Saturday, 9 August 2008

Iranian Proxy Says Sanctions Mean War

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Saturday, August 09, 2008

 
Foreign Confidential....

Crazy as this may seem, the mad mullahs of Iran and their Lebanese and Palestinian proxies and allies could be planning preemptive attacks against the United States--i.e. against US bases in the Middle East and the US itself. 

That is the real meaning behind the remark by Hezbollah's so-called spiritual leader, the clerical fascist Seyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, during his Friday Prayers sermon at a mosque in southern Beirut yesterday. 

Anti-Iran economic sanctions should be regarded as acts of economic and political war against a Muslim state, Fadlallah said.

"Leveling vain and forged charges, White House has mobilized all its capacity to prevent Iran's peaceful nuclear activities," he said, adding that the West turns a blind eye to the nuclear weapons of the "Zionist regime."

Fadlallah is a Mass Murderer

Fadlallah is a mass murderer. He blessed--and was involved in the planning of--the suicide bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, which killed 63 people; the October '83 bombing in Beirut of a French paratroopers' barracks, which killed 58 people; and the bombing of the US Marines' barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 people.

Fadlallah was also deeply involved in the wave of kidnapping, torture and murder of Westerners that terrorized Lebanon in the early 1980s. The hostage-taking continued for about a decade--with Fadlallah's "blessing."

"I say that America, in its policy that aspires to impose hegemony on the world is an evil with no good in it," he said.

In addition to the kidnapping, torture and killing in Beirut of CIA station Chief Bill Buckley and US Marine Colonel Rich Higgins, and the murder of US Navy diver Robbie Stethem when Hezbollah hijacked a TWA flight in 1985, Fadlallah had a hand in the following crimes: the kidnapping in Beirut of American University acting president David Dodge, and the kidnapping and killing of the university's president, Malcolm Kerr; the kidnapping of Jeremy Levin, CNN's Beirut bureau chief, who was targeted because he was both Jewish and an American; and the kidnapping and torture in Beirut of Reverend Benjamin Weir, who was held for 16 months at a location known to Fadlallah.

The US has never retaliated for the above atrocities. On the contrary; the US has consistently backed down in the protracted conflict with Islamist Iran and Hezbollah. Nearly three decades of empty threats and promises of bringing the killers to justice and so on--coupled with failed State Department attempts at appeasement and accommodation--have brought the Middle East to the brink of a major conflagration. 

Almost seven years after 9/11, yet another Pearl Harbor is possible--this time, by nuclear-arming Iran.