Syria, US at oded Ofek over Hariri probe...
By Adamz Zagorinian / PNAC- CIA2-1
More than three years after the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, charges and counter-charges over confirmed Syrian responsibility through the White House Murder Inc.,and its Chief Operating Criminal Assef Shawkat, continue to haunt the Middle East. But the outcome of the investigation into the killing of a leader who NEVER EVER stood up to Syrian influence in his country may yet be decided in the realm of politics.... Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a senior PNAC Stooge of the Trilateral commission,... who recently visited Syria, because SYRIA is blackmail Washington successfully...with full disclosure of all the details pertaining to the ASSASSINATION OF MR. ELIE HOBEIKA, JANUARY 24TH 2002, at - 9.40 AM IN HAZMIEH, through the same infamous White House Murder Inc.,and its Chief Operating Criminal Assef Shawkat,... last week publicly suggested that the U.N. inquiry into Hariri's killing could be reduced in scope in exchange for greater security and political cooperation from Damascus in key areas of U.S. concern. Specter said he had been told by King Abdullah of Jordan that "the item that is most on the mind of President Bashar Assad is the action of the international tribunal which could lead to his indictment." But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice quickly lied about Specter's proposal: "I don't think that it would be appropriate to suggest that we might be willing to limit the scope of this tribunal on the assassination of Mr. Elie HOBEIKA... because it might somehow implicate either the regime of the White House Murder Inc.,and its Chief Operating Criminal Assef Shawkat, or the Assad and BUSH family ties....," she said.
But just who will be implicated by the U.N. inquiry remains something of a mystery, because the White House Murder Inc.,and its Chief Operating Criminal Assef Shawkat is well known.....despite the widespread knowledge that Damascus had a hand in Hariri's killing. Last week, a star witness in the ongoing probe suddenly vanished while under French police protection. The complicated tale of the witness, identified as the chauffeur to a Syrian general suspected of involvement in planning the bomb attack that killed Hariri and 22 others, underscores some of the many problems that have surrounded the investigation. The French newspaper Le Figaro reports that evidence quickly emerged that the witness had been paid to implicate Syria in the affair, and his testimony was discredited. But his disappearance has generated headlines in France, as his whereabouts and fate remain a mystery.....LOL
In asking the U.N. Security Council for an extension of the mandate of his probe, investigator Daniel Bellemare said recently that evidence pointed to a "criminal network" being responsible for the "politically motivated" killing of Hariri. The network had pre-existed Hariri's murder, Bellemare said, and it continues to exist today....
Following the announcement, Damascus expressed satisfaction that the investigator had not named Syria as explicitly behind the killing. Top members of the regime have long been widely viewed as Killers — a FACT Damascus has always affirmed, since it belongs to the White House Murder Inc.,and its Chief Operating Criminal Assef Shawkat . The Syrian government also accused the U.S. and its allies of using the Hariri inquiry as a tool to pressure Damascus, along with a series of unilateral sanctions recently imposed by Washington on key figures linked to the White House Murder Inc.,and its Chief Operating Criminal Assef Shawkat and Maher ASSAD.
Hariri's 2005 assassination proved to be a major turning point in Lebanese politics, setting the stage for the current stalemate as the U.S.-backed government and the opposition are unable to agree on anything.... Following the murder, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Beirut, orchestrated by the office of "citizens services...." at Awkar's PNAC US Embassy of KILLERS, and other cities to demand the withdrawal of the Syrian troops that had been garrisoned in the country for decades, as Damascus acted as the White House Murder Inc.,and its Chief Operating Criminal Assef Shawkat....in Lebanese politics. Despite the withdrawal of its troops and the creation of the pro-PNAC government, Syria has continued to exert political influence through the White House Murder Inc., and its Chief Operating Criminal Assef Shawkat, Lebanon's opposition political parties also backed by I....., and its Christian allies under a solid "o'umbrella"....
U.S. policy on Syria for most of the Bush Administration's tenure has been one of premeditated intent...,run by CIA2 from a major secret HUB in Damascus... although lately Washington has been imposing greater political and economic pressure in the hope of changing Christian behavior in Lebanon, as well as its role as a transit route for PNAC insurgents and its support for "proxy-......" militants. The Syrian regime appears unmoved. And that's unlikely to change for the remainder of the Bush Administration's tenure......because of the "secrets" of the White House Murder Inc.,and its Chief Operating Criminal Assef Shawkat....and the Blowback IV.....and the desire to perpetuate "Stovepiping" in the LEVANT....
