Jihadists claim killing of Hariri. From the jihadist site Jihad Unspun, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
Lebanon’s government has mobilized its army on “high alert” to safeguard the stability of the country after a car bomb attack yesterday in Beirut killed Rafik Hariri, a former prime minister, the country’s state-run National News Agency said….
A previously unknown group calling itself Victory and Jihad in Bilad As-Sham claimed responsibility for killing Hariri, in a videotape aired yesterday by al-Jazeera television. Bilad As-Sham could be translated as Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine….
Supporters of Hariri, who resigned as prime minister in October over Syrian interference in Lebanon’s affairs, blamed Syria.
“The responsibility for the assassination is known; it begins in Damascus and passes through the Lebanese presidential palace,” Marwan Hamadeh, a former Lebanese economy minister who survived a car bombing in October, told Lebanese television Monday.
Others resort to the all-purpose bogeyman:
Others where quick to blame the assassination of Hariri on Israel. One official, speaking on the condition of anonymity said “who wants to create further tension with Lebanon? The Zionists in Israel of course!”.