Wikileaks\USrael: The US Covered The Mossad In The Abu Dhabi Murder

The Cable from Abu Dhabi requesting information about the identities of the Master Card holders suspected to be implicated in the murder of a Hamas executive.

The refusal of collaboration in the investigation.

Why I believe that some of the Israeli agents in the recent Dubai assassination had neither fake passports nor fake identities

The important thing in this statement is 'some' and not all. I believe that some of the hit team had actually stolen the passports, and these must be regular Mossad agents, and some (or most) didn't, and these are 'non Mossad' real people recruited for a one time operation...

Mossad has actually used both tactics in the past but the size of the team and importance of the operation in Dubai, as well as the changing technologies of airport and hotel surveillance, suggest that this operation required a special approach in terms of disinformation. Disinformation is actually information that mixes true facts and statements, in little amounts, with false information, in huge amounts.

Blurring the lines between real and fake identities is one of those tactics.

And the people who are screaming that their identities were stolen should be thoroughly investigated because some (most) of them are probably lying...

To support my opinion I invite you to read this.

And this. Dubai hit: another move in the Israel-Iran cold war.

UPDATE 1: Don't you see a contradiction in this ? And of course more disinformation...

Ms. Kite’s sources told her that “the six British citizens whose identities were stolen and used by the killers all had their passports taken away from them briefly during routine checks at the airport,” in Israel. All six of the British nationals whose names and passport numbers were used on fake documents carried by suspects identified by investigators in Dubai currently live in Israel.

UPDATE 2: 15 more suspects holding British passports are identified by Dubai police. They all live in israel of course and they are all screaming that they are innocent and I don't believe all of them. David Miliband, the British foreign secretary is treating the matter lightly...

UPDATE 3: Most reports in the press about the assassination are shrouded in disinformation, and very few carry real information, this one does ...

UPDATE 4: How 'unwitting' were the British Israelis ?

Dubai Police has confirmed a point I mentioned in last week's column; that Israeli citizens must enter and depart Israel on their Israeli passports.

Lebanon arrest over a dozen individuals spying for Israel

Lebanese security forces arrest Lebanese and one Palestinian on charges of spying for Israel. The Palestinian arrested is the cousin of the fugitive head of the islamist group Fatah al-Islam:

The Palestinian, Mohammad Awad, used his car dealership in South Lebanon to spy on Hizbullah activities. Curiously, Awad is said to be the cousin of Abu Mohammad Awad, the fugitive head of Islamist group Fatah al-Islam. The group, which based itself at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, engaged the Lebanese Armed Forces in three months of deadly fighting in 2007 that reduced the camp to rubble.

Lebanon arrests Mossad cell

Some of the Lebanese army's past statements regarding covert Israeli activities in Lebanon have turned out to be reliable.

Another well intentioned Jewish Convert to Islam

Thanks to Angry Arab for the link.

"Israel said on Sunday that an Israeli man who has been arrested in Lebanon is not a spy, and his father said the young man converted to Islam several years ago and immersed himself in Arabculture.

"Lebanese officials announced the arrest of Daniel Sharon on Saturday and said they had handed him over for military interrogation because he visited Lebanon frequently.

...Sharon was arrested on Thursday as part of an investigation into the murder of a Lebanese citizen...Media reports said that police in the Merje area, a hotbed of the Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah movement in Beirut's southern suburbs, were investigating the killing of Moussa al-Shalaani when the probe led them to Sharon.

Al-Shalaani had been shot with a gun belonging to a security officer who had been his roommate. The roommate was summoned for questioning, and maintained he had lost his gun. The roommate also said that at the time of the murder, he had been with a German friend, who was staying at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Beirut's luxurious Verdun neighborhood. A hotel employee told the police that Sharon had paid him not to write his full name on any documents.

..."But further investigations into the case showed that Sharon had a friend in the Lebanese security offices who used to facilitate his entries to Lebanon," the source added...A Lebanese security agent was also held for questioning about his relations with Sharon after the two maintained contacts online, said officials.

