http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/02/26/is-us-aiding-al-qaeda-linked-groups-in-lebanon/
Is US aiding Al Qaeda linked groups in Lebanon?
February 26th, 2007
Think Progress has a CNN interview with Sy Hersh, who elaborates on a
point from his recent New Yorker article. In the administration’s zeal
to counter Iran and associated Shia groups, they are covertly funneling
money to Al Qaeda-linked jihadist groups in Lebanon:
This administration has made a policy change, a decision that they
are going to put all of the pressure they can on the Shiites, that is
the Shiite regime in Iran, the Shiite — and they are also doing
everything they can to stop Hezbollah — which is Shiite, the Hezbollah
organization from getting any control or any more of a political
foothold in Lebanon.
So they essentially, I quote the — I saw Nasrallah, the head of
Hezbollah, and he described it this way, as “fitna (ph),” the Arab word
for “civil war.” As far as he is concerned, we are interested in
recreating what is happening in Iraq in Lebanon, that is Sunni versus
Shia. And in looking into that story, and I saw him in December, I found
this. That we have been pumping money, a great deal of money, without
congressional authority, without any congressional oversight, Prince
Bandar of Saudi Arabia is putting up some of this money, for covert
operations in many areas of the Middle East where we think that the — we
want to stop the Shiite spread or the Shiite influence.
They call it the “Shiite Crescent.” And a lot of this money, and I
can’t tell you with absolute certainty how — exactly when and how, but
this money has gotten into the hands — among other places, in Lebanon,
into the hands of three — at least three jihadist groups. There are
three Sunni jihadist groups whose main claim to fame inside Lebanon
right now is that they are very tough. These are people connected to al
Qaeda who want to take on Hezbollah. So this government, at the minimum,
we may not directly be funneling money to them, but we certainly know
that these groups exist.
My government, which arrests al Qaeda every place it can find them
and send — some of them are n Guantanamo and other places, is sitting
back while the Lebanese government we support, the government of Prime
Minister Siniora, is providing arms and sustenance to three jihadist
groups whose sole function, seems to me and to the people that talk to
me in our government, to be there in case there is a real shoot-’em-up
with Hezbollah and we really get into some sort of serious major
conflict between the Sunni government and Hezbollah, which is largely
Shia, who are basically — or as you know, there is a coalition headed by
Hezbollah that is challenging the government right now, demonstrations,
sit-ins.
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