[KarlInOhio]

Bwahahahahaha!

But they still want to control the internet...

[AntiGuv]

d'oh!

[steve-b]

Original highlighting:

One witness of Syrian origin but resident in Lebanon, who claims to have worked for the Syrian intelligence services in Lebanon, has stated that approximately two weeks after the adoption of Security Council resolution 1559, Maher Assad, Assef Shawkat, Hassan Khalil, Bahjat Suleyman and Jamil Al-Sayyed senior Lebanese and Syrian officials decided to assassinate Rafik Hariri. He claimed that Sayyed a senior Lebanese security official went several times to Syria to plan the crime, meeting once at the Meridian Hotel in Damascus and several times at the Presidential Place and the office of Shawkat a senior Syrian security official. The last meeting was held in the house of Shawkat the same senior Syrian security official approximately seven to 10 days before the assassination and included Mustapha Hamdan another senior Lebanese security official. The witness had close contact with high ranked Syrian officers posted in Lebanon.

[soltice]

Here's the key passage, rendered to look like redlined Microsoft Word text (note that this will not appear properly if you're reading this column as a text e-mail):

One witness of Syrian origin but resident in Lebanon, who claims to have worked for the Syrian intelligence services in Lebanon, has stated that approximately two weeks after the adoption of Security Council resolution 1559, Maher Assad, Assef Shawkat, Hassan Khalil, Bahjat Suleyman and Jamil Al-Sayyed senior Lebanese and Syrian officials decided to assassinate Rafik Hariri. He claimed that Sayyed a senior Lebanese security official went several times to Syria to plan the crime, meeting once at the Meridian Hotel in Damascus and several times at the Presidential Place and the office of Shawkat a senior Syrian security official. The last meeting was held in the house of Shawkat the same senior Syrian security official approximately seven to 10 days before the assassination and included Mustapha Hamdan another senior Lebanese security official. The witness had close contact with high ranked Syrian officers posted in Lebanon.

[SlowBoat407]

Wow, I'll bet Khofi Annan a senior UN official is peeing his pants not happy about this.

[Petronski]

...computer tracking showed that the final edit began at about 11.38am on Thursday--a minute after Herr Mehlis began a meeting with Mr Annan to present his report. The names of Maher al-Assad, General Shawkat and the others were apparently removed at 11.55am, after the meeting ended.

PWN3D!

[steve-b]

the UN's secretary general, Kofi Annan, had promised not to change a word of the forthcoming report about the killing of Rafik Hariri

Surely the author doesn't mean to suggest that Kofi lied to us. How gauche!

[Quilla]

Could Kofi be feeling a bit like Dan Rather? This is a Buckhead moment - PRICELESS.

[KC Burke]

What it looks like in "track changes":

One witness of Syrian origin but resident in Lebanon, who claims to have worked for the Syrian intelligence services in Lebanon, has stated that approximately two weeks after the adoption of Security Council resolution 1559, Maher Assad, Assef Shawkat, Hassan Khalil, Bahjat Suleyman and Jamil Al-Sayyed senior Lebanese and Syrian officials decided to assassinate Rafik Hariri. He claimed that Sayyed a senior Lebanese security official went several times to Syria to plan the crime, meeting once at the Meridian Hotel in Damascus and several times at the Presidential Place and the office of Shawkat a senior Syrian security official. The last meeting was held in the house of Shawkat the same senior Syrian security official approximately seven to 10 days before the assassination and included Mustapha Hamdan another senior Lebanese security official. The witness had close contact with high ranked Syrian officers posted in Lebanon.

[Tijeras_Slim]

It takes real talent to make Dan Rather and Mary Mapes look like they're MSCE certified.

[saveliberty]

Whoa!

There's dirty work afoot in the UN ping. (as uncovered by MS Word)

[doug from upland]

They are as stupid as Dan Rather and Mary Mapes.

[Publius6961]

What the article fails to tell us is how the properties of the document were found and by whom. In order for this to happen, someone had to have the authority and means to acccess the original document on the hard drive, and the document had to have been unprotected (a most crucial lapse among criminals).

[syriacus]

How does Track Changes in Microsoft Word work?

[shield]

LOL...great post.

[polymuser]

This thread deserves a front page link!