- Neo-con/Likud parallel intelligence and covert operations
strike inside Syria.
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- A covert team of U.S., Israeli, right-wing Phalangist
Lebanese, and paid Syrian provocateurs have attempted to cover up their
role in carrying out car bombings of Lebanese politicians by assassinating
Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan on October 12. Informed Middle East
sources report that Kanaan's knowledge of the covert group's assassinations
of Lebanese Christian leader Elie Hobeika in 2002 and former Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri and former Lebanese Communist Party leader George Hawi earlier
this year.
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- Hobeika was assassinated by a powerful car bomb after
he revealed he possessed videotapes and documents proving the involvement
in Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his military units in the massacre
of Palestinians at Sabra and Shatilla in Beirut in 1982. Hobeika had planned
to testify against Sharon at a war crimes tribunal in Brussels. Hariri
was killed in a similar car bomb last February after he met with leaders
of Hezbollah and expressed his opposition to the construction of a U.S.
air base in northern Lebanon. Last June, car bombs killed Hawi and Samir
Qasir, a popular journalist.
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- Murdered Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan Knew Too
Much About Neocon Destabilization Activities in Lebanon
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- The UN chief investigator in the assassination of Hariri,
Detlev Mehlis of Germany, interviewed Kanaan before his death. The "suicide"
of Kanaan was spun by the main stream media to make it appear that he took
his own life because of "guilt" for his involvement in the Lebanese
political assassinations stemming from his long-time role as Syria's viceroy
in Lebanon. However, Kanaan was close to Hariri, as well as with a group
of career government Arabists in the U.S. government who have been opposed
to the neo-con agenda of expanding the Iraq war to Syria and Iran. Kanaan
was in a position to know the details of the Pentagon/Likud plot to undermine
the Syrian regime by carrying out bombings of popular Lebanese politicians
and then laying blame on Damascus.
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- Kanaan was also likely aware of the identities of rogue
Syrian intelligence agents who helped the covert U.S., Israeli, and Lebanese
teams in carrying out the car bombings in Lebanon. One person identified
as being responsible for ordering the hit on Hobeika was Assef Shawkat,
the number two man in Syrian intelligence.
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- Diplomatic Cables
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- By Wayne Madsen
- 10-12-5
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- Notwithstanding personal attacks by a neo-con cell in
the U.S. State Department, I have long contended that neo-con-directed
operatives (including Syrian freelance agents operating outside the control
of Damascus and the Assad government) were behind the assassinations of
Lebanese Christian leader Elie Hobeika in 2002 and ex-Lebanese Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri and former Lebanese Communist Party leader George Hawi in
2005. All were targets of opportunity for the neo-cons who hope to destabilize
Lebanon as a raison de guerre against Syria and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
The neo-cons quickly blamed Syria and Hezbollah for all three assassinations.
The July 12 attempted bombing assassination attempt against Lebanese Defense
Minister Elias Murr, a pro-Syrian politician, has been used by the State
Department to again blast Syrian "meddling" in Lebanese politics.
Murr was injured in the blast. There was no reason for Syria or Hezbollah
to kill a pro-Syrian politician let alone Hobeika, Hariri, and Hawi. The
ones who benefit from a fractured Lebanon is the Likud government in Israel
and their political allies in Washington.
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- Recently, amid the tanking of popular support for the
occupation of Iraq, the neocons in Washington, the US Mission to the UN
in New York, and Jerusalem have ratcheted up their war of words against
Syria. Mehlis is being pressured by John Bolton's neocon mini-cabal in
Manhattan to lay total blame for the Hariri assassination on Bashar Assad's
government. Bolton is being aided in the anti-Syrian propaganda campaign
by U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, National Security Adviser
Stephen Hadley, and Douglas Feith's successor as Undersecretary of Defense
for Policy and Plans Eric Edelman. The neo-con cell operating inside the
Pentagon also includes an influential Lebanese-American right-wing component.
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- http://waynemadsenreport.com/
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