From Jadaliyya: ""The statement released by the Bulgarian government... marks the end of a
hectic three-months in which Tsvetanov, the Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and
Mladenov spent a considerable amount of time shuttling between the US and
Israel. The high-level visits included meetings with the US President Barack
Obama, his chief counterterrorism advisor John Brennan and Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"This all makes it easy to speculate that the US and Israel have been heavily involved in the investigation and invested in any possible outcome that sought to hasten blame on Hizballah.
"The US Congress adopted a declaration in December urging the EU to denounce Hizballah as a terrorist organization and asking Obama to provide all necessary support to Bulgaria to conduct its investigation. As the Bulgarian opposition suspected, it is highly possible that government officials were under considerable pressure from the US and Israel, which are trying to use the bombing as a smokescreen to further complicate the intricacies in the Middle East in view of the current situation in Syria and Lebanon." (thanks Regan)
"This all makes it easy to speculate that the US and Israel have been heavily involved in the investigation and invested in any possible outcome that sought to hasten blame on Hizballah.
"The US Congress adopted a declaration in December urging the EU to denounce Hizballah as a terrorist organization and asking Obama to provide all necessary support to Bulgaria to conduct its investigation. As the Bulgarian opposition suspected, it is highly possible that government officials were under considerable pressure from the US and Israel, which are trying to use the bombing as a smokescreen to further complicate the intricacies in the Middle East in view of the current situation in Syria and Lebanon." (thanks Regan)
