Seymour Hersh: Fatah Al-Islam Crisis in Lebanon

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Video Description: In an interview on CNN International's Your World Today, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh explains that the current violence in Lebanon is the result of an attempt by the Lebanese government to crack down on a militant Sunni group, Fatah al-Islam, that it formerly supported.
Last March, Hersh reported that American policy in the Middle East had shifted to opposing Iran, Syria, and their Shia allies at any cost, even if it meant backing hardline Sunni jihadists.
A key element of this policy shift was an agreement among Vice President Richard Cheney, Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi national security adviser, whereby the Saudis would covertly fund the Sunni Farah al-Islam in Lebanon as a counterweight to the Shia Hezbollah.
Hersh points out that the current situation is much like that during the conflict in Afghanistan in the 1980's -- which gave rise to al Qaeda -- with the same people involved in both the US and Saudi Arabia and the "same pattern" of the US using jihadists that the Saudis assure us they can control.
When asked why the administration would be acting in a way that appears to run counter to US interests, Hersh says that, since the Israelis lost to them last summer, "the fear of Hezbollah in Washington, particularly in the White House, is acute."
As a result, Hersh implies, the Bush administration is no longer acting rationally in its policy. "We're in the business of supporting the Sunnis anywhere we can against the Shia. ... "We're in the business of creating ... sectarian violence." And he describes the scheme of funding Fatah al-Islam as "a covert program we joined in with the Saudis as part of a bigger, broader program of doing everything we could to stop the spread of the Shia world, and it just simply -- it bit us in the rear."

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Seymour Hersh is ... ( 1 year ago by venomfcg)

Seymour Hersh is the best!!

wow that was very ... ( 1 year ago by azizou961)

wow that was very deep, as a Lebanese citizen, I never thought of this... Can this be possible???? WOW

This is known as ... ( 1 year ago by Ibbe88)

This is known as the war on Islam...
The "war on terrorism" is actually a war on Islam. And the terrorists(like al-Qaeda and Fatah al-Islam), they are directly supported by zionists and neocons.

This guy knows .... ... ( 1 year ago by kreikor)

This guy knows .... listen to him... USA Gov. announced democracy is corrupt and is going to take us all to hell.

Again and again, we ... ( 1 year ago by delaguer)

Again and again, we see that it is actually the US who is behind most, if not all, atrocities that happen around the world. This is very informative news. Thank you.

Array ( 11 months ago by ATMleb)

VERY Interesting,
the US is supporting Sunni extremists, the same people who did 9/11

This is the same ... ( 11 months ago by OperationOpera)

This is the same idiot who conjures up a "source" for every story. He does this so often that one may wonder whether he is just making this shit up. Either way, when the inevitable wave of anti-semitism hits the US like the one hitting Europe, its his grandkids that will get fucked.

he was right on so ... ( 11 months ago by Jtea)

he was right on so many occasions (when the Iraqu attack plan was made or the killing fields in vietnam.. its also backed up by the released CIA memos etc. etc.) Being against Israels policies and Zionism is different from being antisemitic!!.. Many Jews are against the occupation in Palestine for example, search Youtube..check my Fav Videos for more inside Info

Exactly....he was ... ( 10 months ago by lebaneseameer)

Exactly....he was right about the Iran report that said Iran stopped its uranium program in 2003! He was right about Abu Ghraib! He was right about Israel's nuke program! He was right about who actually planned the war in Lebanon! Why would u think he's wrong right now?

in iraqq or am i ... ( 10 months ago by kosation)

in iraqq or am i wrong ? and how are they supporting sunnis everywhere in the world ? It also seems he forgot the Sumalian war against ehtiopia whose america supporting you dumb fuck so please before going on tv get your facts right !and please go read about the lebanese history and its politics than come talk about it you ignorant fucker.

