Like the proverbial best-laid plans that come unstuck, the US and
its Western and regional allies, flooded Syria with terrorism while
lining up a government-in-waiting in the form of careerist exiles and
political opportunists. The political puppets were to have moved in when
the government in Damascus had been cleaved from the general population
through the terrorism of the death squads. But it didn’t work out like
that.
Senator
John McCain became the highest ranking US officials to meet with Gen.
Salem Idris, the leader of the Supreme Military Council of the Free
Syrian Army.The Daily Beast reported.
US policy on Syria could
be described as «a comedy of errors» if the consequences for human
suffering were not so brutal. Having largely created a quagmire of
terrorism and lawlessness in Syria through covert insurgency operations
over the past two and half years, the US government looks like a hapless
Doctor Frankenstein who has lost control of the beast, or should we say
beasts…
The creation from the laboratory of American regime change has many
forms, from savage death squads on the ground to effete exile political
groups ensconced in five-star Persian Gulf hotels.
But none of these creations seem to respond to the supposed master.
The situation is evidently out of control and the US appears to the
world like a mad, impotent fool.
First, Washington repeated calls this week on its manufactured Syrian
opposition, the Syrian National Coalition, to attend the Geneva II
political talks. But the SNC flatly rejected the admonition.
Then, a joint statement by the motley crew of foreign mercenary
militias in Syria turned around again this week and issued a terse
repudiation of the Syrian National Coalition or any other political
group.
In a released video, the statement representing some 70 militant brigades said:
“Having seen the failure of the political groups that
claim to represent the opposition and the revolutionary groups… we
leaders of the military groups in the southern provinces withdraw our
recognition from any political group that claims to represent us.”
This was the second slap in the face for the Western-lionized so-called National Coalition. Last month, some 13 insurgent organizations in
the northern Syrian provinces also issued a blunt statement rejecting
the coalition as having any legitimacy as a political representative.
Significantly, among those latter groups repudiating the SNC were the
Al Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat Al Nusra and the Free Syrian Army. The
Western governments claim to support the FSA, led by General Salim
Idriss, because of its supposed «moderate» credentials and
non-association with the extremist Takfiri networks, such as Al Nusra.
According
to Le Figaro, the first group of specially trained militant fighters,
commanded by American special forces, crossed the border into Syria on
August 17 along with a number of CIA operatives. A second group joined
them two days later, the report said.
Awkwardly for the Western propagandists, the FSA does not seem to be
reading the memos, and has publicly aligned itself with «the
extremists». In other words, there is no separation of «moderates» and
«extremists», or «good rebels» and «bad rebels».
That putative distinction is seen more than ever as merely a
propaganda fiction that the Western governments have concocted in order
to give themselves a political and moral cover for fomenting a criminal
war of aggression in Syria – by hiding behind the pretense that they are
supporting pro-democracy, freedom-loving good rebels. Shamefully, the
Western mainstream so-called journalism industry has assisted in
contriving this preposterous façade, instead of rigorously investigating
and ripping it apart.
The reality is that the Western governments have unleashed a wave of
terror on Syria since March 2011, under the guise of the Arab Spring,
for the geopolitical objective of regime change. That wave of aggression
to destabilize the government of President Bashar al-Assad is comprised
of hundreds of mercenary groups of varying extremist tendencies, most
of whom originate from as many as 30 countries, including Libya,
Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Russia, as well as Western
states such as Australia, Britain, France and Canada.
The illusory Western dichotomy of «moderates» and «extremists» was
blown away during the massacres carried out in Syria’s Western Latakia
Province during August. Even Human Rights Watch, which is normally
dutiful to the pro-Western political agenda, reported hundreds of
atrocities against civilians during the raids on villages in Latakia.
These atrocities included the kidnapping of over 200 women and children,
whose whereabouts remain unknown. There are credible reports that the
victims may have been brutally slain for the purpose of fabricating the
East Ghouta chemical gas attack on 21 August. During the Latakia
offensive, the
Free Syrian Army commander General Idriss was filmed on the ground proclaiming the success of the campaign under his leadership.
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‘Liars, all of them’: Syrian rebels slam US, Gulf states following intl peace efforts
Published time: October 19, 2013 16:32
Syrian government’s tanks on the streets of the mostly-Christian settlement of Maaloula. (Still from RT video)
The Free Syrian Army soldiers admit they won’t be able to claim
capital Damascus without foreign support, but their aren’t counting on
it anymore as the US and the Gulf states are “liars,” RT’s Maria
Finoshina reports from rebel-held area in Syria.
The Russia-US deal has led to cancellation of US airstrikes
against the targets of Syrian government and the Arab states
holding back on their aid to the opposition forces.
But not everybody in the country wants a peaceful solution to the
2.5-year-long civil war as the rebels have accused their foreign
backers of not keeping their promises.
