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In cooperation with the United Nations, Interpol has sent three experts, including an analyst, to work with the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri¹ in February, the Interpol chief Noble said.
Rafiq Hariri – A Visionary for Lebanon
The police organization is also helping track down the Mitsubishi truck that was stolen [from a parking lot in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, in Japan on Oct. 12 last year – Oui] and filled with explosives used in the murder. Tokyo failed to notify Interpol of the vehicle theft, said Noble calling the failure “an opportunity lost to possibly disrupt that attack”.
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Lebanese army soldiers secure a position near Sultan Yacoub close to the Syrian border. Lebanon eased away from a looming confrontation over pro-Syrian Palestinian militant bases that the army has surrounded by vowing to find a solution through dialogue. AFP/File/Ramzi Haidar
My prediction: Mitsubishi truck entered Syria through Iraq and traveled on to Beirut. UN investigation should look at possible Mossad involvement.
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Overall view of a meeting by the U.N. Security Council in New York. The Security Council unanimously adopted a tough resolution warning Syria to cooperate fully with the UN probe into the murder of Lebanon's ex-premier Rafiq Hariri or face international action. AFP/Timothy A. Clary
When Lebanon’s billionaire prime minister travels around Beirut, everyone takes notice. His limousine is equipped with a device designed to thwart would be car bombers by deactivating nearby cell phones, leaving a continuous trail of irritated bystanders in its wake. Whenever he leaves his residence, three decoy motorcades roam the streets to confuse would be assassins.
Most Lebanese feel a peculiar sense of pride toward Rafiq Hariri, though many will not readily admit it. In a country where political power has been thoroughly monopolized by outsiders, economic power commands a great deal of grudging respect and admiration. That Hariri is not a member of the traditional political elite and built his financial empire from scratch makes his ostentatious displays of wealth even more captivating.
However, the prime minister is also regarded by many as having sold the country to Syria and destroyed its economy during the course of his life-long drive to enter the ranks of Lebanon’s political establishment.
AP Photo/Hussein Malla
Members of the Hezbollah guerilla group holding yellow flags of Hezbollah parade during the annual rally to mark Al-Quds Day, Jerusalem Day, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon on Friday, October 28. The militant Hezbollah group paraded its guerrilla army in Beirut in a massive show of strength to counter international calls to disarm, while its fiery leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah backed beleaguered Syria in the face of intense pressure over the U.N. probe into the assassination of a Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
Iran propagates deadly roadside bombs in Basra and Iraq are laser detonated Israeli Bombs.
The Iranian exile groups and Mojahedin-e-Khalq terror group in opposition to Iran with support from U.S. and U.K. propagate in early stage, the existence in Iraq of infra red electronic devices for precision detonation of deadly bombs delivered from Hizbollah through facilitation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, supported by new elected President Ahmadinejad.
See also the U.S. propaganda trying to smear Ahmadinejad as the leader of the Revoltutionary Guard who held the U.S. Embassy personnel hostage in Tehran for 444 days in 1979 during Carter’s presidency.
I find it most interesting what bomb making electronics were in the possession of the two SAS agents upon their arrest in Basra.
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Weapons Confiscated From SAS Covert
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Barracks destroyed with suicide truck bombs.
Factions in Lebanon split in anti- and pro-Syria, all colors of religious background.
Influence of Hezbollah – Jerusalem Day.
Support of Iran for Hezbollah.
What is influence of Syrian ex-pats and Israeli politics.
More questions than answers for former French enclave.
Shia leader Al-Sistani in Najev, Iraq :: U.S. troops need to set timeline for departure.
If you don’t solve the problem of the Palestinian refugees in the region, the Middle East remains a powder keg to explode in a moment’s notice.
Insight In Mossad Operations ::
Countering Terrorism: The Israeli Response to the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre
and the Development of Independent Covert Action Teams
by Alexander B. Calahan GS-12 Graduate Class
Master of Military Studies – April 1995
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Thesis:
The purpose of this study is to examine the methodology of the covert action teams authorized by Prime Minister Golda Meir to find and assassinate those individuals responsible for the attack on the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September 1972. Specifically, the study addresses whether the operational and tactical methods utilized in this counterterrorist effort were successful relative to the original operational objectives.
