Quick Visit in Lebanon, political event with the assassination of Rafic Hariri and anti-Syrian demonstration 

During 2 short days, I am visiting Lebanon. The situation is tended, one week before (and a few days after having spent 2 days with the Syrian secret service in the north of Syria, towards Eufrat) an terrorist attack touched Lebanon. Rafic Hariri, the ex Prime Minister and national figure of the Lebanese landscape died in the center of Beiruth. A bomb explosed when he was in his car and killed him, his bodyguards as well as passers. 14 people died following this barbarian act. Syria was immediately accused because Rafic Hariri was threatened several times by the Syrian because they wanted him to leave the Lebanese territory, as the resolution 1559 of the Security Council of UNO required it as well. Following his death, Beiruth is mobilized and the streets are full of people. During nearly 2 weeks, people are peacefully asking for a total withdrawal of Syria and especially the true on this attack, the great question is: Who killed Hariri? The tension is high in the streets of Beiruth but the demonstration is done in a good atmosphere and it's more a kind of a street party than a willl of revenge which is floating in the air.
I am going on the spot of the attack and I am taking part in the demonstrations anti-Syrian, before returning "at home" in Damas.... I am enjoying a good bath of modern life which makes me feel like in Europe. The life is expensive but food is good, the infrastructures in Lebanon are excellent and especially the night life is very pleasant in here...
Who killed Hariri, that's the big question. The climate is very tended in Lebanon and the situation here is especially complicated. Beiruth and the christians's world want that things change and that Syria leave the country, so they vote for the opposition. The countryside, and particularly south-Lebanon (always partially occupied by Israel) support the Hezbollah or the actual gouvernement as well as the syrian

presence which gives them an additional feeling of safety against Israel which is always the enemy number one. A majority of Lebanese are moslem so are closer to the current gouvernement than the opposition. So, who benefits from this attack? I do not want to accuse anyone, but my personal opinion is that Syria has everything to loose in this assassination, it's too direct, to violent and it's definitively not in the interest of Syria to attract the international medias. At the moment Syria is leaving Lebanon under the pressure of France, but especially of the USA, indirectly push by Israel... For me, the people who more benefit from this act are the americans who have been trying for a long time to benefit from the blazing lebanese economy, the flower of the Middle East, and they can reinforce their presence in this high stragical area. Israel benefit as well with the retreat of the syrian army,  who make the Hezbollah weaker.
Since the attack, the tension has been very sharp. The country is really divided between the pro and the anti-syrians. This attack just feed the religious and racist feelings which already killed so much people during the long and terrible Lebanese civil war. All what I hope is that the future will give reason to peace and the reconciliation between all the lebanese people and that no exterior influence of any kind will come disturb their daily life.