Four months later priorities have changed. While many Lebanese are still determined to seek the truth behind Hariri's murder, the elections have stalled the widespread support, particularly from rival political parties. Several weeks back, tragedy struck Beirut once again, as anti-Syrian journalist Samir Kassir was brutally murdered by yet another bomb.

Many Lebanese feel Syria is responsible for both of these brutal assassinations. Unfortunately, many pro-Syrian politicians who were likely on their way out were revived through an alliance with Michel Aoun. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan instructed top U.N. envoy Terje Roed-Larsen to leave quickly for Syria to see President Bashar Al-Assad about Lebanon. Annan also reportedly sent an inspection team back to Lebanon to confirm Syria's withdrawal, and observe the final round of elections on Sunday.

Robert Fisk, of the Independent, revealed some critical information in his latest article. Fisk discusses the presence of key Syrian security officials still in Lebanon, and how evidence was removed from both the Hariri and Kassir crime scenes. According to the Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Siyassa, a CIA/FBI investigation of the Hariri murder took place shortly after his death on Valentines Day.

Excerpts from Fisk's article:

Syria: out the door, back through the window
By Robert Fisk

The UN confirmed the withdrawal of all Syrian troops and intelligence officers scarcely a month ago. Now the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, threatens to send his "verification" team back to reconfirm.

Ghazaleh was the former head of Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon. Or maybe he still is? If the Syrians have returned - out through the door, back through the window, as the Lebanese say - what might they do with the sectarian pot that constitutes all of Lebanon's tragedies?

But now, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyassa, a CIA investigation into the murder concluded that between six and nine senior Syrian intelligence officers were involved.

It claims, too, that a secret CIA/FBI investigation was carried out on the Hariri assassination in Lebanon for four days, starting on 18 February, which concluded that four senior members of the Lebanese security forces knew of plans for the murder before it took place and helped monitor Hariri's movements and select the date of his murder.

One of the paper's sources said a former Lebanese cabinet minister was also involved. The Lebanese are already trying to guess - accurately - his identity.

Even graver is the information which Walid Jumblatt, the Druze leader, says he has received of continued Syrian intelligence operations in Lebanon. He has been told that - back in Lebanon after their famous "military withdrawal" - are Mohamed Jabour, a Syrian officer formerly based in the Lebanese town of Sofar, high in the hills above Beirut, and Jamer Jamer, who was a spook in the west Beirut Hamra district, and Said Rabah, a Syrian intelligence man from Hamana (in the valley below Sofar), and that all have returned to Lebanon.

And so has Rustum Ghazaleh, the ex-top intelligence man in the country. All of the above, Syria officially denies.

The murder of the Lebanese journalist, Samir Kassir, 11 days ago - a writer who was deeply critical of the Syrian Baath party, who had received furious phone calls from Rustum Ghazaleh - was a message to Lebanon: just when you thought it was safe to speak freely, the murderers are still in business.

After Hariri's murder, one of the top pro-Syrian security officials, Lebanese General Haj Ali, removed the burnt- out remains of the Hariri convoy from the scene of the crime.

Other security officials planted false evidence at the scene. Or so said the first UN investigation team.

Now, it turns out - chillingly for those of us who believed that a clean security leadership had been installed in Lebanon - that the car in which Kassir was bombed was also removed from the scene of the crime within hours, allowing the Lebenese cops to "lose" the detonator of the explosives which killed him.

This is no small matter. At the scene, I watched Lebanese military forensic officers take pieces of the bomb from the burnt vehicle after Kassir’s assassination, placing them in containers.

But the police moved the car, and the detonator - which is the all-important clue to the culprits - disappeared. How very convenient. Detonators have numbers. These codes can be used to discove the manufacturer and, more importantly, the country to which it was sold.

On Friday night, I drove up for dinner with Walid Jumblatt in his Druze castle at Mukhtara. There was fine wine and the best salads and the funniest of conversations. But Mr Jumblatt, my favourite - indeed, the only - true nihilist in the Arab world - is looking worried. He thinks he is on a hit list. I fear he is, too. I fear all Lebanon is.

So how to end this report from that soft, gentle, ferocious country of Lebanon? With these words: watch out!

Sources: Ya Libnan, Selves and Others