Monday, August 22, 2011

Lebanon Out of the Loop

They will be back in when the fighting starts.

"Hariri case indictment names 4 in Hezbollah" August 18, 2011|By Nada Bakri, New York Times

BEIRUT - The indictment will almost surely serve as fodder for both sides in the debate.

It relies heavily on phone records and offers circumstantial evidence. Prosecutors acknowledged they have no smoking gun in the case.  

But they do have a video.

Hezbollah and Lebanese officials have long said Israel has penetrated Lebanon’s telecommunications network; two senior employees of one cellphone company were arrested last year for spying....  

They seem to have penetrated them all if not outright controlling them.

Hezbollah has contended that the tribunal is a sham, hopelessly manipulated by the United States and Israel, and it has successfully discredited the investigation in the eyes of its supporters and allies.

Sadly, the U.N. is nothing but a tool.

But that sentiment is by no means universal....

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Also see:

Court publishes names of 4 suspects in Hariri case

Hezbollah suspects urged to surrender

Btw, cui bono?  Syria was forced out, remember?

"General Wesley Clark, who commanded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign in the Kosovo war, recalls in his 2003 book Winning Modern Wars being told by a friend in the Pentagon in November 2001 that the list of states that Rumsfeld and deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz wanted to take down included Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan and Somalia [and Lebanon]."

Those guys are long gone and yet here we are.