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In late 2005, CNN's Christiane Amanpour interviewed Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad ahead of the publication of a UN report on an investigation into the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minster of Lebanon, on Valentine's Day that year. Syria's leader was at the time effectively tried and condemned in a trial-by-media as having ordered Hariri's assassination, though there is to this day no conclusive evidence proving either Syrian or Lebanese government links ...with the massive bomb attack in Beirut that killed Hariri and 22 other people.
Given that Hariri's death triggered a popular uprising known as the 'Cedar Revolution', which overthrew the pro-Syrian government in Beirut and led to Syrian troops being forced out of Lebanon after decades of peacekeeping since the Lebanese civil war, it's difficult to see what possible motivation the Syrian government may have had for assassinating Hariri - though one can certainly see how other countries in the region may have benefited.
Having grilled Assad on his alleged involvement in that macabre deed, Amanpour went on to tell her interviewee, to his face, that the US government was "actively seeking to depose you in a coup d'état"...
Did you notice how quickly the situation over North Korea went from 'imminent WWIII' to historic peace? Like we keep saying, there isn't going to be all-out nuclear war...
On this week's episode of Behind the Headlines, Sott.net editors Joe Quinn, Niall Bradley and Harrison Koehli explain why there also won't be catastrophic war over Syria.
Key to this is the so-called 'Iran Deal'. What exactly is it, and why does Trump hate it so? If the 'Deep State' ruling the West also hates it, why the heck did they initiate and approve it back in 2015, only to turn on it soon afterwards?
