Original sentence: " A similar account is contained in the UN Fitzgerald Report.After Hariri's assassination, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad personally threatened Hariri in a meeting in the Syrian capital Damascus in August 2004, saying "[President of Lebanon] Lahoud is me.Jumblatt said "When I heard him telling us those words, I knew that it was his condemnation of death.The Syrian government has borne the brunt of Lebanese and international outrage at the murder, because of its extensive military and intelligence influence in Lebanon, as well as the public rift between Hariri and Damascus just before his last resignation on October 20, 2004
Edited sentence: "  The United States, the European Union and the United Nations have stopped short of any accusations, choosing instead to demand a Syrian pullout from Lebanon and an open and international investigation of the assassination.Despite the lack, to date, of any actual substantial evidence implicating any party or individual, the Syrian government has borne the brunt of Lebanese and international outrage at the murder, because of its extensive military and intelligence influence in Lebanon, as well as the public rift between Hariri and Damascus just before his last resignation on October 20, 2004.He was quoted as saying "When I heard him telling us those words, I knew that it was his condemnation of death.Indeed, he was a loyal supporter of Syria after the war but switched sides after the death of former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad in 2000.Jumblatt is widely seen as the country's consummate political opportunist - consistently changing allegiances to emerge on the winning side of the issues de jour through the turmoil of the 1975-90 civil war and its troubled aftermath.Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, a recent adherent to the anti-Syrian opposition, emboldened by popular anger and civic action, alleged in the wake of the assassination that in August 2004 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad threatened Hariri, saying "[President of Lebanon]  Lahoud is me.The comments of Jumblatt, various Hariri aides and others are contained in the UN Fitzgerald Report