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OUI’s OBSERVATIONS
Interesting – Harari provided the team with only two principle rules of engagement prior to their deployment.
… The second principle was for the team to act with zero collateral risk. Harari made it clear that the unit was to ensure one hundred percent identification of the target before acting.
Using the Baader Meinhof Group by providing assets – the victims of terror in Germany will appreciate the Israeli funding of terror! This gang and the RAF were a scourge for Western Europe for more than a decade. With higher stakes involved, what are the Israelis up to and how far will they go? The Gaza bombing of an appartment building killing sixteen innocent Palestinians is an indication of permissable war crimes!
Also was Ali Hassan Salameh a CIA agent infiltrated within Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement?
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Golda Meir … Palestinian people don’t exist
Religious Right parties in Israel’s democracy for transfer of Palestinians across the Jordan river.
Binyamin Netanyahu’s Statement:
“I do not believe a sovereign Palestinian state is an historic imperative, any more than the triumph of socialism – which the same leftist parties once touted as inexorable – was preordained. Nor do I think that Israel can achieve peace only by making egregious unilateral concessions.”
Sharon’s policy – architect of settlements on Palestinian land – agreement with GWB: exit from Gaza, keep parts of the West Bank.
Soj’s Website for an excellent analysis on shortcomings in Detlev Mehlis investigation and UN report ::
Boxing in Syria: The Mehlis Report
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OMG, Oui, the whole thing is getting very intreging. If Iseral is behind all of this, do you know what this implies??!!
Peering too deeply into this and some other assasinations in the region may not be a comforting experience for many Americans.
Sometimes world events are reminiscent of old melodramas where the deceived spouse is always the “last to know.”
I usually agree with your views in nearly all of your posts, but I want to say something here.
I try not to direct my criticisms at groups of people identified by race, religion, ethnicity, or nationality. If I’m castigating British foreign policies I don’t just accuse the British.; I charge the British government. If I’m finding fault with Chinese repression, I don’t target the “Chinese” as my target, I say the Chinese government or the Chinese authorities. If I’m finding fault with Bush regime policies, or the self absorbed superiority complex many Christian religious nuts are afflicted with, I specifically identify those sub-sets of people. I don’t just use the broad term Americans, (or British, or Muslim or Iraqi), to describe the object of my criticism. I like to be more precise, and I think it’s important to differentiate.
With this in mind, I think I’ve read 2 or 3 of your comments today in different threads where you seem to employ the aggregate term “Americans” as a target of either your condecension or a perhaps more subtle blanket discriminatory judgementalism. I find this somewhat offensive, not because I’m an American, but because I’m an individual human being who happens to live in America. (And, I disagree and vigorously oppose ever single thing this current regime in the US is doing, and since the 1960’s I’ve understood the rapacious destructiveness of corporate America both here at home and around the world.)
I hope you understand the distinction I’m trying to make.
in the post above?
It is my opinion, and I will stand by it. I think that many Americans would indeed find it a very uncomfortable, even painful experience, were they to delve too deeply into a number of events.
I cannot say that all Americans would find it uncomfortable, there is a small minority, in fact, who DO delve into these things, and while they might also find it uncomfortable, it is reasonable to assume that they would find it even more uncomfortable not to.
It is not inaccurate to say, for example, that US policies are more popular with Americans than with Iranians. That does not mean that there are not Iranians who have very strong beliefs that they can obtain a benefit from US policies, and are currently working with US operatives toward that end.
Nor does it mean that US policies are popular with every American. I see evidence of that every day, here and elsewhere.
I will be better able to address other specific instances if you can provide links.
I agree with the points you make above and elsewhere, but this isn’t the essence of what I’m talking about.
One of the things that makes it easy for ambitious dictators and other politicians to start big trouble is the ease with which they can identify threats to their countries with a broad brush and in doing so scare their populations into supporting one atrocity or another, (war, for instance). The easiest way for them to demonize an enemy is to do it by targeting a pre-defined group; Jews. Blacks, Native Americans, Muslims, Christians, Gays, Buddhists, Catholics, Hindus, Americans, Iraqis, French, etc. This is the point I’m making; it’s the grouping.
