How the US Treasury Department Promotes Israel's Propaganda Lines

[Jefferson23]

May 16, 2015

In February, a US Department of the Treasury press release announced sanctions on three Lebanese in Africa it said were linked to a "Hezbollah terrorist cell."

But behind that press release is a story of how the portrayal of the Lebanese by the Treasury Department was based entirely on a case constructed by Israel's foreign intelligence agency Mossad through its Nigerian clients, and how that Treasury release suppressed publicly available facts, which made it apparent that those claims were false.

It was not the first time the Treasury Department had used its "designations" of foreign individuals and organizations to put out false and misleading information reflecting an Israeli propaganda line. In 2011, Treasury claimed that Iran had reached a "secret deal" with al-Qaeda to allow the terrorist organization to use Iranian territory for its operations, despite clear evidence that the only agreement that had been reached was to facilitate the release of an Iranian hostage held by al-Qaeda in return for the release of al-Qaeda prisoners.

The office directly responsible for the Treasury Department taking on the role of adjunct to Israeli propaganda on terrorism is the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. Created by the George W. Bush administration in 2004 in response to lobbying by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and other pro-Israel organizations, the office has a history of staffing and advocacy that reflects the Israeli lobby's views.

remainder in full: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30730-how-the-us-treasury-department-promotes-israel-s-propaganda-lines

[azurnoir]

1. Nigeria seems to be the key here Israel found a very willing acomplice in Goodluck Jonathan

wonder if they will find as much in the new President Muhammadu Buhari

more from the article

The Treasury Department story of the Hezbollah terrorist cell in Nigeria reflected the dominant theme of Israeli propaganda on Hezbollah - that the Lebanese Shiite organization has a worldwide network of terrorists that is constantly hatching plans for terrorist strikes. But it was all based on a case that had been trumped up by Mossad, working through the Nigerian State Security Service (SSS).

Every claim cited in the press release about the three Lebanese men proved to be without any foundation.

Mossad's dominant role in Nigeria's handling of anything having to do with Hezbollah had been defined by a secret security agreement between Israel and Nigeria. The right-wing website World Tribune reported on August 14, 2013, that "diplomatic sources" said Nigeria's security services had given Mossad "nearly total access" in monitoring Hezbollah in Nigeria, in return for Israeli training of Nigerian security forces and protection of Nigeria's energy infrastructure.

But the pictures of weapons shown to reporters showed that many of them were corroded and covered with rust. More importantly, the idea that those weapons had anything to do with Hezbollah was extremely dubious. Hezbollah had never been known to have any presence in Nigeria (An SSS accusation earlier in 2013 that a Shiite cleric was the head of an Iranian terror cell planning attacks against Western and Israeli targets had been dismissed within a few weeks). Importing weapons into Nigeria would have contradicted the interests of Iran and Hezbollah.

[Jefferson23]

2. Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. Created by the George W. Bush administration in 2004

What can ya say, another gift from Shrub...what a legacy, huh?

[oberliner]

3. Gareth Porter only likes Iranian propaganda

That anyone takes him seriously on anything after he went to (and spoke at) the Ahmadinejad "Zionist Control of the US" conference last year is pretty unfathomable.

[King_David]

4. Nobody who attended that disgusting "conference "can be taken

seriously EVER !

[Jefferson23]

5. Porter? He has nothing to fear about being taken seriously, by serious and thoughtful people, anyway

You would also be hard pressed to prove his body of work to be faulty.

U.S. Journalist Regrets Attending Conspiracy Conference In Tehran

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/us-journalist-regrets-attending-conspiracy-conference-in-teh#.hxQn7JV6R

[oberliner]

6. That makes him look like an even bigger buffoon

"Gareth Porter says he never would have gone to a conspiracy conference in Tehran if he had known the real views of his fellow attendees...."

Gee, how could he have possibly known that a Tehran-sponsored "conspiracy conference" would include people saying the Holocaust is a myth and that Mossad planned 9/11?

[oberliner]

7. Have you seen the conference itinerary?

Here's a sample:

Ø Section 4 (5:15 PM – 7:15 PM)

Mossad’s Role in the 9/11 Coup d’Etat

Panelists: Thierry Meyssan, Kevin Barrett, Maurizio Blondet, & Jim Fetzer via video link

Moderator: Nader Talebzadeh

Themes:

v Philosophy and False Flags: Neo-conservatism, Zionism and 9/11

v Mossad-9/11 Links: The Empirical Evidence

v History of Mossad False Flags

v Zionist Fingerprints on the 9/11 Cover-up

v 9/11 Truth Movement Strategies and the Zionism Issue

v 9/11 and the Holocaust as pro-Zionist "Public Myths"

v Uniting the Muslim Ummah for 9/11 Truth and Against Zionism

http://newhorizon.ir/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=159&Itemid=139