[Intelforum] Mugabe, Hariri and Kanaan

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From: "Christopher Farmer" <antiluminous at msn.com>
To: <intelforum at lists101.his.com>
Subject: Mugabe, Hariri and Kanaan
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:51:10 -0400

Mr. Dravis et. al,

President Mugabe's latest displacement effort is simply the 
ratcheting up of the Leninist-communist starvation of domestic 
agrarian populations of the nation-state by Zimbabwe's government. 
The first phase of that plan went into effect years ago when Mugabe 
ordered his military forces to assist squatters in the seizing of 
land by farm owners running productive farms. Using Leninist 
doctrine, the liquidation of food production is one of the key 
components of solidifying national rule in the authoritarian state. 
Zimbabwe was once the largest producer and exporter of food in 
Africa. Remarkably, now it is an attachment-entity to UN humanitarian 
aid. If Mugabe had appeared from the agrarian sectors of Zimbabwe and 
seized power, he would have used Maoist exploitation of the cities 
and built-up areas to seize power. Leninists use the built up areas 
as the base of control initially and then operate against the peasant 
populations inside the country by liquidating them and degrading food 
production. It is clear then what Mugabe is and what he is up to.

Zimbabwe's intelligence model mirrors that of the East German Stasi 
apparatus with local informants and block commanders coerced into 
providing information to the security services to maintain complete 
control over all potential domestic unrest and revolutionary 
preconditions. So the seizing of farms and the displacement activity 
of populations following that agenda by Mugabe and his government are 
continuing efforts to starve Zimbabwean citizens and bring them down 
to the lowest common denominator together. In Africa, he that 
controls the food controls the land and its people.

As for Mugabe's claim to have a top-notch foreign intelligence 
program, that is comical. He may be receiving assistance through the 
PRC and the ANC in South Africa for certain information exchanges but 
he has no viable foreign intelligence asset.

In regards to intelligence agencies being blamed for 'mistakes' and 
'oversights', that is increasingly becoming the norm. Intelligence 
organizations cannot defend themselves from such political activity 
because if they do they may fall into the trap of revealing sources 
and methods.

An informed citizenry recognizes that blanket-blaming intelligence 
organizations for certain political failures that appear from time to 
time are not unusual or credible and should not reflect negatively 
upon employees of such institutions when it occurs. Some examples of 
U.S. intelligence being blamed by policymakers for intelligence 
failures are the September 11th attacks in the United States, the 
bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the nuclear 
test in Pakistan. There are probably many others that the public does 
not know about, but I suspect that just goes with the territory since 
U.S. intelligence is an executive branch operation and subjected to 
political polarizations as power is redistributed after election 
cycles.

The Hariri assassination to me was organized by Syrian intelligence 
operatives that contracted assistance from Hezbollah from the Bekka 
Valley using stacked anti-tank mines underneath the roadway and 
command-detonated from the parking garage that was being built across 
the street. I don't believe that investigators found an electric or 
non-electric initiating system in the crater so it was probably done 
through remote control as the Red Army Faction assassinated Siemens. 
The size of the crater was also an important clue. The explosion 
occurred on an improved road and yet there are claims that it was a 
truck bomb because a camera caught a white truck traversing the 
roadway moments before the explosion? The depth and position of the 
crater possibly tells a different story. When I first saw the crater 
I wondered if some form of aerial munitions were used because that is 
what it looked like—the depth of the crater was very suspect. When 
investigators later explained that there was a tunnel underneath the 
roadway, it then becomes feasible to peer into the use of landmines 
stacked along Hariri's compromised route through Beirut.

Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov was killed in a similar way. Islamic 
insurgents emplaced anti-tank mines while they were working on the 
stadium reconstruction in the reinforced concrete. Given that such 
devices do not emit an energy source and are very difficult to 
detect, it is not unusual that other groups would plan and then 
execute operations that way.

Given the enormous pressure that Assad Jr. must be under right now to 
avoid any real conflict with the United States, the untimely demise 
of Ghazi Kanaan would certainly insulate the Syrian Baathists from 
international inquiry into the Hariri question.

Christopher Farmer