General Hotait Unveils US-funded Legal Organizations and Research Centers in Lebanon
The facades covering up the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) presence in Lebanon are numerous and more than to be determined, as they spread throughout the many political, diplomatic, legal, economic, financial, media, and military levels.
A CIA exploitation of academic facilities, human rights organizations, political and strategic centers has come to light. This comes after the US espionage den in the Awkar-based Embassy in Beirut was revealed; in which the US exploited diplomatic asylum to veil its conspiracy schemes in Lebanon. Also, a recent Wikileaks revelation indicated that the "Stratfor" Association is nothing but the "CIA Phantom" and media platform used to breach civil organizations in our region.
Hereupon, Retired Lebanese Army General Amine Hotait revealed in an interview with al-Intiqad online newspaper, one of the CIA methods; exploiting legal organizations and research centers to breach Arab countries. Hotait listed sample organizations, among which are Lebanese; like the Badaro, Beirut-based "Philosophy of Law" Association, established by university professor George Saad, and directly linked to the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Elaborating on the issue, General Hotait referred that the "Philosophy of Law" is a nearly-forgotten course taught in Lebanese law schools and colleges, further wondering why such an association would be dubbed by that name.
"The establishers of this association tried at first to hide its true identity and demonstrate it at a far distance from any relation with the Americans; which therefore was a trap for some university professors to collaborate with it and join its membership," General Hotait stated.
On another hand, Hotait noted that George Saad is a professor at the Lebanese University, and therefore, by law, he is not allowed to establish a private association. He also recalled how the said association tried to link with him, through inviting him to seminars and lectures, which led him to investigate about it and later find out it is a subordinate of the USAID.
In line of his investigation on the issue, retired General Hotait asked "what's the relation between human rights and development?" He was told it is "developing and raising societies". At that point, Hotait realized that the aim of that association basically was to contact the elite university professors who are known for their media appearances and ability to affect public opinion, and place them in an academic framework controlled by a certain political background. Hotait believed such makes those who lack security and political sensors vulnerable to falling in the trap of joining the association.
Hotait clarified that the "philosophy of law" association represents a "model" of many others found in the Arab world, asserting that 90% of the globe's human rights organizations is an invention of the CIA, with four major tasks:
- To gather the elite in one group able to receive "one" orientation
- To make way for intellectual elites to "intellectually" interact with each other to serve the goal implanted in their minds
- To enable the elite of affecting the public opinion
- To make the elites capable of giving a monochromic opinion to the society; become the screen to which the society follows know where to head
Regarding the funding, General Hotait indicated that the US spending on these organizations is not rocket-high, and revealed that George Saad's "Philosophy of Law" Association receives a "humble" monthly batch of 75 thousand US Dollars.
Furthermore, General Hotait explained that the "CIA" violated world communities through five different frameworks:
- Political framework via political recruitment
- Military framework via keeping hold on military leaderships
- Economic framework via controlling the economy's joints
- Social framework via establishing so-called "Welfare Facilities"
- Intellectual Academic framework to attract influential personnel. This was successful in many countries, and stands evidence is that the officials and political elite are dragged from these organizations
*US-Funded Research Centers
General Hotait went on to say that the CIA exploits another side as a façade for its society breach; the US-funded research centers. In this context, he unveiled a number of the centers operating in Lebanon, among which is Paul Salem's Carnegie Middle East Center, which is specialized in strategic political affairs. Also, another one is a political research center specialized in following up Hizbullah and revealing only its flaws, it is managed by Antoine Saad, who every four months travels to the US to receive his assigned "financial batch".
*USAID and ABA
More on this issue, the USAID, one of the CIA's branches, usually resorts to breaching societies and countries with the help of civil and non-governmental organizations, as it designated many of its programs to accomplish this goal. Among these programs are educational scholarships, good governance, economic aids, etc... and on this level, the USAID claims, on its website, that it has two major goals:
1) Enhancing the Lebanese government's capability to present high-quality services for its citizens, including education, clean water, good governance...
2) Achieving economic opportunities and enhancing stability in the country's poorest regions, especially rural ones, where the individual income stands for 4 dollars/day.
In Lebanon, an attempt was made (in 2010) to license a branch for the American Bar Association (ABA), which seems to be one of the USAID's legal facades; as referred to in its reports from its Arab-based branches, like Jordan and Egypt. However, the said attempt was aborted despite a Lebanese government decree to license it; thanks to the efforts exerted by the Lebanese Bar Association in Beirut and Tripoli. These two firms worked on issuing a decree (number 4673 issued on July 28, 2010) that annulled the cabinet's decree (number 3971 issued on April 29, 2010), which allowed an ABA branch to be established in Lebanon.
According to its establishment decree, the goals of the aforementioned organization are to develop legal jurisprudence, enhance justice for all nations, unify and organize legal legislations and resolutions, maintain the honor to practice law and implement knowledge and expertise related to the career; in order to boost public interests and encourage communication and interaction.
Source: al-Intiqad Online Newspaper, Translated by moqawama.org
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