Seymour Hersh: Fatah Al-Islam Crisis in Lebanon
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Loading …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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He didnt say the sunni are supporting Hezbollah. You can make the case that the US is supporting shia in only Iraq. Because the government is mostly shia. But if you look at what the gov is saying the sunnis are the good guys now who are fighting against al qaeda and the shia militias who have had a cease fire for over 6 months are the enemy. Iran, Syria and Hez the shia muslims are always cast as the enemy but the sunni (saddam, al qaeda, saudi arabia) are the good guys.
america supports shias and sunnis so they can fight eachother No more No less
im a sunni from Tripoly lebanon and im not saying that sanyoura is a traitor but that idiot isin way over his head (you simply cant govern a country on yourown you do it as a team with ur other countrymen)
as for “fath al islam” there is a90% chance that SaudiArabia is behindit From allwe cansee in everyday politics
Who is benefiting from allthis its Israil and the Bush administration(oil companies) NOT AMERICA
he was right on so many occasions (when the Iraqu attack plan was made or the killing fields in vietnam.. its also backed up by the released CIA memos etc. etc.) Being against Israels policies and Zionism is different from being antisemitic!!.. Many Jews are against the occupation in Palestine for example, search Youtube..check my Fav Videos for more inside Info
VERY Interesting,
the US is supporting Sunni extremists, the same people who did 9/11
Again and again, we see that it is actually the US who is behind most, if not all, atrocities that happen around the world. This is very informative news. Thank you.
This guy knows …. listen to him… USA Gov. announced democracy is corrupt and is going to take us all to hell.
This is known as the war on Islam…
The “war on terrorism” is actually a war on Islam. And the terrorists(like al-Qaeda and Fatah al-Islam), they are directly supported by zionists and neocons.
wow that was very deep, as a Lebanese citizen, I never thought of this… Can this be possible???? WOW
Seymour Hersh is the best!!
you are a paranoid moron!!
There is a cancer known as islam. It has attacked: USA, AUSTRALIA, RUSSIA, SPAIN, MOROCCO, ISRAEL, KENYA, INDONESIA, ALGERIA, TANZANIA, ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, INDIA…this cancer is growing.
But thank the Lord the West is waking up. In europe, they are now limiting the number of raghead barbarians they r allowing in.
And Iran will soon be set back to the stone ages…like the world is really gonna let a guy who think he will get 72 virgins if he blows up, have a nuke!
A little clarity:
Sunni = Saudis, Egypt, Jordan, Fatah Al Islam - (All supported by US and Israel - through $ and alliance)
Shiite = Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Hezbola
Do you see a pattern? - *Oh, Palestinians are mainly Sunni (who have been under Israels illegal occupation for over 40 years.)
Fatah Al Islam is a US funded puppet. They were created by “The Welch Club” as in - David Welch, Elliot Abrams, Feith, Cheney, Condisleeza through the *Office of Special Plans (OSP) - they receive funding from Saudi Arabia and the Hariri Family in Lebanon (Future Movement) - Anti Hezbola groups. This is well documented look it up. America trying to destabilize Lebanon.
is this what a saudi arabian fanatic said or is this what something the prophet said?
hamas needs to do more crushings and beheadings of fatah. fatah are al qaeda inspired and are dirty stinking rats that kill red cross workers.
playing these kind of games against people to fund and support one against other is quite old fashion but still favorite in our time but no westerner of christian ask themselves that why are we doing this when it is coming back to us, they keep quite, hypocrets by all means.
exactly in the same fashion the so called state of israel created HAMAS against FATAH movement to bring it down but it cast them heavily, what goes around comes around, enjoy your time around
Hersh is insane… or is he crazy like a fox? He makes a shit load of money selling his bullshit.