The Dorktator’s goons killed Rafik Hariri. We kinda figured that.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Top Syrian intelligence officials approved the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and their Lebanese counterparts helped organize it, according to a U.N. probe that officially linked Damascus to the slaying for the first time.
The exhaustive report into the Feb. 14 car bomb that killed the popular opposition leader and 20 others stopped short of fingering Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle. But it accused the regime of failing to cooperate in the probe and alleged Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa lied in a letter to the investigating commission.
It also cites one witness as saying Assad’s brother-in-law Assef Shawkat, who is Syria’s military intelligence chief, set up a false confession to Hariri’s murder 15 days before it took place.
Syria rejected the report.
Chief investigator Detlev Mehlis’ findings were issued to the U.N. Security Council late Thursday and will almost certainly inflame tensions in the region.
My prediction: The UN will not bring sanctions against Syria, but it will threaten Syria and tell it to behave better. The Dorktator will blame Israel and Jewish conspiracies.
I don’t think the UN wants to give W. more ammunition against Arab dictators, period. There are still some who insist that he should have let the Iraqis take care of Saddam Hussein.
The only thing the world can get a consensus on in the Middle East is that Israel should give the palestinians a state. Violence from Arabs against Arabs, and Muslimns against Muslims, or Muslims against Christians and Jews? Too damned bad, not our problem.
Why, yes, I’m a little annoyed this morning. Why do you ask?
When will Syria be on the Security Council again?
The other thing that would get a consensus in the Middle East is that any Jews who try to stay in the “Palestinian state” have committed a capital crime and should be executed on sight.
If the US troops who found him, had turned their backs, the hole would have been filled in before Saddam could have climbed out.
Members of the inner circle of that chinless, spineless wonder, Assad, including his brother, were fingered by the report but it was doctored, almost certainly on the instructions of Kofi Annan:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-1837848,00.html
Like I said: The UN doesn’t want to move against Syria. They’re still working on the “He’s my sonofabitch” theory.
Yes. I suppose they are still on the UN Human Rights Commission or whateveryoucallit. Terrorist murderers sitting and pretending to discuss human rights. It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.
It would be great if the MSM would do their job and spread the news of the fiddled report on Syria. It really is a major story – especially because it most probably broke because whoever edited the report wasn’t computer literate enough or sly enough to delete the original versions.
Or maybe they intended the leak?!
Well, I guess the bloggers will have to largely replace the MSM.
And without pay.