From Reuters:
BEIRUT - U.N. investigators questioned an aide to Lebanon's pro-Syrian president and three former security chiefs on Tuesday as suspects in the killing of ex-Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, the prime minister said.Lebanese police detained the three top security officials in dawn raids, the first concrete steps toward implicating allies of Syria in the February killing that shook Lebanon and hastened the departure of Syrian troops after three decades.
"The detentions in Beirut are the beginning of justice," Hariri's son, member of parliament Saad Hariri, told Arab television news channel Al Arabiya from Paris. "This is a start ... There will be more detentions."...
And this has what to do with Islamic extremism?? Syria, an Arab nationalist regime, secular, and not even Muslim??
The government of Syria belongs predominantly to a splinter sect of Shi'i Islam that incorporates elements of Astrology and Christianity. This sect is called the "Alawites."
So if the Alawite, secular, nationalist, regime in Syria that in 1982 massacred a whole city of Islamists, assassinates a Sunni (not a Christian) Lebanese political leader, what on earth does this have to do with Islamic extremism?