So then there would be no telling who ordered this 'hit'?
Syria's economy depends on billions of laundered money from organized crime and terrorism that flows through Lebanese banks and ends up in Syrian government coffers and pro-syrian government officials in Lebannon.
Without this money, Syria would be bankrupted overnight.
Want to know how deep this goes, check this out. Explains a lot about the past couple years and why anti-Syrian leaders keep getting whacked:
http://www.meib.org/articles/0401_l1.htm