Video: Neocons looking to expand Israel-Hezbollah war

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Neocons looking to expand Israel-Hezbollah war

 

Posted by David DeGraw at 9:52 AM on August 4, 2006.

 

Sidney Blumenthal's latest bombshell gives more substance to what many

had already believed: Cheney and his fellow neocons want to expand the

Israel-Hezbollah war to Syria and Iran.

 

 

Sidney Blumenthal's latest article claims that the NSA is working with

Israel to " monitor whether Syria and Iran are supplying new armaments

to Hezbollah. " He describes his source as " a national security

official with direct knowledge of the operation. "

 

" The National Security Agency is providing signal intelligence to

Israel to monitor whether Syria and Iran are supplying new armaments

to Hezbollah as it fires hundreds of missiles into northern Israel,

according to a national security official with direct knowledge of the

operation. President Bush has approved the secret program. "

 

Blumenthal then goes on to say that Dick Cheney and Elliot Abrams are

hoping to use the NSA intelligence to create a " pretext " for expanding

the conflict to a " four-front war " involving Syria and Iran.

 

Inside the administration, neoconservatives on Vice President Dick

Cheney's national security staff and Elliott Abrams, the

neoconservative senior director for the Near East on the National

Security Council, are prime movers behind sharing NSA intelligence

with Israel, and they have discussed Syrian and Iranian supply

activities as a potential pretext for Israeli bombing of both

countries, the source privy to conversations about the program says.

(Intelligence, including that gathered by the NSA, has been provided

to Israel in the past for various purposes.) The neoconservatives are

described as enthusiastic about the possibility of using NSA

intelligence as a lever to widen the conflict between Israel and

Hezbollah and Israel and Hamas into a four-front war.

 

In this video clip, DemocracyNow! discusses Blumenthal's article.

 

David DeGraw is AlterNet's video blogger.

 

 

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