New York Daily News
Monday June 11, 2007

                               GET JUSTICE IN LEBANON

The United States has sent a clear message to
Syrian strongman Bashar Assad: He will not be
permitted to get away with the assassination of
Lebanon's onetime Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.  Not
for all his threats, not for all his intimidations,
not for all the Syrian-backed guerrillas in fierce
combat with the Lebanese Army.
       Hariri was a key figure in a movement to end
Syria's domination of Lebanon when he was murdered in
2005. Preliminary UN probes pointed the finger at
Assad's close henchmen. So a formal inquiry is the
last thing he and his Beirut puppets want. But they're
going to get it anyway, the UN says. The Lebanese
parliament has until June 10 to establish a tribunal
on its own. If it does not, the UN reports it will
impose one. Perhaps time at last is ruinning out for
Bashar Assad and his gang of goons.