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Syria’s Assassination Goal: Target March 14th Christians To Divide & Conquer
Counterrorism Blog ^ | January 1, 2008 12:00 AM | Andrew Cochran

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 opposition’s 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 Aoun’s 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 minister’s place. The resulting election of a pro-Syrian candidate adds to Syria’s 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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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: lebanon; syria

1 posted on 01/02/2008 9:03:44 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: mdittmar; SandRat; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; Marine_Uncle; tobyhill; Allegra; ...

fyi


2 posted on 01/02/2008 9:11:14 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Syria and Iran are justification for the neutron bomb.


3 posted on 01/02/2008 9:22:17 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

BTTT.


4 posted on 01/02/2008 9:23:14 PM PST by TBP
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

We need to elect a President in November that is ready to use the weapon.


5 posted on 01/02/2008 9:26:57 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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Nite!


6 posted on 01/02/2008 9:33:03 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...
In the effort by the Syrian backed opposition’s 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.
7 posted on 01/02/2008 10:44:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The little lion continues to walk on thin ice.


8 posted on 01/03/2008 10:29:57 AM PST by Marine_Uncle (Duncan Hunter for POTUS)
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To: Marine_Uncle

His time will come.


9 posted on 01/03/2008 11:29:49 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Let's give Assad a smart bomb for his birthday, special delivery.

His birthday is September 11. Now THAT would make it EXTRA special.
10 posted on 01/03/2008 4:39:50 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Syria and Iran are justification for the neutron bomb.

Yep. Evil best friends they are. And an Arab and a Persian at that. Whodathunkit?



DinnerJacket can't be over 4 feet tall, LOL
11 posted on 01/03/2008 4:47:52 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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12 posted on 01/03/2008 7:31:05 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: G8 Diplomat

Heh heh... and a GREAT tagline...


13 posted on 01/04/2008 8:45:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks :)


14 posted on 01/04/2008 1:41:57 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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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?


15 posted on 01/04/2008 10:37:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: SunkenCiv

Perhaps.

The 19 were AQ members, Taliban/AQ insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan recieved weapons from Iran, and Iran is best friends with Syria.


16 posted on 01/05/2008 9:30:56 AM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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