Cheney and the plot for the new puppet governent of Syria = TREASON

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http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2006/3303cheney_bibi.html

his article appears in the January 20, 2006 issue of Executive
Intelligence Review.
Cheney and Netanyahu Pushing
For War Against Syria
by Jeffrey Steinberg

An ever-more-desperate Dick Cheney is pulling out all the stops to
install "Clean Break" hawk Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu as the next
Israeli Prime Minister, to push for an immediate confrontation between
Israel and Syria. Israeli sources report that Cheney, as of Jan. 11,
had an emissary in Israel, exploring the means to put "Bibi" and the
Likud back in power, despite collapsing Israeli popular support for the
extreme rightwing policies of the neo-con faction that Netanyahu
represents.

Part of Cheney's growing desperation stems from the fact that the
recent plea agreement between U.S. Justice Department prosecutors and
super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, threatens to bring down the entire
political dirty-money empire of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
(R-Tex.), which has been Cheney's principal power base since coming in
as Vice President and de facto head-of-state in January 2001. Cheney
and DeLay were shown by a recent EIR exclusive story to be politically
"joined at the hip" (see EIR, Dec. 30, 2005). The Vice President is so
deeply implicated in the DeLay/Abramoff dirty-money machine that the
legal defense funds of DeLay and Cheney's ex-chief of staff Lewis Libby
are headed by the same two Republican lobbyists, Wayne Berman and
former Congressman Bill Paxon (R-N.Y.).

But Israeli sources report, and Washington insiders confirm, that
Netanyahu himself is so closely tied to Jack Abramoff that the fallout
from Abramoff's plea may bring him down as well, as the international
web of money-laundering fronts, tax-exempt charities, and no-bid
contractors put together by Abramoff unravels under U.S. prosecutors'
scrutiny.
West Bank Story

The first published clue about the Netanyahu/Abramoff links actually
surfaced last year, when Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff revealed on
May 2, 2005 that one of Abramoff's tax-exempt charities, Capital
Athletic Foundation, had funnelled $140,000 to a West Bank settlement,
to finance the purchasing of security equipment, including "camouflage
suits, sniper scopes, night-vision binoculars, a thermal imager, and
other material."

Funds for the Capital Athletic Foundation, ostensibly an Abramoff
family charity dedicated to helping inner-city youth, came largely from
Indian tribe clients of Abramoff.

The security gear was provided to the West Bank town of Beitar Illit,
which Isikoff described as "a sprawling ultra-Orthodox outpost whose
residents have occasionally tangled with their Palestinian neighbors."

Beitar Illit is the home of Schmuel Ben-Zvi, a rightwing American who
moved to the West Bank, and who was a close high school pal of Abramoff
in Hollywood. The $140,000 was paid to an Israeli group called Kollel
Ohel Tiferet, which is not publicly registered in Israel.

While Ben-Zvi denied any links to the $140,000 West Bank payoff, an
exchange of emails between him and Abramoff told a different story. On
receiving the money, Ben-Zvi wrote to Abramoff: "I feel like the tank
commanders in the Yom Kippur war, who when hearing over the radio that
reinforcements were coming, felt so great that they raised their seats
higher out of the tank hatch and went forward." To which Abramoff wrote
back: "If only there were another dozen of you the dirty rats would be
finished," referring to the Palestinian neighbors of Beitar Illit.

When questions arose over what Israeli entity to pass the money to,
Ben-Zvi proposed to write a letter to the Capital Athletic Foundation,
on the letterhead of his Snipers Workshop, which he described as "an
educational entity of sorts."

Informed of the West Bank funding, Indian tribal lawyer Henry Buffalo
told Newsweek, "This is almost like outer-limits bizarre. The tribe
would never have given money for this."

FBI sources told Newsweek's Isikoff that the bulk of the $4 million
listed as the Abramoff fund's tax-exempt gifts went to a now-defunct
Maryland yeshiva where Abramoff's two sons went to school.
Wiring Congress

Another contributor to the Capital Athletic Foundation was an Israeli
telecom startup company, Foxcom, which kicked in $50,000 to the
Abramoff fund. Foxcom received a $3-million contract to install
wireless antenna systems at the U.S. Congress, in a deal pushed through
by Abramoff crony Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), chairman of the House
Administration Committee. The Washington Post revealed on Oct. 18, 2005
that Foxcom had paid Abramoff $280,000 in lobbying fees around the time
they got the Congressional contract. An American company, LGC Wireless,
which had lost the bid to Foxcom, went to the FBI and charged that the
bidding process had been rigged by Ney.

Newsweek reported on Aug. 22, 2005 that U.S. officials had rushed to
indict and arrest Abramoff on Aug. 11, because they feared he would
flee to Israel, as two of his business partners had already done.

And still to be unravelled are the Abramoff connections to the Russian
oil company Naftasib, which laundered $1 million to another Abramoff
"charity," the U.S. Family Network, through a London law firm, James
and Sarch, in 1998. Two top Naftasib executives, Marina Nevskaya and
Alexander Koulakovsky, spent "quality time" with Tom DeLay in Moscow,
shortly before the laundered payoff to Abramoff. The Russian "oil
company" lists the Russian Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Interior
as Naftasib's two main clients. Some of the military equipment
delivered to the West Bank settlement of Ben-Zvi came from Russia,
hinting at Russian Mafiya ties in the background of the Abramoff saga.

Senior Washington sources have cautioned that it would be a mistake to
presume that the Abramoff money flow to Israel and Russia primarily
went out of the United States. Abramoff's takeover of the gambling
cruise ship line SunCruz gave him a perfect instrument for laundering
millions of dollars a day through the offshore gambling tables.
Syria War Diversion

The Cheney push to install Netanyahu as Israel's next Prime Minister,
replacing the now-incapacitated Ariel Sharon, is, according to Israeli
sources, part of Cheney's desperate move to "change the subject" from
his growing political problems in Washington.

Netanyahu is pledged, according to the Israeli sources, to a war with
Syria, to divert attention, and to move ahead with the decade-old
"Clean Break" scheme, drafted for Netanyahu in July 1996 by a group of
American neo-con allies of Cheney. The "Clean Break" strategy paper was
co-authored by Richard Perle, David Wurmser, Douglas Feith, and others,
and called for the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq,
followed by similar "regime changes" in Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and
Egypt. David Wurmser, the single most vociferous advocate of "regime
change" in Damascus, is now a senior Middle East policy aide to Cheney.
He previously served under Doug Feith at the Pentagon, when Feith was
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in the first Bush-Cheney
Administration.

Cheney's war scheme against Syria also implicates Abramoff, according
to a Jan. 11, 2006 story by Justin Raimondi, posted on antiwar.com.
"One investigator, eager to obtain information about the
neo-con-sponsored Reform Party of Syria, led by one Farid Ghadry, the
Syrian version of Ahmed Chalabi" Raimondi wrote, "stumbled on the
Abramoff connection: 'When repeated calls to [Ghadry's] organization
went unanswered, I visited the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the
RPS. Reform Party of Syria is in the office of super-Zionist lobbyist
Jack Abramoff. Middle Gate Ventures, Abramoff's political advisory
company, partners with RPS."

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