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...Security Council has approved a resolution demanding that Syria step up its efforts to investigate its involvement in the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister and Kennedy School of Government (KSG) benefactor Rafik Hariri...
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies fellow Carol R. Saivetz said that the U.N. resolution passed because of votes from Russia and China, which were secured when the explicit threat of sanctions against Syria was dropped by the U.S. and other council members...
...back his base with his next Supreme Court choice. He should also get back to his original domestic agenda and his strengths on the foreign-policy side. He should talk about progress being made in Iraq. He has a great opportunity to deal more aggressively with Iran and Syria--not alone, but by marshaling international support. The dynamics have shifted sufficiently that he can deal more cooperatively with the Europeans in getting them on board...
Among some Syrians, there is growing suspicion that feuding within the regime may have caused the death this month of Ghazi Kenaan, the Interior Minister who was Syria's intelligence chief in Lebanon from 1982 to 2002. The government declared that Kenaan, in despair over media reports about his interrogation by the U.N. investigators, had committed suicide at his desk. But Mehlis' 54-page report, released nine days after Kenaan's death, made only brief mention of the dead man--fueling speculation that Kenaan was coerced to take his own life or was murdered, either to eliminate a potential Alawite...
...many Syrians who have grown impatient with the thuggish tactics of the Assad regime, the U.N. investigation into Hariri's death is likely to stoke more outrage. The report not only provides a rare glimpse into the workings of Syria's police state; if its findings are true, it also makes a devastating case that Assad family members were complicit in state-sponsored murder. The report, quoting an unidentified Syrian witness "who claims to have worked for the Syrian intelligence services in Lebanon," says that senior Syrian and Lebanese security chiefs first decided to kill Hariri last September. A month...