Thursday, September 23, 2004

I do not trust the Lebanese government in its recent announcement that it has uncovered a conspiracy by Al-Qa`idah in Lebanon. The government has little credibility anyway; and the same Minister of Interior of Lebanon who uncovered the plot of Al-Qa`idah announced last year with great fanfare the uncovering of a sinister plot by Satan Worshippers in Lebanon. I kid you not. There has been no evidence for the existence of Al-Qa`idah in Lebanon anyway, and the announcement by the Minister of Interior (the son of his father Michel Murr who is a client of Syria, after being a client of Israel and its candidate Bashir Gemayyel priot to that) linked the alleged plot to the Duniyyah Group which is different from Al-Qa`idah. And the leaked information about the plot were not consistent to begin with. But the Syrian and Lebanese governments are desperate for American approval (like all other Arab governments but NOT peoples) and any announcement about a plot by Al-Qa`idah gets American attention. Maybe the Maximum dear leader in North Korea will also uncover a plot by Al-Qa`idah in his own country. The US ambassador in Lebanon promptly paid a visit to the Minister of Interior to congratulate him on his efforts.