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 From: JACARMACK@N0SPAM.C0M 
  
 On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:25:25 +0200, FAQ  wrote: 
  
 >Karl Rove's White House " Murder, Inc." 
 > 
 >By Wayne Madsen . 
 >Online Journal Contributing Writer . 
 > 
 >OCT, 2004- On September 15, 2001, just four days after the 9-11 attacks, 
 >CIA Director George Tenet provided President [sic] Bush with a Top Secret 
 >"Worldwide Attack Matrix"-a virtual license to kill targets deemed to be a 
 >threat to the United States in some 80 countries around the world. The Tenet 
 >plan, which was subsequently approved by Bush, essentially reversed the 
 >executive orders of four previous U.S. administrations that expressly 
 >prohibited political assassinations. 
 > 
 >According to high level European intelligence officials, Bush's counselor, 
 >Karl Rove, used the new presidential authority to silence a popular Lebanese 
 >Christian politician who was planning to offer irrefutable evidence that 
 >Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon authorized the massacre of hundreds of 
 >Palestinian men, women, and children in the Beirut refugee camps of Sabra 
 >and Shatilla in 1982. In addition, Sharon provided the Lebanese forces who 
 >carried out the grisly task. At the time of the massacres, Elie Hobeika was 
 >intelligence chief of Lebanese Christian forces in Lebanon who were battling 
 >Palestinians and other Muslim groups in a bloody civil war. He was also the 
 >chief liaison to Israeli Defense Force (IDF) personnel in Lebanon. An 
 >official Israeli inquiry into the massacre at the camps, the Kahan 
 >Commission, merely found Sharon "indirectly" responsible for the slaughter 
 >and fingered Hobeika as the chief instigator. 
 > 
 >The Kahan Commission never called on Hobeika to offer testimony in his 
 >defense. However, in response to charges brought against Sharon before a 
 >special war crimes court in Belgium, Hobeika was urged to testify against 
 >Sharon, according to well-informed Lebanese sources. Hobeika was prepared to 
 >offer a different version of events than what was contained in the Kahan 
 >report. A 1993 Belgian law permitting human rights prosecutions was unusual 
 >in that non-Belgians could be tried for violations against other 
 >non-Belgians in a Belgian court. Under pressure from the Bush 
 >administration, the law was severely amended and the extra territoriality 
 >provisions were curtailed. 
 > 
 >Hobeika headed the Lebanese forces intelligence agency since the mid- 1970s 
 >and he soon developed close ties to the CIA. He was a frequent visitor to 
 >the CIA's headquarters at Langley, Virginia. After the Syrian invasion of 
 >Lebanon in 1990, Hobeika held a number of cabinet positions in the Lebanese 
 >government, a proxy for the Syrian occupation authorities. He also served in 
 >the parliament. In July 2001, Hobeika called a press conference and 
 >announced he was prepared to testify against Sharon in Belgium and revealed 
 >that he had evidence of what actually occurred in Sabra and Shatilla. 
 >Hobeika also indicated that Israel had flown members of the South Lebanon 
 >Army (SLA) into Beirut International Airport in an Israeli Air Force C130 
 >transport plane. In full view of dozens of witnesses, including members of 
 >the Lebanese army and others, SLA troops under the command of Major Saad 
 >Haddad were slipped into the camps to commit the massacres. The SLA troops 
 >were under the direct command of Ariel Sharon and an Israeli Mossad agent 
 >provocateur named Rafi Eitan. Hobeika offered evidence that a former U.S. 
 >ambassador to Lebanon was aware of the Israeli plot. In addition, the IDF 
 >had placed a camera in a strategic position to film the Sabra and Shatilla 
 >massacres. Hobeika was going to ask that the footage be released as part of 
 >the investigation of Sharon. 
 > 
 >After announcing he was willing to testify against Sharon, Hobeika became 
 >fearful for his safety and began moves to leave Lebanon. Hobeika was not 
 >aware that his threats to testify against Sharon had triggered a series of 
 >fateful events that reached well into the White House and Sharon's office. 
 > 
 >On January 24, 2002, Hobeika's car was blown up by a remote controlled bomb 
 >placed in a parked Mercedes along a street in the Hazmieh section of Beirut. 
 >The bomb exploded when Hobeika and his three associates, Fares Souweidan, 
 >Mitri Ajram, and Waleed Zein, were driving their Range Rover past the 
 >TNT-laden Mercedes at 9:40 am Beirut time. The Range Rover's four passengers 
 >were killed in the explosion. In case Hobeika's car had taken another route 
 > 
 >through the neighborhood, two additional parked cars, located at two other 
 >choke points, were also rigged with TNT. The powerful bomb wounded a number 
 >of other people on the street. Other parked cars were destroyed and 
 >buildings and homes were damaged. The Lebanese president, prime minister, 
 >and interior minister all claimed that Israeli agents were behind the 
 >attack. 
 > 
 >It is noteworthy that the State Department's list of global terrorist 
 >incidents for 2002 worldwide failed to list the car bombing attack on 
 >Hobeika and his party. The White House wanted to ensure the attack was 
 >censored from the report. The reason was simple: the attack ultimately had 
 >Washington's fingerprints on it. 
 > 
 >High level European intelligence sources now report that Karl Rove 
 >personally coordinated Hobeika's assassination. The hit on Hobeika employed 
 >Syrian intelligence agents. Syrian President Bashar Assad was trying to 
 >curry favor with the Bush administration in the aftermath of 9-11 and was 
 >more than willing to help the White House. In addition, Assad's father, 
 >Hafez Assad, had been an ally of Bush's father during Desert Storm, a period 
 >that saw Washington give a "wink and a nod" to Syria's occupation of 
 >Lebanon. Rove wanted to help Sharon avoid any political embarrassment from 
 >an in absentia trial in Brussels where Hobeika would be a star witness. Rove 
 >and Sharon agreed on the plan to use Syrian Military Intelligence agents to 
 >assassinate Hobeika. Rove saw Sharon as an indispensable ally of Bush in 
 >ensuring the loyalty of the Christian evangelical and Jewish voting blocs in 
 >the United States. Sharon saw the plan to have the United States coordinate 
 >the hit as a way to mask all connections to Jerusalem. 
 > 
 >The Syrian hit team was ordered by Assef Shawkat, the number two man in 
 >Syrian military intelligence and a good friend and brother in law of Syrian 
 >President Bashar Assad. Assad's intelligence services had already cooperated 
  
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