US air base in Lebanon and the Hariri assassination

[ChicanoPwr]

Hariri reportedly assassinated to make way for large US air base in Lebanon
By Wayne Madsen
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031105Madsen/031105madsen.html

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.

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Hariri, a pan-Arabist and Lebanese nationalist, was known to adamantly oppose the construction of a major U.S. air base in the north of Lebanon. The United States wants Syrian troops completely out of Lebanon before construction of the base is initiated. Hariri's meetings with Hezbollah shortly before his death also angered Washington and Jerusalem, according to the Lebanese intelligence sources.

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The Lebanese air base is reportedly to be used as a transit and logistics hub for U.S. forces in Iraq and as a rest and relaxation location for U.S. troops in the region. In addition, the Lebanese base will be used to protect U.S. oil pipelines in the region (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Mosul/Kirkuk-Ceyhan) as well as to destabilize the Assad government in Syria. The size of the planned air base reportedly is on the scale of the massive American Al Udeid air base in Qatar.

A number of intelligence sources have reported that assassinations of foreign leaders like Hariri and Hobeika are ultimately authorized by two key White House officials, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliot Abrams. In addition, Abrams is the key liaison between the White House and Sharon's office for such covert operations, including political assassinations.
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The step closer to the New World Order.

[bluestateguy]

1. Having troops in Lebanon worked out so well the last time

[DELUSIONAL]

2. How many countries is the US going to occupy??

Now bushies demand that Syria leave NOW is starting to make sense.

Hell is he working for Israel and Sharon???

Was there a secret ceremony for bushie pledging his allegiance to Israel???

How many MORE Americans lives will this cost -- AND how many more billions???

I hope this report is pure B.S. -- but nothing would surprise me -- nothing.

[chlamor]

3. Do we smell a pattern

Oh and what about the water in Syria and that lucrative hashish pocket in southern Lebanon. Water wars-Oil wars-Drug wars.

[ChicanoPwr]

5. My friend who is in Lebanon said...

not to believe what is being told on the MSM. It is getting bad over there. He had to leave this country because he was drafted to join the military and that was last year. This was all planned by the fascist BushCo war machine.

[Sinistrous]

4. Using the "Let's see who benefitted" criterion,

this account has a good deal of merit. The bush administration must always be considered a "person of interest" in situations such as this.