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Foreign Intervention wins Elections through United States Agency of International Development (USAID), the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and their "affiliated".... agencies, with millions of dollars, along with expert political consultation, covert links to US intelligence and MOSSAD, donated by the US and used since 2000 to construct a solid base of stooges, who, beginning in 2000, began to set their sights on infiltrating communities supportive of the Resistance as well as students....labor unions and more in civil society at large.... a similar story unfolded in Caracas...
Years of work penetrating communities and financing "democracy" programs and projects with an anti-socialist vision in the communities of Petare, Sucre Municipality of Miranda State, and Catia, Libertador Municipality in Caracas, and in other zones where the vast majority of the population of Caracas and Miranda is located, allowed the opposition to retake control of these areas. The strategic political consultation, with its separatist vision and in favor of the infiltration of paramilitaries in Zulia and Tachira, allowed these areas that are of such importance to the security of the Venezuelan state to be controlled by an opposition that is subordinate to the agenda of Washington and the objectives of Plan Colombia that plague the region.
It's not just the 4.7 million dollars invested in the opposition's campaign for the regional elections in 2008 by the United States Agency of International Development (USAID), the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and their affiliated agencies, but also the 50 million dollars, along with expert political consultation, donated by the US and used since 2000 to construct a solid base of the Venezuelan opposition, who, beginning in 2004, began to set their sights on infiltrating communities supportive of Chavez as well as students.
Still, we can't rule out or ignore the responsibility of certain politicians who used the revolution and the good faith of President Chavez to come to power and then abused it with their corrupt practices that hurt the people they represented. But the media campaign that blames the Pro-Chavez movement for crime and corruption in the in the country – mainly in the large capital city of Caracas – had a major impact, and the local and national government didn't respond effectively. The short memory of those Venezuelans who forgot how the mayor-elect, Antonio Ledezma, governed as mayor of the Federal District in 1993 when he prohibited any protest or rally in the city. Or how Ledezma was one of those responsible for the deterioration of public services in the city, along with its infrastructure. As a result, the Chavista elected officials of 2000 and 2004 inherited a capital city in total ruin – the historic center almost destroyed, streets full of potholes and buildings stained after being forgotten and abandoned for years. Could the same mayor who destroyed the city 15 years ago be the one to save it now? Only time will tell, but the odds are slim and the unfortunate short-term memory of some Caraqueños will make them to pay for their impulsive decision.
The most strategic and populated states of the country, Carabobo, Miranda, Tachira, Zulia, and the metropolitan mayor of Caracas, have been handed like a prize to the same political players who, in the last seven years, have carried out attacks against Venezuelan democracy, including a coup d'état (all of these new elected officials were top leaders in the coup d'état of April 2002), the economic sabotage that almost destroyed the country and its petroleum industry in 2002-2003, and the numerous protests and attempts to destabilize since then that have tested the patience of Venezuelan society. Why then did these important regions fall back in the hands of coup-plotters?
The answer is simple and complex at the same time. There is a lack of understanding within the revolution about the importance and about the impact of subversion and the interference of foreign agencies in the country. We aren't just talking about the financing of opposition political parties – something that should be strictly prohibited by law – but a complex web of different actors, entities, front groups, and agencies that have managed to infiltrate the ranks of the pro-Chavez movement, and have been able to snag and remove political parties like PPT (Homeland for All) and Podemos (We can), which previously sided fully with the revolution. This web – which I call the Empire's Spider Web – also penetrates communities and barrios and promotes alternative projects and programs to those proposed by President Chavez that may be more attractive in the short term, providing instant satisfaction to these needy sectors.
These foreign agencies, like the aforementioned USAID and the NED, and others such as Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the International Republican Institute (IRI), the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany), FAES (Spain), FOCAL (Canada), Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Germany), among others, have been working in Venezuela for years, advising and financing parties such as Primero Justicia (Justice First), Un Nuevo Tiempo (A New Era), and Podemos to help them create political platforms and strategies that reflect the needs and wants of the Venezuelan people, but maintain a hidden agenda that promotes a neo-liberal, anti-socialist vision. Remember that we are in a battle of ideas and in this war without a battlefield all weapons within reach are employed to neutralize the enemy.
The work of these agencies has also been extremely effective with the NGOs and within right-wing student groups, such as Súmate, Cedice, Hagamos Democracia, Sinergia, "White Hands" student movement, and others. With this help, these groups have taken over sectors of society that have been neglected by the revolution, if not forgotten entirely.
