“Blowback” in Lebanon?

contentions ^ | 8.15.2007 | Gabriel Schoenfeld

[Contentions]

The State Department has designated Fatah al-Islam, a self-declared al-Qaeda affiliate of Sunni Muslim extremists based in northern Lebanon, a “terrorist” group.

Back in March, the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, writing in the New Yorker, explained that this outfit, consisting of a relatively small number of fighters but heavily armed, was actually a creature of the United States. In line with a reorientation of U.S. policy to bolster Sunni Muslims in the growing contest with the Shiites of Hizballah and its controlling hands in Iran, the U.S. had covertly joined with Saudi Arabia to support the terrorists of Fatah al-Islam.

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“The State Department has designated Fatah al-Islam, a self-declared al-Qaeda affiliate of Sunni Muslim extremists based in northern Lebanon, a “terrorist” group.”

what was their first clue?

[pgkdan]

But Hersh is a serial confabulist.

Funny...I was thinking 'Hersh is a lying POS...guess this is a nicer way of saying that.

[genefromjersey]

One might add Hersh has a long history of dedicated service to the Left. During the Cold War years,for example, the Navy had to send him off on a wild goose chase to keep him from revealing how US subs “shadowed” their Russian counterparts as the Russian missile subs carried out combat patrols near US waters.