It is not rubbish, it is only the truth when Robert Baer says
"“we’ve got Sunni Arabs preparing for cataclysmic conflict, and we will need somebody to protect the Christians in Lebanon. It used to be the French and the United States who would do it, and now it’s going to be Nasrallah and the Shiites. "
Saad Harri and his Gang are playing a very dangerous game that might lead to the end of Lebanon.
Absolute rubbish Mr. Mus. Dont' subscribe to these conspiracy theories.
According to Hersh was not the US supposed to have attacked Iran sometime last year before the elections.. This is the flypaper startegy of putting out as many theories/conspiracies as possible and hope to be proven right on something.
The Sandmonkey just attended a SH love-in that sheds some insight on this issue.
Hersh is a jerk with an agenda, but even jerks can be right sometimes.
I don't know if that is the case here.
However, the repeated lack of mvmnt by the Lebanese authorities against Jund-el-Sham in Taamir has got me wondering.
Does this story harm Hariri or enhance his stature among Lebanese because it associates him more closely with the Bush Administration?
Your update is incorrect. That is not Bilal's point at all, although I join with some of your skepticism on Hersh's piece.
So now Galloway is a liar , and so is Hersh, Give me a break
Some are in denial
Baer has good points and should be taken seriously. Hersh is spot on in his article.
I saw Hersh being interviewed on his story with Wolf Blitzer from CNN las Sunday. During the interview he mentioned that he spoke to Nasrallah last Dec and Nasrallah told him that they are arming these groups..For one thing NAsrallah is hardly an unbiased source.
In anycase, when one group like HA is heavily armed and getting in the way of a Lebanon that is indepndant from Syria, what did they think the rest of the groups are going to do, sit down and watch while HA takes over the country? I don't think SOOOO!!!!
Read this review about the article:
http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.c...light-
zone.html
While I agree that some points in Hersch analysis are not accurate, I do not think that Bilal Saab's analysis refuted it.It gave a more complete picture though, showing how multilayered the situation is.
In the second paragraph he makes himself more clear "Who are the Salafist Jiadist factions? These are Osbat al Ansar, Jund al Sham, the dismantled (but now regrouped in Ein el Helweh under the leadership of Ahmad Miqati) al Dinniyeh Group, the Majdal Anjar group, the Qarun group, rogue (turned salafist jihadist) elements inside Harakat al Tawhid al Islami and al Jama'a al Islamiyya, and finally alienated and unemployed Lebanese Sunni Muslim youth who belong to the lower and middle classes of the Sunni community, who mostly center around the coastal areas of Lebanon and the capital (Tariq al Jdideh, also in the town of Aramoun) and who are all, without any exxageration, potential al-Qaeda recruits.
Here again, I am in no position to disprove that elements inside the Siniora government (the article refers to the Internal Security Forces who pretty much operate under Siniora's leaderhsip and the command of the pro-government ISF Director Ashraf Rifi) may be attempting to finance such salafist jihadist factions. In fact, I find such assumption resonably believable. What I doubt is the success of such efforts. While the ISF may succeed in financing and arming alienated and unemployed Sunni youth and rogue Islamist elements here and there, I have enough empirical evidence (mostly based on field work, which I will reveal in a journal article I will soon be running with Magnus Ranstorp entitled "Securing Lebanon and UNIFIL from the threat of Salafist Militancy") to support the argument that any virtual attempts by the government at reaching out to the core salafist jihadist groups in Lebanon, mentioned above, will not only fail but backfire and have grave consequences.etc.."
I hope that this is not true, because if the gvt is funding groups potentially linked to al-qaeda we are in deep trouble, even more than the black hole we are stuck in now.
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