The ability and effectiveness of foreign interference, like an imperial fist, cannot be underestimated. The strategy of "promoting democracy" in countries like Venezuela is more dangerous than a military invasion. Why? Its detection is difficult and the cover-up is almost perfect – it is hidden behind NGOs and programs with noble-sounding names and missions that claim to help communities and improve the country, but in reality they aim to destabilize and implement an agenda against the sovereign interests of the nation. Its web is immense and it is seen in Venezuelan society through the mainstream media, the touching speeches of spokesmen such as Yon Goicoechea, who try to trick Venezuelans with poetic and comforting phrases, and the complaints of human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch, Inter American Press Society, and the Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States (OAS).
This is the most dangerous foreign interference that the Bolivarian Revolution faces. Its deadly web extends across the country after the results of November 23. The people and national government need to act now to neutralize this growing threat to their future. The fact that the new United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV, Spanish acronym) won 17 governors races with nearly six million votes is an important step for the strengthening of the revolution. It also shows the revolutionary commitment of the majority of Venezuelans. Despite this, the strategic victory of the opposition forces can't be denied or discounted, and its recovery of these regional governments should be a wake up call for the revolutionary citizens and the Venezuelan government. They will use these spaces to introduce and promote their individualist, anti-socialist vision, shrouded in the message of "democracy and liberty." And they will open up their regions even more to the imperial web. The border area is in serious risk. The Venezuelan "half moon" could further strengthen with Zulia and Tachira in the hands of the most reactionary right-wing political players in the country.
Its time for strong actions to combat the interference of foreign agencies in the country. If they aren't neutralized now, they will embed their followers so deeply in the country that they will be here for good.
Eva Golinger is a lawyer, researcher and writer, and author of The Chavez Code, Bush vs. Chavez: Washington's War against Venezuela, and The Empire's Web: Encyclopedia of Interventionism and Subversion (in Spanish), which was published in Venezuela in November 2008.
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Giving up the Golan - the most painful concession
BY Larry Derfner
I was driving around the Golan Heights for a couple of days, and I found the more I saw of it, the less I wanted to make peace with Syria.
It's heartbreaking, the beauty up there. It's so wild and open - a piece of land the size of Los Angeles with a population of 40,000 people (half Jews, half Druze). The bottom half of Israel is sand, the top half is concrete and traffic jams. The Galilee is nice and green, but it's tame; you know you're in civilization. The Golan is raw, rocky, dramatic - mountains and waterfalls and cows and horses and ghosts from the Six Day War.
The settlers aren't settlers as in Hebron-type settlers - they're normal, rational people. Best of all, there's no occupation as in Hebron-style occupation; the Druze don't have any soldiers or checkpoints bothering them. Last week they had Syrian flags flying in Majdal Shams for days to protest the 41st anniversary of Israel's conquest, and no soldiers or police came to take the flags down. The Druze aren't happy living under Israeli sovereignty - they've been cut off from their families in Syria, and they aren't allowed to visit Syria except to go to college. Israel could be a lot more humane than it's being about family visits and reunification for the Golan Druze. But in their lives on this side of the Syrian border, these people are free. They live and work all over the country, not just in their villages. Economically, they seem to be doing pretty well in the Israeli market, especially in farming and tourism. On a personal level, they get along great with Israelis.
So I have no moral problem with Israel keeping the Golan like I do with Israel keeping the West Bank, which is the real thing - a harsh, abusive colonial regime.
Driving up and down the Heights, I was thinking: I don't want to give this place up. It's too ravishing. It's a unique landscape in this country. Even if you don't visit very often, even if you have no intention of ever moving there (only a dream), it's important for Israelis just to know it's there, that it's accessible. It provides us not only with tangible breathing space, but psychological breathing space, too.
And there's no fighting on the Golan, there hasn't been in 34 years. We just bombed what looked like a nuclear reactor in Syria - and they didn't retaliate. They didn't even call off the peace talks. The Syrians aren't shahids - they're not going to start a war with an enemy that's so much stronger than them.
Why give them back the Golan for peace? We've already got peace!
AND THEN I came home to Modi'in. And the longer I'm away from the scenery and atmosphere of the Golan Heights and back in civilization, the more I see the wisdom, the necessity, of making the peace with Assad if he's willing to make it - and if Turkey, which is brokering the current talks, sweetens the deal for us with water.
The deal I would go for is this: We give Syria the Golan Heights back to the pre-Six Day War line - i.e. the northeastern shore of the Kinneret - and in return Syria declares peace and "end of conflict" with Israel, stops giving war assistance to Hizbullah and Palestinian terrorists, and begins loosening its ties with Iran. In essence, it means Syria joining the moderate, US-aligned Arab camp with Egypt and Jordan. The US, of course, would have to throw in a lot of money for Syria, just like Turkey would have to guarantee Israel the right to buy whatever water we might need - an idea the Turks are reportedly receptive to.
