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2005-03-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hariri sons fled 'to escape' the assassin bullets

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Posted by Steve White 2005-03-18 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Authorities here would have cleared the street, too, once the casualties had been taken care of. Major thoroughfares can't be kept blocked for weeks for the convenience of dilatory foreign investigators.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-18 4:20:46 AM|| 2005-03-18 4:20:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I they seem keep them closed forever in the UK. They take their time for forensic evidence gathering it seems. They set a tent up in the middle of the road and take their time.

Posted by Sock Puppet Oâ Doom 2005-03-18 5:17:15 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-03-18 5:17:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Bzzzzzzt - bad answer, good sarcasm though, TW - a blast like that would require complete removal/replacement of the soils at 90-95% compaction to provide a stable road bed for the future. This work had nothing to do with reopening a road...coverup badly done

Posted by Frank G 2005-03-18 11:23:54 AM|| 2005-03-18 11:23:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Consider the nature of public services there in Beruit . . . not non-existent, but not as competent as the immediate clean-up would imply. Maybe they just got a commisioner of roads who is ambitious . . .

Posted by Jame Retief 2005-03-18 12:13:24 PM|| 2005-03-18 12:13:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Those who try to assinate their way to power get really obsessive about others ascending to positions of power, democratically elected or not, in the wake (pardon the pun) of their fathers having once held high office.
The thugs who want to assassinate Hariris sons want the very thing they think Hariris sons might possibly want, namely to make their way to leadership positions, the difference being the thugs want to do it by force in a Lebanon that is not a free and liberated Lebanon.
The crime syndicates who run autocratic regimes in the Middle East and elsewhere are plagued with rival attempts to achieve the exact same autocracy over and over and over again, through one cuop after another. Makes the whole thing seem pointless until the rackett is run down by the worlds superpower doing the right thing for a change. thank you Mr. Bush

Posted by Annie War 2005-03-18 3:59:14 PM|| 2005-03-18 3:59:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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