US fails to sell militants in Syria as “freedom fighters,” tells truth for pretext to liquidate monsters of their own creation. by Tony Cartalucci
July 27, 2012 – The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in its article, “
Al Qaeda’s War for Syria,”
cited officials from the US Treasury Department stating, “Al Qaeda in
Syria (often operating as the “Al Nusra Front for the People
of the Levant”) is using traffickers—some ideologically aligned, some
motivated by money—to
secure routes through Turkey and Iraq for foreign
fighters, most of whom are from the Middle East and North Africa. A
growing number of donors from the Persian Gulf and Levant appear to be
sending
financial support.”
Photo: The “Free Syrian Army,” whose composition consists of not only Syrian sectarian extremists, but Libyan terrorists from the US State Department listed “Libyan Islamic Fighting Group” led by Abdul Hakim Belhaj, is the manifestation of years of US, Saudi, and Israeli aid since at least 2007.
This undercuts the West’s year and a half-long narrative that Syria’s
violence was the result of a so-called “uprising” by the people of
Syria. While the WJS attempts to downplay this
admission
by claiming, “al Qaeda makes up a small part of the resistance
movement,” it concedes that, “its strength appears to be rising.” In
reality, it was Al Qaeda militants from the very beginning, and the only
aspect of the conflict “rising” is public awareness of this fact.
Since 2007, US Aided and Abetted Al Qaeda Affiliates Against Syria
As early as 2007, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh wrote in his New Yorker article “
The Redirection,” that:
“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.”
-The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)
Hersh’s report would also include:
“the Saudi government, with Washington’s approval, would provide funds
and logistical aid to weaken the government of President Bashir Assad,
of Syria. The Israelis believe that putting such pressure on the Assad
government will make it more conciliatory and open to negotiations.” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)
The 2007 article also warned about the inevitable consequences of
arming radical sectarian extremists, with CIA operators in Lebanon
warning of mass murder, sectarian violence, and specifically the
targeting of Christian minorities across the Levant (the region along
the Mediterranean Sea including Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, and Syria):
“Robert Baer, a former longtime C.I.A. agent in Lebanon, has been a
severe critic of Hezbollah and has warned of its links to
Iranian-sponsored terrorism. But now, he told me, “we’ve got Sunni Arabs
preparing for cataclysmic conflict, and we will need somebody to
protect the Christians in Lebanon. It used to be the French and the
United States who would do it, and now it’s going to be Nasrallah and
the Shiites” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)
Now, demonstratively, we see exactly this feared onslaught manifesting
itself in Syria, in particular against Christians as indicated in LA
Times’ “
Church fears ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Christians in Homs, Syria,” and more recently in USA Today’s distorted, but still telling, “
Christians in Syria live in uneasy alliance with Assad, Alawites.”
Even the massacre in Houla, seems to echo of this 2007 warning,
bearing
all the hallmarks of sectarian extremists like Al Qaeda.
Not only did the United States government, with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and
Israel’s aid, knowingly assemble a sectarian extremist front affiliated
with Al Qaeda, not from within Syria, but from beyond its borders, it
knew well in advance the destructive consequences such a foreign policy
would yield.
The US government has since willfully lied to the both the American
people and the world regarding the true nature of the violence unfolding
in Syria, and with the help of the corporate-media, is attempting to
spin the forewarned consequences of their long-planned conspiracy as
merely an unfortunate by-product of a spontaneous conflict.
A Foreign Invasion, not a Rebellion
The WSJ’s article begins with the sentence, “the United States and its allies should consider opening a second front
in the Syrian war. In addition to helping end Bashar Assad’s rule, there
is a growing need to conduct a covert campaign against al Qaeda and
other extremist groups gaining a presence in the country.”
In essence, we are being told that the militant extremists the US
assembled against Syria have failed to overthrow the government, so the
US should intervene on the pretext of liquidating the very terrorists
they conspired to send, funded and armed, and have been supporting since
the very beginning.
The very logistical “routes” through Turkey the WSJ claims Al Qaeda is
using to flood into Syria with militants and weapons, are admittedly
organized by the US through its CIA intelligence apparatus. The New York
Times article, “
C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition,” states clearly 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.
The NYT continues:
The weapons, including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades,
ammunition and some antitank weapons, are being funneled mostly across
the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries
including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey, Saudi
Arabia and Qatar, the officials said.
Likewise, in the
Washington Post’s article, “
Syrian rebels get influx of arms with gulf neighbors’ money, U.S. coordination,” it is reported:
Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have
begun receiving significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks,
an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by
the United States, according to opposition activists and U.S. and
foreign officials.
We are now expected to forget these admissions, or believe that Al
Qaeda is slipping past CIA officers “operating secretly in southern
Turkey,” and that only by coincidence they are armed with the very
weapons and resources the US, Saudis, and Qataris have pledged to supply
the so-called “Free Syrian Army” with. Turkey, it should be
remembered, is a NATO member – that Al Qaeda is swarming within and
along its borders belies 10 years of “War on Terror” mythology.
The “Free Syrian Army” does include sectarian extremists from within
Syria, mostly drawn from the banned, sectarian Muslim Brotherhood
movement which has sought to destroy secular society across the Arab
World for decades. But the vast majority of the fighters flowing into
Aleppo in the north, and who had recently attempted to overrun Damascus
in the south, are foreign fighters, armed by foreign sponsors, invading
and conducting armed attacks on populated Syrian cities.
