Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Accidentally like a martyr

I don't know who killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. And I'd wager a guess that you don't, either, unless you had a hand in killing him. But I would like to raise a red flag or two, about false flags, before the Tehran Express gets shunted onto the Damascus Line.

There's that claim of responsibility by the "previously unknown militant group," calling itself, according to today's Globe and Mail, "Victory and Jihad in Greater Syria." ("Greater! Why, them's a fightin' word!) It's funny how it goes: these "previously unknown" groups always seem to go for the least likely soft targets, and with dubious motives that could injure their professed causes more than aid them. Also, they tend to blow things up real good. Better than most known groups which crow about their bombings.

And there's much precedent for doubt, especially in Lebanon. We're approaching the 20th anniversary of the Beirut suburb car bomb that killed more than 80 and wounded more than 200 - mostly those ubiquitous, innocent, women and children types. The target of the March 8, 1985 blast, Shia cleric Sheikh Muhammad Husain Fadlallah, escaped unharmed. As did the perpetrator, CIA Director William Casey.

Maybe you remember the image of the "Made in USA" banner strung across the blast site. And maybe you remember reading, several months later in The Washington Post, the confirmation that the explosion was the work of US-trained intelligence operatives. And perhaps you recall Casey's confession, via Bob Woodward, that he had cooked it up with the aegis of the Saudi government.

But probably, if you're like most, you don't. That's one of the damn shames about most people.

And here's another one: most people would think "false flag" terror - state-sponsored mayhem blamed upon an adversary - to be a paranoid delusion of conspiracy theorists. That's because they don't know history. Probably because it isn't taught to them.

I've referred a few times already on this blog to Operation Gladio, and I expect I will again. So I'm happy to see a new book in English on the subject: NATO’s Secret Armies. Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, by Dr Daniele Ganser. The "Strategy of Tension," funded by the CIA, supported vicious acts of right-wing terrorism which were in turn blamed upon the European left.

As a Gladio operative said, "You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security." [And by the way, Michael Ledeen is linked to Gladio, which ties into the Italian connection to the Yellow Cake caper. I wrote about it back in August, here.]

So maybe the Assad boy, our monstre de jour, really did have the poor fellow whacked, even though Hariri had never so much as called for Syrian troops to leave his country. Or perhaps other parties, in search of a pretext against Syria, found Hariri, out of office, more valuable dead than alive.

Like I said, I don't know. But you could say I have my suspicions.

10 Comments:

Blogger spooked said...

It is always wise to be suspicious these days, especially of acts of terror that seem to benefit the neocons.

Webster Tarpley talks quite a bit about Gladio and their origins in his brand new book "9/11 synthetic terror: made in USA". And they are a very instructive example of false-flag "synthetic" terrorism.

5:56 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

According to 1956 documents uncovered in Italy in 1990, Gladio was divided into independent cells coordinated from a CIA camp in Sardinia. These "special forces" included 40 main groups. Ten specialized in sabotage, six each in espionage, propaganda, evasion and escape tactics, and 12 in guerrilla activities. Another division handled the training of agents and commandos. These "special forces" had access to underground arms caches, which included hand guns, grenades, high-tech explosives, daggers, 60-millimeter mortars, 57-millimeter machine guns and precision rifles ...

In 1968, the Americans started formal commando training for the gladiators at the clandestine Sardinian "NATO" base. Within a few years, 4,000 graduates had been placed in strategic posts. At least 139 arms caches, including some at carabinieri barracks, were at their disposal. To induce young men to join such a risky venture, the CIA paid high salaries and promised that if they were killed, their children would be educated at U.S. expense.

Conclusive Gladio links to political violence were found after a plane exploded in flight near Venice in November 1973. Venetian judge Carlo Mastelloni determined that the Argo-16 aircraft was used to shuttle trainees and munitions between the U.S. base in Sardinia and Gladio sites in northeast Italy . . .

A huge explosion at the Bologna train station two years after Moro's death may have whitened the hair of many Italians - not just for the grisly toll of 85 killed and more than 200 injured - but for the official inaction that followed. Although the investigating magistrates suspected neofascists, they were unable to issue credible arrest warrants for more than two years because of false data from the secret services . . .

In the trial, the judges cited the "strategy of tension and its ties to `foreign powers." They also found the secret military and civilian structure tied into neofascist groups, P-2, and the secret services. 76 In short, they found the CIA and Gladio.

Arthur Rowse
Gladio: The Secret US War to Subvert Italian Democracy
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/gladio.html

10:52 a.m.  
Blogger Nur-al-Cubicle said...

Gladio! Marcinkus! Exocets! Ustica! Roberto Calvi! Ollie North! Operation Stay Behind! So many skeletons!

I agree with you, RT. Here's my theory.

A certain historical personage by the name of General Michael Aoun was recently permitted to return to Lebanon from years of exile in France. Since then, the anti-Syrian rhetoric has spiked and his old allies are becoming active once again. He has an extreme dislike for the Syrians and may, just may, have collaborated with the Office of Special and Nefarious Plans to take out peace broker Hariri, handing the US a sought-after casus belli.

This doesn’t exempt Syria from some suspicion, but by god it would have been monumentally stupid. But I'm told Syrians are capable of being this stupid. The security cabal may have slipped off Assad's leash.

3:03 p.m.  
Blogger kelley b. said...

The Syrians are so stupid they seem to be in the process of solidifying their alliance with Iran into a "united front".

Which means that any action against either power may also bring about a reaction from the other- and quite possibly ignite the new Shi'ite government of Iraq against us as well.

6:03 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

People need to keep in mind one thing when reading the newspaper or watching television on events in the middle east: the Greater Middle East. the neocons (Bush et al.) will pull all the triggers, manipulate every election, stage and spin every event they possibly can to creat the Greater Middle East.

The Greater Middle East is a plan to divide and partition the middle east by factions, by sects, by ethnic slivers. They are implementing it at every turn: Iraqi elections, the Syrian propaganda, Iran, Lebanon etc.

Do some research on your own about the Greater Middle East (which has been mentioned by Bush in his speeches). It is a plan your government is putting into effect whether you like it or not, so you might as well know about it.

12:00 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Also, and most importantly, look at whose interests Hariri's assassination served. It provoked widespread sympathy for a Syrian withdrawl and tarred Syria's government.

What about Yassar Arafat's "strange behaviour" and sudden precipitous decline in health? Why no autopsy? Who had tried unsuccessfully to poison Arafat at least thirteen times in the past? You guessed it, Mossad. That would have to make them the most likely suspects in Arafat's poisoning. Look at who benefitted and what happened immediately afterword: The puppet Abbas was quickly shoehorned into place and the death of Arafat was widely hailed as a chance for peace in the Israel-Palestine issue.

12:12 a.m.  
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