Some lazy Western journalists have been peddling the story that Rafiq Hariri bravely fought the Syrian regime in Lebanon. This snippet is from another tape from the Hariri house released by the Hariri US-Israeli tribunal in the Hague. In it, he says: "If [Bashshar Al-Asad] asks me to serve as prime minister, I serve but swear be to God mightily, if the whole world asks me to serve as prime minister and he does not, I would not serve".