In an interview on CNN International's Your World Today, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh explains that the current violence in Lebanon is the result of an attempt by the Lebanese government to cra...
In an interview on CNN International's Your World Today, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh explains that the current violence in Lebanon is the result of an attempt by the Lebanese government to crack down on a militant Sunni group, Fatah al-Islam, that it formerly supported.
Last March, Hersh reported that American policy in the Middle East had shifted to opposing Iran, Syria, and their Shia allies at any cost, even if it meant backing hardline Sunni jihadists.
A key element of this policy shift was an agreement among Vice President Richard Cheney, Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi national security adviser, whereby the Saudis would covertly fund the Sunni Farah al-Islam in Lebanon as a counterweight to the Shia Hezbollah.
Hersh points out that the current situation is much like that during the conflict in Afghanistan in the 1980's -- which gave rise to al Qaeda -- with the same people involved in both the US and Saudi Arabia and the "same pattern" of the US using jihadists that the Saudis assure us they can control.
When asked why the administration would be acting in a way that appears to run counter to US interests, Hersh says that, since the Israelis lost to them last summer, "the fear of Hezbollah in Washington, particularly in the White House, is acute."
As a result, Hersh implies, the Bush administration is no longer acting rationally in its policy. "We're in the business of supporting the Sunnis anywhere we can against the Shia. ... "We're in the business of creating ... sectarian violence." And he describes the scheme of funding Fatah al-Islam as "a covert program we joined in with the Saudis as part of a bigger, broader program of doing everything we could to stop the spread of the Shia world, and it just simply -- it bit us in the rear."
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Fouad Saniora is still enjoying full support from the US goverment. Even Obama don't seem to care about what Saniora done to the lebanese people. During the protests of 3rd december 2006, Bush gave full support to Saniora even when more than 1 million lebanese (about 25 percent of the total population) participated in the protests. Democracy? Where? Nowhere...nowhere at all...
Still, I'm glad the lebanese troops gave those al-qaedists hell.
Oh beautiful sight, mohammed being poisoned... Bible or koran: Pathetic book of lies! The blood of god on my skin The blood of allah on my hands Porco dio! Porco dio! Fur immer! Voor altijd! Ai§nia! Blasfemia eternal!!!!
Saudi doesn't manufacture anything to America, it is of no use to America as its economy is not dependant on it, but many undeveloped Muslim nations dependant on Aid are on the US's payroll, not just Israel. Israel does NOT control the mid-east, for if they did that wud mean they control much of the muslim world which is an impossibility.
Where did Israel come into this? If you don't have anything of substance to say and you want to dance and jolly around parading your ignorance, then be my guest - but I'd suggest something like playing with the traffic to gratify your boredom, or ignorance.
Muslim nations are not ruled by "Islamic leaders", they are ruled by US cronies and proxies. Look at Egypt, look at Bahrain, look at Saudi Arabia. The HRW has also documented this variously.
You draw a relation between Islam and Oil, merely augmenting your two-penny intellectual faculty. The oil is in the hands of US proxies, who are not working in the name of Islam.
They employ the name of Islam to perpetuate their control of geostrategic interests. Did you even listen to the video?
Do you know who Bandar bin Sultan is? He is a Saudi royal, who is known as Bandar Bush for his close-ties with the Bush family. He is promoting Wahhabi terrorists in Lebanon to sow sectarian and civil war.
You obviously have a lot to catch up on. By the way, you didn't provide an answer about Reagan's war on terror in C. America. Was he chasing Islamist terrorists too?
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Still, I'm glad the lebanese troops gave those al-qaedists hell.
Bible or koran: Pathetic book of lies!
The blood of god on my skin
The blood of allah on my hands
Porco dio! Porco dio!
Fur immer! Voor altijd! Ai§nia!
Blasfemia eternal!!!!
"HES A TERRORIST!!" right?
come off it you moron
STUPID AMERICANS
You draw a relation between Islam and Oil, merely augmenting your two-penny intellectual faculty. The oil is in the hands of US proxies, who are not working in the name of Islam.
Do you know who Bandar bin Sultan is? He is a Saudi royal, who is known as Bandar Bush for his close-ties with the Bush family. He is promoting Wahhabi terrorists in Lebanon to sow sectarian and civil war.
You obviously have a lot to catch up on. By the way, you didn't provide an answer about Reagan's war on terror in C. America. Was he chasing Islamist terrorists too?