Hariri Inc & their Saudi masters are in fine form at the moment with the current events in Tripoli. The riots initially had nothing to do with Syria -- the CIA tipped the gov't off about a bona fide al-Qai'dah commander operating in the area and had Mawlawi arrested. He did some fine work in Iraq, building bombs and killing Shiites, before deciding that Syria/Lebanon was a better place to blow things up. Hariri Inc and his Saudi masters threw a major fit and Mikati caved in--of course. Seems Mawlawi is something of a local hero and it sparked at first relatively small protests before that happened; Mustaqbal MPs (such as the pro-West/binLadenite MP Khaled Daher), militias and their local firebrand Salafist preachers raised the stakes by shelling Nusayri areas of the city and inciting against all Shiites in general, and good times just progressed from there--and suddenly that constitutes "Syrian violence spills over" by reporters who are paid very well to know no better and just want to weave a pretty storyline. The beautiful part going on at the same time is how they managed to try and settle old scores with local Mustaqbal defectors like Birjawi, a former commander in the M14 militias--also suddenly "Syrian violence", probably directed by Assad himself if the reporters on Saudi/Qatari payroll are to be believed. And why not--get the preachers to fire the kids up with a little fury, might as well sneak in a few grudges at the same time.
Saudi/American policy since 2008 has been to promote a fiery Sunni rival to Hizbu'llah; well, they got it. Enjoy your monster now, chumps.
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