"The only prospect that holds hope for us is the carving
up of Syria . . . It is our task to prepare for that prospect.
All else is a purposeless waste of time." --Zionist militant
Zeév Jabotinsky, from "We and Turkey" in Di Tribune,
November 30, 1915
"We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim
is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is
Lebanon, for the Muslim regime is artificial and easy for us to
undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then
we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan, and Syria
will fall to us." --David Ben-Gurion, from "Ben-Gurion,
A Biography" by Michael Ben-Zohar, May 1948
"It is obvious that the above military assumptions, and
the whole plan too, depend also on the Arabs continuing to be
even more divided than they are now, and on the lack of any truly
mass movement among them . . . Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation
will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the
more important aim of breaking Iraq up into denominations as in
Syria and Lebanon . . . Syria will fall apart." --Oded Yinon,
1982. from "The Zionist Plan for the Middle East"
"Regime change is, of course, our goal both in Lebanon and
Syria. We wrote long ago that there are three ways to achieve
it- the dictator chooses to change; he falls before his own unhappy
people; or if he poses a threat to the outside, the outside takes
him out . . .” --Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs (JINSA), From strategy paper #474 "Priorities in
Lebanon & Syria", March 2, 2005
From mission statement to mission accomplished, the slam dunk
cakewalks continue. But from Baghdad to Beirut, the forgery looks
the same.
Unlike Iraq, there is no 'weapons of mass destruction threat'
to facilitate toppling the Syrian regime. This time a United Nations
Tribunal could provide the means, deploying Lebanese Prime Minister
Rafiq Hariri's murder as the weapon. But like the US show trial
to convict Saddam Hussein, the show trial to convict Syria for
Hariri's murder, built by the United Nation's International Independent
Investigation Commission (UNIIIC), has a history of problems.
Several of the UNIIIC's prime witnesses have admitted to perjury,
accusing the US-Israeli backed Lebanese government of bribery
and foul play. Witness Hussam Taher Hussam claimed Future Movement
MP Saad Hariri (son of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri) offered
him $1.3m USD to incriminate top Syrian officials. Witness Ibrahim
Michel Jarjoura said he was assaulted and forced to lie by Lebanese
Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamade. Star witness Zuhir
Ibn Mohamed Said Saddik, who had accused Lebanese President Emile
Lahoud and Syrian President Bashar Assad of ordering Hariri's
murder, bragged of earning millions by falsely testifying to the
UN Commission. Though much of their discredited testimony is still
included as evidence, both UNIIIC prosecutors Brammertz and Mehlis
said that the use of lie detector tests was not an option.
In his country, Mehlis has been rebuked for unethical and unprofessional
practices. According to Germany's Junge Welt magazine, former
UN investigator Detlev Mehlis received a $10m USD slush fund to
rig the UNIIIC outcome against Syria. An inquiry by German public
TV Zweites Deutsche Fernsehen found that Mehlis had relied on
CIA, MI6 and Mossad intelligence in prior investigations, namely
the Berlin Disco bombing of the 1980s where Mehlis knowingly used
testimony supplied by Arab Mossad agent Mohammad Al Amayra in
his case against Libya. Mehlis also relied on NSA intercepts of
fake telephone calls that former Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky
revealed were made by Mossad agents, posing as Arab terrorists.
The phone calls proved Libyan guilt and justified America's bombing
of Libya.
In the Hariri case, German critics claimed "the choice of
Mehlis was done because of his links to the German, American,
French and Israeli intelligence agencies." Lebanese news
source libnen.com, and Le Figaro confirmed that the British MI6
and Mossad have been supplying much of the UN Commission's intelligence.
When Mehlis resigned in disgrace, the UN hired Belgian prosecutor
Serge Brammertz at Mehlis' recommendation. But Brammertz could
also be vulnerable to US pressure if he assembles a verdict not
to America's liking. Under Belgium's Universal Competence Law,
Belgian legislators charged US CENTCOM General Tommy Franks, President
George W Bush, Vice Presiident Dick Cheney and Secretary of State
Colin Powell with war crimes in Iraq. In 2003, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld threatened to pull NATO headquarters out of Belgium
if the prosecutions commenced. Shortly after, the Universal Competence
Law was dropped. At the UN, Brammertz told this writer questions
about similar US retaliation against his country regarding an
unapproved Hariri outcome were not relevant and were "unhelpful."
