Reply #4: They did it in 1985 and blamed the Syrians then too. Link [View All]

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http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/brazzi2.htm

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WASHINGTON -- The 1985 Beirut bombing was part of an operation, organized by CIA director William Casey and approved by President Ronald Reagan, to assassinate Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a prominent anti-American Lebanese cleric. More than 80 civilians were killed and over 200 wounded, though Ayatollah Fadlallah escaped serious injury.

But this time the U.S. did not miss its target, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, just a cog in the wrong pace at the wrong time, part of a long standing PNAC plan to destabilize, "tenderize" the Middle East by further isolating the government in Damascus.

Even while the Porter Goss and the CIA celebrated the success of this latest bombing putting to rest the bad taste of the 1985 failure, the United States laid claim to the bombing by recalling its ambassador to Syria Tuesday, escalating a conflict with another Middle Eastern country even as it tries to confront its problems with Iraq and Iran, all part of the overall chaos that lies at the heart of the PNAC strategy....