Re: Bush forcing the war into Syria.
Defendario
Black Elk wrote:
> Has the anti-Christ landed?
>
> ---
> John 8:44
>
> 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your
> father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the
> truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native
> language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
>
> ---
>
> From the article:
>
> Some say the fighting is worse than either side publicly acknowledges. One
> resident of the nearby town of Abu Kamal, who didn't want his name used
> because of concerns about possible repercussions from the Syrian security
> forces, said Americans earlier this year bombed a nearby house, killing a
> six-year-old boy. "They killed five or six people this month, every month,"
> he said. "But the media doesn't report it. I don't understand."
>
> ---
>
> Deaths along frontier are part of escalating crisis between Bush, Assad
>
> By MARK MACKINNON
> Saturday, October 29, 2005
>
> BAGHOUZ, SYRIA -- From Areed Mohammed Aoussa's sandbagged machine-gun post
> at the Syrian border with Iraq, he can hear and see the war next door.
>
> There's the thin rat-a-tat-tat of automatic weapons fire from the troubled
> Iraqi city of al-Qaim, visible on the horizon and a known hotbed of
> insurgents fighting the U.S. occupation. Those sounds are interspersed with
> the louder whump-whump of heavier weapons fire. An occasional plume of smoke
> can be seen rising amid the date palm trees of the otherwise idyllic
> Euphrates River valley.
>
> These days, however, it's not just the sounds of war that drift across the
> 700-kilometre-long Iraqi-Syrian border. More and more often, the fighting
> comes right up to, and even over, the frontier.
>
> In May, fire from a U.S. helicopter that was pursuing suspected insurgents
> fleeing into Syria fired across the line and killed Abdullah al-Hassaki, one
> of Mr. Aoussa's comrades at the Baghouz border post in the extreme southeast
> of the country, the Syrians assert. He was one of at least four Syrians, two
> soldiers and two civilians, killed by U.S. fire this year, they say. Six
> others were wounded, according to the Syrian security services, and those
> figures include just the southernmost third of the Iraq-Syria border.
>
> "They shoot at us here every day, sometimes they're mistakes, sometimes
> they're not," Syrian security officer Ibrahim Brahim said as he stood on the
> roof of the concrete police station that is one of 557 such manned positions
> along the border. "The Americans want to show their power, to show us
> they're here. If we poke our heads up, they shoot."
>
> U.S. officials have acknowledged that several Syrians have been killed by
> U.S. fire this summer, but said their forces have not crossed the border.
> Special-forces operations into Syria targeting suspected Iraqi insurgent
> bases are reportedly being considered, however.
>
> The border incidents are part of a mounting and increasingly dangerous
> crisis between Washington and Damascus.
>
> For Syria, the fighting heightens worries that the U.S. can and might resort
> to any means to force the country to bend to the will of the White House.
>
> U.S. President George W. Bush yesterday called Syria, along with Iran, an
> "outlaw regime." His government has blamed it for meddling in Lebanon,
> funding suicide bombers striking at Israel and tacitly supporting the
> insurgency in Iraq by allowing arms and fighters to pass through this
> border.
>
> On Monday, the United Nations Security Council will meet to consider a
> resolution jointly proposed by the U.S. and France that would threaten Syria
> with sanctions if it doesn't co-operate with an investigation that is
> examining whether the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri
> was planned in Damascus.
>
> For the United States, there are worries that Syria could become to the Iraq
> war what Cambodia was to Vietnam -- a rear base and supply line for
> anti-U.S. forces that eventually devolves into a second combat theatre.
>
> This is an area with strong sympathy for the insurgents and ties to the old
> Baathist regime in Iraq. Saddam Hussein, the country's deposed dictator,
> even hid in Abu Kamal briefly while on the lam before his Baath Party seized
> power in Iraq in 1968.
>
> Some say the fighting is worse than either side publicly acknowledges. One
> resident of the nearby town of Abu Kamal, who didn't want his name used
> because of concerns about possible repercussions from the Syrian security
> forces, said Americans earlier this year bombed a nearby house, killing a
> six-year-old boy. "They killed five or six people this month, every month,"
> he said. "But the media doesn't report it. I don't understand."
