The Hariri Assassination Three Theories June 14, 2010 by Edward Jay Epstein

Theories that have been advanced  in this case include: 1. The Syrian Theory.  In December 2005, former Syrian vice-president Abdul Halim Khaddam in a televised interview implicated Syrian President Assad in the assassination. saying that Assad personally threatened Hariri. The UN initial inquiry, though more tentative, concluded Syria was deeply involved. 2. The Hezbollah Theory.  According to the a source of the German magazine Der Spiegel. Lebanese intelligence has found evidence that Hezbollah, not Syria, bought the stolen Japanese van as well as the TNT and C4 explosives used in the attack.  Presumably, they staged the attack, and ghosted a trail to Syria, to force Syria out of Lebanon. 3. The Mossad-CIA Theory. According to Jürgen Cain Külbel, a former East German criminal investigator the CIA and the Mossad are responsible for Hariri's murder.  He theorizes the US and Israel needed an event such as the assassination of Hariri in order to weaken Syria after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.  The basis of his theory is that Hariri's jamming device for remote control bombs was turned off and Israel, the manufacturer of this device, had the ability to disable it.  The drawback to this theory is that the UN investigation found no evidence that any of the three anti-jamming devices were disable, and, in any case, they could be bypassed by using a satellite phone to detonate the bomb (or a suicide bomber.)                                                                                                       if you have any comments please reply below: your email: