Lebanon

Lebanon
Capital city	Beirut
Location	Middle East
Type	nation state
Interest of	CENTCOM, United States Committee for a Free Lebanon
Member of	Arab League, La Francophonie, UN
Religiously diverse Middle Eastern country.

Lebanon was on a list of seven countries which retired 4-star general Wesley Clark (former supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe 1997-2001) stated the US military had plans to invade:

In 2001, in the Pentagon, a general told me : ‘I just received a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense: we will take seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, Iran.’

2020 Beirut blast

On August the 4th, a giant explosion destroyed the port in Beirut.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Ziad Abdelnour	“The end justifies the means. I don't care about how it's done. The important thing is that it is done. I don't rule out force. I'm not against force. If it's an option, it will be an option... I have — we have — absolutely no problem with heavy US involvement in Lebanon. On an economic level, military level, political level, security level... whatever it is. Israel is the 51st state of the United States. Let Lebanon be the 52nd state. And if the Arabs don't like it, tough luck.”	Ziad Abdelnour	18 November 2005
Wesley Clark	“In 2001, in the Pentagon, a general told me : ‘I just received a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense: we will take seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, Iran.’”	Wesley Clark	2 March 2007
Document:US Planned Syrian Civilian Catastrophe Since 2007	“Nasrallah said he believed that President Bush’s goal was “the drawing of a new map for the region. They want the partition of Iraq. Iraq is not on the edge of a civil war — there is a civil war. There is ethnic and sectarian cleansing. The daily killing and displacement which is taking place in Iraq aims at achieving three Iraqi parts, which will be sectarian and ethnically pure as a prelude to the partition of Iraq. Within one or two years at the most, there will be total Sunni areas, total Shiite areas, and total Kurdish areas. Even in Baghdad, there is a fear that it might be divided into two areas, one Sunni and one Shiite... “I can say that President Bush is lying when he says he does not want Iraq to be partitioned. All the facts occurring now on the ground make you swear he is dragging Iraq to partition. And a day will come when he will say, ‘I cannot do anything, since the Iraqis want the partition of their country and I honor the wishes of the people of Iraq.’" Nasrallah said he believed that America also wanted to bring about the partition of Lebanon and of Syria. In Syria, he said, the result would be to push the country “into chaos and internal battles like in Iraq.” In Lebanon, “There will be a Sunni state, an Alawi state, a Christian state, and a Druze state.” But, he said, “I do not know if there will be a Shiite state.””

 

Events

Event	Description
1982 Lebanon War	An Israeli invasion of Lebanon. They militarily occupied some of the country until 2000.
2006 Lebanon War

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	Description
Hezbollah		Lebanese political party and militia
UNIFIL	19 March 1978	UN force in Lebanon which also functions an an excellent recruitment ground for Mossad.

 

Citizens of Lebanon on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Ziad Abdelnour	3 December 1960		A neoconservative financier who was disciplined by the SEC.
Fouad Ajami	18 September 1945	22 June 2014	Triple Bilderberg "terror expert"
Roland Carnaby	1956	29 April 2008	A senior spook who was shot by a Houston police officer following a high speed motor car chase and died of his wounds.
Amal Clooney	3 February 1978
Brigitte Gabriel	21 October 1964
Ziad Jarrah	11 May 1975	11 September 2001
Rania Khalek	27 May 1986		Journalist
Charles Malik	1906	28 December 1987	Lebanese diplomat and philosopher suspected to have visited Le Cercle.
Najib Mikati	24 November 1955		Lebanese Billionaire. Currently serving his third term as Prime Minister.
Hassan Nasrallah	31 August 1960		Leader of Hezbollah
Roula Khalaf Razzouk	May 1965		FT Editor alleged to be complicit in faking evidence to promote the Skripal affair official narrative
Edmond Safra	6 August 1932	3 December 1999	Banker who involved in drug, gold and currency trafficking, money laundering and organised crime, including what became known as Iran Contra. Died in suspicious fire.
Marwan Sehnaoui
Ali Soufan	8 July 1971		Arab-speaking FBI agent who was involved in a number of high-profile anti-terrorism cases
Ali al-Jarrah	1958		Lebanese national and Israeli intelligence asset. First cousin of one of the hijacker patsies used during September 11.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bandung Conference	1955	1955	Indonesia	Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
File:Horror in Beirut by Philip Giraldi.pdf	article	11 August 2020	Philip Giraldi	Was it an accident or a warning?