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I remember I was ridiculed for posting something by Wayne Madsen.  He again ends up being right about the USA pursing bases in Lebanon.  

It seems that while the media at the behest of the administration and the neo-cons is sowing seeds of fear and hatred in us, Mr. Cheney's old company, Halliburton is busy bidding for yet another project that has its foundations in blood.  The United States is hard at work pushing for a NATO base to be built in the abandoned Kleiaat air base in Northern Lebanon, it claims, to fight al-Qaeda and other terrorists, presumably Hezbollah.  Contenders for the billion dollar project, according to the Pentagon procurement office could be Bechtel and Halliburton and other contractors currently doing projects in Iraq. It is worthwhile noting that the late Prime Minister Harari opposed the base[vi].  AIPAC is pushing for it.  Keeping Lebanon busy, will clear the way for war with Iran.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_soraya_s_070612_high_on_hate_3f.htm

by zoe on Sat Jun 16th, 2007 at 05:59:17 PM EST
You are quoting an unsourced claim in an op-ed. I hazard to guess that Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich's source is -- the Wayne Madsen report.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Jun 16th, 2007 at 06:31:49 PM EST
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Given that she mistransliterated the name of the airbase (which officially hasn't been called by that name in several years anyway) in exactly the same way that Madsen did, that is probably a good bet.  Also, the source she cites in the footnote (.pdf) doesn't mention a word about it.
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Sat Jun 16th, 2007 at 07:12:32 PM EST
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No, actually, she forgot to insert the source she wanted to cite for that claim. The Bolton-AIPAC link is footnote iv, what I suspect would be a link to Wayne Madsen is the missing footnote vi.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Jun 17th, 2007 at 05:14:10 AM EST
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Oh, you're right.  She's left out footnotes v and vi.
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Sun Jun 17th, 2007 at 06:04:21 AM EST
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On 'again', have you read my analysis of Madsen's supposed news break on CIA flight logs?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Jun 16th, 2007 at 06:33:18 PM EST
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You weren't being ridiculed, Wayne Madsen was being ridiculed.  You chose to take it personally.

My favorite Wayne Madsen genius-o-gram at the moment is his theory that the "Russian-Israeli mob-infested" Polish intelligence service actually killed Alexander Litvinenko because -- and this was his sole piece of "evidence" -- the killers used polonium, which is named after Poland.

I could not make this up if I tried.

Source.  They've archived the original report here.

Regarding this latest article:  If this lady knows so much about what's happening in Lebanon, why hasn't she figured out how to spell former Prime Minister Hariri's surname?  She seems to have confused him with the capital of Zimbabwe, although she didn't get that quite right either....

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Sat Jun 16th, 2007 at 07:28:10 PM EST
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