>
> Though the Syrians delivered at least one complaint to the U.S. embassy in
> Damascus about the cross-border incidents, it has otherwise tried to keep a
> lid on the story, fearing news that U.S. troops had killed Syrian soldiers
> would provoke public outrage and demands for retribution that could lead to
> even worse relations with Washington.
>
> "The government has kept this a secret because they don't want to be
> embarrassed," said Joshua Landis, an Oklahoma University professor currently
> living in Damascus as a Fulbright Scholar. "It's the ultimate sign of their
> weakness, because they can do nothing about this."
>
> Since it invaded Iraq in the spring of 2003, the United States has accused
> Syria of aiding the insurgency there by letting weapons and fighters flow
> across its borders into Iraq, and Mr. Bush has consistently refused to rule
> out military action against the regime of Bashar Assad.
>
> One of the repeated complaints has been that Damascus has not done enough to
> secure the border. The Syrian government took foreign journalists to the
> line yesterday to show off what it has done: reinforce a sand wall running
> along most of the frontier and build more border posts like Baghouz.
> Major-General Amin Suleyman, the liaison officer for the southern section of
> the Iraq-Syria border said it's now almost impossible for insurgents to
> cross by day.
>
> He admitted the Syrians struggle to control their border after dark because
> they lack night-vision goggles -- equipment that was promised to them by
> Britain but never delivered. But the bigger problem, he said, is the
> complete lack of any regular security presence, U.S. or Iraqi, on the other
> side of the sand wall.
>
> "Syria did all that was required of it, and all that it was able to do,"
> Major-Gen. Suleyman said. "But we've seen nothing from the other side."
>
> Foreign diplomats based in Damascus admit Syria has stepped up its efforts,
> and say that the once-rapid flow of foreign fighters crossing from Syria
> into Iraq in the early days of the war has slowed to a trickle, estimated to
> be 35 a month.
>
> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051029/IRAQ29/TPInternational/Americas
>
>
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Israel first Neocon Libby Lied to FBI, Committed Perjury, Obstructed
Justice...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/10/28/lied-to-fbi-committed-pe_n_9672.html
CHENEY'S CHIEF OF STAFF I. LEWIS LIBBY INDICTED...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/10/28/cheneys-chief-of-staff_n_9669.html
According to what is conveyed in association with the indictments,
Libby received the information about Valerie Plame from the State
Department.. So was that from fellow Israel firster 'JINSA John'
Bolton?:
si...@hotmail.com
is providing homicide bombers, financing, and other logistic support
for terrorist operations in Iraq and elsewhere aided and abetted by
Iran among others.
wd
dontcowerf...@yahoo.com
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=43325
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dontcowerf...@yahoo.com
attacking Syria (as well) for Israel in accordance with the 'A Clean
Break'/war for Israel agenda which took US into Iraq and which esteemed
US intelligence author James Bamford discusses on pages 261-269-321 of
his 'A Pretext for War' book (the recently released paperback version
of 'A Pretext for War' conveys on page 403 that Israeli generals used
to walk to JINSA operative Douglas Feith's office at the Pentagon like
they owned the place). NO AMERICAN SHOULD HAVE TO DIE FOR ISRAEL IN THE
MIDDLE EAST:
si...@hotmail.com
People who use terms like "Zionist" are signaling they are any or all
of the following:
pro-Palestinian Arab terrorist
liberal
kook
European panty-waist
troll
pseudo-intellectual
bi-polar
muslim fanatic
anti-semitic
etc.
Howard C. Berkowitz
<si...@hotmail.com> wrote:
To which of these categories did Theodor Herzl belong? I suppose Orde
Wingate qualified as kook.
James H. Hood
Howard C. Berkowitz <h...@gettcomm.com> wrote in message
news:091120051416269325%h...@gettcomm.com...
Oh heck, Howard.....you and I and everybody else who frequents this
newsgroup who's read anything about Wingate already KNOWS he was a complete
and utter fruitcake.....a highly competent and effective soldier, but a
completely out of his tree and all the way around the bend fruitcake he was
indeed. If psychotherapeutic drugs had been around in his day, he'd be
subsidizing for the drug companies' annual bonuses all by himself.