...The media also reported that Sharon had visited Lebanon 11 times since 2005, once immediately prior to the Second Lebanon War. His last visit began four days prior to his arrest, and he was scheduled to leave on the day of his arrest. Sharon had sent his security-officer friend on trips abroad on several occasions, and in exchange the man had helped Sharon within Lebanon."

Read here 'The Convert Phenomenon'

Read here: Mossad easily operating in the world of radical islamist groups.

Adam Pearlman Gadahn, ex mossad agent and a Jew who converted to Islam, is behind the latest Bin Laden video

Adam Pearlman, the Jewish Mossad agent who once wrote stinging essays condemning Muslims as "bloodthirsty terrorists", has been singled out as the creator of the suspicious "new" Osama Bin Laden video.

From the Telegraph

"American spy chiefs were quick to name Adam Gadahn, the head of al-Qaeda's English language media operations, as the author of large sections of bin Laden's broadcast.

Last October, the 28-year-old "loner" became the first American charged with treason since 1952, for appearing in a succession of al-Qaeda videos under the guise of "Azzam The American"

On this blog: The convert phenomenon

Thanks Dr. Nasir Khan

The US, Israel, and the rise of Extremisms in the ME

Une alliance contre nature entre Israel et le front Populaire de Libération de la Palestine ayant pour but de torpiller le rapprochement entre l'OLP d'un côté et les Américains et les Français de l'autre serait à l'origine du raid.
An alliance between Israel and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was at the origin of the Entebbé plane hijacking. The operation had as a goal to stop a growing rapprochement between the PLO, France and the US. Israel knew the configuration of the airport because it was built by israel during the years of mutual collaboration with Idi Amin Dada.

The lesson is one should be suspicious of extremisms of all sorts. Israel always encouraged extremist Palestinian factions by weakening the moderates. Also, Israel excels, not in the art of war, as we have seen in its last agression on Lebanon, but in the art of spying and infiltration attested by high profile operations outside its territory against its opponents, and the many suspicions surrounding its role in others.

Israel is pursuing the same method in the cyberspace and many propalestinian bloggers are clearly infiltrated. I have personally followed some cases.

Read here my other article on the Entebbé raid.

I am now in Athens and my travel through airports got me to watch TV news from Lebanon. Usually I don't watch news on TV. What the Sanyura government is doing is very ugly. It is copying the methods of the Israeli government. What is it pursuing ? I don't know. All I know is that all this fighting has two immediate consequences, distracting from real issues in Lebanon, the corruption and the weakness and illegitimacy of the Sanyura government, as well as more chaos nearing a low intensity civil war. A woman behind me at Heathrow was in tears watching Kim Ghattas reporting for the BBC from North Lebanon.

Looking also at Athens and the fortress that is the US embassy here, surrounded by iron walls, and the history of the country within its relations with the US, one can fairly say that the more the US empire tries to subjugate people, the more they oppose it. The US helped install a military dictatorship here in Greece. This dictatorship took power and legitimacy, with the help of the US, through a coup which threw the centrist democratically elected government of Constatntin Karamanlis, only because the US and the army feared that the centrist government of a conservative may be open to the communist party. Later the US dropped its support for the Greek military regime when it became evident that this regime was going to collapse after its failed invasion of Cyprus and the crisis that followed, to rally another ally military regime in Turkey.

Sanyura is nothing but another US and Israel puppet in the region. He will be dismissed one day by his masters. The sooner, the better. This only thought consoles me when watching the mess in Lebanon.

Read this post by Angry Arab on the demisse of Nasser, Secularism, and the concomittant rise of Muslim extremism and US influence in the Arab world.

More from Angry Arab on the links between the pro US Sanyura government and Sunni Muslim extremism in Lebanon:
Bahiyyah Hariri, aunt of Saad, the present political leader of the Sanyura government coalition in lebanon who is battling Fatah El-Islam, admits she financed Fatah el-Islam members.
Also, Sanyura distinguishes between good FEI members nad bad ones.

Is the Hariri family financing Al Qaida and are the neocons profiting from the operation?