But much of the questionable case built by Mehlis has been retained
by Brammertz. Though Brammertz's secretive style preempts most
outside debunking of questionable evidence, it is clear that fundamental
issues remain unresolved. Brammertz's latest UN report estimates
that TNT and RDX explosives were used. But military experts and
vehicle manufacturers claimed that blast damage to Hariri's heavily
armored Mercedes had the distinctive 'melting signature' incurred
by high density DU munitions. Israel's recent attack on Lebanon
destroyed that evidence, by contaminating the crime scene with
American DU-tipped GBU-28 bunker buster bomb residue.
It is also not certain where the explosion that killed Hariri
was detonated. French experts assessed it was underground because
the blast had cracked the foundations of adjacent buildings, manhole
covers on the street had blown off, and asphalt was propelled
onto nearby rooftops. After it was found that an underground explosion
would not implicate Syria, but rather the pro-US/Israeli Lebanese
government who had supervised road work in the days before Hariri
died, the focus shifted to an above-ground blast via suicide bomber.
Then in a psyops setup reminiscent of the Pentagon's al Qaeda
cutout Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, (who terrorized the length and breadth
of Iraq with a wooden leg), several UN reports feature a 'Zarqawi-inspired'
suicide car bomber, Ahmed Abu Adass, as the killer. 'Martyr' Adass's
video confession debuted on Al Jazeera bin Laden-style, with all
the requisite hoopla. But according to Reuters and ABC News, the
"Syrian-coerced" car bomber had never learned how to
drive. (3/4/05)
America's United Nations ambassador at the time, John Bolton,
who usually criticized the United Nations as "irrelevent,"
praised Mehlis, Brammertz and the UNIIIC investigation's "great
work" saying "the substantial evidence speaks for itself."
But the irrelevant evidence Brammertz refuses to speak of could
prove far more substantial. Last June, the Lebanese Army discovered
several networks of Arab mercenaries sponsored by Israel's Mossad
conducting terrorist attacks and car bombings connected to the
Hariri assassination.
Israel National News "Arutz Sheva" reported that Lebanese
Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh was ignored when he protested
to the UN about the discoveries. (6/25/06) The US Ambassador to
Lebanon Jeffrey Feltman, who helped manufacture the Cedar Revolution
through the American Embassy in Beirut, then threatened Lebanon
with very "grave consequences" and a boycott of foreign
aid if Salloukh filed a formal UN complaint about the findings.
Despite Feltman's ultimatums, Lebanese Military Investigating
Magistrate Adnan Bolbol was to begin questioning witnesses over
the Mossad assassinations in mid-July. On July 11, the Lebanese
opposition publicized its demand for a United Nations Security
Council Resolution against Israel, as well as a full inquiry into
the Mossad's Arab-camouflaged spy killings. Responding within
hours on July 12, Israel hastily retaliated with a full-scale
attack on Lebanon using the Hezbollah border kidnapping as pretext.
Did the war on Lebanon cover up exposure of a "Salvador-style"
slaying of Rafiq Hariri and and the other assassinations blamed
on Syria?
Using the Salvador Option against Syria had first been raised
by Newsweek and the London Times in January 2005. After Hariri's
death on February 14, Hariri's long-time personal advisor Mustafa
Al Naser said that "the assassination of Hariri is the Israeli
Mossad's job, aimed at creating political tension in Lebanon."
(Asia Times 2/17/05) The Sunday Herald of Scotland hinted at a
US role. "With controversial diplomat John Negroponte installed
as the all-powerful Director of National Intelligence, is the
US about to switch from invasions to covert operations and dirty
tricks? The assassination of the former Lebanese PM has aroused
suspicions." (Sunday Herald 2/20/05)
Fred Burton, vice president of counter-terrorism at Stratfor,
was also suspicious. Burton, who spent over 20 years as a counter-terrorism
expert at the US State Department and the Secret Service, has
investigated most terror attacks against US embassies abroad,
as well as the first World Trade Center bombing, and the murder
of Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin. Stratfor's Burton also specialized
in Syrian terror operations and methods. He rejected both Syria
and Hezbollah as the perpetrators behind the Hariri killing. "Syria
lacks the finesse," and the "complex nature" of
the remote-control technology needed to implement "the surgical
nature of the charge" are beyond their capacity, he insisted.