The Republican propaganda machine, for instance, will develop a mantra that says; “…many Democrats believe…”, in order to imply a particular point of view resides primarily, or solely, in the province of Democrats, while in fact fewer Democrats might actually believe whatever they’re asserting than Republicans.
I recognize that the country of my birth has wrought incredible destruction throughout the world. I firmly believe in the adage that “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. I further find the idea of “American exceptionalism” repugnant and ultimately counterproductive on virtually all ethical and pragmatic levels. The arrogance of the idea is embarrassing, to say the least, and the idea that there could be one country that’s “the best country in the world” is so absurd it’d be funny except that so many people believe it.
But people from many places believe these sorts of things, just as many people deeply involved in religion seem to believe that their religion is superior to all the others; (hence all the bloodshed in the name of God).
I’ve spent a fair amount of time in other countries in various parts of the world and I have to say that I find people in each of them who are functionally identical to the Americans here at home whose arrogance and hubris and disdain for others is so repulsive to both of us.
I imagine that in the US right now, if one could engage the citizens in a productive and intelligent exploration of ideas and principles, that there’d probably be upwards of 100 million citizens here who would basically support the principles of equality and mutual respect for all peoples and who would act positively on those beliefs if they had more organized opportunity to do so.
Unfortunately, 100 million like minded souls isn’t always enough to bring about the kind of internal political change required to implement such principles better, and in fact, globally speaking, the political and economic environment is so corrupt and selfish that no great power is going to be able to revamp the landscape of civilization without Revolution on a masive scale. (I happen to think such revolution is coming, and sooner than many might think posible, but that’s another story.)
In closing I would add that America isn’t the only boogeyman on the planet, and that America is not a monolithic entity, despite the nationalistic fervor of some of it’s more extreme maniacs. I have no idea who you are or where you’re from or anything else, but I don’t think you’ll find me, (and probably you won’tfind many others here at this blog), making generalized criticisms of your national identity in order to make a point about one segment of your population or one segment of your country’s business community’s transgressions around the world.
voluntarily, as a result of a groundswell, a great outpouring of demand by its citizens.
I would love to see Washington look like Caracas the day after the failed coup attempt.
In my opinion, that would be better for ordinary Americans.
Alternatively, if, as some have suggested, the US population are helpless, held in thrall by the warlords and unable to exercise their constitutional rights, I would love to see them go directly to the world, and ask for liberation.
I have not seen any indication that either of those things will happen.
I am sorry that I cannot be more optimistic, but to give props to the recent protest, “The World Can’t Wait.”
I would like to see every nation with weapons disarm and all forms of exploitation that benefit the few at the expense of the many, come to a screeching halt. I’d like to see the final erasure of “national borders” as we finally realize ourselves to be a planetary life form, not a nationalized, divided one.
The American Empire began it’s decline 40+ years ago, almost before it became an Empire. The dawning of the (very long) Aquarian Age at that time brought a series of psychic shocks to the world, and to the US, that ultimately no amount of warmongering or ruthless exploitation will neutralize.
The death throes of Empire are always pretty ugly, and revolution is coming. All the more reason to differentiate between populations and the corrupt rulers who abuse them.
by the people themselves, most likely the underclass, and not just the American one.
I have said several times that I do not know whether the catalyst will come from the US underclass, or the populations of the world, as the desperation levels of both increase, whichever turns out to be the “spark,” they will feed off each other and US will be caught, ironically, in one of the oldest military strategies of history: the pincer.
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BEIRUT Febr. 19, 2005 — Lebanon said it is searching or 6 persons that left for Australia from Beirut airport just hours after the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri in the downtown of Beirut, leaving trace of TNT explosives on their seats in the plane.
The Lebanese minister of justice Adnan Adoum said those persons have links to what he called “extremist circles” but without disclosing their identity or giving more details in order, as he stated, to preserve the course of investigations.
At the beginning, the Lebanese authorities expected the hypothesis of the suicide operation but the size of destruction which was inflected by the explosion had gradually brought in the hypothesis of the use of strong explosives implanted on the road taken by Hariri’s procession.
Lebanon appealed for the experience of Switzerland in identifying the explosives and the DNA.