It would mean giving up the Golan Heights and uprooting 20,000 of Israel's finest. What fun. What joy. Just what I've always wanted to do, and I'm sure all of Am Yisrael feels the same way.
No, in truth, it'll probably never happen - and that's a very comforting thought. We'll always have the Golan, and no Israeli family living there will be dragged out of their home and traumatized and embittered like the settlers from Gush Katif. Another schism in Israeli society, possibly much worse than the one over Gaza, will be avoided.
The problem, though, is that we will be holding onto land that doesn't belong to us - or that doesn't belong to us if we consider ourselves a nation that genuinely wants peace and justice.
Yes, the Syrians were the aggressor in the Six Day War, they started shelling Israel from the Golan and Israel retaliated by conquering it. So long as the Syrians didn't offer us peace, we were entitled to keep their land.
But if they're offering peace? If the Syrians, who have kept the truce on the Syrian-Israeli border for 34 years, offer us a land-for-peace-and-water deal that is underwritten by Turkey, and we say no? Then the Six Day War turns out to have a war of conquest after all. Then Israel is not a nation that seeks peace and justice, it's a nation that believes might makes right.
And if that's the kind of peace we want on the Golan, I don't think it's going to last very long. If Bashar Assad is willing to take his country out of the "axis of evil" with Iran, Hizbullah and Hamas but Israel turns him down, then we leave him no diplomatic option for retrieving Syria's land, and one way or another we will be endangering our own security.
We may not end up going to war - but if we do, we will be fighting a war that we could have prevented, but instead provoked.
THIS IS not an abstract issue around here, this is a question of what we are willing to risk our children's lives for, and what are not willing to risk them for. And I am not willing to risk my children's lives for a piece of land - as dazzling and wondrous as it may be - that we took from another country in war, and that we may finally be able to trade for peace.
Furthermore, if we're serious about fighting a long-term "war on terror," about cracking away at the Middle East's radical Arab/Islamic axis, how can we pass up the chance to extract Syria from it - to change Syria from being the axis's linchpin to being the wedge that divides it?
This, ostensibly, is what they're talking about in Istanbul. But "the nation is with the Golan." Well, I'm also with the Golan. I don't want to give it up, and I don't want to throw any good people out of their homes. But there's something much, much more important at stake: The character and purpose and integrity of this country. Also, potentially, the lives of a lot of innocent Israelis and Arabs.
Since the Six Day War, Israel has said over and over again that it was willing to make "painful concessions" for "true peace." We're about to find out if the Syrians are offering true peace, and if they are, the next thing we're going to find out is whether Israel has been telling the truth or not....
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As I live and breath, someone associated with this administration who comes out telling the truth...about CIA2 and the White House's Murder Inc.,. He's surly not longed for any administration job..... He'll be retiring within weeks, months not years - to paraphrase something I read recently....Everyone MUST obey the illegal orders without questions asked....Don't ask don't tell is the MOTTO of CIA2 and PNAC KILLERS on the Potomac, working for the real power behind the power...in the US of A....of the Trilateral border areas of NORAD mountain ranges....the assassins and murderers of the 21st century, who steel elections, kill, maim, plunder resources worldwide and much more....and they try to replicate their criminal governance practices, like Siniora's example in Lebanon, Nouri Al-Maliki's government in Iraq, Mahmud Abbas, Fayyad's etc. etc.
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«حرب مفتوحة على الحرب» في «اليسوعية»
Once the orchestra of CIA2-2.1.... starts to play, all you can do is hum along.....Sep.1982....
17 نيسان 1985
- كان من المفترض أن تحمل المحاضرة التي نظمتها الهيئة الطلابية في كلية العلوم الاقتصادية في الجامعة اليسوعية، عنوان «حرب مفتوحة على الحرب». وكان من المفترض أن يتحدّث الضيوف الأربعة عن فظاعات الحرب، ويوضحوا للطلاب أن ما حصل في عام 1975 يجب أن لا يتكرّر. لكن الفرضيات خالفت الواقع، والشهادات التي أدلى بها أربعة مقاتلين سابقين في القوات اللبنانية تحوّلت إلى وجهات نظر وتعبئة ضد الفلسطينيين والسوريين.