Howard C. Berkowitz
Hood <jhhoodDIE...@urdirect.net> wrote:
Oh, agreed. But Wingate also self-identified as a Zionist, and was an
effective leader in then-British Palestine. Of course, that wasn't the
only aspect of his life, sense of duty, and commitment -- as seen by
his performance in Southeast Asia, suddenly cut short.
Had he risen above major general, he certainly would have brought a new
standard to British officer eccentricities. Montgomery and Hobart had
nothing on him.
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Syria accuses US of launching lethal raids over its borders
By Harry de Quetteville in Baghouz
(Filed: 29/10/2005)
Syria has accused the United States of launching lethal military
raids into its territory from Iraq, escalating the diplomatic crisis
between the two countries as the Bush administration seeks to step
up pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime.
Concern: A Syrian soldier looks across at Iraqi border
Major General Amid Suleiman, a Syrian officer, said that American
cross-border attacks into Syria had killed at least two border
guards, wounded several more and prompted an official complaint to
the American embassy in Damascus.
He made the allegations during an official press tour of Syrian
security forces on the Iraqi border, which the US claims is a barely
guarded passage into Iraq for hardcore foreign jihadis.
While showing off what he said were beefed-up Syrian border measures
designed to blunt those criticisms, including new police stations
and checkpoints, Maj Gen Suleiman alleged that his own border forces
had come under repeated American attack.
"Incidents have taken place with casualties on my surveillance
troops," he said, near the Euphrates river border crossing between
Syria and Iraq. "Many US projectiles have landed here. In this area
alone, two soldiers and two civilians have been killed by the
American attacks."
The charge follows leaks in Washington that the US has already
engaged in military raids into Syria and is contemplating launching
special forces operations on Syrian soil to eliminate insurgent
networks before they reach Iraq.
"No one in the administration has any problem with acting tough on
Syria; it is the one thing they all agree on," said Edward Walker, a
former US ambassador to Egypt and Israel, who is now head of the
Middle East Institute think-tank. "I've heard there have been some
cross-border activities, and it certainly makes sense as a warning
to Syria that if they don't take care of the problem the US will
step up itself."
But he warned that the increased blurring of battle lines between
Iraq and Syria could turn a diplomatic stand-off between the two
nations, playing out at the UN, into a fully fledged military
confrontation. "It could escalate. With Syrian border guards getting
shot, it could turn into a major issue."
In the Euphrates valley, however, the alleged cross-border fire
fights are already a major issue. The Syrian military said that in
May, in the divided village of Baghouz, which straddles the Syria-
Iraq border about 350 miles north east of Damascus, Abdullah al-
Hassake was manning a rundown concrete frontier outpost when he and
fellow soldiers heard US helicopters.
He went on to the police station roof to survey the impending battle
between US troops and Iraqi insurgents, who flee to the border when
under attack, and was killed by fire from the US helicopters.
Syrian officials said that US charges that they were not doing
enough to prevent insurgents crossing into Iraq are unfair. They
pointed to new barbed wire and reinforced sand barriers across the
400-mile border, which cost £1.5 million, and claimed that they had
deported or arrested about 1,500 foreign fighters heading to Iraq.
Much of the border is impossible to seal. Across the divide, the
continuing violence in Iraq is all too evident. Both sides have
strong ties with the regime of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein. "The people here are happy to help fighters go to face the
Americans," said one local. But reinforced security on the Syrian
side had made life harder, he added. That view is supported by some
Western diplomats in Damascus, although US defence officials remain
sceptical.
"The Syrians have stopped actively encouraging jihadis to go," said
one diplomat. "In fact recently they've tried quite hard to stop it."
Across the Euphrates, the border appears to be the likely stage for
a future showdown between the US and Syria.
"Sometimes the US soldiers fire at us every day," said Ibrahim
Brahim, a Syrian security official. "Sometimes it's simply a
mistake, but sometimes it's not. Mostly the US army wants to show us
its power."
