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Subject:
Syria was behind killings at Sabra and Chatilla.
Date:
Sat, 23 Sep 2000 03:26:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:
Frias ED <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Syria was behind it 100 percent. New info shows it
An LFP Exclusive
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The Truth Behind
Source: A retired Lebanese intelligence officer who is
willing to testify at a trial of Elias Hobeika, if it
takes place at an international court.
Perceived as the driving force in the murders at
Sabra and Chatilla, General "Arik" Sharon has been
condemned and discarded by accepted history. No matter
that he is now the leader of the Likud party in
Israel, no matter that he is the hero of many
campaigns that preserved Israel in the face of
overwhelming odds, history's perception destroys his
viability as deserving of the highest office of the
land. The truth is that the massacre did indeed
happen; however, the perpetrator's were neither
Israeli nor Lebanese rioters as reported. The entire
operation was masterminded by Syrian intelligence, as
reported by a number of witnesses, and was carried out
ruthlessly and efficiently by a Lebanese stooge of
Syria named Elias Hobeika.
The most comprehensive source of published
information is by the body guard of Hobeika: Robert
Hatem nicknamed Cobra. Hatem wrote a diary of events
leading up to and past the massacres that is available
on the internet at: http://www.israeltodamascus.com/.
The book is banned in Lebanon, and many of the
participants are still active in Lebanese politics.
Hatem is a political refugee hiding in France.
Hatem writes that Hobeika spoke of two thousand
Palestinian terrorists hiding in the Palestinian
refugee camps, the Israelis had asked Hobeika to rid
the camps of the terrorists, and the Israeli forces
expected them to supervise the Palestinian evacuation
from the camps. Their specific orders were to sort out
the armed terrorists and hand them over to the
Israelis. Hobeika was under strict orders by Sharon to
act as a dignified, armed force and not resort to any
unnecessary violence. Hobeika, a known Syrian agent,
ignored Sharon's orders and gave his own command:
"total extermination, camps to be wiped out."
When Hobeika spoke to Sharon, Sharon was
infuriated and condemned Hobeika for murder, and
wanton killings. Hatem reports that"All the victims
were civilians killed with grenades, hatchets, assault
rifles, and knives. Some of the corpses were even
boobie- trapped." "General Sharon ordered his men to
fire flares from that moment on until 400 a.m. to
avoid further killings but it was too late. The harm
was done."
One witness, a Lebanese dissident, is easy to
dismiss as a malcontent, irrelevant and without
credibility, yet after all these years we now find
substantiating evidence, credible evidence, and
directly from the Palestinians and others. The Voice
of Palestine (Official Palestinian Radio Station),
September 15,2000, reported that Brigadier General
Sultan Abu-al- Aynayn, official in charge of the Fatah
Movement in Lebanon, deplored the non-trial and
non-questioning of Hobeika for the innocent blood that
was spilled in the two refugee camps.
Another source is Agence France Presse whose
article "Massacre of Palestinians at refugee camps
remembered," was reported in the Jordan Times
September 17,00. The story included the
following"BEIRUT (AFP) Palestinians and Lebanese
commemorated the 18th anniversary on Saturday of the
massacre of 1,500 Palestinians at the Sabra and
Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. Relatives of the
victims point an accusing finger at Elie Hobeika, now
an outgoing pro-Syrian member of parliament who was
then the intelligence chief for the Lebanese forces.
He denies all responsibility for the massacre."
Yasir Arafat continues the charade, carefully omitting
the Syrian responsibility for the massacre.
In spite of overwhelming evidence that Sharon was
not in any way responsible for the massacre, indeed,
the present Syrian controlled Lebanese government is
at fault, the controlled Lebanese press persists in
its fable of faulting Sharon, as they are well aware
that if charges of guilt are leveled at Hobeika, it
would infuriate Syria for Hobeika is "protected," well
known as Syria's protegé, and any charges against
Hobeika would implicate Syria. Additionally, a number
of Lebanese papers manipulated by Syrian intelligence
have ignored the entire event and all the sordid
events leading up to the killings.
There is a direct, power struggle between PLO and
Syrian proxies on the ground, involving control of
Lebanese territory and control over the ruling elite
in Lebanon. Lebanese intelligence sources report of
the massacres -- "that to distract the world from
focusing on the murder of the President then elect
Bachir Gemayel, a plot was devised to blame Israel."
