U.S. intrigues in Lebanon to backfire again?
By Hassan Hanizadeh
The recent armed clashes between the Lebanese Army and a Salafist group called
Fatah al-Islam at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon
show that the United States and the Israeli regime, with the cooperation of
certain regional countries, are trying to return the country to the situation
in the 1970s.
The Fatah al-Islam movement was founded last year by Shaker al-Abssi, a
Jordanian born in Palestine who has Salafist leanings and is close to the
Al-Qaeda terrorist network. With the help of Al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, al-Abssi assassinated U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman, Jordan
in 2002. Later a Jordanian court tried him in absentia and sentenced him
to death, but U.S. and Jordanian forces never attempted to apprehend al-Abssi.
He was then arrested in Syria and spent one year in prison, but after the
downfall of Saddam Husseins regime in 2003, he headed to Iraq together with
al-Zarqawi and organized Al-Qaeda of Iraq. Assassinating prominent Iraqi
Shia figures and carrying out suicide bombings at Shia shrines are some of the
goals of the organization. After al-Zarqawi was killed in 2006, al-Abssi,
along with his 140 troops, entered Lebanon through Jordan and then Syrias
borders and took up residence in the Nahr al-Bared
Palestinian refugee camp. Of course, al-Abssi should have been arrested
and punished by U.S. and Jordanian forces, but he managed to freely enter
Lebanon through Jordan and Syria with all his military equipment. The
series of bombings in Beiruts Ashrafieh and Ein Alaq districts that killed
many Lebanese civilians were carried out by the Fatah al-Islam terrorist group.
Documents obtained by the Lebanese security services that were later
publicized show that Fatah al-Islam planned to assassinate 36 prominent Shia
leaders in Lebanon. Honest analyses show that the movement was established
by the CIA with the objective of confronting the Lebanese Hezbollah and
preparing the ground for the disarming of the group. Most of the accounts of
Fatah al-Islam, which receives financial support from a group of rich Arab
Salafists, are in U.S. banks. Yet, how is it that the U.S. freezes the bank
accounts of many Islamic movements, but does not freeze bank accounts of
Fatah al-Islam? Moreover, when al-Abssi quit the Fatah al-Intifada
movement, which is led by Colonel Abu Musa, and founded the Fatah al-Islam
organization, the New York Times printed a detailed interview with him and the
U.S. media extensively focused on him. Other measures by the United
States, including recent shipments of weapons to resupply the Lebanese Army,
are part of the new U.S. plot to reenter the stage in Lebanon in order to
eliminate Hezbollah. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmerts illegitimate
government has become extremely shaky since the publication of the Vinograd
report, and this new plot has been devised to help it regain its former
standing. Hence, through attempts to create tension in Lebanon and clash
with Hezbollah, Fatah al-Islam is trying to prepare the ground for the U.S.
Marines to return to Lebanon. But will the U.S. succeed? Surely not! Just
as when the United States created the Al-Qaeda organization in Afghanistan to
confront the Soviet Union but later Al-Qaeda became its number one enemy, it
is repeating the same mistake with Fatah al-Islam, and in the future it will
face an organized terrorist group called Fatah al-Islam that will threaten the
interests of the U.S. and the West throughout the world.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=5/30/2007&Cat=14&Num=003
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