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Very good posts from many all, and I incline more to accept the analysis of "Watani Mu7'less". I believe it is Syria who did the Hariri assassination, and it will be just a repetition of his analysis when we go deeper in the analysis of the Syrian government and its "tough man" mentality that has dominated the arab world for so long.
This mentality is not new, nor can it be associated only with the the contemporary regimes of Ba'th and Nasser and the dictator ship of Saudi, but it is the pure arabic mentality since their very beginning as people. The arabic tribes in the Jezeera thrived on looting and killing neighbour tribes, and when the arabs became a nation, it was the one rule of one man who dominated the whole scene.
The problem that will take another 1400 years to comprehend for arabic nations is that time changes, people change, power shifted to the West and they mean business under the current hawkish administration in the US. Not anymore can they creep under the Soviet protection or benefit from Europe.
As for Hariri, as I said before and as "Watani" elegantly expressed, he was a political shreud man, but not a hero. He is the card of the Saudis, and I know that he tried to "sunnize" Lebanon, islamizing it in the process by buying out christian (maronite) and Druz land to face off with the shia.
WHat it revealed is nothing but the stupidity of the arabic regimes and how far low they can go, not realizing when and where and who to strike. I always wondered about the reason for the lack of political shreudness on behalf of arabic regimes. Is it so difficult to present yourself in a good way, without insisting on being savage and brutal and a left over Middle Age creature?
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