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Seymour Hersh: Fatah Al-Islam Crisis in Lebanon

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In an interview on CNN International's Your World Today, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh explains that the current violence in Lebanon is the result of an attempt by the Lebanese government to crack down on a militant Sunni group, Fatah al-Islam, that it formerly supported.Last March, Hersh reported that American policy in the Middle East had shifted to opposing Iran, Syria, and their Shia allies at any cost, even if it meant backing hardline Sunni jihadists.A key element of this policy shift was an agreement among Vice President Richard Cheney, Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi national security adviser, whereby the Saudis would covertly fund the Sunni Farah al-Islam in Lebanon as a counterweight to the Shia Hezbollah.Hersh points out that the current situation is much like that during the conflict in Afghanistan in the 1980's -- which gave rise to al Qaeda -- with the same people involved in both the US and Saudi Arabia and the "same pattern" of the US using jihadists that the Saudis assure us they can control.When asked why the administration would be acting in a way that appears to run counter to US interests, Hersh says that, since the Israelis lost to them last summer, "the fear of Hezbollah in Washington, particularly in the White House, is acute."As a result, Hersh implies, the Bush administration is no longer acting rationally in its policy. "We're in the business of supporting the Sunnis anywhere we can against the Shia. ... "We're in the business of creating ... sectarian violence." And he describes the scheme of funding Fatah al-Islam as "a covert program we joined in with the Saudis as part of a bigger, broader program of doing everything we could to stop the spread of the Shia world, and it just simply -- it bit us in the rear."

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Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm
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NikolaSerbPatriot (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
This is same crap with Americans.1st they supported Al-Qaida,wich is now at war with them. Then they support Albanians,who already tried to attack US on it's own ground,and planted bomb in EULEX building in Prishtina. They repeat their mistakes every time...
truthchannel (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
"Do not be manipulated by America/Israel, who bring nothing but death and suffering to Muslims." - sounds like you have bought the whole bullshit story mate. I agree that the Iraq war and many other events have been deeply offensive to Arab countries, but to say "nothing but death and suffering?" - More aid comes from western countries than anywhere else. More palestinians have been killed by Arabs than by westerners. Iraq is fucked and we hate it too but you need to get your facts straight.
truthchannel (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
Actually the fact is that more Muslims kill other Muslims than anyone else. I'm not saying the US Iraq thing isn't a horrible travesty but to say that Westerners are after Muslims is so completely wrong. That's the kind of statement that just makes you sound uneducated. Truth is most Westerners want to live in peace. You could probably say the same for most Muslims but let me point out that no other population in the world trains its children to hate and kill like the Palestinians.
Eye0fTheStorm (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
Quran: 3:109"And hold fast, all of you together, to the rope of Allah, and do not separate. And remember Allah's favor unto you: How ye were enemies and He joined your hearts in love; so that ye became as brothers by His grace; and (how) ye were upon the brink of an abyss of fire, and He did save you from it. Thus Allah maketh clear His revelations unto you, that haply ye may be guided"Sunni...Shia. Do not be manipulated by America/Israel, who bring nothing but death and suffering to Muslims
Eye0fTheStorm (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
Quran: 3:109"And hold fast, all of you together, to the rope of Allah, and do not separate. And remember Allah's favor unto you: How ye were enemies and He joined your hearts in love; so that ye became as brothers by His grace; and (how) ye were upon the brink of an abyss of fire, and He did save you from it. Thus Allah maketh clear His revelations unto you, that haply ye may be guided"Sunni...Shia. Do not be manipulated by America/Israel, who bring nothing but death and suffering to Muslims
OnceUponAtimeInLeb (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
Hala is a true syrian beauty
sameem42 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. asslam alykum wa rahmatullah (peace and blissing of allah be upon all of us muslims)They are creating confusion amongs us muslims this is a trick of shytaan dont fall in it.Unity of muslims makes us strong brothers thank you
OccidentalSoapbox (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
Hirsch looks at any conflict in the world and sees sneaky Americans pulling the strings behind the shadows... Americans are to Hirsch as Jews were to Hitler. Did he ever think that Jihadists are violent by design and are quite capable of killing each other without our help?
sindhipakimuslim (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
westerner are after muslims God alone save muslims
kosation (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)
if you werent so ignorant i would have replied please you know nothing comapered to what i kno about lebanon go study its history to study the present of lebanon so please when you say something make sure it makes sense...go suck a dick and get your facts right is america supporting sunnis in somalia against ethoipians ?there supporting sunis against shia's in lebanon but when theres no shia they wont support sunis anymore you dumb fucker and btw america controls saudiarabia it doesnt support it

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