hariri\'s game (part 4) all sides look for their allies.

by Anon Tue Mar 15, 2005 21:48

March 11, 2005—According to high-level Lebanese intelligence sources—Christian and Muslim—former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was reportedly assassinated in a sophisticated explosion-by-wire bombing authorized by the Bush administration and Ariel Sharon's Likud government in Israel.

There are also strong indications that the Hariri assassination was carried out by the same rogue Syrian intelligence agents used in the 2002 car bombing assassination of Lebanese Christian leader Elie Hobeika, who was prepared to testify against Sharon in a Brussels human rights court. That case involved the Israeli Prime Minister's role in the 1982 massacre by Israeli troops of Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Chatilla camps in Beirut. The Hariri assasination used wire-bombing technology because Hariri's security personnel used electronic countermeasures to fend off a remote control bomb using wireless means. It has been revealed that the Bush administration has used Syrian intelligence agents to torture al Qaeda suspects through the program known as "extraordinary rendition."


.....so there you have it. It is clear from the events that have followed since the assassination that somehow Bush and Sharon have been behind this in some way as they are attempting to 'benefit' from it. The recent demonstration by Hizbollah supporters of almost half-a-million strong who very pointedly declared they did not want US interference in Lebanon shows what is at stake and that people there know what the USA are trying to do.

by Ali H. Wed Mar 16, 2005 18:50

Certainly a lot more plausible than a "Lebanese" revolution.

These sort of dirty tricks and assassinations attributed to 3rd parties estranged from the proceedings are stock-in-trade to Mossad and the CIA.

Certainly the outcome of the Hariri assassination favours their interests an possibly those of the Israeli's Maronite Christian allies but certainly not the majority of Lebanese.

For more info. on "extraordinary rendition" US-Syrian torture outsourcing check the following New Yorker article from Feb. of this year.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6

by € + @ * .:. Fri Mar 18, 2005 20:28

€U -

At the end of the "General Affairs and External Relations" Council meeting, held on 16 March in Brussels, Jean Asselborn, Minister for Foreign Affairs and current President of the Council of the European Union, made the following statement on the Middle East:

link-
http://www.eu2005.lu/en/actualites/communiques/2005/03/16mo/index.html

In addition the Lebanon will be certain focus of the first Mediterrean Social Forum which will be held from J16 to J18 in Barcelona.
c/f
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69020

Local Irish comment (from social forum reliables swp (=*) and pals-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68992

local lebanese imc acitivity continues-
http://www.beirut.indymedia.org

by a fan. Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:31

Eurovision, great isn't it?, every year its one of the main occasion we have in the competitive world to make points without risking drunken hooliganism.

Lebanon's TV governing entity has confirmed to Eurovision that they're pulling out of this year's competition in Kiev, Ukraine because if Israel win, they'd have to show the celebrations on Telly, and coz they're @ war with Israel that wouldn't be sporting.
http://www.eurovision.tv/english/982.htm

Amongst the many assets left behind by Mr Hariri were controlling interests in Lebanese tele-communications. This aint got nothing to do with Hizbulleys coz their TV was axed last year.

Eurovision, begins "as you know" with the stirring first movement of Charpentier's Te Deum. This reflects the constantine nature of our Europe which Mr V. Giscard d'estaing forgot to mention in his crappy constitution which the French voters are going to reject.

Anyway, Israel have won the Eurovision on many occassions, Boney M did it, Dana did it, and thats coz we like 'em, we recognise that without the Holocaust (which was our fault) there would be no state of Israel getting billions of dollars every year in our middle east.

TeleLiban is still going to have to pay its membership fee though, and a fine, and if it doesn't the Eurovision detector vans will go check out Beirut. (they're easy to spot, white things with loads of antennas driven by a skinhead in a blue beret.)

If you'd like to watch Teleliban point your dish at
Arabsat 3a, 26ºE (Europe put that up there)
use FTA encryption and vertical polarisation and the frequency is 11785 Mhz.

If you'd like to watch Eurovision, go round your neighbour's house, make a night of it, "douze points" and so, "feel european".

If you'd like to impress them, learn the words of the Te Deum and sing it at them, wear a short skirt and rip it off half way through. Europe- sure its all kinds of everything.
the lyrics-
http://home.earthlink.net/~thesaurus/thesaurus/Trinitas/TeDeum.html

Meanwhile on the other side of reality-

A car bomb detonated this morning in Beirut
seriously injuring some people and causing some damage. This is the first car bomb since the Valentine day death of Hariri and others. That was the first car bomb since the last century.
Bush and Blair making your world safer.

twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder what you are.

by redjade Wed Mar 30, 2005 16:52

Business Week wrote on March 11, 1991

'Some former U. S. enemies also expect postwar rewards. Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, who once outranked Saddam Hussein in Washington's demonology, signed on with the coalition -- and promptly moved to effectively annex Lebanon to Syria. Washington, which had opposed Assad's dream of ''Greater Syria'' for years, voiced no objections as his troops routed Christian militias from Beirut.'

-- -- --

Newsweek wrote the same day:

[Assad] has already been paid off handsomely for his stand against Iraq: the gulf Arabs have committed billions in much-needed cash; Washington gave him international respectability and turned a blind eye to his absorption of Lebanon.

more at
http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/002194.shtml

by io Sat Jul 22, 2006 00:09

That was the position on in March 2005
At the end of the "General Affairs and External Relations" Council meeting, held on 16 March in Brussels, Jean Asselborn, Minister for Foreign Affairs and current President of the Council of the European Union, made the following statement on the Middle East:

link-
http://www.eu2005.lu/en/actualites/communiques/2005/03/....html

It is still the position. Neutral Finland leads the 25 state EU, one of those 25 states Cyprus is now host to the "european refugees". Finland suggested earlier this week that the EU consider providing non-offensive military intervention.

* 300,000 Lebanese people were told to move today by the Israel Air force in a leaflet drop.
* That's the population of an Irish city or most Irish counties.
* a UN dlplomat (nigerian) his wife and children and their Puerta Rican "home-help" were killed today in the imposed "war zone".
* for every Israeli soldier or civilian killed as a result of either the Palestinian or Lebanese crises in the last weeks - ten civilians of foreign nationality have been killed.
* the Lebanese economy has been thrashed completely wiping off 8 years of economic progress.
* our EU investment.

This weekend Italy hosts a "euro & world conference" as most media expects Israel's army to invade massively. Demand your state works with Europe to stop this madness now.

= "now". not later, not when the UN get round to painting hats blue, not when there are loads of new armed groups, not when we get the blame, not when people starve in Winter, not when people start using "beirut" to mean "sarajevo" (again)

this is a good sample letter to print & send your political representatives :-
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/help_lebanon.rtf
it's suggested by Lebanon's "daily star" newspaper