- US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel have conspired to destroy Syria by way of
arming sectarian extremists since 2007.
- The West now admits it, along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have provided
thousands of tons of weapons to militants in Syria - while also conceding that
Al Qaeda's Syrian franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra is
the best armed, most well equipped militant front in the conflict.
- US, Saudi, Israeli-backed terrorists are now committing a myriad of horrific
atrocities against all of Syria's population, including Sunni Muslims - meaning
neither "democracy" nor even "sectarianism" drives the conflict, but rather the
destruction of Syria in its entirety.
- US State Department acknowledges Syria faces threat from Al Qaeda, demands
blockade of arms/aid from reaching government to fight terrorists the US State
Department admits are present in every major Syrian city.
March 30, 2013 (LD) -
Since 2007, the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel have been documented as conspiring
to overthrow the Syrian government by way of sectarian extremists, including
groups "sympathetic to Al Qaeda," and in particular, the militant, sectarian
Muslim Brotherhood. While the West has attempted to portray the full-scale
conflict beginning in Syria in 2011 as first, a "pro-democracy uprising," to now
a "sectarian conflict," recent atrocities carried out by US-Saudi-Israeli
proxies have shifted the assault to include Sunni Muslims unable or unwilling to
participate in the destruction of the Syrian state.
Such attacks included
a mortar bombardment of Damascus University,
killing 15 and injuring dozens more, as well as the brutal slaying of two
prominent Sunni Muslim clerics -
the latest of which was beheaded, his body
paraded through the streets of Aleppo, and his head hung from the mosque he
preached in. While the West attempts to mitigate these events by labeling the
victims as "pro-government," the reality is that the forces fighting inside
Syria are funded, armed, directed, and politically supported from abroad - and
therefore do not represent any of the Syrian people's interests, including those
Syrians who do not support the government.
It is abundantly clear that
the West's goal is neither to institute "democracy," nor even take sides in a
"sectarian conflict," but rather carry out the complete and permanent
destruction of Syria as a nation-state, sparing no one, not even
Sunnis.
Such a proxy war exists contra to any conceivable interpretation
of "international law." The world is left with a moral imperative to not only
denounce this insidious conflict brought upon the Syrian people, compounded and
perpetuated entirely by external interests, but demands that concrete action is
taken to ensure that this act of aggression is brought to an end.
The US, UK, Saudi
Arabia and Qatar have admitted to colluding together, flooding Syria with
thousands of tons of weapons via Jordan to Syria's south, and NATO-member Turkey
to Syria's north. And in an otherwise inexplicable conundrum, while the likes of
US Secretary of State John Kerry insist this torrent of weapons is being
directed to "moderates," neither the US nor its allies are able to explain why
Al Qaeda terror front
Jabhat al-Nusra has emerged
as the most heavily armed, best equipped militant organization in the
conflict.
AP reported specifically in their article, "
Officials: Arms shipments rise to Syrian
rebels," that:
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on the sidelines
of a Syrian opposition meeting in Italy last month that the weapons are ending
up in the hands of secular groups. "I will tell you this: There is a very clear
ability now in the Syrian opposition to make certain that what goes to the
moderate, legitimate opposition is in fact getting to them, and the indication
is that they are increasing their pressure as a result of that," he said,
without elaborating.
But even AP admits that:
Syrian opposition
activists estimate there are 15-20 different brigades fighting in and around
Damascus now, each with up to 150 fighters. Many of them have Islamic tendencies
and bear black-and-white Islamic flags or al-Qaeda-style flags on their Facebook
pages. There is also a presence of Jabhat al-Nusra, one of the strongest Islamic
terrorist groups fighting alongside the rebels.
The
US State Department's own statement regarding
the designation of al-Nusra as a listed Al Qaeda terror organization states:
Since November 2011, al-Nusrah Front has claimed nearly
600 attacks – ranging from more than 40 suicide attacks to small arms and
improvised explosive device operations – in major city centers including
Damascus, Aleppo, Hamah, Dara, Homs, Idlib, and Dayr al-Zawr.
According to the US State Department, al-Nusra is carrying out
hundreds of attacks with a wide array of weaponry, across the entire nation of
Syria, indicating a massive front and implying an equally massive network of
logistical support, including foreign sponsorship. What's more, is that the US
State Department acknowledges al-Nusra's presence even in cities close to
Syria's borders where the CIA is admittedly overseeing the distribution of
weapons and cash. The New York Times, in their June 2012 article, "
C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian
Opposition," reported that:
A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly
in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters
across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to
American officials and Arab intelligence officers.
