Amy Goodman interviews the great journalist and author of Pity the Nation Robert Fisk, who lives in Lebanon, about the gruesome assassination of Rafik Hariri, in which 18 people were dashed to pieces;
… at one point, I saw a woman’s hand …
Fisk has many interesting observations about the region, and while he believes that Syria knew about the assassination, he doesn’t think Syria ‘ordered’ it, which he characterizes as a ‘Hollywood’ view of world events. Hariri simply had a lot of enemies. Mp3 link Note: for best results, copy the link and paste it into Windows Media Player’s “open URL” function. WMP will download the entire file into a temp directory, so there won’t be any streaming screw-ups.