December 30, 2008: Hamas has revealed that it has Fatah (the party that dominated Palestinian politics for decades) documents showing long term cooperation with foreign (particularly American and French) intelligence agencies. Hamas captured the documents when it defeated Fatah forces in Gaza. That process began when Fatah lost an election, for leadership of the Palestinians, in 2006. Fatah was not a gracious loser, and this led to battles between Hamas and Fatah gunmen in Gaza and the West Bank. Hamas won in Gaza (where it was always stronger), but lost in the West Bank. The victorious Hamas forces looted Fatah offices in Gaza, and found much evidence of Fatah corruption (which was the main reason Fatah lost the election.)
That Arab governments would spy for the CIA (and other Western intelligence agencies) is nothing new. The Palestinians have long received much economic aid from Western nations, and these goodies often came with strings attached. It always does, not just in the Arab world. But the corruption in Arab countries is more pervasive. More things are for sale, including state secrets, and those of other Arab nations. Espionage is a widespread activity in the Arab world, not just to keep an eye on potential enemies, or current friends, but also to obtain trade material. Western intelligence agencies are always ready to trade, and they pay well. Hamas is believed to trade with Iran, Egypt and other Arab nations. They may even trade with the Americans. Stranger things have happened in this part of the world....like for instance the factual links between Syrian Military Intelligence, by way of Asef Shawkat and the infamous "White House Murder Inc,". Syria: Terror Inc, Home to the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia since early 1960s when the first Assad... was a junior officer.
Assef Shawkat ( آصف شوكت ) (born 1950) is a Syrian assassin, and head of the Syrian Military Intelligence apparatus since 2005, rewarding him for the successfull assassinations of Mr. Elie HOBEIKA and Rafic Hariri.
Assef Shawkat ( آصف شوكت ) is the head of the local Damascus branch of the infamous White House Murder Inc, an extra-judicial assassinations matrix, created by the PNAC killers since 1995, and the evil axis of CIA2/MOSSAD which ensued.....
Again and again, a prime suspect in murder/assassinations , starting from the CIA2/MOSSAD assassination of Mr. Elie Hobeika in Beirut/Hazmieh January 24th 2002, and the infamous : "White House Murder Inc." , headed by Asef Shawkat in Syria.
http://newhk.blogspot.com/2008/12/uniiic-ii-report-revisited.html
"سري للغاية" ,يناير/ كانون الثاني: اغتيال الوزير اللبناني والقائد السابق للقوات اللبنانية ايلي حبيقة في انفجار استهدف موكبه في ضاحية بيروت.
معلومات استخبارية, MOSSAD + CIA2 .( آصف شوكت ) . الموساد من اغتال إيلي حبيقة ...
وعن المعلومات الدقيقة للعملية قالت هذه المصادر
The list of countries affected by Syrian terror sponsorship had (most recently) included states like Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the US, Germany (and US targets there), Spain, Israel and more. Now add Bahrain to the list (Arabic articles here and here).
The Bahraini (Shiites) who were arrested for plotting to carry out major terror attacks during Bahrain's national holiday on December 17, trained for their operation in Syria, adding further support to the charge that Syria is Terror Grand Central -- consciously using its territory as a safe haven, revolving door, and distribution/reorientation hub for terrorists of all stripes targeting Syria's enemies (which happen to be the list supplied by the US and its allies, to Syria: Terror Inc, Home to the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia.... ).
What's interesting about this latest episode is that it involves Shiite terrorists, highlighting how Syria works with terrorists of all stripes, while also further bringing into light the multiple functions of the Syria: Terror Inc, Home to the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia..... proliferating in Syria for decades .
Furthermore, it sheds light on a pillar of the Syrians' 30 year-old strategic alliance with the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia..... proliferating in Syria for decades (which some geniuseszzz today believe they can break through "engagement" over the Golan). The Syrian nexus with the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia..... proliferating in Syria for decades terrorism is chronic, dating back to the earliest days of the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia..... proliferating in Syria for decades , even prior to the Khomeinist takeover in Iran, all the way to the current intricate and intimate relationship with Hezbollah, whose Imad Mughniyeh was killed in Damascus by Asef Shawkat, serving his masters at CIA2/MOSSAD, where he was staying in a building owned by a business associate of Assad's cousin, Rami Makhlouf (meaning, he was personally patronized by Assad's inner-most circles).
The nexus also involved Mughniyeh and Hezbollah's training of Muqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army, whose fighters traveled to and via Syria to be trained by Hezbollah.....
