So in the end it was not Syria...

Even the son of murdered Lebanese politician and tycoon Rafiq Hariri, Saad al-Hariri, who rose to power largely propelled by the shadow of his father and the outrage against his murder, now admits that the charges against Syria were false. They were, he says, politically motivated and helped by many false witnesses.

This was kind of obvious for some critical minds, at least for me, since the very beginning, but it is good to know it has become official in the end, even if the usual media are not paying much attention to this turn of events, unlike the overwhelming coverage they had of the false rumors pointing to Damascus.

The murder, or rather its political ramifications, led to Syria, which had played a key stabilizing role in Lebanon since the Israeli invasion in the 1980s, changed government but it also meant that the country became unprotected from Israeli attacks and soon. in 2006, there was another Zionist campaign, that nevertheless was largely repealed by Hizbullah and the small Lebanese Army, not without wreaking havoc in many shiite neighborhoods, flattened by the Zionist bombings.

This campaign, together with the defeat of (Israel-supported) Georgia against Russia in 2008 are considered often an inflexion point in the myth of Israeli invincibility and show in fact how weak is the West Asian racist rogue state, in spite of its hyper-modern military and nuclear warheads.

Whatever the case, a question remains open: if it was not Syria who killed Hariri, who was instead? We all know the answer, of course, just that we have no evidence... yet. But ask yourself: qui bono? To whom did this mini-9/11 covert operation benefit?

Ref. Zeina Khodr at Al Jazeera blogs.