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JINSA/CSP/PNAC Neocons moving fast for action against Syria:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=43325
From: rbl...@igc.org
To: "rbleier" <rbl...@igc.org>
Subject: T.Schuh: Faking the case ag Syria: Pushing the next neo con
war
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:19:49 -0500
I've snipped a long section, but kept the part about super-Zionist,
Jack Abramoff who is (was?) apparently involved in planned regime
change in Syria which is scheduled for next year.
The part about Mehlis is important. From the looks of it, Kofi Annan
knew Mehlis would do a hatchet job on Syria, but was powerless to go
against the US.
Yet another example of pernicious Zionist influence in getting us into
more disasters. You'd think out of simple self interest, US Zionists
would say, enough already. But since it's perceived to be good for
Israel, they ignore US interests-- not to mention the rest of the
world's. -RB
www.counterpunch.org
November 18, 2005
Mehlis's Murky Past; US and Israeli Proxies Pushing the Next Neo-Con
War
Faking the Case Against Syria
By TRISH SCHUH
Another slam dunk forgery is being used to convict Syria. The United
Nations' Detlev Mehlis inquiry into the murder of Lebanon's former
Prime Minister Rafiq Hairri depends on a central witness, Zuhir Ibn
Mohamed Said Saddik, who has faced accusations of being a swindler and
embezzler. Der Spiegel exposed Saddik's brags of "becoming a
millionaire" from his testimony to the Mehlis Commission. Saddik was
referred to the Mehlis Commission by Syrian regime critic Rifaat Assad,
the uncle of current Syrian President Bashar Assad. Rifaat has been
lobbying the Bush administration to become the president of Syria in
the event his nephew Bashar is ousted.
The record of the UN's investigator Mehlis does not inspire faith in
his credibility. As Senior Public Prosecutor in the German Attorney
General's office, Mehlis investigated the 1986 LaBelle Discotheque
bombing in Berlin. Relying on alleged National Security Agency
intercepts of coded messages between Tripoli and Libyan suspects in
Germany (later revealed by former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky as
false telex signals generated by Mossad itself), Mehlis provided the
'irrefutable proof' of Libya's guilt that then justified Ronald
Reagan's bombing of Libya.
In the case of the accusations against Syria, Mehlis's case revolves
around a series of questionable phone conversations and intersecting
calling card numbers allegedly dialled by the perpetrators. It contains
no definitive forensics on the car bomb explosives used. Outside
investigators have said it could have been RDX plastique, not TNT as
Mehlis suggested in his report. The German Mercedes manufacturers were
also perplexed at how Hariri's vehicle, reinforced by the heaviest
steel-titanium alloy, was "melted by the force of the explosion,"
after-effects usually associated with high density DU munitions. The
car bomb vehicle (stolen in Japan and never fully traced) was possibly
driven by a suicide bomber, whose identity is still unknown. Mehlis's
report then states: "Another only slightly less likely possibility is
that of a remotely controlled device."
Mehlis conclusions on the case , due on December 15 could justify an
attack on Syria, using the Hariri assassination as justification. But
from Beirut to Damascus, the "Arab Spring" was a neocon forgery
designed to destabilize the Levant and redraw the map of the middle
east.
Near the Mohammad Al Amin Mosque of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri
in Beirut, I interviewed a founder of the Martyrs' Square tent city and
asked about US-Israeli sponsorship of the 'Independence Intifadah'.
Surrounded by red and white Lebanese flags, soldier Michael Sweiden of
the Lebanese Forces emphasized he was Christian Lebanese.
"We love Israel", he told me. "Israel helps us. Israel is like our
mother."
Years before its role in the so-called "Cedar Revolution" (a moniker
coined by US Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky, a signatory to
the Project for a New American Century), Israel awarded citizenship and
grants of up to $10,000 to South Lebanon Army soldiers who collaborated
with the Israeli Defense Forces during Lebanon's civil war. The Israeli
newspaper Haaretz revealed, "Senior officials at Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon's office were in touch with Lebanese leaders even before the
current crisis." Backed by American and Israeli neocons, a Christian
Lebanese Likud is proxying Israel's second invasion.