“The security belt that the regime created around Damascus is
huge and to target it we need many fighters and advanced weapons,
and to be honest we don’t have such kind of weapons,” Oraba
Idriss, who defected the government forces to become the 1st
Maghaweer brigade commander for the Free Syrian Army, told RT.
“But what we can do – is launch operations here and there to
release the pressure of the regime.”
Last month's attack on Maaloula, in the south-west of the
country, could’ve been part of that strategy as the ancient,
mostly-Christian settlement, remains the only obstacle preventing
the fighters from two large Syrian battlegrounds uniting.
The village, which is loyal to the Syrian authorities, lies in a
valley surrounded by mountains on the way from Homs to Damascus
and is surrounded by villages held by the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Free Syrian Army militants, Abu Mohammad, who was injured during a battle for Maaloula. (Still from RT video)
FSA fighter, Abu al Hasan, said the rebels have the road leading
to Damascus in their sight, but they
“can’t reach it because
of Maaloula”.
The militants can hold back the government troops, but they seem
unable to make their own advances. In order for that to change
the opposition needs more money from Gulf countries and American
military aid, Abu Mohammad, an FSA fighter, who was injured in
Maaloula, claims.
“If they [the US] strike with just ten rockets the regime of
Bashar al Assad will fall by itself,” he said.
The US had considered
“limited military action” on Syrian
military bases over August's chemical attacks they blamed on the
forces of president Bashar Assad, but changed track after Russia
pushed Washington to agree on a peaceful way forward.
Moscow proposed to hand the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal to
international inspectors for destruction, with the initiative
receiving full backing from the country’s authorities.
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Nobel Prize part of West’s propaganda fog
Fri Oct 11, 2013 3:6PM GMT
By Finian Cunningham
Nobel
Peace Prizes and Western human rights groups may sound innocuous. But
they are a central part of the Western propaganda machine, as much as
MI6, CIA, Mossad, the Pentagon, Whitehall and the panoply of Western
news media outlets with august titles, such as BBC and New York Times."
The
Nobel Peace Prize should be renamed the Nobel Propaganda Prize, after
this year’s ever-so contrived award to the UN-approved chemical weapons
team sent to disarm Syria.
Other dubious winners of the “illustrious” prize include the accused
war criminal, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who oversaw
the genocidal carpet-bombing of Indochina during the 1970s.
More recently, another accused war criminal, US President Barack
Obama, is among the honorees of the award despite his ongoing use of
assassination and murderous aggression in multiple countries, including
Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Yemen and Syria.
A Norwegian-based committee of seemingly Scandinavian neutrality
makes the award every year as it has done for more than a century ever
since 1901. The prize was the creation of Alfred Nobel, a major
armaments manufacturer. That in itself speaks volumes of the
institution’s contradictory nature.
Last year, the winner of the Nobel Prize was yet another disgrace to
morals and commonsense in the form of the European Union. How can a
bloc of governments be remotely considered peaceful when it is wiping
out basic social welfare for millions of its citizens in the service of
criminal banks and elite private wealth? Or when it is lifting a weapons
embargo on extremists running amok in Syria? Or colluding in the
enforcement of crippling economic sanctions on Iran - based on nuclear
calumnies cooked up by Western military intelligence - sanctions that
are killing women and children from the lack of basic imported
medicines?
While there have been a few deserving winners of the Nobel Peace
Prize down through the years, nevertheless it is best to treat this
institution with skepticism, if not derision. The meritorious aspects of
the award can serve to give credence to the dubious and deplorable
associates. In that way, it is more Propaganda Prize than Peace Prize.
This year’s recipient, the inspection team belonging to the
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, have only begun
their work last week to dismantle stockpiles in Syria. This is part of
the arrangement that Russia proposed last month to avert an illegal war
of aggression being planned by the Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama.
The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad has fully signed up
the disarmament process.
However, it is precocious, to say the least, to award the OPCW with
the Nobel prize, just like it was for the Oslo-based committee to give
the award to Obama in 2009, only within months of his first election and
before he went on to prove himself one of America’s most warmongering
presidents since World War II.
How do we know that the OPCW will be effective in disarming the
chemical weapons of the Western-backed mercenary groups fighting to
overthrow the Assad government? How do we know that the OPCW will not
mischievously misuse its remit and Nobel Laureate status to advance the
Western propaganda narrative against the Syrian government?
The awarding of a peace prize based on no track record
conjures suspicion that the institution and its benign connotations are
being used to inculcate a reprehensible political agenda.
The same insidious propaganda formula of supposed virtue concealing
vice can also be seen in the report this week by the New York-based
Human Rights Watch group on massacres carried out by foreign-backed
militants in Syria.
That report accuses up to 20 Al Qaeda-linked groups, including Al
Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Shams, of killing scores of
civilians in Syria’s western Latakia Province during early August.
Such apparently damning testimony from a Western human rights organization may seem like a positive development.
But, as with the Nobel Peace Prize, there is a very real danger that
the HRW report is merely acting as a whitewash of Western government
crimes.
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