Image: “A lot of them were bald and many had beards. Many wore
white sports shoes and army pants,” said an alleged “defected officer” of the perpetrators of the “Houla Massacre.”
An apt description of the NATO-armed sectarian terrorists that ravaged
Libya before traveling to Syria (here, here, and here) to continue their campaign of extremist-driven genocide. (click image to enlarge)
Reports months ago indicated that Libyan militants had been making their
way to Syria by the hundreds, flush with cash and weapons recently
received from NATO during their own operation to overrun and destroy
Libya.
As many as 600 Libyan terrorists were reported to have reached Syria by late 2011.
Now as Western media houses embed their representatives within terrorist
bands crossing the Turkish-Syrian border, and as these terrorists find
their way into Aleppo and amongst a population capable of revealing
their identity to the world, slowly the admissions are trickling out
that indeed entire “platoons” of North African fighters are involved in
the misleadingly titled, “rebellion.”
CNN, whose Ivan Watson accompanied these terrorists over the
Turkish-Syrian border and into Aleppo, revealed that indeed foreign
fighters were amongst the militants.
It was admitted that:
CNN also added:
On Wednesday, CNN’s crew met a Libyan fighter who had crossed into
Syria from Turkey with four other Libyans. The fighter wore full
camouflage and was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle. He said more Libyan
fighters were on the way.
The foreign fighters, some of them are clearly drawn because they
see this as … a jihad. So this is a magnet for jihadists who see this as
a fight for Sunni Muslims.
CNN’s reports provide bookends to earlier admissions
that large numbers of Libyan terrorists flush with
NATO cash and weapons had headed to Syria, with
notorious terrorist commanders making the arrangements.
West Used Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Libya, Is Using Al Qaeda Now in Syria
By all accounts, including admissions
by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Osama Bin Laden’s organization that would become Al Qaeda was created by the West
during the Soviet-Afghan war in in the late 70′s and throughout the
80′s. The US and Saudi funding of these militants did not begin after the Soviet
invasion, but actually several years before the invasion. US
intervention in Afghanistan by training and arming Afghanistan’s
Mujaheddin, along with Osama Bin Laden’s Arab fighters, is one of the
leading factors that led to the murderous and protracted decade-long
war, according to the Nation in an article titled, “
Blowback, the Prequel.”
Photo:
Former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski meeting with
Osama Bin Laden, then leading the CIA’s Arab legionaries in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda would later spin off into regional terrorist
organizations, covertly armed, trained, and protected by the CIA to this
day, including LIFG in Libya, MEK in Iraq and Iran, and Baluchi
terrorists in Pakistan.
Since then, Al Qaeda has conveniently provided both a well-armed,
capable proxy force, as well as a sufficiently terrifying boogeyman,
giving Wall Street and London access to nations it could otherwise never
justify intervening in.
The very militant leader of the “Tripoli Brigade” who secured Libya’s
capital just in time for US dignitaries to visit, was Abdul Hakim
Belhaj, commander of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), listed on
the US State Department’s roster of “
Foreign Terrorist Organizations” (#28). In fact, several reports out of
West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
illustrated how not only LIFG was actively leading NATO-backed regime
change in Libya, but was involved in fighting Western troops and locals
in both Afghanistan and Iraq – disrupting legitimate resistance, and
providing a continuous pretext to maintain Western occupation.
That Belhaj
almost immediately after overthrowing Libya’s government, began organizing operations
to bring in fighters, weapons, and cash to Syria, indicates that, just
as Al Qaeda was used from its very inception by the US and Saudis to
fight Soviets in Afghanistan, it is still a valuable tool in executing
Western foreign policy.
Essentially, the so-called “
War on Terror” is a fraud,
the belligerents on both sides fueled by the West as a means of
establishing military, economic, and political hegemony in otherwise
unapproachable targeted nations. When Al Qaeda cannot sufficiently
overrun a targeted nation as a proxy “foreign legion” of Western
interests (Libya), its presence, facilitated by the West in the first
place, is then cited as a “casus belli” for military intervention
(Afghanistan).
Now, it appears that the West’s Arab “foreign legion,” Al Qaeda, is
about to suffer an unprecedented defeat – not at the hands of Western
anti-terrorism forces, but at the hands of Syrian troops in the city of
Aleppo. In a desperate effort to prevent this, the West is employing a
series of desperate strategies ranging from portraying
the trapped foreign-fighters committing atrocities inside Aleppo as “
pending a certain massacre,”
to using the very presence of these foreign-fighters as evidence “Al
Qaeada” is operating in Syria and must be “stopped” by Western
intervention.
It is essential to understand that, as empires have always done, the
monolithic corporate-financier interests of the West seek regional hegemony
as a step toward global domination,
and will say and do anything in order to achieve it. As resistance
increases, the West’s lies become more difficult to sell, the
consistency of their propaganda overtly crumbling. The West, in nearly a
single breath, has now claimed FSA fighters are both “Al Qaeda” that
need to be eliminated, while also impeding a “massacre” by Syrian forces
if something isn’t done to save them.
When US President Obama
referred to the “depths of depravity”
regarding Syrian security operations in Aleppo, he and his script
writers do so with the belief that Americans, and the world, are
ignorant and disinterested in the truth, and will gladly allow Western
foreign policy to once again prey on their emotions and good intentions
to sell yet another destructive, self-serving military intervention.
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