We in the west have been spoon fed the proganda that Rafik Hariri was assasinated by the Syrians. This assasination was used as the pretext for the George Soros funded "cedar revolution" and is the basis of all media bias against any group opposed to Washington / Saudi's puppet regime (hence the "pro-Syrian" marker on any opposition group).The UN has been conducting an investigation into this assasination and has hit a brick wall in ways our media will never report:
US, France block Russian request to reveal states resisting Hariri probe
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Russia ran into opposition from France, the US and other Security Council members when it sought to ask the chief investigator probing the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister to disclose the 10 countries that have failed to cooperate with his requests.Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said Tuesday it was the Security Council's responsibility to make sure that all countries cooperate with the investigation into the assassination of Rafik Hariri.
But France, the US, Britain and others defended the position of chief investigator Serge Brammertz, who does not want to disclose the names at this time, council diplomats said.
Russia traditionally opposes the naming and shaming of countries, but Churkin asked if the council is focused "so hard" on one country - Syria - "why should we disregard completely, or even not want to know, what those countries are?"
In his third report to the council on December 13, Brammertz said Syria's cooperation with his investigators "remains timely and efficient," though he criticized 10 other countries - which he did not identify - for failing to respond to 22 requests from his International Investigation Commission.
Surprisingly even the right wing Beirut Daily Star had this to say in today's editorial:
The Lebanese deserve to know who is not cooperating with the Hariri probe
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The special panel appointed by the United Nations to investigate the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has been touted by its supporters as a custodian of the truth, and many Lebanese are relying on the probe to help deepen and strengthen the roots of their country's fragile sovereignty. Critics fear that the process has already been hijacked for political ends and that the purview of the international tribunal to try suspects in the killing will be to carry out targeted prosecutions aimed at producing certain results on the Lebanese political scene and in the wider Middle East.On lead investigator Serge Brammertz's watch, the panel has strived to avoid the appearance of a rush to judgment, a wise policy given the approach of his predecessor, Detlev Mehlis. A glaring inconsistency has emerged, though, which threatens to undermine the integrity of the entire enterprise - and therefore to deny the Lebanese a key component of their maturation into a full-fledged nation-state. Brammertz's most recent report indicated that 10 countries have not cooperated with the probe.
There is a need to at least maintain an appearance of impartiality. Each and every report has included a public assessment of Syria's cooperation. In his latest update, for example, Brammertz wrote that Syria's cooperation "remains timely and efficient." But why would the probe only publicly evaluate Syria's level of cooperation - especially when it acknowledges that others have been less forthcoming?
This kind of selectivity can be very dangerous for a country like Lebanon, where the political arena is highly polarized. Many Lebanese will likely believe that the international community is singling out a specific country - Syria - solely for political purposes. The apparent effort to protect non-cooperative states therefore casts doubt on the intentions of the United States, France and Britain and raises some very troubling questions about whom they are protecting and why they might be doing so.
An interesting question indeed especially when looked at the context of what countries gained the most from Hariri's assasination (it sure wasn't Syria or Lebanon) and what are the western imperialist powers hiding?
Not surprisingly its doubtful we'll ever hear these questions asked let alone answered. Unfortunately even more unsurprisingly most Canadians (including the apparent majority of babblers) will keep believing the Pentagon funded myths we've been spun about the Middle East without ever looking into the deeper picture.
[ 10 January 2007: Message edited by: a lonely worker ]
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posted 10 January 2007 07:38 PM