"This is not their style . . . and Hezbollah would not have
this capability." (UPI 6/27/05)
According to United Press International, Stratfor's report on
the Hariri crime concluded that the Lebanese assassinations were
"so sophisticated that few in the world could have done it."
Burton told UPI that only five nations had such advanced resources
--- Israel, the US, Britain, France and Russia. "This type
of technology is only available to government agencies."
Burton then asked: "Suppose that these bombings were 'merely
collateral'? That the true target in the plot is the Syrian regime
itself? If Damascus were being framed, who then would be the likely
suspect?"
"Israeli intelligence is standing behind this crime,"
claimed German criminologist Juergen Cain Kuelbel. In his book,
"Hariri's Assassination: Hiding Evidence in Lebanon,"
he wrote: "Syria is innocent and has nothing to do with that
crime or the other assassinations." Kuelbel discovered that
the jamming system used to disable the Hariri convoy's electronic
shield was manufactured by Netline Technologies Ltd of Tel Aviv,
an Israeli company co-developed with the Israel Defense Forces
and Israeli law enforcement agencies, and sold through European
outlets. The UNIIIC dismissed Kuelbel's findings as "ridiculous"
and irrelevant.
But two months after the Hariri convoy was destroyed, Israeli-manufactured
weapons began to appear near the homes and neighborhoods of politicians
in Lebanon. On April 14, 2005, UPI reported that Lebanese security
forces had discovered six Hebrew-inscribed mortar shells manufactured
by Israel on a deserted beach near the southern Lebanese village
of Ghaziyeh.
Similar missiles and dynamite were also found along a road frequented
by Hezbollah officials, and on December 10, 2005, four anti-tank
rockets attached to wires ready for detonation were found planted
on the road leading to MP Walid Jumblatt's Muktara Palace.
In February 2006 Lebanon's Daily Star and An Nahar reported that
Hebrew-marked 55mm, 60mm and 81mm rockets were discovered close
to MP Saad Hariri's Qoreitem estate. Similar rockets had also
been uncovered near the Majdelyoun home of Saad's aunt, legislator
Bahia Hariri, near Sidon.
While the pro-US/Israeli 'March 14' government automatically
blamed Syria for the findings, one of several Israeli spy rings
was captured trying to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary General
Hassan Nasrallah. AFP sited nine "well-trained, professional"
paramilitaries who were intercepted with an arsenal of B-7 rocket
launchers, anti-tank missiles, pump action shotguns, hand grenades,
AK 47 rifles, revolvers, silencers, computers and CDs.
Then in June 2006, Mahmoud Rafea a mercenary from the South Lebanon
Army, (created by Israel during the civil war with $10,000 bonuses),
was caught on camera after car bombing two members of Islamic
Jihad, the Majzoub brothers. Israel's ynet.com reported that Rafea
confessed to committing the Majzoub slayings for Israel's Mossad,
as well as to a number of other high level assassinations.
Israeli website DEBKAfiles said that Rafea had assisted "two
Israeli agents [who] flew into Beirut International Airport aboard
a commercial flight on false passports three days before the Majzoub
brothers were assassinated." They "replaced a door of
the brothers' car with a booby-trapped facsimile" and left
the country after an Israeli airplane "detonated the planted
explosives with an electronic beam." (Daily Star, 6/20/06)
Mahmoud Rafea, who was trained in Israel, also confessed to distributing
bombs and ordnance to various locations around Lebanon to destabilize
the country. A raid of Rafea's home yielded high tech Israeli
surveillance gear, fake passports, IDs, and appliances and baggage
with secret compartments, and detailed maps of Lebanon.
