A huge explosion in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, killed a former Prime Minister of Lebanon and sent shockwaves through the diplomatic community.
The attack killed Rafik al-Hariri, a Lebanese businessman who is credited with ending the civil war that decimated his country from 1976-1990. Syria subsequently occupied Lebanon and has been known to execute Lebanese citizens who protest the occupation of their country by Syria’s armed forces.
U.S. diplomats have accused Syria of not controlling the flow of Arab terrorists into Iraq from the Syrian side of the border. Also unanswered are questions of whether Saddam Hussein transferred his much-sought-after weapons of mass destruction program to Syria before the United States invaded Iraq.
Syria is still sponsoring terrorism despite their pledges of support to combat groups like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
Whether or not Syria had anything with the Beirut bombing remains to be seen, but it would be in Syria’s best interests to come completely clean on what it’s been up to.
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