And in New
York Times' more recent March 2013 article, "
Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From
C.I.A.," it is admitted that weapons are being funneled into Syria
across both its borders with Turkey and Jordan:
With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey
have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in
recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising
against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews
with officials in several countries and the accounts of rebel commanders.
The article would also state:
Although rebel commanders and the data indicate that
Qatar and Saudi Arabia had been shipping military materials via Turkey to the
opposition since early and late 2012, respectively, a major hurdle was removed
late last fall after the Turkish government agreed to allow the pace of air
shipments to accelerate, officials said.
Simultaneously, arms and equipment were being
purchased by Saudi Arabia in Croatia and flown to Jordan on Jordanian cargo
planes for rebels working in southern Syria and for retransfer to Turkey for
rebels groups operating from there, several officials said.
The US State Department acknowledges that the well armed,
prominent terror front al-Nusra is operating in the very areas the CIA is
feeding weapons and cash into.
Image:
(Left) West Point's Combating Terrorism Center's 2007 report, "Al-Qa'ida's Foreign Fighters in Iraq"
indicated which areas in Syria Al Qaeda fighters filtering into Iraq came from.
The overwhelming majority of them came from Dayr Al-Zawr in Syria's southeast,
Idlib in the north near the Turkish-Syrian border, and Dar'a in the south near
the Jordanian-Syrian border. (Right) A map indicating the epicenters of violence
in Syria indicate that the exact same hotbeds for Al Qaeda in 2007, now serve as
the epicenters of so-called "pro-democracy fighters" and also happen to be areas
the US CIA is admittedly distributing weapons and other aid in.
....
Such a reality directly contradicts the US State Department's
official position, and no explanation is given as to how "moderates" can be
provided with such extensive support, and still be eclipsed militarily and
logistically by terror-front al-Nusra. That is, unless of course, the US,
British, Saudi, and Qatari weapons aren't simply just handing the weapons
directly to terrorists, precisely as planned as early as 2007.
The Destruction of Syria Began in 2007, Not
2011
While the West has attempted to reclaim Syria as part of its
sphere of influence for decades, concrete plans for the latest proxy war were
laid at least as early as 2007. It was admitted in 2007 that the US, Saudi
Arabia, and Israel conspired together to fund, arm, and direct sectarian
extremists including militants "sympathetic" to Al Qaeda, particularly the
Muslim Brotherhood, against the governments of Iran and Syria. In Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh's 2007 New Yorker article, "
The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy
benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?" the conspiracy was
described as follows:
To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the
Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the
Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s
government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to
weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has
also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A
by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups
that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and
sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
Hersh also cited US, Saudi, and Lebanese
officials who indicated that, "in the past year, the Saudis, the Israelis, and
the Bush Administration have developed a series of informal understandings about
their new strategic direction," and that, "the Saudi government, with
Washington’s approval, would provide funds and logistical aid to weaken the
government of President Bashir Assad, of Syria. The report would also state:
Some of the core tactics of the redirection are not
public, however. The clandestine operations have been kept secret, in some
cases, by leaving the execution or the funding to the Saudis, or by finding
other ways to work around the normal congressional appropriations process,
current and former officials close to the Administration said.
Mention of the Muslim Brotherhood already receiving aid even in
2007 was also made:
The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, a branch of a radical
Sunni movement founded in Egypt in 1928, engaged in more than a decade of
violent opposition to the regime of Hafez Assad, Bashir’s father. In 1982, the
Brotherhood took control of the city of Hama; Assad bombarded the city for a
week, killing between six thousand and twenty thousand people. Membership in the
Brotherhood is punishable by death in Syria. The Brotherhood is also an avowed
enemy of the U.S. and of Israel. Nevertheless, Jumblatt said, “We told Cheney
that the basic link between Iran and Lebanon is Syria—and to weaken Iran you
need to open the door to effective Syrian opposition.”
