Ziad Abdelnour
 Ziad Abdelnour    (financier, businessman) | |
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| Born | 1960-12-03 Beirut, Lebanon |
| Founder of | United States Committee for a Free Lebanon |
Ziad Abdelnour is a Lebanese Roman Catholic financier with close ties to the US Neocon network. He is the the founding member and president of United States Committee for a Free Lebanon. He has contributed a number of articles to the Middle East Forum web site. [1] With Daniel Pipes he was co-Publisher of Middle East Intelligence Bulletin [2]. He is the son of Lebanese industrialist and former MP Khalil Abdelnour (1992-2000) and the nephew of former Lebanese financier and MP Salem Abdelnour (1960-1964 and 1972-1992).
With Daniel Pipes, Abdelnour co-authored the report Ending Syria's occupation of Lebanon: The US Role.[3]
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=SEC legal case
In early May 2013, the SEC settled a securities case with Abdelnour for a $25,000 fine and a five-year ban from the securities industry.[4]
Quotes
In an interview with Trish Schuh in 2005, he said:[5]
“Iran? We will not let Iran become a nuclear power. We'll find a way, we'll find an excuse- to get rid of Iran. And I don't care what the excuse is. There is no room for rogue states in the world. Whether we lie about it, or invent something, or we don't... I don't care. The end justifies the means. What's right? Might is right, might is right. That's it. Might is right...”
Ziad Abdelnour (November 18, 2005) [5]
And:
Iran's going to be finished and every single Arab regime that's like this will be finished. Because there is no room for us capitalists and multinationalists in the world to operate with regimes like this. Its all about money. And power. And wealth... and democracy has to be spread around the world. Those who want to espouse globalization are going to make a lot of money, be happy, their families will be happy. And those who aren't going to play this game are going to be crushed, whether they like it or not! This is how we rule. And this is how it's going to be as long as you have people who think like me. [5]
Regarding the plans for regime change in Syria and Lebanon he added:
The end justifies the means. I don't care about how it's done. The important thing is that it is done. I don't rule out force. I'm not against force. If it's an option, it will be an option... I have — we have — absolutely no problem with heavy US involvement in Lebanon. On an economic level, military level, political level, security level... whatever it is. Israel is the 51st state of the United States. Let Lebanon be the 52nd state. And if the Arabs don't like it, tough luck.[5]
On Israel's Invasion of Lebanon
"The Lebanese cannot have their cake and eat it, too...Let’s get rid of this cancer [Hizbullah]...Let’s finish the job."[6]
Affiliations
- Blackhawk Partners, LLC [7]
- Middle East Forum
- Middle East Intelligence Bulletin - Co-Publisher (with Daniel Pipes)
- United States Committee for a Free Lebanon
See Also
- Document:US Planned Syrian Civilian Catastrophe Since 2007 - See Timeline Section 2005
References
- ↑ articles by Ziad Abdelnour - Middle East Forum - searched 4 September 2013
- ↑ Middle East Intelligence Bulletin - Web site Home page. 4 September 2013
- ↑ Daniel Pipes and Ziad Abdelnour, Ending Syria's occupation of Lebanon: The US Role, Lebanon Study Group Report (Middle East Forum, May 2000)
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<ref>tag; name "TS" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Landon Thomas Jr., From Lebanese-American Financiers, Differing Views on the Strife, New York Times, August 1, 2006
- ↑ Blackhawk Partners - Web site
