WMR has learned from its Lebanese intelligence sources that the Lebanese government is coming to realize that Israeli intelligence penetration of all political groups in the country is worse than originally believed.
Israel’s Mossad, once content on penetrating the Christian and Druze parties in the country, has now thoroughly infiltrated the top echelons of Sunni and Shi’a parties, as well. Recently, Lebanon charged retired General Fayez Karam, a senior member of retired General Michel Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement, which is allied with Hezbollah, with spying for Mossad.
Among the political parties penetrated by Israeli intelligence is the Future Movement of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the son of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated by a car bomb in Beirut in 2005. The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is expected very soon to charge Lebanon’s Hezbollah with the assassination. However, Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah recently announced the group had video evidence from Israeli drones that showed the Israeli Defense Force was tracking Hariri before his assassination.
The STL’s chief prosecutor, Daniel Bellemare of Canada, requested the evidence from Hezbollah. However, WMR has learned that Bellemare is suspected by Lebanese intelligence of having close previous contacts with agents of both the CIA and Mossad. WMR previously reported that Bellemare is suspected to have allowed and introduced into evidence against Hezbollah in the Hariri assassination, doctored cell phone intercepts pointing the “smoking gun” at Hezbollah. It is feared that Bellemare might give Hezbollah’s evidence to Mossad for the Israelis to determine the source of the leak of classified videos.
Mossad is also reported to be grooming a successor to the Lebanese Shi’a political leader Nabih Berri, currently the speaker of the Lebanese parliament. The Mossad operation is being actively supported behind the scenes by Saudi Arabia, a country that is fast becoming one of Israel’s most “open secret” allies in the Middle East.
According to WMR’s sources in Lebanon, one network that Israel and the United States can rely on to support the UN after the expected indictment of Hezbollah for Hariri’s assassination is a Sunni network in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. It includes a member of the same family as Ziad al-Jarrah, one of the alleged United flight 93 hijackers on September 11, 2001.
Lebanese intelligence has linked the Ziad al-Jarrah, who hailed from the Bekaa Valley, to a Saudi-supported Salafist network that includes “Al-Qaeda” associates that will be used to target Shi’as throughout Lebanon in the wake of the Bellemare charges against Hezbollah. Lebanese intelligence discovered that members of this same Mossad-supported Salafist/Al Qaeda network also targeted top Shi’a leaders in Iraq. WMR has learned that Ziad al-Jarrah was used by the Mossad, the CIA, and Saudi intelligence as a “patsy” in the 9/11 conspiracy, just as similar “patsies” are being used in Iraq and elsewhere to help keep the myth of “Al Qaeda” and Osama bin Laden alive.
The same Salafist/Al Qaeda network in Lebanon, while still in an embryonic stage, was used by Mossad and the CIA to spy on Palestinian groups in Lebanon during the 1980s and 90s, as well as on Syria during its occupation of Lebanon.
The Israeli espionage network also extends to Syria. Lebanese sources report that former Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam, who accused Syrian President Bashar al Assad of ordering Rafik Harir’s assassination, is tactically backed by Israel and the United States. Khaddam, who heads the exiled National Salvation Front (NSF), is seeking to overthrow Assad. The NSF not only receives support from Israeli and U.S. intelligence but also from the French and German intelligence. The NSF maintains offices in Brussels, Berlin, Paris, and Washington, DC and it is suspected of working behind the scenes with Bellemare to bring chargss against Hezbollah for the Hariri assassination. However, previous attempts to have Assad and pro-Syrian Lebanese generals indicted for the assassination fell through due to lack of any credible evidence.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist. He has written for several renowned papers and blogs.
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Comment: I have suspected for a long time already that Syria is deeply infiltrated by Israeli agents. In particular, I am quite certain that the murder of Imad Mugniyeh could not have occurred without top level Syrian accomplices (I wrote about it here). The situation in Lebanon must be even worse.
Comment: I have suspected for a long time already that Syria is deeply infiltrated by Israeli agents. In particular, I am quite certain that the murder of Imad Mugniyeh could not have occurred without top level Syrian accomplices (I wrote about it here). The situation in Lebanon must be even worse.
The Saker
The rolling up of so many spy rings in Lebanon is probably one of the biggest intel stories of the last quarter century. I’m sure there are plenty of spies left, but I imagine the more they fear being caught, the harder it will be for Mossad to recruit.
All this makes Hizbullah seems that much more incredible. In a country where everybody and his cousin is an Israeli spy, Hizb still seems to be so hard to penetrate. (knock on wood)
Also, I’m watching the whole Hariri thing very closely. I suspect Hizb has even more evidence than it is letting on and is waiting for the STL to talk itself into a corner.
@Lysander: I suspect Hizb has even more evidence than it is letting on and is waiting for the STL to talk itself into a corner.
Yes, and the STL guys are now extremely nervous since they have no idea what Hezbollah might have in store.
It has been about 15 years now that I have closely followed Hezbollah and I still am simply awed by the sheer tactical and strategic genius of this organization and its leader Nasrallah. They move slowly, one small step here, one small step there, but ever since their creation their progress has been absolutely unstoppable. Each time somebody tried something against them they clearly had a *huge* advanced warning about it and their reply was swift and terribly effective. If the idiots at the STL and their bosses think that they can “discredit” Hezbollah they better think twice or, better, give it up and change careers.
This entire business also confirms to me that Hezbollah’s intelligence capabilities are absolutely formidable, the best in the region and one of the best in the world, I would say. This is quite stunning for a non-state actor.
And all this make the entire episode with the murder of Imad Mugniyeh even harder to understand. How could they fail to protect him when he was clearly a high-value target? How could they fail to retaliate for his murder? How could they remain silent about what is beyond any reasonable doubt high-level Syrian complicity? I am sure that there is much more in this business than meets the eye, but I have no clue as to what it is…
The Saker
Interesting point to note is that it was revealed a year or 2 ago in the Lebanese Daily Star and referenced in a New York Times article I think that one of the spies captured in Lebanon who was caught spying for Mossad for the past 25 years was a relative of one of the 9/11 hijackers pilots Ziad Jarrah.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=97339#axzz0xkEOTSwF
Interesting the Mossad infiltration of Lebanon as Dennis Hopsicker at MadCowMorningNews has researched and written the best information regarding 9/11 connection between Islamic terrorism in Florida, drug trafficking and the CIA.
With a least one terrorist adverted terrorist attack planned for some water tunnel in New York I think being a Lebanese group with the standard with the standard pictures of him with Bikini glad girls on a boat, stories of drinking and other things that is associated with Mohammed Atta.
http://www.madcowprod.com/archive.html
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Absolutely no doubt about it!