- In record time, the corporate media placed the blame
for the assassination of Pierre Gemayel, Lebanese Industry Minister, and
grand son of Sheikh Pierre Gemayel, the founder of the Kataeb Party, also
known as the Phalange (read: fascist), on Syria.
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- "The death of Gemayel, a Maronite Christian and
son of a former president, coincides with a government power struggle.
Among the stakes are Lebanon's participation in a United Nations tribunal
to prosecute suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister
Rafiq Hariri. Syrian security officials are among the suspects," reports
Bloomberg.
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- Saad al-Hariri, the son of another famous assassination
victim, is quoted as saying "the hand of Syria" is behind the
death, according to EuroNews.
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- "As Gemayel was an outspoken critic of Hezbollah
and a member of Lebanon's anti-Syrian movement, Syrian intelligence likely
staged the shooting as part of an intimidation strategy to keep the lid
on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
Hezbollah will use the momentum generated by the Gemayel assassination
to further its plans to plunge Lebanon into a constitutional crisis,"
Stratfor
tells us.
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- However, in order to understand Gemayel's assassination,
we need look no further than the murder of Rafik al-Hariri. "Al Hariri's
assassination provides the raison d'être for severing ties with Syria
and for transforming Lebanon into a US vassal," explains Mike Whitney.
"This conforms nicely with Israel's ambition to surround itself with
non-threatening states as well as affording access to the vital water resources
of Lebanon's Wazzani River. In other words, the murder of al Hariri has
created some extremely fortunate opportunities for both Israel and the
US; merging seamlessly with their overall objectives in the region."
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- Call it cui bono on steroids. Whitney continues:
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- "The likelihood that Syria was involved in the assassination
is zilch. One can hardly imagine a greater disaster for poor Syria who
has been scrambling to avoid the American bludgeon for the last four years.
Few people realize that Syria provided more assistance in the first year
of the war on terror after 9-11 than any other nation. That's of little
consequence now, as the US is on a mission to quickly integrate the entire
region beneath the American standard and prove that it can be trusted with
its continued stewardship of the world economy."
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- "According to several political analysts, Al Hariri's
assassination is aimed at drowning Lebanon in another civil war. Arab commentators
called on Lebanon on Tuesday to unite against such threat, with some suggesting
that Israel has greatly benefited from the death of Al Hariri," explained
Aljazeera on February 15, 2005.
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- "We must do as they do in other criminal cases,
look at who had the most to gain from the assassination of Prime Minister
Hariri," writes Sam Hamod. "The Lebanese had a lot to lose, as
did the Syrians (he was close to Bashar Al Assad, the leader of Syria),
as did the other Arab countries in the region who saw him as a strong leader
and a stabilizing force in Lebanese politics. On the other hand, Israel
has wanted chaos in Lebanon, as has America."
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- For more detail on who benefits from the al-Hariri assassination,
see the in-depth article by Bill
Van Auken.
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- Wayne Madsen wrote a few days ago that "Hariri's assassination was ordered
by neo-cons in Israel and the United States who wanted to implement their
'Clean Break' policy in order to drive Syrian occupation troops out of
Lebanon and then engineer wars with the Lebanese Hezbollah, Syria, and
Iran. With the Iraq Study Group led by Bush 41 Secretary of State James
Baker and including Defense Secretary-designate Robert Gates engaged in
negotiations with Syria to work out an American military withdrawal from
Iraq, the neo-con charges against Syria for the Hariri assassination are
being cast aside, according to U.S. intelligence sources."
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- Naturally, this effort by the Baker Boys runs counter
to the Zionist plan to sow chaos and destruction in the neighborhood. According
the Madsen, the "realpolitik" Baker Boys are a direct threat
to the neocons, as they are apparently "taking steps to lay blame
for the assassination on operatives linked to notorious Russian-Israeli
Mafia weapons smuggler and Defense Department air transport contractor
Viktor Bout. Such an assignment of blame is designed to send a friendly
signal to Damascus while signaling to Jerusalem that the blame for the
Hariri assassination is being laid very close but not actually on the doorstep
of Israel's Mossad and their neo-con allies in the Bush administration."
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- Predictably, the "detente with Syria and its Lebanese
allies is sure to irritate the neo-cons," and thus it makes perfect
sense for them, through the Mossad and its documented
network in Lebanon, to muddy the waters by taking out Pierre Gemayel, as
all Arabs are, of course, expendable pawns.
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