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| Syria's master plan to destroy Lebanon again |
| 2007-06-22 |
| By Olivier Guitta In fact, President Bashar Assad never hid his intentions that if Syria were to leave Lebanon, he would burn down the country. It has been now way over 2 years after the murder of Lebanese ex-prime Minister Rafik Hariri and Syria is still free to create havoc in Lebanon, killing left and right, supporting Fatah Al Islam's attacks on the Lebanese Army, propping up the FPLP-GC, Fatah Intifada, Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. All this happening under the nose of the international community, the UN, the UNIFIL forces and despite a united front against Syria at the UN with the French and the Americans leading the charge. Regarding Syria's latest maneuvers, from The Croissant, comes this story: "According to Syrian sources close to the regime, Syrian president Bashar Assad went berserk when his foreign minister Walid Al Moallem handed him his report on the Saturday Cairo meeting of Arab foreign ministers. In fact, Al Moallem explained that Saudi Arabia and Egypt had firmly denounced the Syrian interference in Lebanon and Syrian's support to Palestinian terror groups looking to destabilize Lebanon. Assad allegedly said: “They will see how I am going to plow Lebanon”. Also the Katushya rockets fired from Lebanon into Northern Israel on Sunday evening were only the sign that Assad was acting on his threats. The FPLP-GC terrorists of Ahmed Jibril (based in Damascus) are behind the bombing of Israel and used rockets modified in Iran. The FPLP-GC has allegedly prepared more than 80 rockets of this type to bomb Israel and open a new front while the Lebanese army is on the verge of finishing off Fatah Al Islam in Nahr El Bared. Last, the Syrian Army is on high alert at the Lebanese border as are the Palestinian groups (FPLP-GC and Fatah Intifada) in the same area. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s refusal to retaliate has set back the Syrian plan." |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #6 I think it would be better to ask why Iraq and Syria were created; Lebanon and Kuwait both predate them, in Lebanon's case by millennia. This Wikipedia entry on subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire should shed some light on the issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_of_the_Ottoman_Empire It is my impression, however, that Syria was created largely to hand something worthless to the France once the British realized a mandate in Iraq would include oil, then replacing coal as the power of the Royal Navy. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-06-22 12:21 |
| #5 O.K. all you Professors out there ... So why were Lebanon and Kuwait created at all? A look at the map suggests they were enclaves of some sort... |
| Posted by: Mohammad Khatami 2007-06-22 08:36 |
| #4 Of course there's that, JFM. But the would-be conquerers don't think much beyond, "Mi-i-i-ine!" |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-22 08:32 |
| #3 Artificial just like Syria or Irak. Also a number of Lebanese consider themselves as descdendents of Phenicians and not as Arabs. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-06-22 07:58 |
| #2 Lebanon is an artificial construct, Paul, wrested from the Ottoman empire's Syria province. Just as Saddam Hussein's Iraq considered Kuwait to be carved out from their stolen seacoast, so too Syria considers Lebanon to have been carved out of theirs by French and English connivance after World War I. (see map for details -- it's from the CIA website, so it's probably pretty accurate) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-22 06:31 |
| #1 Why does Syria want Lebanon so badly???? They think they are a bigger power than what they are.It must be an ego thing knowing that Saudi,Israel and Even Iran are more powerful on the world scene hurts them!!!! |
| Posted by: Paul 2007-06-22 06:00 |