people who left ... ( 10 months ago by kosation)

people who left comments and think that symour hersh is right are fucking ignorint just like him, give me one way the sunni are supporting hezboallah in lebanon... that fucker seems to get mixed between sunnis supporting him against isreal, and against him because of the issues there making in forming a lebanese government... second he said america is supproting sunnis everywhere and are against shia's? you see thats what i mean by ignorant ...it seems he forgot that america is supporting shia

america supports ... ( 10 months ago by hanysal)

america supports shias and sunnis so they can fight eachother No more No less
im a sunni from Tripoly lebanon and im not saying that sanyoura is a traitor but that idiot isin way over his head (you simply cant govern a country on yourown you do it as a team with ur other countrymen)
as for "fath al islam" there is a90% chance that SaudiArabia is behindit From allwe cansee in everyday politics
Who is benefiting from allthis its Israil and the Bush administration(oil companies) NOT AMERICA

you dont make any ... ( 10 months ago by lebnany2500)

you dont make any sense retard...he said never said anything about sunnis supporting hezbollah
", give me one way the sunni are supporting hezboallah in lebanon"
what the fuck are you talking about??? and yes they are supporting sunnis, they support saudi arabia, they support saad harriri and they support all who are against hezbollah in lebanon so that they can focus the blame on hezbolalh syria and more importantly..iran. who they feel is the threat.

He didnt say the ... ( 9 months ago by gsg831)

He didnt say the sunni are supporting Hezbollah. You can make the case that the US is supporting shia in only Iraq. Because the government is mostly shia. But if you look at what the gov is saying the sunnis are the good guys now who are fighting against al qaeda and the shia militias who have had a cease fire for over 6 months are the enemy. Iran, Syria and Hez the shia muslims are always cast as the enemy but the sunni (saddam, al qaeda, saudi arabia) are the good guys.

if you werent so ... ( 9 months ago by kosation)

if you werent so ignorant i would have replied please you know nothing comapered to what i kno about lebanon go study its history to study the present of lebanon so please when you say something make sure it makes sense...go suck a dick and get your facts right is america supporting sunnis in somalia against ethoipians ?there supporting sunis against shia's in lebanon but when theres no shia they wont support sunis anymore you dumb fucker and btw america controls saudiarabia it doesnt support it

westerner are after ... ( 4 months ago by sindhipakimuslim)

westerner are after muslims God alone save muslims

Hirsch looks at any ... ( 3 months ago by OccidentalSoapbox)

Hirsch looks at any conflict in the world and sees sneaky Americans pulling the strings behind the shadows... Americans are to Hirsch as Jews were to Hitler. Did he ever think that Jihadists are violent by design and are quite capable of killing each other without our help?

In the name of ... ( 2 months ago by sameem42)

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
asslam alykum wa rahmatullah (peace and blissing of allah be upon all of us muslims)
They are creating confusion amongs us muslims
this is a trick of shytaan dont fall in it.
Unity of muslims makes us strong brothers thank you

Hala is a true ... ( 1 month ago by OnceUponAtimeInLeb)

Hala is a true syrian beauty

Array ( 1 month ago by Eye0fTheStorm)

Quran: 3:109
"And hold fast, all of you together, to the rope of Allah, and do not separate. And remember Allah's favor unto you: How ye were enemies and He joined your hearts in love; so that ye became as brothers by His grace; and (how) ye were upon the brink of an abyss of fire, and He did save you from it. Thus Allah maketh clear His revelations unto you, that haply ye may be guided"
Sunni...Shia. Do not be manipulated by America/Israel, who bring nothing but death and suffering to Muslims

Array ( 1 month ago by Eye0fTheStorm)

Actually the fact ... ( 1 month ago by truthchannel)

Actually the fact is that more Muslims kill other Muslims than anyone else. I'm not saying the US Iraq thing isn't a horrible travesty but to say that Westerners are after Muslims is so completely wrong. That's the kind of statement that just makes you sound uneducated. Truth is most Westerners want to live in peace. You could probably say the same for most Muslims but let me point out that no other population in the world trains its children to hate and kill like the Palestinians.

"Do not be ... ( 1 month ago by truthchannel)

"Do not be manipulated by America/Israel, who bring nothing but death and suffering to Muslims." - sounds like you have bought the whole bullshit story mate. I agree that the Iraq war and many other events have been deeply offensive to Arab countries, but to say "nothing but death and suffering?" - More aid comes from western countries than anywhere else. More palestinians have been killed by Arabs than by westerners. Iraq is fucked and we hate it too but you need to get your facts straight.

December 25, 2008 ... ( 1 week ago by ballsauce666)

December 25, 2008 NY Times/ Reuters
CAN YOU SAY MOSSAD- ISRAEL *FALSE FLAG OPERATION?
The UN peacekeeping force in South Lebanon, UNIFIL, dispatched a team to assist the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in defusing 8 rockets connected to timers, which military experts say would have launched themselves within seven hours of their timers being armed.
If the rockets had been successfully fired, the attack could have represented a serious breach of the cease-fire agreement that ended the 2006 war.

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