There is evidence
that the Administration’s redirection strategy has already benefitted the
Brotherhood. The Syrian National Salvation Front is a coalition of opposition
groups whose principal members are a faction led by Abdul Halim Khaddam, a
former Syrian Vice-President who defected in 2005, and the Brotherhood. A former
high-ranking C.I.A. officer told me, “The Americans have provided both political
and financial support. The Saudis are taking the lead with financial support,
but there is American involvement.” He said that Khaddam, who now lives in
Paris, was getting money from Saudi Arabia, with the knowledge of the White
House. (In 2005, a delegation of the Front’s members met with officials from the
National Security Council, according to press reports.) A former White House
official told me that the Saudis had provided members of the Front with travel
documents.
The Wall Street Journal in 2007 would also implicate the
Muslim Brotherhood and more specifically, the so-called "National Salvation
Front," in its article, "
To Check Syria, U.S. Explores Bond With Muslim
Brothers."
It is clear that the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel
planned to use sectarian extremists against the nation of Syria starting at
least as early as 2007, and it is clear that now these sectarian extremists are
carrying out the destruction of Syria with a massive torrent of weapons and cash
provided by the US and its regional allies, just as was described by Hersh's
report.
A Moral Imperative to Save Syria
Syria is under
attack by an insidious, premeditated foreign assault, intentionally using
terrorist proxies in direct and complete violation of any conceivable
interpretation of both national and international law. The world has a moral
imperative to support the Syrian people and their government as they fight this
assault - both politically and logistically. While US Secretary John Kerry is
unable to account for how his nation's support for moderates has left Al Qaeda's
al-Nusra front the premier militant faction in Syria, he has demanded that Iraq
help stem the flow of alleged aid Iran is providing the Syrian government as it
fights these terrorists.
Does US Secretary of State John Kerry deny that
Syria is fighting a significant (and continuously growing) Al Qaeda presence
within their borders, which according to the US State Department's own
statement, is operating in every major city in the country? What conceivable
explanation or excuse could be made to justify the blockading of aid sent to
Syria to fight Al Qaeda terrorists? In fact, why isn't the US aiding the Syrian
government itself in its fight against Al Qaeda - a terrorist organization the
US has used as an excuse to wage unending global war since 2001 when Al Qaeda
allegedly killed some 3,000 American civilians?
Does Secretary Kerry
believe that further arming "moderates" is a legitimate strategy to counter Al
Qaeda's growing presence in Syria when these "moderates" openly defend Al
Qaeda's al-Nusra? The US' own hand-picked "Syrian opposition leader," Mouaz al
Khatib, demanded the US reconsider its designation of al Nusra as a terrorist
organization. Retuers reported in their article, "
Syrian opposition urges U.S. review of al-Nusra
blacklisting," that:
The leader of Syria's opposition
coalition urged the United States on Wednesday to review its decision to
designate the militant Islamist Jabhat al-Nusra as a terrorist group, saying
religion was a legitimate motive for Syrian rebels.
"The decision to
consider a party that is fighting the regime as a terrorist party needs to be
reviewed," Mouaz Alkhatib told a "Friends of Syria" meeting in Morocco, where
Western and Arab states granted full recognition to the coalition seeking to
oust President Bashar al-Assad.
The US is directly responsible for
the emergence and perpetuation of Al Qaeda and other extremist groups in Syria.
The statements of Secretary John Kerry are made merely to maintain an
increasingly tenuous "plausible deniability." The precedent being set by the US
and its allies is one of using full-scale proxy invasions, that if successful in
Syria, will be directed into Iran, up through the Caucasus Mountains in Russia,
and even onto China's doorstep via extremists the West is cultivating amongst
the
Uighurs. It is also clear that the West is directly
responsible for the extremists within their own borders, and that these
extremists are being used as a political tool against the people of the West,
just as they are being used as a mercenary force abroad.
A united front between nations against this wanton state sponsorship of
terrorism is needed - with nations pledging political and logistical support to
the Syrian people to defeat this open conspiracy. Individually, we can identify,
boycott, and permanently replace the corporate-financier interests who
conceived of and are driving this agenda. Failure to stop such wide scale
criminality against the Syrian people now, will only invite greater criminality
against us all in the near future.
An official source said a terrorist group stormed into al-Burj neighborhood and killed 10 citizens, mostly children and women, before a unit of the armed forces intervened, upon the residents' request, and repelled the group's members.
The occupation military said it transferred the man to a hospital after assessing his medical condition and added he will be returned to Syria after treatment.
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