Cheney ordered Hariri assassination!
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - May 21, 2009 - Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was involved in the assassination of the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and Commander of Christian-Falange Forces in Lebanon, Elie Hobeika, stated Wayne Madsen, who is famous for his close relations with U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
According to Bahrain-based Arabic daily, Al-Waqat, Cheney assigned the mission of assassination of Hariri to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
Seymour Hersh said that JSOC unit was involved in targeting high value men who were involved in anti-Amerikan activities or were believed to be planning such activities.
In the early days, many of the names were cleared through Cheney’s office. One of his aides, John Hanna, went on TV and acknowledged that the program existed; he said killing these people was not murder but an act of war that was legally justified.
About Hariri, Hersh said, “I was in the position of seeing and interviewing (Syrian) President Bashar Al Assad on the day Hariri was killed in February 2005. It seemed clear to me that he knew nothing about it. But I never wrote anything about it, even the fact that I was there, because I had no empirical or factual basis for knowing whether he was involved or not, and I never did. I decided to wait for the investigations and they have come up with no concrete evidence that Syria did it.”
Speaking about the JSOC, Hersh said it was functioning in 12 countries including Iraq and Afghanistan. The JSOC contains professional personnel that are specially trained to achieve difficult tasks.
Congress has no oversight of JSOC. It is an executive assassination wing. Under President Bush’s authority, JSOC personnel entered countries without speaking to the ambassador or CIA station chief. Their job is to find people on a list, execute them and then leave the country.
The U.S. military has a plan to infiltrate Pakistan and secure Islamabad’s nuclear arsenal in case the country is about to fall under Taliban or al-Qaeda control, according to a Fox News report on May 14, citing an unnamed U.S. intelligence source. The Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) would carry out the mission. Small U.S. military units operating across the border in Afghanistan could seize Pakistan’s nuclear warheads, disable them and place them in a secure location.
Interestingly, the former head of the JSOC was named the new commander in charge of the war in Afghanistan.