Lebanon, Politics, 2/19/2005
Lebanon ‘thwarts al-Qaeda plot’
BBC News – Sept. 22, 2004
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President of the Republic General Emile Lahoud has assured everyone that Lebanon is well off despite all pressures exerted on it.
On the implementation of UN resolution 1559, president Lahoud considered that its implementation would threaten Lebanon’s unity and endanger its stability. “What is presently needed is the full implementation of all other resolutions that proceeded 1559. Once this is made, the implementation of 1559 would automatically follow.”
President Lahoud, who supported the right to return for Palestinians to their homelands, said implementing UN resolution 1559, before implementing all other relevant resolutions means targeting Palestinians and forcing them to settle in their host countries.
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Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/20/2004
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud condemned the crime of assassinating one of the Lebanese National Resistance men.
Ghaleb Awali, an official of the Hezbollah militia, was killed in a car blast in the southern suburb of BeirutHassan Ammar (AP)
In a statement issued by the Media Department at the Lebanese Presidency, Lahoud said this crime is violation on Lebanon and it contradicts the principles Put by UN in south Lebanon, particularly the blue borderline.
He held Israel responsible for this crime. In this regard, Lebanese Premier Rafic Hariri denounced the assassination of Ghaleb al-Awali. He expressed hope that investigations will bring those responsible to justice.
Previous Stories:
Berri calls for pressuring Israel to dismantle wall (7/7/2004)
Nasrullah and the Lebanese resistance (7/6/2004)
Lebanon files a complaint to the UN security council over the Israeli raid (6/9/2004)
Israeli raid on a previous Palestinian position to the south of Beirut (6/8/2004)
UNIFIL complained against Israel (5/12/2004)
Mofaz refrains talking about prisoners exchange (5/6/2004)
Israeli planes bombard south Lebanon (5/6/2004)
Thoughts on Syrian politics, history and religion
The IAEA and Mohammed el-Baradei say there is “No evidence for nuclear activity in Syria, contrary to early allegations by US Undersecretary of State, Bolton.
Israel threatens to attack Syria due to the killing of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah following the crisis which started one day after the assassination of Ghaleb Awali. Washington has called for restraint from all sides.
The adulation showered on another Arab tyrant, Yasser Arafat, is part and parcel of the same syndrome. We don’t care how many people they have murdered, or how many terrorist atrocities they have committed. We are only too happy to shake their blood-stained hands, and help them perpetuate their regimes and oppress their people, usher them into the Oval Office and recommend them for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Hopefully those days are over. This time Bashar Assad has overplayed his hand. The world is not prepared to condone rule by assassination, just as it is not prepared to accept terrorism. Maybe this time Lebanon will be set free and Hezbollah will be disarmed. Maybe a step will be taken to bring peace between Israel and Lebanon closer.
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Robert Fisk – The Independent, 14 April 1996.
ONLY a few hours after Israeli helicopters had staged their first raid over the southern suburbs of Beirut on Thursday, Hizbollah’s local Manar (Lighthouse) television station showed an intriguing film, an interview with a Lebanese man, his face pixillated to avoid recognition but his voice all too audible as he recounted his life as an Israeli agent in southern Lebanon. He had, he said, married a woman who lived in the Israeli occupation zone in the far south of the country — the strip of territory held by Israeli troops since 1978 — and had been recruited by Israel on a visit to his wife’s village.
Lebanon 1982-1984
It was unclear whether the man was a prisoner or a defector, but his information was specific. For months he had lived in the area north of Israel’s occupation zone, amassing details of Hizbollah’s movements and equipment. On a set of photographic maps provided by the Israelis, he had carefully marked the home of each Hizbollah member. He had communicated this information, he said, through an E-mail system that operated on Israeli-provided equipment which he kept hidden in the cabinet of his television set.
Amid the blood and rhetoric of this latest, wearingly familiar, war in Lebanon, Hizbollah was sending two messages over its TV station: that the historical background to the conflict is being ignored — in some cases deliberately — and that the Israelis had been planning this operation for months, just as Hizbollah itself had been working out its own methods of confronting the coming Israeli assault.
A Never Ending Story … Republican nor Democrat Leadership in WH!
