Conspiracy? What conspiracy? Steve noticed this and sent under the headline "talking points":

Hariri: - "we will not stay hands tied"

look in the sidebar on the right under "other headlines"; look about 14 stories down:

David Welch: we will not stay hands tied

it's a very french way to express english, but apparently this is staying "on message" in lebanon."
PS I am not making this up. Walid Jumblat today used the same expression.