"...shortly after Hariri's assassination, a seniorIsraeli MI official submitted a report that blamed Hezbollah rather than Syria for the killing..."

Amos Harel, in Haaretz, here

"..The German newspaper report presumably did not take Israel by complete surprise. Although Israeli intelligence shared the UN's initial assessment that Syria was behind Hariri's murder, there were dissenting views. A document submitted to the chief of Military Intelligence in late 2001, more than three years before the murder, predicted that Hariri might be murdered by Hezbollah. And shortly after the assassination, a senior MI official submitted a minority opinion that blamed Hezbollah rather than Syria for the killing. .."