US support for Israel has resulted in the oil nations of the Middle East being driven into the Russian sphere of influence. Barely able to hold onto Iraq, the US cannot fight and win a war against Russia for access to oil reserves.
The Neocons have not only sacrificed the lives of 2000 young Americans for Israel, they have sacrificed the nation’s economy by making us the enemy of those nations whose oil we depended on.
Iran Says Contracts With Russia Could Reach $10bn
Posted Nov 7, 2005 09:58 AM PST
● Hariri Assassination By Suicide Truck Bomb Mitsubishi Stolen in Japan
● Norman J. Pattiz – Chairman BBG Middle East Committee
Bush singled out Pattiz for his “perseverance and dedication to the project.” The ‘project’ being the production of Arab-language propaganda for two new media outlets: The Al-hurrah satellite television network, and Radio Sawa.
BURNING CANDLES
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Jordan Green – July 23, 2003 – (As appeared on ZNet)
They are a prominent group of Washington conservative intellectuals who helped incubate the ideas behind the Bush administration’s war in Iraq. Now, they are pressing for regime change in neighboring Syria and Iran. At the center of their passions is Lebanon, a country once riven by sectarian violence, where pro-Western, Christian, and free-market forces hope to rise again.
In his January 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush declared, “The gravest danger facing America and the world is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.” Building to his point, he offered a grim reckoning to the people of Iraq: “Your enemy is not surrounding your country – your enemy is ruling your country. And the day he and his regime are removed from power will be the day of your liberation.”
It is no secret that many of the ideas that launched the war in Iraq – intertwining weapons of mass destruction and terrorism as evil twins, scorn for the sovereignty of disgraced governments, and belief in the transforming force of American power – have been nurtured and refined at the American Enterprise Institute, a 60-year old Washington think tank. Shortly after the fall of Baghdad to U.S. forces, AEI Vice President Danielle Pletka gave a blunt summation of the institute’s neo-conservative philosophy: “The question of whether we have the right to go in and remove a dictator ought to be a part of our thinking.”
Now, nearly a month into the American occupation of Iraq, many neoconservatives have set their sights on Syria and Iran. The government of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, in particular, has felt the ire of the Bush administration in the wake of allegations that it provided Saddam Hussein with night-vision equipment and allowed volunteer anti-American fighters cross its border to join the war in Iraq. American officials and neoconservative intellectuals have also charged that Syria is pursuing a chemical and biological weapons program.
In recent days, the administration has tempered its hostility, allowing Secretary of State Colin Powell to pursue diplomacy in Damascus. But Syria remains noncommittal on one key U.S. demand: ending support for Hezbollah, an Islamic militia in southern Lebanon that Washington regards as a terrorist group.
One of the most enthusiastic proponents of Syrian regime change is Michael Ledeen, an AEI scholar. In 1985, as a consultant to the National Security Council, he set up meetings between Israelis and a group of international arms dealers to help broker the arms-for-hostage deal with Iran. In an article posted to AEI’s Web site on April 30, Ledeen warned that Syria and Iran will try to implement a “second Lebanon strategy” in Iraq by sponsoring thousands of suicide bombers ready to carry out attacks against U.S. and British soldiers. In an op/ed article in Canada’s National Post in early April, Ledeen wrote, “It’s time to bring down the other terror masters. Faster, please.”
“Hezbollah is the world’s leading terrorist group,” charges Ledeen. “They’re an Iranian-created group housed in Syrian-occupied Lebanon.”
Animosity towards Hezbollah – thought to be responsible for the deaths of 241 American marines killed in a 1983 suicide bombing operation – runs deep in the current administration. “They have a blood debt to us,” Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage is reported to have said last year. “We’re not going to forget it.”
Lebanon, it turns out, is something of a pivot point for the neoconservatives’ hopes and fears for the Middle East. Near the end of the Clinton presidency, a group of intellectuals, business people, and retired military officials who called themselves the Lebanon Study group signed their names to a 48-page document called “Ending Syria’s Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role – May 2000.”