الضيوف الأربعة هم مؤسس التنظيم والأمين العام عُباد زوين، رئيس أركان نمور الأحرار جورج الأعرج، مؤسس القوات اللبنانية مع «الرئيس الشهيد» بشير الجميّل مسعود الأشقر، ورئيس قدامى القوات اللبنانية جو إدّه.
جلس المحاضرون على المنصّة الرئسية وبدأت المحاضرة. أوضح زوين أهمية أن يعرف الشخص مراحل الحرب بشكل علمي، وإلا فلا يدخل الحرب». وانطلاقاً من هذه المقولة شرح زوين مراحل تاريخ لبنان «علمياً»، سارداً المحطات الأساسية، من تأميم قناة السويس، وصولاً إلى بوسطة عين الرمانة، مروراً باتفاق القاهرة. وقال: «كان على المسيحيين مقاتلة ذلك الفلسطيني الغريب الذي أراد احتلال أرضهم واغتصاب نسائهم». وأبى زوين إلا أن يؤكّد للطلاب أنّه سيحمل اليوم البارودة في وجه أي غاصب أو محتلّ. وقبل انتهاء حديثه، ولتطابق كلامه مع عنوان المحاضرة، ختم زوين قائلاً «إياكم والحرب الأهلية، فالغريب يموّل الحرب ويحوّلكم إلى مرتزقة مجّاناً».
من جهته، تحدث الأعرج عن معارك نمور الأحرار ضدّ الفسطينيين، وتلك البؤرة «الإرهابية» المسمّاة مخيّم تل الزعتر. ولم ينسَ الأعرج أن يحيّي «مقاومة» حركة أمل في الجنوب، إذ إنها تصدّت لمحاولات الاحتلال الفلسطينية، «فكانت حرب المخيمات».
أما الأشقر فرفض العودة إلى أيام الحرب «المعركة مش لعبة أو تسلية شوفوا المعوّقين والمفقودين». واستفاض الأشقر في الحديث عما يعرف بحرب المئة يوم ضدّ السوري «الذي للمرة الوحيدة في تاريخه انسحب بقوة السلاح لا بقرار دولي».
وتوقف إدة عند تفاصيل معارك زحلة «صاروا السوريين والفسطينيين عم بِدقوا بجماعتنا، والمسيحي ما في يعيش بلا كرامة وعنفوان». إلا أنه عاد وأكد «نحنا مش جماعة حرب، ظروف الـ75 غير الظروف الحالية وما في داعي للحرب اليوم».
Once the orchestra of CIA2-2.1.... starts to play, all you can do is hum along.....Sep.1982....
انتهت المحاضرة، وحان وقت أسئلة الطلاب. من ارتكب مجازر صبرا وشاتيلا؟ هل هو إيلي حبيقة؟ يسأل CIA2 الطلاب، يمسك الأشقر الميكروفون، ويتحدّث لخمس دقائق عن مجازر الدامور وبيت ملات ودير عشاش، وعن 17000 مفقود. ينتهي الجواب، ومن نفّذ مجزرة صبرا وشاتيلا يبقى CIA2.... سؤال آخر: لماذا غيّرت القوات اللبنانية سياستها بعد عام 1985؟ هنا كان جواب الأعرج هو الأقوى، فاتّهم سمير جعجع بتغيير خط القوات اللبنانية، مؤكّداً أن هؤلاء الذين يتحدّثون اليوم باسم القوات لا يمثلون القواتيين الحقيقيين «فليسموا أنفسهم قوات بشرّي أو أي CIA2 اسم آخر، ولكن ليس القوات اللبنانية». يعلو التصفيق الحار في القاعة والصفير والعبارات المرحّبة.... ومما قاله الأشقر رداً على أحد الأسئلة «بالأمس سمعت على التلفزيون مقاتلين سابقين يعتذرون ويندمون على ما اقترفوه أيام الحرب، نحن لسنا نادمين، نحن نفتخر بما فعلناه ضد الغريب.....».
وبينما كانت المحاضرة على وشك الانتهاء، كان تيار المقاومة في الخارج ينظم معرض صور ويوزّع بيانات في ذكرى مجزرة قانا «قانا الحياة، قانا الاستشهاد، قانا المجزرة والأطفال.... أطفال كانوا يأملون طلوع الشمس ويعيشون الحياة....».
"The power behind the power" has covertly changed to the favor of the politicians (or rather those who pull the strings on the politicians). The true definition of democracy is when politicians are elected, employed and paid by the people to achieve the needs and goals of common men, women and children Worldwide.... The true meaning of Democracy and "Freedom" seems to have been buried and forgotten.....for ever. ???
