Re: US Behind Hariri’s Murder
this article proves I have been saying all along..
http://aljazeeraenglish.net
Who benefits from al-Hariri’s death?
By Ahmed Janabi
Sunday 20 February 2005, 2:20 Makka Time, 23:20 GMT
Assassinationscontinue to be the signposts ofLebanon’s political history despite the passage of 15-odd years since the end of the civil war.
Between 1989, when the Taif Accords were signed, and 2005, armed militias that once were in control, have largely disappeared fromLebanon’s cities, towns and villages.
Yet thephenomenon of political assassination shows no sign of ending.
Rashid Karami, Bashir al-Jumail, Dani Shamun, Rene Muawad, Kamal Jumblatt, Hasan Khalid, Abbas al-Musawi and Rafiq al-Haririare some of theLebanese politicians and officials who have fallen prey to the assassin’s bullet or bomb in the last three decades.
The same strategy that was used to kill president Muawad in October 1988 was used in last Monday’s attack, which killed present-day Lebanon’s most prominent political figure al-Hariri, the man regarded as the leader of Lebanon’s reconstruction drive after the civil war.
Blow against Syria
As in all the previous cases,*al-Hariri’s death is seen by many Lebanese politicians as a bid to destabilise their country.
Al-Hariri’sassassination is part of
awider plot, says Bushra al-Khalil
Bushra al-Khalil, a Lebanese lawyer and political activist, told Aljazeera.net the plot against al-Hariri’s life also targeted Syria.
"If we look at the way the assassination has been conducted, it is very sophisticated, I knew al-Hariri’s security measures -no local systemcould have*breached them.
“The question is,who stands to benefit from his death? Syria’s enemies. I think al-Hariri’s death is part of the planto divide the region into tiny helpless sectarian states. This plan has started in Iraq and it will continue to hit all other Arab countries.”
Al-Khalil said the killing was an attempt to force Syria to leave Lebanon before striking it and commencing the region’s carve-up.
“Al-Hariri was the guardian of stable Arab-Western relations. His success had pulled the rug from under*the feet of the traditional godfathers of such relationships”
Bushra al-Khalil,
Lebanese lawyer
“If we look at whoall havebeen adding fuel to the fire in the recent past, we will find sectarian leaders and promoters of sectarian division such as Walid Jumblatt and Amin al-Jumail, who had killed a lot of Lebanese people during the war just because they were not from their sects.”
Al-Khalil considersthe killing of al-Haririas the most dangerous and destabilising incident since the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat in 1981.
"Al-Hariri was theguardian of stable Arab-Western relations. His success in this area had pulled the rug from under the feet of thetraditional godfathers of such relationships.
Pan-Arab figure
According to al-Khalil, opposition leaders who claimed al-Hariri was killed because he supported them and opposed Syria, are dissembling.
"Al-Hariri did not agree with them. He was grateful to Syria. He was a real pan-Arab figurewho would nottolerate harm to come toany Arab country," she said.
Al-Hariri had said before his death that he knew there were people working to discredit his Arabist and nationalist points of view.
Striking a similar note, Imad Fawzi al-Shuaibi, head of the Strategic Studies Centre inDamascus, told Aljazeera the*former Lebanese prime minister was not an enemy of Syria.
Jumblatt (R) andAmin al-Jumail
have openly blamed the Syrians
"Obviously al-Hariri’s assassination was a blow against Syria and Lebanon. He was not an enemy of Syria. He was a historic and traditional friend and ally of Syria.
"He did have disagreements with Syria lately, but he did not call for the withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon, orstir uphostility towards Syria or demand an end toSyria’s role in Lebanon. He only had a different point of view"al-Shuaibi said.
In his opinion, thehuge crowds that bid farewell toal-Hariri on Wednesday were not demonstrating their support for the Lebanese opposition, but rather were expressing their gratitude to, and admiration for, al-Hariri."
People’s emotions
Al-Shuaibi’s views seem to be diametrically opposed to those offormer Lebanese president Amin al-Jumail, who saidthe thousands of Lebanese citizens who attended al-Hariri’s funeral wanted toexpress their desire for “independence”.
"This is a Lebaneseplea to the whole world, an attempt to get all countries totake note of Lebanon’s misfortune -*the violations of freedom and democracy going on in the country.
"This is a very important expression of people’s emotions. They are disgusted with the current [political]dispensation and the Syrianpresence in Lebanon. They want to deliver a message to the whole world that the Lebanese authorities do not represent them and do not*share their emotions.
“Now they are all together in calling for Lebanon’s liberty and independence”, al-Jumail said