One example is the Lebanese Foundation for Peace, a self-styled
"Government of Lebanon in Exile in Jerusalem" founded by former
Lebanese Forces' military intelligence officer Nagi Najjar. Najjar, a
CIA consultant, testified not so long ago in support of Ariel Sharon's
"complete innocence" in the Sabra and Shatila affair against charges by
Human Rights Watch and regional governments. Najjar has also paired
with Mossad agent Yossef Bodansky while lobbying the U.S. congress to
intervene in Hezbollah-dominated south Lebanon. His NGO, The Lebanese
Foundation for Peace, endorsed the AIPAC-sponsored sanctions against
Syria, known as the Syria Accountability / Lebanese Sovereignty
Restoration Act of 2003. On his LFP website featuring an Israeli flag,
Najjar's "government in exile" issued an official declaration; "We, the
people of Free Lebanon, thank Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign
Minister Silvan Shalom for the campaign launched by the Israeli
Ministry of Foreign Afffairs aimed at ousting Syria from occupying
Lebanon."
Another NGO of the Lebanese Likud is the United States Committee for a
Free Lebanon. Its President, Ziad Abdel Nour is the son of wealthy
Lebanese Minister of Parliament Khalil Abdel Nour. USCFL partners with
designated "democratizers" such as the American Enterprise Institute
(created by Lebanese-American William Baroody, Sr.), Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs, Republican Jewish Coalition, Foundation for
the Defense of Democracies, Middle East Forum, the Hudson Institute and
kindred pro-Israel lobbies.
The USCFL hails former Lebanese president Amin Gemayel for signing a
peace deal with Israel in 1983. (According to the UAE's late president
Sheik Zayed bin sultan Al Nahyan, Saddam Hussein agreed to leave Iraq
before the war in 2003 to halt the invasion. But Amin Gemayel, the
mediator between Saddam and the US administration, wrongly informed the
US that Hussein had rejected all offers of exile). Abdel Nour's other
links include the World Lebanese Organization, which advocates Israel's
re-occupation of south Lebanon. In 2000, he and neocon Daniel Pipes
composed the policy paper "Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: the US
Role" and together co-author the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. The
bulletin is a project of the neocon Middle East Forum and is a frequent
resource for American intelligence agencies. On November 2, 2005 Abdel
Nour updated me on the Syrian crisis by phone.
Schuh: What is the future of Syria, of President Bashar Al Assad's
situation?
Nour: Both the Syrian and Lebanese regimes will be changed- whether
they like it or not- whether it's going to be a military coup or
something else... and we are working on it. We know already exactly
who's going to be the replacements. We're working on it with the Bush
administration. This is a Nazi regime of 30 years, killing ministers,
presidents and stuff like that. They must be removed. These guys who
came to power, who rule by power, can only be removed by power. This is
Machiavelli's power game. That's how it is. This is how geopolitics --
the war games, power games -- work. I know inside out how it works,
because I come from a family of politicians for the last 60 years.
Look, I have access to the top classified information from the CIA from
all over the world. They call me, I advise them. I know exactly what's
going on. And this will happen.
Q: So would they remove the entire Assad family?
A: Why not? Who is Bashar Al Assad?
Q: I didn't see forensic proof in the Mehlis report that would legally
convict Assad of Hariri's death in a court of law.
A: I don't give a damn. I don't give a damn, frankly. This Bashar Al
Assad-Emil Lahoud regime is going to go whether it's true or not. When
we went to Iraq whether there were weapons of mass destruction or not,
the key is -- we won. And Saddam is out! Whatever we want, will happen.
Iran? We will not let Iran become a nuclear power. We'll find a way,
we'll find an excuse- to get rid of Iran. And I don't care what the
excuse is. There is no room for rogue states in the world. Whether we
lie about it, or invent something, or we don't... I don't care. The end
justifies the means. What's right? Might is right, might is right.
That's it. Might is right.
Q: You sound just like Saddam. Those were his rules too.
A: So Saddam wanted to prove to the whole world he was strong? Well,
we're stronger- he's out! He's finished. And Iran's going to be
finished and every single Arab regime that's like this will be
finished. Because there is no room for us capitalists and
multinationalists in the world to operate with regimes like this. Its
all about money. And power. And wealth... and democracy has to be
spread around the world. Those who want to espouse globalization are
going to make a lot of money, be happy, their families will be happy.
