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<P><STRONG><SPAN class=article-header>Hariri Reportedly Assassinated To Make Way
For Large US Air Base In Lebanon</SPAN><BR></STRONG><SPAN
class=article-newdate><A
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26, 2005</SPAN> <BR><SPAN class=article-byline>By Wayne Madsen, Online Journal
Contributing Writer</SPAN></P>
<P>According to high-level Lebanese intelligence sources-Christian and
Muslim-former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was reportedly assassinated
in a sophisticated explosion-by-wire bombing authorized by the Bush
administration and Ariel Sharon's Likud government in "Israel". <BR><BR>There
are also strong indications that the Hariri assassination was carried out by the
same rogue Syrian intelligence agents used in the 2002 car bombing assassination
of Lebanese Christian leader Elie Hobeika, who was prepared to testify against
Sharon in a Brussels human rights court. That case involved the Israeli Prime
Minister's role in the 1982 massacre by Israeli troops of Palestinian refugees
at the Sabra and Chatilla camps in Beirut. The Hariri assasination used
wire-bombing technology because Hariri's security personnel used electronic
countermeasures to fend off a remote control bomb using wireless means. It has
been revealed that the Bush administration has used Syrian intelligence agents
to torture al Qaeda suspects through the program known as "extraordinary
rendition." <BR><BR>Hariri, a pan-Arabist and Lebanese nationalist, was known to
adamantly oppose the construction of a major U.S. air base in the north of
Lebanon. The United States wants Syrian troops completely out of Lebanon before
construction of the base is initiated. Hariri's meetings with Hezbollah shortly
before his death also angered Washington and Jerusalem, according to the
Lebanese intelligence sources. <BR><BR>Washington and Jerusalem media experts
spun Hariri's assassination as being the work of Syrian intelligence on orders
from President Bashar Assad. However, a number of Middle East political
observers in Washington claim that Hariri's assassination was not in the
interests of Assad, but that the Bush and Sharon administrations had everything
to gain from it, including the popular Lebanese uprising against the Syrian
occupation. <BR><BR>Lebanese intelligence sources report that even without a
formal agreement with Lebanon, the contract for the northern Lebanese air base
has been let by the Pentagon to Jacobs Engineering Group of Pasadena,
California. Other construction support will be provided by Bechtel Corporation.
<BR><BR>Jacobs Engineering and Jacobs Sverdrup are currently contracted for work
in Saudi Arabia for Aramco, Iraq for the U.S. occupation authority, Bosnia,
Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Yemen, Oman, and the United Arab
Emirates. <BR><BR>The Lebanese air base is reportedly to be used as a transit
and logistics hub for U.S. forces in Iraq and as a rest and relaxation location
for U.S. troops in the region. In addition, the Lebanese base will be used to
protect U.S. oil pipelines in the region (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and
Mosul/Kirkuk-Ceyhan) as well as to destabilize the Assad government in Syria.
The size of the planned air base reportedly is on the scale of the massive
American Al Udeid air base in Qatar. <BR><BR>A number of intelligence sources
have reported that assassinations of foreign leaders like Hariri and Hobeika are
ultimately authorized by two key White House officials, Deputy Chief of Staff
Karl Rove and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliot Abrams. In addition,
Abrams is the key liaison between the White House and Sharon's office for such
covert operations, including political assassinations. <BR><BR>"Abrams is the
guy they [the Israelis] go to for a wink and a nod for such ops," reported one
key source. <BR><BR><I>Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based journalist and
columnist and the co-author of "America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George
Bush II."<BR><A
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