Original sentence: " A similar account is given in the UN's 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
Edited sentence: " The United States, the EU and the UN have stopped short of any accusations, choosing instead to demand a Syrian pullout from Lebanon and an open and international investigation of the Assassination.: The Lebanese government has agreed to this inquiry, though calling for the full participation, not supremacy, of its own agencies and the respect of Lebanese sovereignty.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.He was quoted as saying "When I heard him telling us those words, I knew that it was his condemnation of death.His account is quoted in the UN's Fitzgerald Report, although it stops short of directly accusing Damascus or any other party, saying that only a further thorough international inquest can identify the culprit.Jumblatt's comments were received with some skepticism internationally as he 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 recruit of the anti-Syrian opposition, emboldened by popular anger and civic action now being called Lebanon's "Cedar Spring," 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