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2005-02-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hariri's killers 'recruited from Syrian-linked group in Iraq'

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Posted by Bulldog 2005-02-20 3:58:34 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How does this square with the crater? Other reports say it was a bomb planted in the sewer or in the road and it was not a car bomb.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-02-20 4:12:53 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-02-20 4:12:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Previously pro-Syrian, Mr Hariri had planned to campaign during Mayâs general election against Syrian influence.

Suddenly his convictions change? Or were the Syrian people really just being given the choice of 2 pro-Syrian candidates with Hariri posing as anti-Syrian influence to let some steam out of the kettle.

Let's see...he's a personal friend of Chirac, A personal friend of the Saudi Royal Family, A billionaire whoe is "loved for his charity work" and he was previously pro-Syrian government.

Given all of this, we're supposed to believe that this guy was the good guy? I'm not even close to being convinced.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-20 12:27:38 PM|| 2005-02-20 12:27:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I could be wrong but it doesn't look like a car bomb crater. I was briefly involved with a project for the Thai government back in the late 70's in which they wanted to dig an anti-tank ditch very fast. The tests done were for a large quantity of explosives burried and sequencially detonated similar to what is done in strip mining. Unlike strip mining, the dirt had to be completely removed by the explosions which requires an earth-shattering ka-boom. The tests proved it was feasable to do but very impractical. The explosives have to be burried and maintained as well as all the wiring. My point is the crater in the Harriri killing looks almost exactly like the craters one gets from burrying explosives and not like a crater from an above ground explosion. An above ground explosion leaves a shallow, wide crater. A below ground explosion leaves a deep, narrower crater. The force of an above ground explosion is directed mostly up and out. Dirt doesn't compact all that much and tends to reflect the blast up. In a below ground explosion the crater is deeper because, as with an above ground boom, the force is directed up and out but the sides of the forming crater reflect some of the blast back toward the center. That is why a below ground blast is deeper and narrower than an above ground.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-02-20 4:05:26 PM|| 2005-02-20 4:05:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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