I posted this on another thread of similar topic and thought it might be relevant here.
This smacks of the traditional counterinsurgency tactic known as 'strategy of tension'. I do not believe the operation carried out as meticulously and powerfully as it was could have possibly been done by any group other than an "intelligence" outfit from some nation. The jury is still out but let us consider a few things, here is what Sam Hamod writes and the link to the entire article:
"We must do as they do in other criminal cases, look at who had the most to gain from the assassination of Prime Minister Harriri. The Lebanese had a lot to lose, as did the Syrians (he was close to Bashir Al Assad, the leader of Syria), as did the other Arab countries in the region who saw him as a strong leader and a stabilizing force in Lebanese politics. On the other hand, Israel has wanted chaos in Lebanon, as has America, and both countries have been agitating to get Hezbollah outlawed and both America and Israel have wanted the Lebanese to oust Syria. In both cases, the Lebanese government has said, “NO,” that Hezbollah is a respected part of Lebanese life and that Syria is there to protect Lebanon from Israeli aggression. Harriri’s killing, like so many of those in Iraq, is the work of either the Israeli dark ops or American mercenaries who have been hired out to kill people who are progressive in the Arab and Muslim worlds. That is why in Lebanon today, people know that it was not some dissident “Islamist group” (that no one has heard of, nor does anyone believe actually exists) who allegedly took credit for the deed, and in Iraq, where the religious leaders among the Sunni and Shi’a are telling their people not to revenge themselves on one another, because they know the killings are professional jobs being done by people from outside Iraq, namely, Israel and America. The parallels are evident to experts, but these experts will not be allowed on American media. But, Professor Rime Allaf, of the Royal Institute in England is correct, this was the work of an intelligence agency—and we damn well know who the only two would be—because they are the only two to gain by this deed, Israel or America."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8060.ht... And here is an excerpt from an article written in 2003 by Chris Floyd of The Moscow Times on the role of Lebanon:
A few months before PNAC's prophetic 2000 report, an allied group with an overlapping membership published a similar document outlining steps to be taken against Syria --first "tightening the screws" with denunciations and economic sanctions, then escalating to military action, as Jim Lobe of Inter-Press Agency reports. The architects of this document included Elliot Abrams, the convicted perjurer now running Bush's Middle East policy; Douglas Feith, one of Rumsfeld.s top aides; Paula Dobriansky, undersecretary to Colin Powell, and influential Pentagon advisors such as David Wurmser, Michael Leeden and everyone's sweetheart, Richard "Influence-Peddler" Perle.
Here, the proto-Bushist group demands that six "rogue nations" -- Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya and Sudan -- "turn over their governments to the United States" on pain of massive military response. The United States will then "occupy these territories until proper governments" -- ones that allow "long-term access" to major military bases, no doubt -- "can be established." And just how massive should that threatened US military response be? The USCFL is, as always, admirably -- and brutally --- forthright:
"America must set a clear example-identical to that of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If you tread on me, I will wipe you off the face of the earth." Link to the article at:
/www.globalresearch.ca/articles/FLO502A.html
And lastly a summary of article entitled:
"The Syrian MIG Planes Downed by Israel, the Assassination of Hariri, and All-out War" ,
Columnist Ibrahim Karagul suggests links between the assassination of Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon, the recent defeat of the pro-Syrian Lebanese government, and "the plan to fuel divisive sentiments in Lebanon. " He claims that the killing of Hariri might touch off a civil war in Lebanon and that rather than being independent developments, the division of Iraq, the growing tension in Syrian-Lebanese relations, the Israeli preparations to "wage war" on HAMAS and Hezbollah, the accession to power of Mahmoud Abbas in "Palestine" and the US plan to hit strategic targets in Iran are all interrelated parts of the US-Israeli plan detailed in the policy paper entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm."
www.globalresearch.ca/articles/SHA502A.html
These are very reliable sources but we certainly must continue investigating and place it in context with the picture of what is transpiring in the Middle East. My personal view is that numerous tactics are being used to 'Balkanize' and destabilize the region to facilitate the entry of Western capital.
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