anything this.
Michael Totten is photoblogging the reaction in Lebanon today.
Roundup and updates at Instapundit.
Ignorance is bliss.
That “FREEDOM of the PRESS” stuff that those silly, crazy, will back us in a fight, DEMOCRATIC yanks always talk about must be important in some mysteriously apropos way.
If only we could live to such ideals and maybe even perhaps entrench them in some kind of constitution for the PEOPLE…maybe we wouldn’t be ruled ourselves by an elite cabal of corrupt Liberal Quebec insiders and media moguls… in a DICTATORSHIP.
One can always dream…
Let’s see: a report implicates Syrian President Assad’s brother and members of his inner circle in the death of former Lebanse Prime Minister Hariri. The report is sent to the UN Security Council, but comes out with those names removed. And apparently Canadian newspapers don’t cover the story.
I’m going to go into town and get today’s papers. If Tarantino is right about the silence of the press on this story I need to see what sort of coverage supplants it. Not only is the unedited Mehlis Report a potential geopolitical earthquake that is critically relevent to the current situation in Iraq, as well as Israel, the Palestinian territories and the whole Middle East, but the apparent cover-up by the UN Security Council of Assad and his inner circle’s involvement absolutely screams for further examination and coverage.
Someone get Taber and Simpson on it — quick.
whatever…if the u.s. didn’t do it who cares?
Ms. Rice said this week…
“…accountability is going to be very important for the international community.”
She was talking about Syria.
But one day she may have to eat those words, at The Haque.
ooo… the big bad Hague… frightening. think I’ll dress up as The Hague for halloween.
Syria says it ordered, organized, & carried out Hariri’s death. >>> The unsaid headline. >>>
Syria says it co-operated with Hariri’s death probe
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) – Police arrested a Lebanese Islamic fundamentalist who was being investigated by a UN commission on the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri, security officials said.
Oh God! must be a terrible thing for those people.