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War in Syria ???

faroukfarouk

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Leaving aside the recent disastrous record of the US and Great Britain at imposing chaos and destruction in Iraq and Libya, here is a quote — completely unedited — showing attempts at the ruthless exercise of lethal meddling in the Middle East; the references are to former CIA head William Casey and former long-serving Saudi Ambassador in Washington, DC, Prince Bandar bin Sultan:

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'The Saudis came up with an Englishman who had served in the British Special Air Services, the elite commando special operations forces. This man traveled extensively around the Middle East, and went in and out of Lebanon from another Arab state. He would be an ideal leader of a sophisticated operation. The CIA, of course, could have nothing to do with "elimination." The Saudis, if asked would back a CIA denial concerning involvement or knowledge. Liaison with foreign intelligence services was one CIA activity out of the reach of congressional oversight; Casey had flatly refused to tell the committees about this sensitive work. And in this case, the CIA as an institution did not know. Nothing was written down, there were no records. The Saudi $3 million deposited in the Geneva account was "laundered" through transfers among other bank accounts, making sure it could not be traced.
The Englishman established operational compartments to carry out separate parts of the assassination plan; none had any communication with any other except through him. Several men were hired to procure a large quantity of explosives; another man was hired to find a car; money was paid to informants to make sure they knew where Fadlallah would be at a certain time; another group was hired to design an after-action deception so that the Saudis and the CIA would not be connected; the Lebanese intelligence service hired the men to carry out the operation.
On March 8, 1985, a car packed with explosives was driven into a Beirut suburb about fifty yards from Fadlallah's high-rise residence. The car exploded, killing eighty and wounding two hundred, leaving devastation, fires and collapsed buildings. Anyone who had happened to be in the immediate neighborhood was killed, hurt or terrorized, but Fadlallah escaped without injury. His followers strung a huge "MADE IN USA" banner in front of a building that had been blown out.'
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The author of this quote is not some marginal, grudge-driven, blogging radical that is venting his imagination.

It's Bob Woodward.

Bob Woodward, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo: Simon and Schuster, p. 397.

(The Hollywood movie Spy Game (2001), with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt, is partly based on the US attempt to kill Sheikh Fadlallah.)

If we see history repeating itself and neo-colonial business as usual being carried out — with expected denials and moralizing against 'terrorism' — there is no need to be surprised.
 
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No, Gog and Magog will not be found here in the Middle East. There may be open war with national Israel before Christ returns but it will not be Gog and Magog God talked about in Ezekiel 38/39 and Revelation 20.
 
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The Greater Israel Project:

The United States has attacked numerous nations in the middle east, and has encouraged regime change in others, like Egypt and Libya.
Some of the men removed from power were our allies, in the past.

Why?

General Wesley Clark was shown a plan to attack numerous nations in the middle east a few weeks after 9-11.
Did all of these nations attack us on 9-11?
Was 9-11 used as an excuse for our current middle east strategy?

The United States has funded radical Muslims who are fighting against Assad in Syria.
Why?



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We should have no business in Syria other than bombing ISIS and the other terrorists. Assad remaining in power is the best option available and the only chance for any kind of stability.

You are correct.
There is a great deal of this story that is not being told to the American people.

Much of this is about the "Greater Israel Project".




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Ron Paul:

The Israelis have been making bombing raids in Syria.
Russia could turn missiles over to Assad which could shoot down Israel's jets.
Israel wants to continue bombing without worrying about have their aircraft destroyed.
This could led to a serious escalation of events in the middle east.



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