UN to reveal Hariri 'cover-up'

A UN investigation into the death of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri will report that Lebanese and Syrian authorities are behind a cover-up of evidence from the February 14 blast, The Independent newspaper said today.

"The UN investigators have become convinced that there was a cover-up of evidence at the very highest levels of the Lebanese and Syrian intelligence authorities," the British daily said.

Veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk, based in Beirut, quoted no sources for his report but said members of Mr Hariri's family had been warned the UN report on the death would be "devastating".

The Lebanese opposition has blamed the pro-Syrian regime for the February 14 explosion that killed Mr Hariri and 18 others.


The Australian

eh ?

A mountain of speculation built on a molehill of fact.
But lets see how it develops.

Austrailia. The UN has also been taken over by well entrenched neocons. Follow the money trail. Follow the foreign aid trail. America is not a "super power" so much as it is a "super puppet."

The few facts in this piece are nothing, they moved the cars after
a day and a half and a funny thing in a picture. It smells like
bullshit, but some of the attributed sources I am reluctant to
dismiss out of hand.

This is a report of an article filed by Robert Fisk in the Independent (UK). Robert Fisk is one of the best and beyond reproach IMHO. What the UN will report is something else again.

the Aussies were the first ones implicated
http://207.44.245.159/article8121.htm

does anyone remember the attempted theft of New Zealand passports last year.

This report seems like pre-release spin of whatever Fisk's actual article will say. I will wait until that comes out to evaluate it.

To think that anyone would remove a car from the site of a killing before proper evidence has been obtained - why it beggars belief. And the idea of a cover-up is astounding too. This would never happen in, let's say, Iraq, after a high profile shooting of a journalist.

IIRC the Fisk report is up, but you gotta pay for it:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/story.jsp?story=619657