Bush Administration Involved in Lebanon Attacks
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on May 23rd, 2007 6:14 am by HL
Hersh: Bush administration arranged support for militants attacking Lebanon
Raw Story
Excerpt
n 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 Dick 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 Fatah 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.”
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:37 am
Israel lost the war??? Really???
So Hezbollah is now in Israel and the Israeli’s are out??
This is a cherry picked piece of crap article written buy someone sympatehtic to Hezzbollah.
Pretty obvious
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:26 am
Cheney is a criminal.