"Lebanon leader reverses on Hariri death" by Associated Press | September 7, 2010
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Western-backed prime minister made a startling reversal yesterday and said it was a mistake to accuse Syria of the massive 2005 truck bombing that killed his father, saying the charge was politically motivated....
Yeah, and who would want to do that?
CUI BONO?
It drove tens of thousands of Syrian troops out of Lebanon and ended decades of Syrian domination over its smaller neighbor.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who has been working recently to mend ties with Syria, says the determination of who killed his father should be made by the international tribunal investigating the crime....
Related: U.N. Wants Look at Lebanese Video
Have they seen it yet?
Newspaper never got back to me.
“This was a political accusation, and this political accusation has ended,’’ Hariri told the Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq al-Awsat. “I don’t know what will be in the indictment and I cannot intervene in that, nobody can. All that I ask for is the truth and justice.’’
Though more than five years has passed since the killing that shook Lebanon, there is no international consensus on who was behind it....
Oh, I smell a cover-up!
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