Sunday, December 25, 2011

Inventing Hizbullah sources who speak "candidly" and inciminatingly to Western reporters

Even tu, Mitchell Prothero?  Look at this ridiculous reference in an article that does not add one word to the regular and standard March 14 propaganda (notice that Ashraf Rifi, the key intelligence and propaganda tool of the Hariri family is prominent in this article, visibly and invisibly).   "Hezbollah, for its part, denies involvement in anything sinister. One Hezbollah internal security official interviewed by FP admitted that his teams were hunting Syrian dissidents, but denied kidnapping peaceful demonstrators."  So this "internal security official"--and I don't know what "internal security official" is because Hizbullah does not have that categorization that Mr. Rifi (the source for Prothero's pice is) has in his "internal security forces--decided to talk to Prothero of all people.  Yes, yes, yes: just as I said on the scandal of Nicholas Blanford who first claimed that he sat with one of the accused in the Hariri assassination and who not only confided to Blanford but even produced his identity card for extra effect.  Of course, after Blanford was embarrassed (which was not his first time because he had claimed before that Hizbullah "fighters' talk openly to him about their secrets and smuggling of missiles although he has a reputation of being a Hariri family scribe), he claimed that he did not mean the man in question but signed his name with someone who did and who remained anonymous.  So Porthero is now resorting to the same scam.  I mean, if Hizbullah military men and propagandists want to confide, they have several Lebanese journalists who they can confide in. But Blanford, and now Prothero, want us to believe that they prefer to do it with Western journalists.  And this "revelation" that Prothero stumbled upon really has internal Lebanese political repercussions and yet he wants to believe that this source just admitted it to him.  Let me guess, Mr. Prothero: the name of your "Hizbullah's "internal security official"" is Ashraf Rifi.  Am I right?  (thanks As`ad--not me)