Posted on 01/02/2008 9:03:36 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Phillip Smyth is the the CT Blog's Assistant Newslinks Editor and a contributor to the Aramaic Democratic Organization. He spent 2 months this summer in Lebanon talking with and interviewing anti-Hezbollah NGOs in addition to Hezbollah supporters. He wrote the following about the direction of recent assassinations in Lebanon.
In the effort by the Syrian backed oppositions hope to block any anti-Syrian candidate to the office of Lebanese president, Lebanon is expected to undergo a number of Damascus backed political murders. "Lebanon, during this period, could witness a new series of assassinations and explosions carried out by an organized network that had been mentioned in the last report by U.N. investigator Serge Brammertz," noted Emile Khoury in the Beirut daily An Nahar. While the targeting of anti-Syrian officials has included Muslims as well as Christians, the murder of Christian leaders often leads to more gains for Damascus. Because the Christian community is split down the middle between Michel Aouns Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), aligned with Hezbollah and Syria and opposed by the pro-Western (March 14th Movement) Kataeb and Lebanese Forces (LF), in any subsequent election, there is a chance for Syria to acquire a democratically elected Christian ally in a newly murdered anti-Syrian ministers place. The resulting election of a pro-Syrian candidate adds to Syrias hegemony over Lebanon and the Lebanese democratic process. Simply put, by killing an anti-Syrian Christian there is a bigger chance that in their place a pro-Syrian Christian can takeover their position, a proverbial, killing two birds with one stone.
Take the case of Pierre Amine Gemayel, son of former president Amine Gemayel, MP and a prominent member of the Kataeb party. On November 26th Gemayel was shot to death by a hit squad ......
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Syria and Iran are justification for the neutron bomb.
BTTT.
We need to elect a President in November that is ready to use the weapon.
Nite!
In the effort by the Syrian backed oppositionâs hope to block any anti-Syrian candidate to the office of Lebanese president, Lebanon is expected to undergo a number of Damascus backed political murders. "Lebanon, during this period, could witness ⦠a new series of assassinations and explosions carried out by an organized network that had been mentioned in the last report by U.N. investigator Serge Brammertz," noted Emile Khoury in the Beirut daily An Nahar.Let's give Assad a smart bomb for his birthday, special delivery. Thanks Ernest.
The little lion continues to walk on thin ice.
His time will come.

Heh heh... and a GREAT tagline...
Thanks :)
That info about Assad’s birthday... could be incriminating, iow, maybe the trail for the 9/11/2001 mass murders leads right to his presidential palace?
Perhaps.
The 19 were AQ members, Taliban/AQ insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan recieved weapons from Iran, and Iran is best friends with Syria.
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