Enough of the Hariris, their Saudi mentors, and their neocon 'friends'. Since Rafiq Hariri died, Lebanon is on the brink of civil war again. The political heir, Saad Hariri, has been, like his father, pressuring the international community into accomplishing his political goals in Lebanon, at the expenses of the stability of the country. With his wealth, his closeness to the Saudi reigning family and, by extension, with the world class neocons including the newly elected French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his foreign affairs minister Bernard Kouchner (a doctor who supported the Iraq war), and his friendship with Chirac, former French president, Hariri has been pulling all the strings in order to establish a permanent vassalization of Lebanon to the west with himself as the self appointed viceroy. My husband calls him Harmani. When we visited Lebanon in 2005 it was after a victorious parliamentary election for Hariri won in the wave of indignation about his father's assassination. He was on all posters, sometimes under his father's picture (Lebanon is the only country where dead people can campaign in elections), sometimes standing with a smile, a well trimmed beard, a hand in his pocket (which we all know is anything but empty) and a cellphone in another hand. My husband asked who was on the poster and I told him. We laughed when he confided that he thought that this might have been an ad for Armani. Since then we call him Harmani. But now is not the time to laugh. Now is the time to cry. Lebanon is on the brink of civil war again, thanks, among other things, to this little corrupt rich brat and his overambitious father.
Now is also the time for some less narrower perspective from what we read in the press on what is going on in lebanon now. And as always these perspectives cannot be found easily in the mainstream press, especially when it comes to matters related to the middle east.

Alain Gresh writes on his blog:

More than one party can be interested in taking profit from the actual instability in Lebanon. Syria, without doubt. But also the actual Lebanese government trying to force the international community into adopting an authoritarian UN security council resolution imposing on Lebanon an international tribunal on the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, despite a clear hostility to this kind of tribunal from the Lebanese opposition. The actual Israeli government as well as the US also have interest in destabilising Lebanon. However, contrary to what is generally written in the press, what is hapenning in lebanon now is not a confrontation between the Lebanese people with the backing of the international community, and Syria and its « agents ». There is a multilayered confrontation in Lebanon. One of these layers is the division of the country between two distinct political camps with equal importance. On one side we have the Sanyura government backed by Hariri and the Sunnis, the Lebanese forces and half the Christian community, and the Druzes. On the other side we have the Shias with the Amal and Hezbollah movements, as well as the Free Patriotic Movement of Michel Aoun with half the Christian community. Is France making a good choice by taking sides in this conflict ? Bernard Kouchner, Sarkozy's foreign minister, and notable French neocon, is today in Beyrouth to support the Lebanese people and the Sanyura government while it is the Palestinian people who are being bombed. For what ? For a bank robbery that turned ugly ? Or for what to come in Lebanon ?

Bien des gens ont intérêt à l’instabilité au Liban. Le gouvernement syrien sans doute, mais aussi la majorité libanaise actuelle (qui cherche à pousser la communauté internationale à une résolution autoritaire pour créer un tribunal international sur l’assassinat de Rafic Hariri), le gouvernement israélien, les Etats-Unis, etc. Mais, contrairement à ce qui s’écrit généralement, ce qui se passe dans ce pays n’est pas un affrontement entre, d’un côté, le peuple libanais allié à la communauté internationale et de l’autre la Syrie avec ses « agents ». Se superposent plusieurs affrontements, dont le premier divise le Liban lui-même en deux camps d’à peu près égale importance. En privilégiant l’un des deux, la France fait-elle le bon choix ?

Nidal, at Loubnan Ya Loubnan, has an interesting perspective. Nidal's perspective shows the ideological and practical links between the different parties interested in Lebanon's descent into chaos. One can fairly say that these parties are organised in a loose network of interests in which the main puppeteers of the unfolding tragedy are the Hariri family closely linked to the Saudis, and by extension to the neocons. Nidal shows also how the Hariri family is financing Muslim Sunni extremists in Lebanon and worse, their migrations into Lebanon. One can fairly assume that we have here a paradigm for both the mobility and the survival of global sunni jihad relying entirely on local respectable sources of money totally immune to scrutiny and close to the neocons.

