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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:24
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast...sion/index.html
quote:
Hariri, a billionaire businessman who resigned from government last October, recently joined calls by the opposition for Syria to quit Lebanon in the run-up to general elections in May, Reuters reported
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Monday's explosion occurred before a backdrop of increasing political tension ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for May.
Lebanon's pro-Syrian government, which counts on its neighbor for security, has come under fire from the anti-Syrian opposition, which says Lebanon can take care of its own security.
Syria maintains about 16,000 troops in Lebanon, based mainly east of Beirut and in the Bekaa Valley, according to the CIA. The Arab League approved that troop deployment under the Ta'if Accord at the end of the 1975-90 civil war.
After Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000, the opposition began to demand that Syria withdraw as well. The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution last October calling on Syria to withdraw. |
A syrian job?
Last edited by Eli on 14-02-2005 at 17:39
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Jaakko
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in Yellow
Jan 2000
time: 07:24
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Originally posted by lord of the mark
the US did not rattle sabres, but merely said that this reiterates the need for Syria to withdraw. Such withdrawl would be in accord with a recent UNSC resolution, one supported by France as well as the US, and is desired by many different groups in Lebanon. The US did NOT say that Syria was at fault.
But between you and me, Syria probably was. Mafia? they can move around explosives in such quantity in Syrian occupied Lebanon? Besides, shortly after the bombing, a video appeared of a Palestinian claiming the attack on behalf of Al Qaeeda, which the Lebanese authorities quickly stated was who did it. If its NOT AQ, than its a pretty good bet that this is a deliberate coverup of Syrian involvement. |
Taking advantage of an assassination to start pushing for a Syrian withdrawal isn't sabre rattling? I'd say it fits the category rather comfortably.
What the hell does that mean anyway? What kind of "pushing" are we talking about? The Syrians sure aren't going to give a **** about such vagueness if it doesn't imply a willingness to take punitive action.
In conclusion, even without that kind of speak, the risk of further violence and destabilisation is very high, so it would behoove the US to shut the **** up and not start empty posturing. The US isn't popular around that part of the world, remember?
BTW, why would it be impossible for criminal groups (with or without political/religious connections) to move explosives in Lebanon?
Mind, I'm not saying it was done by such interests, I'm just wondering where you get such precise knowledge.
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lord of the mark
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FUKCOV - Former United Kingdom Colony of Virginia
Dec 2000
time: 00:24
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quote:
Originally posted by Last Conformist
When I find the time. 
In the meantime, would you kindly hint at the thesis? |
Ive only skimmed it, but heres my understanding.
for hundreds of years what is today Syria-lebanon-Israel/palestine-jordan were one cultural, and often political unit. In the politicing that followed the breakup of the Ottoman empire, the notion that this entity, called Greater Syria, should be one state was an important notion in Syrian politics. Different religious and ethnic groups took different views of it - Zionist Jews and Lebanese Maronite Christians opposed it, but Sunni muslims and Greek Orthodox supported it, (I dont remember what the views of Allawite, Shia, and Druze muslims were) This impacted the politics of the arab-israel situation, as well as of Lebanon, and of Syria, in the 1930s and 1940s. Even afterwards it effected the views of non-Maronite groups toward the Lebanese state, and of Syria toward the Lebanese state, and of Syria toward the Israeli and Palestinian issues.
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The Mad Monk
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of Ice Cream
Mar 2000
time: 23:24
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quote:
Originally posted by Jaakko
Terrorists, Islamic and otherwise, are involved in organised crime as well. What's to say he didn't screw over some A-Q related bigshot who decided to use one of his fools to blow it up? Again, note that this is just idle speculation, all I'm opposing is the notion that it can be dismissed off hand.
BTW, they're reporting now that it's a suicide bombing, which makes a Syrian involvement even less likely. |
For the same reason nobody whacked Arafat, for all the problems he caused on all sides.
When someone controls that much money in that part of world (heck, in any part of the world), the problems caused by killing him outright make the idea very unpalatable unless you are extraordinarily powerful yourself.
In short, that man probably represented a significant portion of Lebanon's economy all by himself, and everybody benefitting from that are now very angry.
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