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 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.
Previously
published in the Wayne
Madsen Report.
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