The intelligence sources add that Habib Chartouni
(freed by the Syrians from jail during the 1990
invasion of the Presidential Palace in Baabda) a
member of the Syrian National Socialist Party (an
instrument of the Syrian Secret Service in Lebanon)
under the direction of Nabil El-Alam (senior
intelligence officer in the SNSP) carried out the
assassination with the help of Hobeika who operated
from within the Lebanese Forces. Nabil El-Alam is
believed to be living today in Libya working as an
intelligence advisor of terrorism affairs for the
security apparatus of Qadhafi. Confirmed intelligence
reports state that Qadhafi during the Lebanese war
financed the SNSP with millions of dollars to launch
terrorist attacks against Israeli targets world wide.
The late Inaam Raad, senior political SNSP member, was
t he architect of the SNSP Libyan relationship.
With Syrian approval, Hobeika ordered the
massacres at Sabra and Chatilla, as Hobeika working
undercover for the Syrians used the Lebanese forces as
an instrument to weaken the Palestinian forces and use
Israel as a scapegoat, clearing Syria from any
involvement. The massacres were carried out by
intelligence units of the Lebanese Forces. These units
were under the sole control of Hobeika and belonged to
the Security Service and not the General Military
Command (Military Wing).
The General Command of the Lebanese Forces had some
2500 soldiers in mechanized divisions waiting at the
Beirut International Airport, advancing to West Beirut
and linkup from there with East Beirut and the
Christian controlled areas. Sharon, angered that
Hobeika had tarnished Israel's image worldwide by
implicating him in the massacres, took steps to
prevent additional carnage. Sharon ordered on the 16th
and 17th of September 1982 that the Lebanese Forces
that were waiting at the Beirut airport could not
enter West Beirut as he feared even more murders. The
Lebanese Forces were ordered by the Israeli Military
command to return to their barracks in East Beirut
through the Druze town of Choueifat and the Christian
town of Hadath, in the Beirut suburbs. They did not
enter West Beirut. There are dozens of witnesses,
former Lebanese Forces officers willing to testify to
the matter. To hide the details of this
Palestinian massacre, the information presented to the
world was that the Christian Lebanese Forces backed by
General Sharon orchestrated the massacres. That is
incorrect.
It was years too late that the Lebanese Forces
discovered that Hobeika was working as a double agent
from within the Lebanese Forces for Syria's interest,
and his Security Service agency actions were
manipulated by Syria intelligence, and Hobeika
fingerprints was behind every car explosion and
assassination from East Beirut to West Beirut. From
the foiled car bomb attempt on former Lebanese
president, Camille Chamoun, in Dora, to the faulty car
bomb attempt on the Christian Lebanese Front in Awkar,
to the assassination attempt by car bomb on Sunni
leader Moustafa Saad in Saida, to the attempt on Druze
leader Walid Jumblatt's life in Beirut, to the
assassination attempt on Hezbollah's spiritual leader
Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, and many others.
This detailed information is provided by classified
sources in the Lebanese Forces Intelligence
Department. With Hobeika carrying out the dirty work,
Syria was dismantling the fabric of Lebanese Society
to better control it.
Hobeika and his lieutenants alone are responsible
for all these deaths. He masterminded it, orchestrated
it and executed it, under secret Syrian orders and
blamed it on Israel.
This was not the first nor the last massacre the
Syrians ordered in Lebanon. In 1985 the Syrians
ordered the Shiite Amal Militia, under the control of
the present Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament Nabih
Berry, to lay siege to the Palestinian camps in Beirut
for months, inflicting hundreds of casualties.
A few years later, Syria's proxy's, the SNSP
militia in Bohsas in northern Lebanon, and the
Lebanese Baath units of Ali Eid, backed by the Syrian
Special Forces, easily defeated Arafat's PLO in
Tripoli, Northern Lebanon, and hundreds of PLO members
were slaughtered and shot on the walls of the city.
Arafat and his men were saved and by boats returned to
Tunis. This was not done to assist Israel. The
sole objective of Syria was to throughly take control
of all of Lebanon, and the Sabra and Chatilla
massacres were only a chapter in a long history of
Syrian massacres. Finally, Syria rewarded all the
leaders of the massacres by elevating their status
from militia leaders to that of deputy or minister in
later Lebanese governments. Their political approach
was always to use the Palestinians masses in Lebanon
as a force to pressure Israel in every peace
negotiation. Also remember, at this time, Assad just
killed 22,000 of his own people in Hama Syria
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