A letter sent to the CBC about its coverage of the unfolding situation in Lebanon.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Since the assassination of Lebanon's Prime Minister occured, I've listened patiently as your program has repeated Washington's unsubstantiated allegations that Syria, one of the Bush/PNAC Regime's pending targets, was responsible. This would not bother me, except that you are ignoring the other stated possibility, that either the CIA, or Israel's Mossad, or both, was responsible. Both the United States and Israel hope to profit from such a change in Lebanon, but not exactly the kind of change which will benefit the Lebanese.

I don't understand why the media as a whole has decided to ignore virtually the entire history of intelligence agencies engaging in such actions, in order to force political actions to occur. And although it's a hard topic to cover, in many ways, Israel is given a free pass in many such instances, and the benefit of the doubt, even though they have never earned such treatment.

As Syria's leader pointed out today, to commit such an act would have been "political suicide", and if today's "spontaneous" protests are any indicator, he was correct. Now Washington is making demands on the Syrian Government which sound ominously similar to those made of Iraq, as the US attempted to leverage a "justification" for military action from the situation.

And while your "Middle East Expert" of sort, Janice Stein mentioned that change may come "without the visible hand of America", somebody had to pay for all those flags.

I look forward to more insight into this story in the days ahead.

Thanks again,

Jordan Thornton