UN Report on Harari Assassination Sanitized For Your Consumption

It's amazing what modern technology can do. You can track edits on documents. Well, that feature was enabled on the report provided by the UN on the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister.

The public release of the document only noted that senior Syrian officials were involved. We now know that it wasn't just senior Syrian officials but specific Syrian officals and the names were redacted. Why?

Maybe this explains it:

One crucial change, apparently made after the report was submitted to the UN chief, removed the name of President al-Assad’s brother, Maher, his brother-in-law, Assef al-Shawkat, and other high-ranking Syrian officials.

The final, edited version quoted a witness as saying that the plot to kill Mr Hariri was hatched by unnamed “senior Lebanese and Syrian officials”. But the undoctored version named those officials as “Maher al-Assad, Assef Shawkat, Hassan Khalil, Bahjat Suleyman and Jamal al-Sayyed”.

That's not just high ranking officials, but the Bashar's brother, brother-in-law, and essentially the Syrian government's highest levels. It wasn't just an assassination, but an act of war. And now the ball is in the UN's court? Ha.

Syria is going to need an education, and the UN isn't going to dole it out. Who else out there is going to do it?

Here's a hint: The US will come to the Lebanese people's side.