Posted on 10/21/2005 9:25:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
fyi
I look forward to the European Left demanding the arrest and trial of these thugs. Not.
Not in our lifetime.
told a hastily called news conference that he decided to delete the names when he learned Thursday morning the report would be made public because the Syrians had only been identified by a witness interviewed by his investigators.
Spineless UN terrorism appeasers!!! What a friggin joke.
Thank god, the names got released anyway. It's only backing up what we already knew.
ping
Report of the International Independent Investigation Commission ~~ The assassination of Mr Hariri
I was waiting for that puppy to pop up.
Thanks!
Brother-in-law of Syrian leader implicated (UN / Hariri Assassination Probe) ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1506734/posts
crap...before and after. I watched closely the press conference of Mehlis. The final conclusion (Syria) cannot be possibly avoided, but Mr. Mehlis did a very weak homework.
Thanks for the ping. From Lebanon:
Mehlis' report says top Syrian security officials approved Hariri's murder
By Mayssam Zaaroura, Majdoline Hatoum and Leila Hatoum
Daily Star staff
Friday, October 21, 2005
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=19493
"Saad said: 'I discussed with my father, the late Rafik Hariri, the extension of President Lahoud's term. He told me that President Bashar Assad threatened him telling him: 'This is what I want. If you think that President Chirac and you are going to run Lebanon, you are mistaken. It is not going to happen. President Lahoud is me. Whatever I tell him, he follows suit. This extension is to happen or else I will break Lebanon over your head and Walid Jumblat's. (…) So, you either do as you are told or we will get you and your family wherever you are.'"
Nine lives I guess...
"Well...crap...Full report after the edit job I guess here:"
Got it. Thanks. Hopefully big John Bolton shall no allow things to fall between the cracks. Assad, his brother, and brother in law are not going to be able to get out of this one. Deals may be going down between the DoS and the Syrian government, as how Assad's skin can be saved if he jumps on the bandwagon and stops the terrorist organizaton actvities in his country. If we start to hear about more Iraqi Ba'athist being handed over to the Iraqi, it will be apparent deals are going down.
Syria Blamed in Death of Lebanese Leader Hariri ~~ SS Rice says Syria must be held accountable
Reports, Sanctions, Condemnations, Embargos, Censors, Criticisms, Diplomacy, Treaties, Agreements, Road Maps to Peace, Compromise, Limited/Constrained Warfare, Surrender, etc, etc, etc.........are USELESS when dealing with terrorists or any evil entity..
They will not achieve the needed change in behavior in these bastards,
They will not protect you from attack from these bastards.
However -- killing them in VERY LARGE NUMBERS often achieves the necessary behavior modification desired...
This option works ONLY when you are the strongest power on the planet ----- I hope we don't wait long enough to piss that one advantage away...
Semper Fi
Hell's comin' to breakfast, sooner or later...
Perhaps he lives by the rule, "never take a knife to a gunfight." ;') Or, "the best defense is a good offense". If he were assassinated, I doubt that the Druze would take that lying down.
Names omitted from report
BY MOHAMAD BAZZI
MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT
October 22, 2005
BEIRUT, Lebanon - The UN probe into Rafik Hariri's assassination raised eyebrows Friday - not just for what it said, but what it left unsaid.
At the last minute, United Nations officials deleted key information contained in the accusation: one witness' testimony that Syrian President Bashar Assad's brother and brother-in-law were among the main plotters of Hariri's killing.
Instead of naming names, the final version of the report referred to the alleged plotters in general terms - as "senior Lebanese and Syrian officials." However, an earlier version had said the witness identified those officials, including Maher Assad, the president's younger brother, and Assef Shawkat, the president's brother-in-law and head of Syrian military intelligence.
The final report would have been more devastating to the Syrian regime if two members of the president's family were named in it as suspected plotters. The deleted names came to light after reporters checked previous versions of the Microsoft Word document that contained UN investigator Detlev Mehlis' report, which was e-mailed to the media Thursday night.
In the earlier version, the witness had also named two other Syrian intelligence officials and a Lebanese security chief as the main plotters who met several times in Damascus, including at the presidential palace and at Shawkat's office. Both versions of the report identified the witness as a Syrian living in Lebanon who "claims to have worked for the Syrian intelligence services."
Mehlis said Friday he deleted the names because he did not want to give the impression that the witness' allegations were "an established fact." He denied being pressured by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to change the report. "None of these changes were influenced by anyone," Mehlis said.
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