[IMRA] Barry Rubin - Most journalists identify Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon with al-Qaeda. In fact, what is happening is a major deception operation by Syria. Syria wants to sponsor violence and terrorism in Lebanon to bring that country back under its control and intimidate the Lebanese from supporting an international tribunal to investigate and punish those responsible for murdering Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. Since all the evidence points at Syria's leaders as the murderers, killing the investigation is their highest priority. Fatah al-Islam's uprising came at the very moment the UN Security Council was voting to approve the tribunal. Fatah al-Islam is part of an older group, Fatah al-Intifada, which has been a Syrian front group for almost 25 years. The leader of this group is Col. Abu Khaled al-Amleh who lives and operates out of Damascus. The field commander of the group, Shaker al-Absi, has been working as a Syrian agent since 1983. Since Hariri's murder three years ago, there have been 15 major terrorist attacks, mostly aimed at assassinating critics of Syrian attempts to dominate Lebanon. There is a pattern here.
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