And those who aren't going to play this game are going to be crushed,
whether they like it or not! This is how we rule. And this is how it's
going to be as long as you have people who think like me.
Q: When will this regime change take place?
A: Within 6 months, in both Lebanon and Syria.
Q: Some names of replacements?
A: It is classified. There are going to be replacements and we know who
they are, but I cannot mention the names.
Q: Will this be done peacefully?
A: It doesn't matter. The end justifies the means. I don't care about
how it's done. The important thing is that it is done. I don't rule out
force. I'm not against force. If it's an option, it will be an option.
Q: But if it's just trading Syrian control for American or Israeli
control?
A: I have -- we have -- absolutely no problem with heavy US involvement
in Lebanon. On an economic level, military level, political level,
security level... whatever it is. Israel is the 51st state of the
United States. Let Lebanon be the 52nd state. And if the Arabs don't
like it, tough luck.
[snip -- long section]
Rumsfeld's team had already begun discussions with Israeli intelligence
about assassinating Lebanese officials -- particularly "Hezbollah and
their supporters" in 2002, and intelligence operatives were dispatched
to Lebanon. (This writer was introduced to at least one Israeli
'student' studying Arabic at AUB in Beirut. He travelled with an
American passport, coming to Lebanon "to study 'the enemy' to find out
how they think.") The Sunday Times (6/5/05) revealed that Mossad had
been using Trojan Horse email surveillance on President Assad's wife
Asma, labelling her family correspondence a "legitimate soft target".
By January 2005, the Pentagon were preparing for military operations in
Lebanon to destroy "insurgency strongholds along the Lebanese-Syrian
border". Simultaneously, Israeli approval for a military operation in
Lebanon was given after Hezbollah killed an IDF officer.
Political-security cabinet members comprised of PM Sharon, Deputy PM
Ehud Olmert, Vice Premier Shimon Peres, and FM Silvan Shalom had
authorized the action. (Haaretz, 5/3/05). But then Rafiq Hariri was
killed, and the door to Syria swung open.
Syria may become America's 53rd state, if Farid Ghadry's NGO, the
Reform Party of Syria rushes through that opened door. Ghadry is a
Syrian Christian who worked for EG & G, a Department of Defense
contractor. EG & G assisted in the development and testing of nuclear
weapons and in many of the US military's top secret atomic projects.
Ghadry's Reform Party coordinates with the Syrian National Council, and
transmits Radio Free Syria from Cyprus and Germany to destabilize
Syria. The CIA and Mossad have long used Kurds to target nations in the
region. Journalist Jack Anderson wrote in 1972 about Israeli envoys
delivering $50,000 a month to Kurdish leader Mullah Mustafa Barzani to
destabilize Iraq.
In March 2004, this writer was approached in Damascus by Kurds from
Qamishli and Hasaka (one whose brother was arrested in the riots)
wanting to "thank Bush for helping us get rid of Assad". News accounts
later verified that the chaos up north had been orchestrated by the US
and Israel, using Turkish and Iraqi Kurds. 'Protesters' at the height
of the melee even waved posters of President Bush and American flags.
The ringleaders were sponsored by the Department of Defense and the US
State Department. "Let the Damascus spring flower, and let its flowers
bloom," said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. So sprouted another
color catastrophe -- Syria's "Jasmine Revolution".
Reform Party of Syria's Farid Ghadry has been a featured speaker at the
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, and is himself a member
of AIPAC. When repeated calls to his organization went unanswered, I
visited the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the RFP. Reform Party of
Syria is the office of "super-Zionist" lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Middle
Gate Ventures, Abramoff's 'political advisory company' partners with
RFP. Abramoff is a top Beltway lobbyist now under intensive FBI
investigation concerning, among other things, his proposed $9 million
fee to get Gabon's president an Oval Office session with Bush.
As a College Republican in the 1980s, Abramoff founded the
International Freedom Foundation, a project linked to the South African
Defence Forces. The International Freedom Foundation was the PR branch
of sister NGO Strategic Communications, a covert organization charged
by former spy Craig Williamson in the Weekly Mail and Guardian for
2/24/95 with being involved with frame-ups, extreme violence and dirty
tricks campaigns.