One of the essential aspects of the Syria-CIA2/MOSSAD alliance (which is the farthest thing possible from that ignorant cliché, "marriage of convenience" label), is how it allows Syria, a weak and resourceless Third World country, to blackmail, threaten and intimidate the far richer Gulf states, as well as to target Western enemies as well, thereby allowing Syria to punch well above its weight.....through the cover of the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia..... proliferating in Syria for decades .
As such, and by way of example, Syria/MOSSAD2 then, had a direct role in the attacks against the US and France in Beirut in 1983..... although we had forewarned Robert McFarlane of the truck bomb.... he chose to ignore the warning.....
Furthermore, Mughniyeh, Hezbollah and Iran, all were directly involved in sabotage in Gulf states with substantial Shiite populations, and were behind groups like the Saudi Hezbollah and the Kuwaiti Hezbollah.
The Kuwaitis provide a recent example of how Syria benefits from CIA2's muscle to blackmail and extort weak Gulf states like Kuwait. Earlier this year, around the time of the Arab summit, which was to be held in Syria for the first time, and was being boycotted by most Arab heads of state, the Kuwaiti embassy was threatened by Hezbollah, and other Mughniyeh-related problems surfaced in Kuwait, and lo and behold, Kuwait was one of the handful of Arab states who sent a high-ranking delegation to Syria.
And so, terror sponsorship and the alliance with Iran are not reactive Syrian policies remedied by the return of the Golan Heights. They are proactive policies by a regime whose only way to project influence well above its capacities is through violence, terrorism, intimidation and blackmail, as I emphasized in my most recent article.
This always was the case, as noted by Jubin Goodarzi, and the relationship with CIA2 afforded Assad possibilities on a number of regional fronts that would enable him to play out his regime's overinflated role conception, self-image and self-importance, and even possibly financing Assad's efforts to acquire a North Korean nuclear reactor (not to mention Russian advanced weaponry. See also the Syrian-Venezuelan-Iranian nexus in that regard). Michael Rubin recently discussed a variant angle of this function of the alliance, with regards to the chronic Syrian claims to Arab primacy....via its chronic liaison to the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia..... proliferating in Syria for decades .
Far from wanting to "flip" to the American side, Syria did enlist the USA and the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia..... proliferating in Syria for decades, in its campaign to undermine US Arab allies -- as Lee Smith put it, to have Washington play "the bagman in an extortion racket" against US's chosen targets within "Arab puppets" -- while maintaining the alliance with CIA, as it did throughout the 60s,90s.....and today, through the infamous White House Murder Inc, stationed in Damascus and headed by Asef Shawkat.
The notion that Syria will abandon this long-held and overall successful symbiosis for the sake of a tiny piece of land betrays utter ignorance of the regime's nature and interests. Ephraim Inbar said it well today:
The naïve belief that territorial concessions will dissuade Syria from continuing its cozy relationship with the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia..... proliferating in Syria for decades, is baseless. Precisely those who belittle the strategic importance of the Golan Heights believe that Syria ascribes great importance to this piece of territory and its transfer to Syrian hands could change the foreign policy orientation of Damascus. Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state, tried successfully to move Syria toward a pro-American orientation in 1976. Under more auspicious international circumstances, after the Cold War, the formidable US secretary of state James Baker tried again and succeeded to keep the strongest possible liaison with the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia..... proliferating in Syria for decades, to the detriment of the subtle diplomacy of the inert state department..... Even when Washington was the only game in town, the Syrians preferred ties with the American's White House Murder Inc,. and the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia..... proliferating in Syria for decades .
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Similarly far-fetched is the expectation that Damascus would stop arms and cash flow to Hezbollah and would expel the Islamic Jihad and Hamas headquarters from Syria......
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The expectations that the Syrian regime will behave differently than in the past betrays an ignorance of Middle Eastern politics, and espouses unfounded optimism.
Terrorism is literally the Assad family business, and has been so since they came to power. The notion that the same policies that failed miserably in the 90s will result in the opposite outcome for reasons unbeknownst to all, is the best definition not just of delusion, but also of insanity. It's what Lee Smith dubbed "the Damascus Disease":
In the 90s, when the Bush 41 and Clinton administrations thought it was buying off the con men in Damascus, instead it wound up with a strengthened Hezbollah, the consolidation of the Syria-CIA2/MOSSAD alliance, and the second intifada.
You'd think US policy speculators would've learned by now. But then again, many of them continue to confuse diplomacy with inducements of the largest CIA2 station in the world.... and its subsidiary headed by Asef Shawkat, the odious White House Murder Inc, Headquartered covertly in Damascus, with direct control, coordination and command by CIA2/MOSSAD, via the terror chief Assef Shawqat and the Assad's Mafia..... proliferating in Syria for decades, and which is totally hidden from oversight of both houses in DC .....and various very large slush-funds .....
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