This article is the first article I read in the US or UK press that raises questions--albeit indirectly and very timidly--about the Hariri investigation. The last quotation by the Lebanese crackpot presidential candidate who took time off from his busy schedule of offering fawning praise of the Maronite patriarch and of Ghassan Tuwayni said this: ""It was not possible to have an Arab judge investigating this assassination," he said. "Where are you going to get an Arab jurist with a sense of law, order, political independence and neutrality?" So Arabs, according to Mr. crackpot candidate, are just genetically incapable of being just and fair, unlike the superior white Europeans. Did you notice that the successor to Mehlis was also a white European? I swear that if the US, oh, I mean Annan, were to have appointed an African or an Asian the racist masses of Lebanonese society would have taken to the street with the Sri Lankan maids in toe to protest. But the comment by Mallat only underlines that real basis of Said's criticisms in Orientalism, which have been distorted and vulgarized by some in the Arab world. Said was not saying that biases and hostility to Arabs/Muslisms are qualities of the Europeans only. They can easily be internalized by Arabs and Muslims too. Just read the Saudi press these days, and read the products of Arab "liberals."