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Is Syrian Dictator Assad setting fire to Lebanon in order to divert attention from, or stop, the international investigation of his role in the murder of Lebanon's last Prime Minister?

* * * In a May 21, 2007 editorial, the Lebanese daily Al-Mustaqbal wrote that the clashes between the Lebanese army and Fath Al-Islam were the result of orders by Syrian President Bashar Assad:

"There is no doubt that the attack by the Fath Al-Islam terror gang on the Lebanese army and security forces is connected to the madness that gripped the Syrian regime and its subordinates in Lebanon with the approach of the date of the approval of the International Tribunal in the Security Council under Chapter 7 [of the U.N. Charter]..."
- read more at MEMRI.

* * * Meanwhile, numerous reports have circulated that

"Assad threatened, in a conversation with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, to set fire to the region 'from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean'; another time, he threatened that civil war would break out in Lebanon if the tribunal was approved.
- read more at AtlasShrugs2000