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Another Day, Another Political Assassination in Lebanon

A Christian cabinet member in Lebanon was assassinated a few days ago. An attempt was made on another one's life, but he survived. If both murders had been successful, the government would have been forced to dissolve and the coup d'etat would have begun. See excellent coverage here. Behind this are the usual suspects - Syria, Iran, and Iran's proxy Hezbollah. Motivation? Syria does not want the investigation into the Valentine's Day 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri to go any farther or gain any more traction. It has the potential to destabilize the Syrian regime, because the orders to kill Hariri originated at the highest levels of the Syrian government.

And these are the people we are possibly going to negotiate with over Iraq????????

posted by JM @ 7:27 PM