OF OIL, WAR, AND LUST.

DOES CONDOLEEZZA RICE HAVE THE HOTS FOR A HANDSOME ARAB MAN AND IS THE CIA WAGING A SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER?

first and rough draft

OF OIL.

Baghdad opens its fields to Big Oil.

OF WAR.

Saudi King Abdallah alludes that his government’s allies (the United States and Israel) will soon put an end to the Islamic Republic. He is reported to have told one Arab daily, the Kuwaiti As-Siyasa, that “ [t]he hour of the dawn has come due for those who have wanted evil to Lebanon and the region. . . [t]he hour of their ghurub (dawn/disappearance) is approaching.” (assafir.com, July 2, 2008. My translation from Arabic.)

The Saudi King has meant by evil not only the Islamic Republic, but Hizbollah and Syria, too. Hizbollah is a Lebanese Shia guerrilla army and political party supported by Iran and Syria. In May Hizbollah took over West Beirut. This military take-over was swift and impressive. It resulted in the evacuation (by US helicopters dispatched from the Cole) from the Mediterranean city of hundreds of armed operatives. These had been dispatched to the Paris of the East by the US via Saudi, Jordanian, and Israeli intelligence. Their mission had been to boost the Seniora government militarily and to set the stage for attacks on Hizbollah’s rear lines.

Hizbollah recently broke its tradition of silence on matters related to Arab countries and warned Saudi Arabia (one mastermind of the various assaults on Hizbollah) that in the next confrontation Hizbollah will not, as it did in May, allow the Saudi ambassador to escape, albeit humiliated, from the Jewel of the Mediterranean. Heeding the warning, the Saudi government recently announced that its ambassador will not be returning to Phoenicia any time soon.

OF LUST.

In the meanwhile, al-Malaf.net (highly likely: Jordanian intelligence) reported on 6/29/08, quoting the daily al-Shuruq (Algeria) , that Condoleezza Rice is involved in a romantic relationship with an Arab and “very handsome” young man “[who] is way better [looking] than a woman of her [plain] looks can hope to land.” (My translation.) Al-Malaf further noted from al-Shuruq that the young man has the run of the Department of State when in Washington, D.C., and that he's able to go into parts of that Department that are not open to US citizens. Al-Malaf noted that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) got in on the act and warned Rice that the relationship should remain a secret because the young man is related to an Arab leader. The CIA's concern, it's alleged, is that "photos or positions" might compromise that Arab leader's "stand" or that of the White House.

OF A POSSIBLE SMEAR CAMPAIGN.

Jordanian intelligence could be waging a smear campaign against Rice on behalf of Israeli intelligence. Israel has never been fond of the US State Department since that Department has nearly always been less patient with Israel than other parts of the Executive Branch.

But what about the CIA? Could it be that the CIA, too, dislikes Rice so much as to allow Jordanian intelligence -- a total and unequivocal servant of the CIA -- (or possibly even prod it) to wage the smear campaign against her? It’s highly unlikely that Jordanian intelligence would go after Rice without the CIA’s approval.

Did the CIA approve of the smear campaign?