Nidal starts with an article written today by the Lebanese and Hariri paid journalist Michael Young in which Young tries to refute Seymour Hersh's assertions of March 2007 about the financing and the support provided by Hariri and the Lebanese government to Sunni extremist groups in Lebanon in order to counter the influence of Hezbollah. In his article, Young explains that if the Hariri family did in fact paid for a bail out of prison for members of Jund-Al-Sham, who later joined Fatah El-Islam already implemented in Nahr El-Bared in Northern Lebanon, it was to buy peace in the south. However, this assertion, claims Nidal, which Lebanese consider as normal political dealings, has the potential to open to us a window on how the Hariri family does Politics in Lebanon.

What is interesting about Jund Al-Sham is that this organisation, who is on the Russian list of terrorist organisations but not on the US list, has claimed responsibility for the Hariri assassination but this was discarded by the Mehlis commission who operated entirely under the mentorship of Hariri. Jund Al-Sham has nonetheless claimed responsibility for three of the fourteen carbombs investigated by the Mehlis commission. Jund Al-Sham has also claimed responsibility for the 2006 bombing fo the US embassy in Damascus and for the killing of a Hezbollah member in 2004. Moreover, two of its members who infiltrated the Ain El Hilweh camp in south Lebanon, were arrested by the Lebanese army in June 2006 for the murder of two members of the Islamic Jihad in south Lebanon. One of them confessed working for the Mossad. The army seized at his house documents proving that some members of this extremist organisation have actually trained in Israel. Hussein Khattab, brother to prominent sheikh Jamal Khattab suspected of organising recruitement fro Al Qaida Iraq, was also arrested in June 2006 by the Lebanese army on the charge of directing a spy netwrok for Irsael in palestinian refugee camps in southern Lebanon. There was very little information in the news about this incident.

Knowing all this, how the Hariri family, as Michael Young claims, could have given money to members of Jund El-Sham ? Michael Young seems to considerthis as a gaffe. I think we should consider this as a serious financing for extremists groups with the goal of destabilising Lebanon opening wide the doors for foreign intervention as in Iraq. It is more than time to hold this family, who claims to have reconstructed Lebanon and who is now pushing the whole country into civil war and destruction, accountable.

One of the many links between Fatah El-Islam, Fatah organisation in Palestinian camps, and the Hariri family, the last two being the actual and semi-official allies of the US administration in its 'war on terror'.

And between assassinations, denials and justifications the march 14th movement and the Hariri clan are confirming in a way their ties to Sunni extremist groups related to Al Qaida. Here is two more:
Ahmad Fatfat, minister of sports and interior minister by interim during the Israeli agression on Lebanon.
Bahiyya Hariri, sister of Rafiq and aunt of Saad (the chief of the actual parliamentary majority in Lebanon and major fund provider) deputy member of the Lebanese parliament.
Assassination of Abu Jandal by Lebanese Security Forces (special army of Sanyura and Hariri.

Fatah El-Islam's alleged bank robbery: nothing more than a scheduled visit gone awry at the cashier to collect the regular amount send by Hariri. They discovered that the payments were stopped and helped themselves.


A very important and remaining question is how the lebanese army, which is under the authority of the president (who is opposed to the Hariri family), was drawn into this fight ? The answer is here. This answer also explains why the Hezbollah is supporting the army. Hassan Nasrallah will be speaking to Lebanese on Friday evening to explain his party's position. Stay tuned.

Now, the US in all that ? As Always in the Frontline when it comes to fighting Al Qaida.

Please read these short notes from prominent blogger Angry Arab, with links:

Lebanese government asks the US for 280 millions in military aid to fight 200 members of Fatah El-Islam.

Six US cargo flights with ammunitions are scheduled to land in Lebanon over the next two days.

US assistant secretary of state David Welsh met with Lebanese army chief last week.

Interview

There is a wealth of information in this interview on Nahr El-Bared's conflict of Angry Arab blogger As'ad Abu Khalil by Ali Abunimah from Electronic Intifada.