WikiLeaks: Saudis proposed plan to destroy Hizbullah
WikiLeaks: Saudis proposed plan to destroy Hizbullah.
During a May 2008 meeting between US Ambassador to Iraq David Satterfield and Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, the latter said a “security response” was needed to confront the “military challenge” posed to Lebanon by the Iranian-backed militants.
The cable stated that “Saud argued for an ‘Arab force’ to create and maintain order in and around Beirut.”
“The US and NATO would need to provide transport and logistical support, as well as ‘naval and air cover.’ Saud said that a Hizbullah victory in Beirut would mean the end of the Siniora government and the ‘Iranian takeover’ of Lebanon.”
The meeting between the two official came a few days after Hizbullah and other pro-Syrian groups in Lebanon took over Beirut, after months of street riots, and threatened the pro-western government of then-prime minister Fouad Siniora.
According to the WikiLeaks document, Saud argued that a Hizbullah victory against the government “combined with Iranian actions in Iraq and on the Palestinian front would be a disaster for the US and the entire region.”
The Saudi foreign minister further argued that the current situation in Beirut was “entirely military” and so the response should be a military one as well.
Faisal said the threat by Hizbullah required an “Arab force drawn from Arab ‘periphery’ states to deploy to Beirut under the ‘cover of the UN’,” according to the cable.
He noted that Siniora strongly supported the plan but the only Arab countries informed of it were Egypt and Jordan, and the secretary general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa.
The US official responded with skepticism about the military viability of the plan, and said the UN’s agreement on the issue was questionable, but the US would look into the decision.
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WarSclerotic 
December 9, 2010 at 3:11 AM
IF THIS AGREEMENT IS REACHED AND THE GULF ALLIANCES ARE SETUP FOR THIS ACTION OR IS NOW READY WITH ISRAELI INCLUSION, WE SHOULD DO THIS WITHOUT ANY ANNOUNCEMENT AT ALL WHEN THE IRANIAN AND SYRIAN GOVERNMENTS ARE MOST VULNERABLE WHICH MAY BE AFTER THE MEETING WITH THE 5 PARTY TALKS AND DEPLOYMENTS ARE IN COMPLETE READINESS AND PERFECT ORDER OF BATTLE. THIS SHOULD BE THE END OF AL-QAEDA AND THE TALIBAN SHOULD RECOVER THEIR ORIGIONAL STATUS AS A FRIENDLY ALLIANCE TO THE FREE WESTERN ALLIANCES AS WELL AS THE MUSLIM SHARIA COUNCIL TO OVERIDE ANY CULTIC REPRISAL BY THE WARRING ENEMIES OF ISLAM THE TRUE ENEMY AL-QAEDA AND THE TERRORIST JIHADS OF IRAN,SYRIA, AND NORTH KOREA. AND IF VENEZUELA CHOOSES TO CONTINUE DOWN THIS PATH OF NARCO-TERRORISM WITH ALL THE DRUG LORDS OF THE WORLD THEY SHOULD BE TAKEN OUT TOO. THE ASIAN ALLIANCES SHOULD BE A PART OF THIS BATTLE AS WELL AS THE ENTIRE FREEE WORLD ACCORDING TO AND INCLUDIINNG U.N. APPROVAL TOO. GOD BLESS