But Rafea's network was only one among several. Lebanese Internal
Security Forces are still searching for a different spy ring led
by another Arab Mossad agent, Hussein Khattab. The Times of London
wrote: "In a bizarre twist, Hussein Khattab, a Palestinian
member of the spy ring, who is still at large, is the brother
of Sheikh Jamal Khattab, an Islamic cleric who allegedly recruited
Arab fighters for Al Qaeda in Iraq". (6/15/06)
Equally strange, Hussein Khattab's brother Jamal and his colleague
Sheikh Obeida (mentioned in the UNIIIC report as head of al Qaeda's
Jund Al Sham) frequently met with the Zarqawi-inspired Hariri
suicide car bomber Ahmed Abu Adass in the Ein Hilweh refugee camp
of Lebanon. (Like Israel and the US, Zarqawi had demanded that
Hezbollah be disarmed.) Israel National News "Arutz Sheva"
(12/10/06) later wrote that "the US has been talking with
Al Qaeda-sponsored terrorist groups in Syria in an all-out effort
to topple the regime of President Bashar Assad".
In early January 2007, AP and the UK Telegraph reported that
the CIA had begun covert operations in Lebanon using Arab proxies.
During the riots in Beirut on January 20-22, a US proxy, the Progressive
Socialist Party, distributed US weapons to fighters dressed as
opposition Hezbollah/Amal supporters. The riots were then blamed
on the opposition.
Comparing the Hariri car bombing to the mysterious car bombings
in Iraq, Asia Times said: "What remains is the evidence of
Baghdad in Beirut . . . The iron-clad certainty, on both sides
[Sunni and Shia resistance in Iraq], is that these have been perpetrated
not by "terrorists" as the US claims, but rather by
Israeli black ops or CIA-connected American mercenaries, with
the intent of fueling tensions and advancing the prospect of civil
war. Now if only someone would come up with a Beirut smoking gun."
"The Gun" -- as Meir Dagan is nicknamed -- could be
it.
Israeli website DEBKAfiles wrote that the above-named South Lebanon
Army mercenary Mahmoud Rafea, had been assassinating/spying in
Lebanon for Israel since 1989 when he was recruited by current
Mossad Director Meir Dagan.
In 2002, Meir Dagan was reappointed by Ariel Sharon to reprise
the Mossad's covert operations in Lebanon, notably targeted killings
abroad. Coinciding with Dagan's appointment, official Israeli
policy was expanded to allow assassinations in friendly ally nations
(including the US) using Kidon death squads from the Metsada Division.
It was a job for which Dagan had ample experience. (The Australian
9/24/04 & UPI 1/15/03)
Under Ariel Sharon in 1970, Dagan commanded a secret assassination
unit of the Israeli Security Agency called Sayaret Rimon that
eliminated over 750 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In 1982, he
helped command Israel's invasion of Lebanon. His main assignment
was to manage undercover infiltrators, and to train Lebanese collaborators
for the pro-Israel South Lebanon Army.
Dagan commanded the Lebanon Liasion Unit (Yakal or Yaagal Border
Unit) which was notorious for its cross-border raids into Lebanon
to kidnap opponents, as well as its secret prison Camp 1391, where
detainees were tortured and disappeared. Haaretz alleged Camp
1391 was the prototype for America's Guantanamo facility.
Dagan also operated the IDF Military Intelligence Unit 504, whose
expertise was assassination, sabotage and spy running in Lebanon.
The Israel Defence Forces call such spy saboteurs "Mista'aravim"
-- "soldiers disguised as Arabs." Used for clandestine
reconnaissance and to frame enemies in false flag operations,
these IDF soldiers impersonating Arabs and their proxies are "trained
to act and think like Arabs," and to blend in to the target
population with appropriate manners and language. (In 2002, this
writer encountered at least one such Israeli 'student' who claimed
to be in Beirut "learning to think like 'the enemy.'")
One Mista'aravim specialty is the donning of Arab garb. In 1973,
Israel's "Spring of Youth Operation" conducted by the
IDF Sayaret Matkal in Beirut included future Prime Minister Ehud
Barak dressed as an Arab woman while conducting death squad hits.
Mista'aravim provocateurs camouflaged as Palestinians are still
used in the West Bank and Iraq. Jane's Foreign Report said Mossad's
Dagan had advised US officials in September 2002 on how Israeli
special ops could help the US war effort in Iraq. Mista'aravim
methods were exemplified in Basra where British SAS troops dressed
as Arabs in a vehicle loaded with explosives were seized before
detonating a car bomb. According to Israeli intelligence expert
Ephraim Kahana, Sayaret Matkal is modeled on Britain's SAS.
