haririkiri (im so funny)

* "SCOTT MCCLELLAND: His murder is an attempt to stifle these efforts to build an independent, sovereign Lebanon, free of foreign domination. The people of Lebanon deserve the freedom to choose their leaders, free of intimidation, terror and foreign occupation...
The United States will (try) to restore Lebanon's independence, sovereignty and democracy by freeing it from foreign occupation." oh ari2 - how we love you. let me count the daze http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1303207.htm - and we also hear that 'the purported reason for syria to be in lebanon is the promise of security, and this assassination proves that they cant even provide that, therefore they should get out'. seriously. these fucking people. what can we possibly say about them? there are no words left. 'the purported reason for (america) to be in (iraq) is the promise of security, and (daily attacks) proves that they cant even provide that, therefore they should get out'. sound of brain exploding.

* and we get immediate withdrawl of the amambassador in syria even tho theres not the slightest bit of evidence that syria was involved. mindboggling.

* if i was syria, id be trying to keep below the radar. i dont think id go around killing people. especially high profile people, and i dont think id run around blowing things up. if i wanted to kill someone, id do it without providing pictures - compare hariri's murder with the media of the recent murders in georgia. no pictures, no story. now cnn is reporting that theyll carry the funeral live. lovely. where the fuck was equivalent concern wrt our new democratic friends in georgia???

* and if we believe the noise that 'nothing happens without the knowledge of syrians secret service' then surely the syrians could have chosen a different mechanism. and even that assumes that syria thought the guy was a problem (let alone wanting him dead) - which isnt even apparent.

* so where does that leave us? well, it seems pretty clear that hariri is dead. thats about all we know. im not even sure that i buy the story about a suicide carbomber. and it seems that there are some politicians who become assassination targets for one reason or other. and it seems that there are some billionaires who become assassination targets for one reason or other. and then u have billionaire politicians... so there could be a thousand different reasons why he was assassinated. given the highprofile nature of the assassination, and the heavy collateral damage, one can only imagine that there was signalling involved, above and beyond the actual assassination. if syria (or some biz-related concerns) wanted to kill the guy, and send a signal, then surely some sushi poisoned with dioxins could have done the trick... the people who they might want to 'get the msg' would surely get the msg, without the inevitable pictures being broadcast around the world. and syria presumably cares about the prosperity of lebanon and all that (lebanon has been running tourism ads here for the last few months - thanks to which i now know that i can go skiing there if i like - my guess is that the ads will be pulled, and the entire exercise a waste of $) - so exploding cars and body parts prolly isnt a great signal - or at a minimum, the collateral damage has a lot of signalling collateral damage.

so it strikes me that there is a very real possibility that it wasnt actually an assassination with a lot of collateral damage, but maybe that it was actually 'just' a signal, with the assassination (and 16 other murders) actually being mere collateral/incidental damage... and the apparently knee-jerk reaction of the ams to blame syria and withdraw the ambassador, not to mention the forked-tongue 'language' falling out of ari2 and c.rice's mouths, and the media's 'syria dunnit' brainwashing seems to point to american complicity - with or without the israelis... we already know rummy's SSB is running around doing blackflag stuff all across the region - surely this would fit under their purview. and remember the odd story i mentioned the other day that the head of ssb resigned 'abruptly', and that the story got near-zero coverage... i wonder if he had a conscience pang, but they didnt wanna pull out of the ass-asination...

so if we accept amraeli involvement as a possibility, however remote or likely, then we must presumably expect that it is part of a plan, of which this is the first (at least, not last) step. heavens knows what comes next... praps we'll see 'incursions' by the ams from iraq - chasing into syria after 'hvts' - prolly zark, cos then theyll have to keep doing it... we might hear that they were really close, missed him by a few hours, suspected safehouses and all that nonsense... and they'll prolly
get a few high-level zark associates. and of course the syria acccountability act will get ramped up. but these things are mere noise... they wouldnt do this in lebanon to give them cover to do the same thing in syria. (and they are assuredly working in syria already anyway). hmmmm - so i dont know what the next steps are really - i can hardly even guess - but my sense is that, a few steps out, syria will be at war too. ive always had the sense that the attack on syria might be conducted simultaneously with iran somehow... this latest step might simply be the next steps in the demonisation of syria to bring it up to some sort of equivalence with iran. damn iran was getting *all* the attention - and thats just unfair. evil cometh.

* and to sign of, this from the gaggle
"Q The President has spoken repeatedly about an "axis of evil." With Syria's suspected increased involvement in terrorist activities, are we now looking at a "quadrangle of evil"?" http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/02/20050215-4.html