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Military force. Finally, the use of force needs to be considered. The Vietnam legacy and the sour memories of dead American Marines in Beirut notwithstanding, the United States has entered a new era of undisputed military supremacy coupled with an appreciable drop in human losses on the battlefield. The Gulf War of 1991 and the war over Kosovo of 1999 represented watersheds, not only in the annals of military history, but also because they demonstrated that the United States can act to defend its interests and its principles without the specter of huge casualties.
This opens the door to a similar decision to act for Lebanon’s endangered freedoms and pluralism. But this opportunity may not wait, for as weapons-of-mass-destruction capabilities spread, the risks of such action will rapidly grow. If there is to be decisive action, it will have to be sooner rather than later.
SIGNATORIES – Ziad Abdelnour – Elliott Abrams – Samir Bustany – John Castle – Angelo Codevilla – Raymond Debbane – Paula Dobriansky – Alan Dowty – Leon Edney – Nabil El – Eliot Engel (D-NY) – Philip Epstein – Douglas Feith – Frank Gaffney – Richard Hellman – Jesse Helms (R-SC) – Jeane Kirkpatrick – Habib Malik – Steven Merker – Daniel Nassif – Richard Perle – Daniel Pipes – Nina Rosenwald – Steven Rothman (D-NJ) – William Rouhana – Michael Rubin – Charles Sahyoun – Jim Saxton (R-NJ) – Donn Starry – David Steinmann – David Wurmser
Report of the Lebanon Study Group - May 2000 - Daniel Pipes and Ziad Abdelnour, Co-Chairs“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
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A tripartate civil war is surely in the remaking process in Lebanon.
It is ironic that the only major power in the region who conspicuously stood to lose from a high profile assasination of Hariri is Syria, the country the US insists on pinning the exclusive blame for his death on.
Hariri had plenty of enemies, and plenty of people envious of his fortune. As someone who profited so much at the direct expense of his own country, it strains credulity to think Syria the most likely candidate for his murder.
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It started with a search for corporate media and Jewish corporate media, which led to websites on media influence on U.S. foreign policy. I recently wrote a diary Norman J. Pattiz – Chairman BBG Middle East Committee.
In another diary on the War of Words between Israel and Iran on new electronic devices for precision detonation of bombs in Itaq, I skirted some clearly anti-semitic sites, yet there was some worthwhile content to quote from.
Is this anti-semitism?
The Israeli Terrorist State and its Mossad Assassins ◊ by Dr. Israel Shahak
Jewish Assassination and Media Doublethink ◊ by Michael Hoffman II
I find this info interesting, as it is placed in the year 2001, Sharon as new PM of Israel after his February election victory, the setting in which the 911 attacks were executed.
State-Sponsored Assassinations by Agents of the Israeli Government ◊ by Michael Hoffman
Elie Hobeika, a key witness in the Sabra-Chatila war crimes case being pursued in a Belgian court against Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, was blown up outside his house in Beirut on Jan. 24, 2002, together with three bodyguards and a civilian bystander. The car-bomb was the work of professional assassins in the employ of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. The explosion occured two days after Hobeika agreed to give evidence against Sharon in Belgium. Hobeika had met Belgian Senators Josy Dubie and Vincent van Quickenborne in east Beirut, agreeing to be a witness at any trial of Sharon for the Sabra and Chatila massacre.
Elie Hobeika
Belgian lawyers seeking to indict Sharon expressed their “profound shock” at Hobeika’s murder. “Mr Hobeika had several times expressed his wish to assist the Belgian inquiry on the massacres at Sabra and Chatila,” a statement from the Belgian lawyers said. “His determination to do so was reported widely on the eve of his assassination. The elimination of the key protagonist who offered to assist with the inquiry is an obvious attempt to undermine our case.”
Marwan Hamadeh, the Lebanese minister for refugees stated,”My initial evaluation is that of course Israel doesn’t want witnesses against it in this historic case in Belgium…” Israeli Prime Minister Sharon dismissed the charges: “I am simply saying, from our point of view, we have no link to this subject at all, and this is not worthy of a comment,” Sharon told reporters.
When a people lost 6,000,000 lives in Nazi Germany, where does its new nation place the boundary for collateral damage?
Additional reading: Victor Ostrovsky: How Mossad Got America to Bomb Libya & Vanunu’s Case – Israel Nuclear Power
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For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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