According to the Weekly Standard (12/20/04), one Abramoff venture was
his organization of a 1985 global "summit" of underworld thugs. With
Citizens for America sponsorship, Contra leaders, guerilla rebels and
right wing 'freedom fighters' from around the world convened in the
African hinterlands to strategize. During this period, Abramoff's
membership/financial transactions with the secretive Council for
National Policy, which included Oliver North and Richard Secord, became
a template for how to mask money that still remains partially hidden.
(Nizkor Project)
Recently Abramoff's interventionism has focused on the Middle East.
Tomflocco.com reveals that Abramoff's long-time employer, Greenberg
Traurig, partially financed a Homeland Security Government Contract
Team trip to Israel for the US House/Senate Armed Services Committee
and defense contractor CACI (accused of Abu Ghraib torture). The
delegation reviewed IDF "resistance to interrogation techniques" used
in Palestine, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. The Lebanon Daily Star
reported that the group visited Beit Horon "the central training camp
for the anti-terrorist forces of the Israeli police and border police"
and were able to "witness exercises related to anti-terror warfare."
Legislators' names were not disclosed.
Abramoff also works with the World Zionist Organization and the
Christian Coalition to bankroll illegal Israeli settlement activities.
According to Israeli prosecutor Talia Sasson they are part of a larger
international problem. Some $60 billion worldwide has been illicitly
funnelled to Israeli settlements via different foreign donors,
quasi-NGOs and secret military accounts.
In one such case, according to Senate testimony and news reports in
Newsweek and The New Republic, an Abramoff charity, Capital Athletic
Fund, underwrote sniper scopes, camouflage suits, thermal imagers,
night vision goggles, hydration tactical tubes, shooting mats and other
paramilitary equipment through Greenberg Traurig to right wing settler
Shmuel Ben-Zvi. Abramoff wanted to help ultraorthodox settlement Beitar
Illit "neutralize terrorists" and wrote to Ben-Zvi; "Thanks brother. If
only there were another dozen of you the dirty rats would be finished."
Apparently angling for cover and a tax deduction, Beitar Illit seminar
director Ben-Zvi suggested invoicing the weaponry to the Israeli
Defence Forces on 'Sniper Workshop' stationery with a sniper logo and
letterhead to qualify it as an educational entity. Payments were
partially run through "Kollel Ohel Tiferet," an entity not publicly
listed or traceable. Beitar Illit Mayor Yitzhak Pindrus claims never to
have heard of it. (Newsweek, 5/2/05)
Abramoff dollars may also have found their way to the Israeli Defense
Forces' Lebanon Border Unit, the civilian SF troops that patrol the
Israel-Lebanon border. Yaagal, supposedly disbanded after Israel's 2000
pullout from south Lebanon, still conducts clandestine reconnaissance,
plans ambushes and carries out cross-border incursions into
Hezbollah-held areas of south Lebanon. As so often with lobbyist
Abramoff's entities, the tools and trails remain murky.
Indicted AIPAC lobbyist Steven Rosen told the New Yorker; "A lobby is
like a night flower: it thrives in the dark and dies in the sun." But
Abramoff's own words to Ralph Reed in 1983 are even more apropos; "It
is not our job to seek peaceful coexistance" with opponents. "Our job
is to remove them permanently." Flowery language for forged freedoms,
an "Arab Spring" Machiavelli-style.
Trish Schuh writes about Middle East politics. She can be reached at:
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screen' the war for Israel agenda in Iraq and beyond...
Look up the 'A Clean Break'/war for Israel agenda on pages 261-269/321
of James Bamford's 'A Pretext for War' book as the recently released
paperback version conveys (on page 403) that JINSA Israel first
operative Douglas Feith had Israeli generals walk to his office at the
Pentagon like they owned the place.. Look up Feith, Perle, Chalabi,
Libby, Judy Miller, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Wurmser, etc. in the index of 'A
Prextext for War' if you want to see how the intelligence was indeed
cooked. manipulated, cherry picked to launch the Iraq war for Israel...