Hey Tony, Tell them about that UN thingy:

Ok, You’re the world’s greatest superpower, and you have a problem:
You want to influence a people into a rebellion, but you also want to keep a low profile because your ‘perceived’ meddling weakens your allies.
You just learned that the UN Security Council is about to release a report that will have a dramatic impact on the ground; you know that such a report calls for laying the groundwork by ‘leaking’. This brings another problem: your media lack credibility in that region of the world.
What do you do?

The Americans seem to have found the solution: Send in your friend’s media.

After ‘The Independent’, it’s London’s ‘Times’ newspaper‘s turn to talk about the Syrian hands in the Hariri Slaying, a few days before the widely anticipated Koffie Annan report.

The Times mentions some comments Hariri made to Jumblat about “The Syrians Following Us”, and “one of us will be hit in the next two weeks”, it also adds the warnings terry Roejd Larsen gave to Hariri about his security, and talks about the complication of planting 600 pounds of explosives into the asphalt, and reaches to an incontestable conclusions: The Syrians did it.

Meanwhile, the groundwork in Beirut is being laid too: Annahar’s Ali Hmedeh (who is now also the host of future tv’s main political talk show) warns the regime of resolution 1566 (In a nutshell, this is a recent chapter-7 security council resolution that has a zero-tolerance approach to terrorism, and which classifies political assassinations as such. A chapter-7 resolution is the highest kind of severity the international community can afford, it involves military action in the case of non-compliance, like in the case of Iraq and the Libyan Lockerbie case).

Also, all analysts are reading the surete general chief Jamil Sayyed’s latest move of presenting a case against himself as a sort of political hedging against what is to come…

In short, if you thought you’ve seen a lot, wait till next week.