a major anti-syrian lebanese politician is assassinated just hours before a UN report comes out that is expected to blame syria for the last major political assassination.
i have no idea who killed mr. tueni but it seems pretty evident that: (1) syria will be blamed for it and (2) syria had nothing to gain by doing something like this at this time.
that doesn't mean they didn't do it. countries do stupid things all the time. but this particular killing will undermine syria's current P.R. campaign so badly--a campaign that is now syria's central focus of its foreign policy--that it's hard not to take something this counter-productive with a little bit of skepticism
