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by Kurt Nimmo DEBKAfile, the Mossad front, makes life so much easier. For instance, in regard to Fatah al-Islam, the bank robbing contract Sunni terrorist group put together by the neocons and Saudi prince Bandar in Lebanon to confront the Shia Hezbollah and currently holed up in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, DEBKAfile tells us Fatah al-Islam are not fighting alone; they are backed by elite units of the Iranian-Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian-General Command, which is commanded by Ahmed Jibril. These Palestinian units are highly trained in urban guerrilla warfare by Syrian commando battalion officers and Iranian Revolutionary Guards and have better skills than the Lebanese commandoes.
Of course, as DEBKAfile is an Israeli propaganda unitand a rather obvious one at thatit makes sense Fatah al-Islam has teamed up with Palestinians, Syrians, and Iranians, never mind my incredulity. However, what is rather telling here is the insertion of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian-General Command, described as a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
As we learned last week, the famous
Entebbe hijacking was the work of the PFLP, with help from the Israeli
Secret Service, the Shin Bet, according to British diplomat D.H.
Colvin. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine took credit
for the hijacking, which they said was for the purpose of bringing
attention to the Palestinian peoples plight.
The plane was traveling
from Israel to Paris when it was hijacked on June 27th, 1976, and
re-routed to Entebbe Airport in Uganda, the International Middle East
Media Center summarizes.
With the newly-released British intelligence
document, dated before the military operation to rescue the hostages on
July 3rd, 1976, some in the intelligence community are calling for an
investigation of Israeli involvement in the planning and implementation
of the plane hijacking.
In other words, we can assume Fatah
al-Islam, linked to the Shin Bet compromised PFLP through the splinter
group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian-General
Command, is yet another covert operation, designed to go up against
Hezbollah, never mind the futility of such an operation. It appears to
be a collaborative black op intelligence effort between the Israelis,
the Saudis, and the neoconswith the cooperation of the Senora
government in Lebanonall interested in taking down Hezbollah a peg or
two, especially considering the disturbing fact the Islamic
organization is now capable of fending off Israeli predation.
And
so if Saudi Arabia and the Senora government are doing this, whether
its unintended or not, therefore it has the United States must have
something to say about it or not? CNN International anchor Hala Gorani
asked Seymour Hersh last month.
HERSH: Well, the United States
was deeply involved. This was a covert operation that Bandar ran with
us. Dont forget, if you remember, you know, we got into the war in
Afghanistan with supporting Osama bin Laden, the mujahadin back in the
late 1980s with Bandar and with people like Elliott Abrams around, the
idea being that the Saudis promised us they could controlthey could
control the jihadists so we spent a lot of money and time, the United
States in the late 1980s using and supporting the jihadists to help us
beat the Russians in Afghanistan and they turned on us. And we have the
same pattern, not as if theres any lessons learned. Its the same
pattern, using the Saudis again to support jihadists, Saudis assuring
us they can control these various group, the groups like the one that
is in contact right now in Tripoli with the government.
GORANI:
Sure, but the mujahadin in the 80s was one era. Why would it be in the
best interest of the United States of America right now to indirectly
even if it is indirect empower these jihadi movements that are
extremists that fight to the death in these Palestinian camps? Doesnt
it go against the interests not only of the Senora government but also
of America and Lebanon now?
HERSH: The enemy of our enemy is our
friend, much as the jihadist groups in Lebanon were also there to go
after Nasrullah. Hezbollah, if you remember, last year defeated Israel,
whether the Israelis want to acknowledge it, so you have in Hezbollah,
a major threat to the Americanlook, the American role is very simple.
Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, has been very articulate
about it. Were in the business now of supporting the Sunnis anywhere
we can against the Shia, against the Shia in Iran, against the Shia in
Lebanon, that is Nasrullah. Civil war. Were in a business of creating
in some places, Lebanon in particular, a sectarian violence.
Naturally,
the corporate media, as a neocon-friendly propaganda apparatus, would
have us believe the mujahadin in the 80s was one era and there is no
connection between al-Qaeda or al-Qaeda inspired terrorism of the
current era, never mind suspicious facts and the historical record
glaringly obvious. Increasingly, with every passing day, it is becoming
more and more difficult for the government and its corporate media
handmaiden to prop up the official fairy tale of Islamic terrorism
spawned from remote caves.
Kudos to DEBKAfile for making the task all the more easy.