Mista'aravim also specialize in close quarter urban combat using
micro-Uzis, short-barreled M-16s and sniper rifles. Due to fluid
street and residential changes, these teams rely on satellite
photos and real-time drone imaging -- like the complex technique
used in the killing of the Majzoub brothers, where overhead drones
monitored ground activity via cameras mounted on nearby objects
-- a level of capability not possessed by Syria.
Concerning the 2006 Lebanon War, DEBKAfiles boasted of other
Israeli Mista'aravim successes: "two spy rings of Lebanese
agents which the Israeli Mossad" operated had "planted
bugs and surveillance equipment at Hizballah command posts before
and during the war. They also sprinkled special phosphorus powder
outside buildings housing Hizballah's war commands and rocket
launchers as markers for air strikes. Well before the war, the
Beirut ring had penetrated the inner circles of Hizballah and
was reporting on their activities and movements to Israeli controllers
. . . Run by veterans of the South Lebanese Army (the force Israel
created during its occupation), its job was to "paint"
targets for the Israeli Air Force and artillery.." DEBKAfiles
claimed that Lebanon was "heavily penetrated by agents working
for Israel intelligence."
One Lebanese in particular, General Adnan Daoud, even appeared
on Israeli televsion smiling and drinking tea with IDF soldiers
while taking them on a four-hour tour of his military base in
Marjayoun. An hour after the Israeli soldiers' departure, IDF
bombed the Marjayoun site. (AP/Jerusalem Post, 8/7/06)
Regarding yet other Mossad agents DEBKAfiles wrote: "Hizballah's
security officials detained two non-Lebanese Arabs wandering around
the ruined Dahya district, taking photos and drawing maps. Several
forged passports were in their possession . . .”
All factions concerned with the Hariri killing -- the UNIIIC,
Stratfor, Hezbollah, Syria, the US, Israel and the Lebanese 'March
14' movement -- agree on one thing: the Hariri perpetrator also
carried out the other 22 assassinations, and possibly more. Lebanon's
Daily Star quoted the FBI: "the same explosive was used in
Hawi, Kassir and Hamade crimes" as that used against Hariri.
On May 27, 2006, the Daily Star revealed that the killers of Hariri
and the Majzoub brothers could be the same: "Internal Security
Forces, forensics experts, judiciary police and members of Hizbullah's
security apparatus inspected the blast site shortly after the
bomb detonated. The shrapnel and iron balls found extensively
around the explosion indicate the bomb was a specialized mine
to assassinate individuals, and it is similiar to Hawi and Kassir's
explosives."
Sources in Lebanon and at the UNIIIC in New York concluded that
the same party responsible for Hariri's death and the other Lebanese
assassinations also committed the Majzoub killings. In June, Mossad
agent Mahmoud Rafea admitted killing the Majzoub brothers for
Israel.
But such relevant evidence has been deliberately ignored by the
UN International Independent Investigation Commission. At the
United Nations, this writer questioned various officials over
a period of months about a possible US-Israeli role in Hariri's
murder, and if it was being investigated by the UNIIIC. Prosecutor
Serge Brammertz stated that because the issue wasn't raised by
the US/Israeli-backed Lebanese government, that line of enquiry
would not be pursued. It seems only facts supporting a guilty
verdict against Syria will be considered.
"As far as Israel is concerned, it would be difficult to
imagine a more convenient scenario. Its stubborn enemies, Iran
and Syria, are now being accused by the international community,
one for its nuclear program, the other for its behavior in Lebanon
. . . Israel has hoped for this outcome since the 9/11 terror
attacks in the United States in 2001. Immediately after the collapse
of the Twin Towers, Israeli officials began to speak about the
anticipated change, and expressed a hope that the United States
would bring order to the region, and would deal with Iran, Syria,
Hezbollah, and not only Iraq." --Aluf Benn, Haaretz, October
25, 2005
From Baghdad to Beirut, the democracy dominoes keep falling.
After Syria, an Iranian "Shah and Awe" forgery is the
next imminent threat.
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