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Q: special report. http//www.onlinejournal.com/specialreports/052104madsen/052104madsen.html karl roves white house murder inc. by wayne madsen online journal contributing writer june 2004- on september 15 2001 just four days after the 9-11 attacks cia director george tenet provided president sic bush with a top secret worldwide attack matrix-a virtual license to kill targets deemed to be a threat to the united states in some 80 countries around the world. the tenet plan which was subsequently approved by bush essentially reversed the executive orders of four previous u.s. administrations that expressly prohibited political assassinations. according to high level european intelligence officials bushs counselor karl rove used the new presidential authority to silence a popular lebanese christian politician who was planning to offer irrefutable evidence that israeli prime minister ariel sharon authorized the massacre of hundreds of palestinian men women and children in the beirut refugee camps of sabra and shatilla in 1982. in addition sharon provided the lebanese forces who carried out the grisly task. at the time of the massacres elie hobeika was intelligence chief of lebanese christian forces in lebanon who were battling palestinians and other muslim groups in a bloody civil war. he was also the chief liaison to israeli defense force idf personnel in lebanon. an official israeli inquiry into the massacre at the camps the kahan commission merely found sharon indirectly responsible for the slaughter and fingered hobeika as the chief instigator. the kahan commission never called on hobeika to offer testimony in his defense. however in response to charges brought against sharon before a special war crimes court in belgium hobeika was urged to testify against sharon according to well-informed lebanese sources. hobeika was prepared to offer a different version of events than what was contained in the kahan report. a 1993 belgian law permitting human rights prosecutions was unusual in that non-belgians could be tried for violations against other non-belgians in a belgian court. under pressure from the bush administration the law was severely amended and the extra territoriality provisions were curtailed. hobeika headed the lebanese forces intelligence agency since the mid- 1970s and he soon developed close ties to the cia. he was a frequent visitor to the cias headquarters at langley virginia. after the syrian invasion of lebanon in 1990 hobeika held a number of cabinet positions in the lebanese government a proxy for the syrian occupation authorities. he also served in the parliament. in july 2001 hobeika called a press conference and announced he was prepared to testify against sharon in belgium and revealed that he had evidence of what actually occurred in sabra and shatilla. hobeika also indicated that israel had flown members of the south lebanon army sla into beirut international airport in an israeli air force c130 transport plane. in full view of dozens of witnesses including members of the lebanese army and others sla troops under the command of major saad haddad were slipped into the camps to commit the massacres. the sla troops were under the direct command of ariel sharon and an israeli mossad agent provocateur named rafi eitan. hobeika offered evidence that a former u.s. ambassador to lebanon was aware of the israeli plot. in addition the idf had placed a camera in a strategic position to film the sabra and shatilla massacres. hobeika was going to ask that the footage be released as part of the investigation of sharon. after announcing he was willing to testify against sharon hobeika became fearful for his safety and began moves to leave lebanon. hobeika was not aware that his threats to testify against sharon had triggered a series of fateful events that reached well into the white house and sharons office. on january 24 2002 hobeikas car was blown up by a remote controlled bomb placed in a parked mercedes along a street in the hazmieh section of beirut. the bomb exploded when hobeika and his three associates fares souweidan mitri ajram and waleed zein were driving their range rover past the tnt-laden mercedes at 940 am beirut time. the range rovers four passengers were killed in the explosion. in case hobeikas car had taken another route through the neighborhood two additional parked cars located at two other choke points were also rigged with tnt. the powerful bomb wounded a number of other people on the street. other parked cars were destroyed and buildings and homes were damaged. the lebanese president prime minister and interior minister all claimed that israeli agents were behind the attack. it is noteworthy that the state departments list of global terrorist incidents for 2002 worldwide failed to list the car bombing attack on hobeika and his party. the white house wanted to ensure the attack was