From AFP:
Lebanon's Western-backed cabinet is facing a deep crisis as pro-Syrian opponents called for a change of government after it adopted a UN plan to try suspects in former premier Rafiq Hariri's murder. Despite the resignations of six pro-Syrian ministers, the cabinet on Monday approved the UN draft to set up an international tribunal for the February 2005 assassination of the five-time prime minister…. An ongoing UN probe has implicated senior officials from Syria, which for decades was the power-broker in its smaller neighbour, and also Lebanese accomplices. Damascus strongly denies any connection with the Hariri killing. US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the root of the crisis in Lebanon was that "some (people) are very, very nervous -- including in Damascus -- about where this tribunal issue is going".
Perhaps Western diplomats will get another opportunity to talk with President Assad about Hariri's killing should the much ballyhooed regional peace conference ever take place. Let's hope Damascus and Tehran haven't toppled the current Lebanese government by then.