*Thus spake God's Creator*
April 15, 2006
Car Bombs with Wings
by Mike Davis and Tom Engelhardt
Tom Dispatch
The CIA's Car Bomb University (the 1980s)
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=8857
"The CIA officers that Yousef worked with closely impressed upon him one
rule: never use the terms sabotage or assassination when speaking with
visiting congressmen."
Gunboat diplomacy had been defeated by car bombs in Lebanon, but the
Reagan administration and, above all, CIA Director William Casey were
left thirsting for revenge against Hezbollah. "Finally in 1985,"
according to the Washington Post's Bob Woodward in Veil, his book on
Casey's career, "he worked out with the Saudis a plan to use a car bomb
to kill [Hezbollah leader] Sheikh Fadlallah who they determined was one
of the people behind, not only the Marine barracks, but was involved in
the taking of American hostages in Beirut… It was Casey on his own,
saying, 'I'm going to solve the big problem by essentially getting
tougher or as tough as the terrorists in using their weapon – the car
bomb.'"
The CIA's own operatives, however, proved incapable of carrying out
the bombing, so Casey subcontracted the operation to Lebanese agents led
by a former British SAS officer and financed by Saudi Ambassador Prince
Bandar. In March 1984, a large car bomb was detonated about 50 yards
from Sheikh Fadlallah's house in Bir El-Abed, a crowded Shi'ite
neighborhood in southern Beirut. The sheikh wasn't harmed, but 80
innocent neighbors and passersby were killed and 200 wounded.
---> http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=8857
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