Who Done It

It can be convincingly argued that Robert Fisk invariably reports the world as it is and not as the United States and her allies would like us to see it. Therefore, the content of his article in today's 'Independent' was almost expected. All the nasty, indigestable, horrible issues are conveniently forgotten and now, everything centres on the financial crisis and yes, Iraq and Israel and Palestine and Pakistan, with its Warzistan, and Afghanistan and Georgia and, and, and ..... and they can all be relegated to the second page of the newspapers.1 However, it might have been nice if Mr.Fisk had established the connection between the financial crisis and "Uncle Sam's" shenanigens around the planet. The three pillars of American power are that very financial system that Fisk is refering to, the black black gold that people are dying because of every day in Iraq and elsewhere, and that military muscle that is the harbringer of evil; they are not unrelated, they are intertwined. Nevertheless, it was a good article and Robert Fisk and journalists like him remain a breath of fresh air. Moreover, the penultimate paragraph in the article has given me food for thought, I quote:
"Almost equally unreported in major US papers – save by the good old Washington Report – was a potential scandal in good old Los Angeles to which Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently returned after a $225,000 junket to Israel with three council members and other city officials (along with families, kids, etc). The purpose? To launch new agreements for security at Los Angeles international airport. Council members waffled away on cellphones and walked out of the chamber when protesters claimed that the council was negotiating with a foreign power before seeking bids from American security services. One of the protesters asked if the idea of handing LAX's security to the Israelis was such a good idea when Israeli firms were operating security at Boston Logan and Newark on 9/11 when a rather sinister bunch of Arabs passed through en route to their international crimes against humanity."2
This is the stuff that gets the thinking man thinking. Tariq Ali in his book, 'The Duel; Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power' mentions a couple of theories regarding the death of General Zia* including one by a senior American diplomat, John Gunther Dean, who believes that the plot to kill Zia bore all the hallmarks of a Mossad operation.3 This is only one of thousands and thousands of incidents where the implications, the suggestions, the innuendos, are that things might just be a wee bit different from what we are being told and my own thoughts turn to the murder of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister, who was blown up along with 22 others in Beruit in February 2005. Now, just as Mr.Fisk only implies, only suggests, only gets us thinking, I too have to ask the question, who really profited from Hariri's death?
1http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/article944071.ece;jsessionid=F1D3C686DFE930AEF281CD173B4ABA85?postingType=posting&mode=thanks&postingId=944467
2 Ibid
3 Tariq Ali, 'The Duel; Paistan on the Flight Path of American Power' p133
4 General Zia, the Pakistani President, was blown up in his plane on August 1988