December 12, 2005
The Syrian Gambit Unravels
When the main witnesses recant, you don't have a case
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8233
The effort to demonize Syria and, in effect, Saddamize its ruler,
Bashar al-Assad, has run up against a brick wall: the recantation of
the prime witness, who says he was bribed, intimidated, and tortured
into going along with the narrative being sold by UN prosecutor
Mehlis - that Syrian intelligence pulled off the Feb. 14 assassination
of Lebanese entrepreneur and politician Rafik Hariri in Beirut.
rest of article at:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8233
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