Andrew Exum Denies Killing Hariri

I’ve been following Andrew Exum’s (A.k.a Abu Muqawama) blog for a while (and I’ve linked to it twice). So imagine my amusement when I read his most recent post in which he was denying that he was involved in Killing P.M Rafik Hariri:

what’s kind of amusing on the first glance is not at all funny. If you are a journalist or researcher working on the Arabic-speaking world, what do you think is the worst possible thing someone could do to endanger your work and your life? If you guessed “holding a press conference in Beirut to announce you are working for the Mossad or CIA,” you’re either correct or close to the mark. As several other scholars of the region noted in emails to me yesterday, my research in Lebanon and the broader region will almost certainly be complicated by this crank and his new pet conspiracy theory.

Here’s the Aldiyar story that covers the theory by a “German prosecutor” that America and Israel killed Hariri and in which Andrew Exum and his now ex-girlfriend supposedly play a central role.