From Beirut to the Beltway

I don't know how you come up with the above conclusions my dear friend, but either you are under the influence or desperately trying to find evidence to discredit Mehlis. I trust it is the second.

Hussam's family was threatened, and the poor under threat, left Lebanon and chose to obey his Syrian master! His wife has been questionned in Lebanon, and you should read up on what she said, it is pretty damning.

New evidence, yes there is new evidence that comes out 50 years after a crime. I don't see what is odd in that!

Syrian non cooperation. i love the comparaison with the ID card. I guess I don't need to respond to this joke :-)

The rest of the report is nothing new? Do you suffer from selective memory? Read the report and account for all the evidence, but please don't make highly biased and restitute selective info that suits your agenda!

And now the Syrians have killed another of our leaders!
 

Engineering change-- I will respond to you after I actually finish reading the report, which you might want to do before casting judgments!
 

Engineering Change - I'll grant you that you are may not be a Baathist. But are you trying to get yourself recruited by them?

I won't make any more comments, but please read the full report, and look at the conclusions.

-New evidence
-New witnesses
-Houssam taher Houssam manipulated by the Syrians
-All documents relating to Lebanon have been burned by the Syrians

And yes, there is every reason to believe that the Syrian government is behind the killing of Anti-Syrian politicians in Lebanon. Everyone knew he was on the Syrian black list for assassination. Bashar said 2 days ago that if the Mehlis report was damning, it would destabilize the whole region. I guess he has decided to apply his threats!
 

EG - "While the Lebanese were killing eachother, Syrians at the very least had safety if not economic prosperity." Did it ever occur to you that Lebanese were killing each other because of Syria? Because Syria was producing sectarian violence?

get a grip on yourself. You can defend the Syrian people all you want, but you do not need to be one of Bashar's pets...
 

Quoting an anon:

"Tueni never said shiites are sheep. This is the biggest distortions of facts ever propagated by the extremist sectarian al manar tv.

This is how it happened:
Tueni was having a conference in french at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut when one student asked for his opinion about the Hizbullah claims that there were 1.6 million people in their demonstration (8 of March).
His reply was that we shouldn't look at demonstrations in terms of sheer numbers, because here we're talking about people and not sheep.
Next day al manar headlines: Tueni called shiites sheep!!!!
Can anyone be more dishonest than this?"
 

EG - Tueni was not "the most guarded man in Beirut". In fact he arrived just a day or two before his assassination. He only had one car that was bullet proof, and 2 security officers with him.

he did not want to come back, but several people said that he should come back, and there was very strong pressure for him to come back!

To have a bomb of this magnitude kill Tueni, implicates Syria whether you like it or not. Everyone knows that Syrian moukhabarat are still in Lebanon. We see them on the streets, we know them even though they hold shops, and try to dissimulate their origins.

The greater majority of Syrians never cared for the pains of the Lebanese people that was inflicted by the Syrian military and security services. You can understand then that the greater majority of people in Lebanon now despise everything that has to do with Syria, and that it won't take just fence mending to reconciliate the two! It will take apologies from the Syrian government, recognition of the crimes committed in Lebanon during the occupation, recognition of the crimes committed after the withdrawal, compensation for the billions of dollars stolen from Lebanon, recognition of human rights abuses, recognition of the 100's of Lebanese in Syrian jails.

I think that's enough for now, although the list is not exhaustive!