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The CBC Report Is Being Used By Pro-Israel Commentators As A Fait-Accompli

November 27, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui

David Frum doesn’t need to wait for the STL to finish its job:

Hariri’s murder is presumed by everyone in Lebanon to be the work of Syria and Hezbollah. But it seems we no longer have to presume. On Nov. 22, CBC News’ Neil McDonald broadcast a damning report on the signals intelligence collected in Lebanon: interceptions of cellular and other traffic that provide overwhelming evidence of Hezbollah’s direct culpability for the crime.

Why bother qualify your argument if the purpose of your column is to show how Israel is “the one country in the region most concerned to uphold and vindicate human rights”