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.
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 appears then that the so-called “opposition” is a creation and
perpetuation of the West and its ambitions, not the aspirations of the
“Syrian people.”
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.
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following is the official document from a 1991 meeting which outlines
the Muslim Brotherhood's strategic goals for North America. The document
was entered as evidence in the 2008 Holyland Terror Funding Trial.
Federal investigators found the document in the home of Ismael
Elbarasse, a founder of the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church,
Virginia, during a 2004 search. Elbarasse was a member of the Palestine
Committee, which the Muslim Brotherhood had created to support Hamas in
the United States.