CSI: Beirut
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Syria is playing for time, and the Lebanese investigation into the
Hariri assassination is a farce. Meanwhile, chaos is building.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Christopher Dickey
Paris Bureau Chief, Middle East Regional Editor
Newsweek
Updated: 1:05 p.m. ET March 30, 2005
March 30 - No one is really laughing out loud, quite. The death count
is already too high for that, and the clowns have still got guns and
bombs, wiretaps and torture rooms. But there is, still, something
grimly ludicrous about the disarray of Lebanon's secret police and
security services right now. As one of my good friends in Beirut puts
it, "We are seeing the collapse of this regime in a very
embarrassing, very clumsy, almost comical way-but it's scary.
You're just sitting here watching the whole thing come apart."
Christopher Dickey
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