"The beautiful viaduct that soars over the mountainside here has become a " terrorist" target. The Israelis attacked the international highway from Beirut to Damascus just after dawn yesterday and dropped a bomb clean through the central span of the Italian-built bridge ­ a symbol of Lebanon's co-operation with the European Union ­ sending concrete crashing hundreds of feet down into the valley beneath. It was the pride of the murdered ex-prime minister Rafik Hariri, the face of a new, emergent Lebanon. And now it is a " terrorist" target." He ruined the paragraph with the reference to his friend Rafiq Hariri, as if Hariri built the bridge with his money. Like all reconstruction of Lebanon, the credit should go to future Lebanese generations (who will carry the burden of Hariri's foreign debt) and to Syrian workers who did the bulk of reconstruction under the most exploitative conditions.