US-Saudi-Israeli Proxy War in Syria
Article "The World Must
Unite against the US-Saudi-Israeli Proxy War in Syria" written by Tony
Cartalucci and picked up from Information
Clearing House should be an eye opener for the Muslim Ummah. If
Syria is under attack today monarchies of the region can also meet the same
fate.
United States, 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 coƶperated 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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