Saudi Arabia involvement in Tripoli

Today’s explo­sion in Tripoli is going to decide who will inherit the Sun­nis extrem­ists in Lebanon after the fall of Hariri’s Al-Mustaqbal Trend.

Last Sat­ur­day Al-Akhbarpub­lished an arti­cle explains Al-Qaeda ide­ol­ogy meets this of 14 March-group. The report uses a wahabi book called “Lebanese Hezbol­lah and the Pales­tin­ian cause: a reveal­ing vision” pub­lished by Al-Sahab Agency [Al-Qaeda pub­lish­ers] and writ­ten by Atyah-Allah, who is one of Al-Qaeda thinker:

The book estab­lishes a legit­i­mate reli­gious judi­cial argu­ment, hos­tile to Hezbol­lah and the Shi­ites in general…the writer explains that the Shi­ites are not part of Islam or a doc­trine in Islam. They are prac­tic­ing “Taqiyya” [dis­sim­u­la­tion about one’s reli­gious believes in order to pro­tect one’s self, fam­ily or prop­erty from harm]. .… say­ing that Sun­nism and Shi­iaism are two doc­trines of Islam is spread­ing cor­rup­tion in the reli­gious of God.

Down­load the book in Ara­bic [PDF].

Few days ago, Lebanese polit­i­cal affairs expert Fida’a Itani wrote the fol­low­ing:

Every­one asks as long as there is con­sen­sus in Beirut, includ­ing the Syria and Iran issues, why we are fight­ing here [Tripoli]?.

Reli­gious lead­ers and politi­cians, talk about opin­ion split within Saudi Ara­bia. Cir­cu­lat­ing Infor­ma­tion that Saudi Ara­bia will con­tin­ues its sup­port for what they started over the recent years “even If nec­es­sary, sac­ri­fice a year prof­its of oil”, accord­ing to a Saudi source there is an indi­ca­tion that the Sunni power strug­gle in North Lebanon the result of opin­ion dif­fer­ences of who gets the finan­cial sup­port [from Saudi Ara­bia].

Reminder, the first call to arm all the Saudi-Wahabis in Tripoli to fight against the Shi­ites came from Saudi Arabia’s Intel­li­gence agent in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, in May 2008 Tariq Alhomayed wrote this arti­cle “After You, Nas­ral­lah”, a direct call for the Sunni islamists to intervene.