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According to high-level Lebanese intelligence sources—Christian and Muslim—
former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was reportedly assassinated in a
sophisticated explosion-by-wire bombing authorized by the Bush administration
and Ariel Sharon's Likud government in Israel.

There are also strong indications that the Hariri assassination was carried
out by the same rogue Syrian intelligence agents used in the 2002 car bombing
assassination of Lebanese Christian leader Elie Hobeika, who was prepared to
testify against Sharon in a Brussels human rights court. That case involved
the Israeli Prime Minister's role in the 1982 massacre by Israeli troops of
Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Chatilla camps in Beirut. The Hariri
assasination used wire-bombing technology because Hariri's security personnel
used electronic countermeasures to fend off a remote control bomb using
wireless means. It has been revealed that the Bush administration has used
Syrian intelligence agents to torture al Qaeda suspects through the program
known as "extraordinary rendition."

Hariri, a pan-Arabist and Lebanese nationalist, was known to adamantly oppose
the construction of a major U.S. air base in the north of Lebanon. The United
States wants Syrian troops completely out of Lebanon before construction of
the base is initiated. Hariri's meetings with Hezbollah shortly before his
death also angered Washington and Jerusalem, according to the Lebanese
intelligence sources.

Washington and Jerusalem media experts spun Hariri's assassination as being
the work of Syrian intelligence on orders from President Bashar Assad.
However, a number of Middle East political observers in Washington claim that
Hariri's assassination was not in the interests of Assad, but that the Bush
and Sharon administrations had everything to gain from it, including the
popular Lebanese uprising against the Syrian occupation.

Lebanese intelligence sources report that even without a formal agreement
with Lebanon, the contract for the northern Lebanese air base has been let by
the Pentagon to Jacobs Engineering Group of Pasadena, California. Other
construction support will be provided by Bechtel Corporation.

Jacobs Engineering and Jacobs Sverdrup are currently contracted for work in
Saudi Arabia for Aramco, Iraq for the U.S. occupation authority, Bosnia,
Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Yemen, Oman, and the United Arab
Emirates.

The Lebanese air base is reportedly to be used as a transit and logistics hub
for U.S. forces in Iraq and as a rest and relaxation location for U.S. troops
in the region. In addition, the Lebanese base will be used to protect U.S.
oil pipelines in the region (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Mosul/Kirkuk-Ceyhan) as
well as to destabilize the Assad government in Syria. The size of the planned
air base reportedly is on the scale of the massive American Al Udeid air base
in Qatar.

A number of intelligence sources have reported that assassinations of foreign
leaders like Hariri and Hobeika are ultimately authorized by two key White
House officials, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and Deputy National Security
Adviser Elliot Abrams. In addition, Abrams is the key liaison between the
White House and Sharon's office for such covert operations, including
political assassinations.

"Abrams is the guy they [the Israelis] go to for a wink and a nod for such
ops," reported one key source.