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Hersh: Saniora government funds extremists in Lebanon


Al-Manar special report /
Prominent American journalist Seymour M. Hersh made a detailed study on the American Administration's new policy for the Middle East in the wake of the invasion of Iraq. Hersh titled his study: "The Redirection." He founded this study on whether the US administration's new policy is benefiting the enemies of the so called war on terrorism. He also tackled the Lebanese political crisis caused by this policy. "The redirection as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open confrontation with Iran and, in part of the region, propelled it into a widening sectarian conflict between Shiite and Sunni Muslims," Hersh said in his study.
He added: "To undermine Iran, the Bush administration has decided to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East." Hersh quoted in his study a senior security officer in the American administration as saying that the US has begun executing a political and financial program in Lebanon to support some Sunni groups to face Shiites.
 

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Login to find out (February 26, 2007 at 5:07pm)
insha'allah
 
Login to find out (February 25, 2007 at 9:20pm)
So called "Middles East Experts" frequently say that if such and such things happen, the Middle East will destabalise.

They are seemingly mindless of the fact that for something to destabalise, it needs to be stable in the first place.

Getting rid of American meddling will bring stability into the region very quickly, Insha'Allah.
 
Login to find out (February 25, 2007 at 12:44pm)
He said that the largest of the groups is Asbat al-Ansar, that is situated in the Ain el-Helwe Palestinian refugee camp in the southern city of Sidon. The group according to Hersh has received arms and supplies from Lebanese internal security forces and militias associated with the Saniora government.
 
Login to find out (February 25, 2007 at 12:44pm)
He also quoted Alastair Crooke who spent nearly 30 years in the British intelligence service and currently works for the Conflicts Forum in Beirut as saying: "The Lebanese government under PM Fouad Saniora is opening space for extremists to come into Lebanon and that this could be very dangerous," Hersh's study said. He added that Crooke told him that one Sunni extremist group, Fatah al-Islam, is currently operating in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. "I was told that upon their arrival to the camp, they were offered weapons and money by people presenting themselves as representatives of the Lebanese government's interests, presumably to take on Hezbollah," Hersh quoted Crooke.