Has anyone heard any reference to the Mossad

[QuestionAll...]

during this war on Lebanon?

I find that really odd. should I not?

during the pre and apres Iraq invasion, the CIA was splashed all over the place...


what are they up to in such secret?

[mmonk]

1. I read somewhere they were in southern Lebanon

before the orders to shell and invade were given. I don't have a link to that story however and it was a claim from some writer I think that was quoting the Lebanese government, but not word for word. Other than that, nothing anywhere.

[QuestionAll...]

3. Rafiq Hariri

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/hari-f17.shtml

The US media has responded predictably to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, echoing the bellicose threats of the Bush administration against Syria and amplifying unsubstantiated charges that the regime in Damascus was the author of the killing.

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What of the acknowledged doubt—summarily dismissed by the Post—that the Syrian regime is being “framed” for a crime it did not commit? Curiously, the newspaper gives no indication of who might be responsible for such a frame-up. Here, however, the question of “who benefits” is definitely worth pursuing.

The powers that most clearly stood to advance their strategic aims by having Hariri assassinated and blaming the crime on Syria are the US and Israel. Among those who play the game of speculating who organized the car bombing in Beirut, the smart money is undoubtedly on Washington and Tel Aviv.

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It is not just a question of motive, however. Israel has a long history of utilizing assassination as an instrument of state policy. The Israeli regime has not infrequently carried out acts of terror and blamed them on its enemies.

Among the more infamous examples was the so-called Lavon Affair, in which the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad organized a covert network inside Egypt which launched a series of bombing attacks in 1953. The targets included US diplomatic facilities, and the attackers left behind phony evidence implicating anti-American Arabs. The aim was to disrupt US ties to Egypt.

In its long history of assassinations of Palestinian leaders, many of them carried out in Beirut, the Israeli regime has routinely attempted to implicate rival Palestinian factions.

Car bomb killings in Beirut are a regular part of Mossad’s repertoire. In the 1970s and 1980s, when the Israelis invaded Lebanon, such bombings were a fact of daily life, and many of them were attributed to Israel.

[MADem]

5. Well, I think Syria did it. So does half the Lebanese cabinet. NT

[Solo_in_MD]

2. They are a cladestine organization working for a rational government

vice ours which seems to gut our intelligence capability on a regular basis

[MADem]

4. Those guys are TOUGH

They're the only HUMINT assets worth a damn not just in the Levant, but in Syria, Iraq, Iran, you name it. They get around, they do it well, too; full immersion, third-country bonafides, you name it, they work it. Not like us. We can't do shit without using the "businessman as spy" model, and the effectiveness of that approach is very limited.

[jpkenny]

6. I guess that's why Israeli intel has been as bad as it is?

Yes, they really do get around, including spying on the US and assassinating folks in other countries, destablizing governments, and setting up false-flag operations all across the ME, including in Iraq and Iran.

[mvd]

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