Tourist in France. Muhammad Zuhayr As-Siddiq (the "witness" in the Hariri investigation case) was on Al-Arabiya TV today--a sign that Saudi-Syrian relations have reached a new low. He said that he was in Saudi Arabia but then "asked" that he be relocated to France because the French justice is most fair, according to him. He said that there is no free media in Syria, unlike in Saudi Arabia of course where freedoms are abundant. He said that he saw Bashshar Al-Asad actually drive the truck that killed Hariri. He then said that he had a damning evidence: he said that he taped a Syrian intelligence officer who called him and tried to prod him to change his account. He then played the recording on live TV. I will quote verbatim: "zzz...beep....beep.zzz...dddd....." At that point, the anchorwoman had to stop him. She said that we can't hear anything. Personally, I think that Syrian mukhabarat installed Rafiq Hariri in Lebanon, and later got rid of him. But I am not spending a sleepless second on the matter.