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 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 
 with U.S. intelligence in resorting to unconventional methods to extract 
 information from al Qaeda detainees deported to Syria from the United States 
 and other countries in the wake of 9-11. The order to take out Hobeika was 
 transmitted by Shawkat to Roustom Ghazali, the head of Syrian military 
 intelligence in Beirut. Ghazali arranged for the three remote controlled 
 cars to be parked along Hobeika's route in Hazmieh; only few hundred yards 
  
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