Salafi militant dies at Syrian-Lebanese border

A Sunni radical militant blew himself up earlier today at Jdeidet Yabous, the Syrian border crossing point on the highway between Beirut and Damascus, after being confronted by two security officers as he was trying to enter Lebanon with forged documents. According to the official Syrian news agency SANA, the dead militant, called Omar Abdallah also known as Omar Hamra, was the military leader of Tawhid wa'l-jihad, a militant group which was allegedly linked to (and possibly founded by) late Iraq insurgency's leader Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi.

This bit of news went nearly unnoticed on Western-oriented media. I imagine it would have been problematic to explain to the audience why the event doesn't fit the line "blame Syria for everything". They may have had to explain that the Syrian government itself (usually presented as a sponsor of Hezbollah, and therefore of "Islamic terrorism", whatever it means) has a problem with Sunni radical groups who want to overthrow the current status quo. Maybe it would have been even more embarrassing to guess why a Salafi anti-regime militant was trying to sneak into Lebanon.
Is anyone scrutinizing the activity of Salafi extremist groups that are now operating in Northern Lebanon, sometimes under the shadow of Sa'ad ad-Din al-Hariri's Future Movement? Is anyone scrutinizing the activity of Salafi extremist groups in Palestinian camps such as 'Ayn al-Hilweh or Nahr al-Bared?
Is it possible that the US, while kicking Syria out of Lebanon, are unintentionally paving the way for an infiltration of Al-Qa'idah in the country?

These questions remained unanswered in my mind as I followed the latest update about Britney Spears and a report about the possible comeback of the Spice Girls: the usual flood of useless news.