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How US Allies Aid Al Qaeda in SyriaAugust 4, 2015
Exclusive: The dirty secret about the Obama administration’s “regime change” strategy in
Syria is that it amounts to a de facto alliance with Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front which is driving
toward a possible victory with direct and indirect aid from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel,
as Daniel Lazare explains.
By Daniel Lazare
When the U.S. and Turkey announced on July 23 that they were joining forces to establish
a “safe zone” in northern Syria, no one could quite figure out what they meant. With the
White House denying that the deal required it to send in troops to seal the zone off or
warplanes to patrol the skies, Bloomberg’s Josh Rogin wrote that the whole thing was
misnomer: “In fact, there is really no ‘zone,’ and there is no plan to keep the area ‘safe.’”
Indeed, Rogin said, three “senior administration officials” had put together a conference
call in order to assure reporters that there were no plans “for a safe zone, a no-fly zone,
an air-exclusionary zone, a humanitarian buffer zone, or any other protected zone of any
kind.” So if that wasn’t the plan, what on earth was it?
President and Mrs. Obama disembark from Air Force
One at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on
Jan. 27, 2015, for a state visit to Saudi Arabia. (Official
White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Now we know. The purpose of the non-zone zone that Turkey and the U.S. may or may
not wish to establish is to give the former a free hand to bomb the Kurds and the latter an
opportunity to engage in joint operations with Al Qaeda.
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The proof? A front-page article in the Aug. 1 New York Times reporting that a U.S.-trained
rebel unit, known as Division 30, which had been sent into Syria to combat ISIS, had
come “under intense attack on Friday from a different hardline Islamist faction … the
Nusra Front, which is affiliated with Al Qaeda.”
This is no big news in itself since the Syrian opposition’s myriad rebel factions, one more
hardline than the next, are constantly battling one another for control of arms, territory,
resources and personnel. But what was new was the fact that the trainees had been
caught off guard.
As The Times’s Anne Bernard and Eric Schmitt reported: “American military trainers … did
not anticipate an assault from the Nusra Front. In fact, officials said on Friday, they
expected the Nusra Front to welcome Division 30 as an ally in its fight against the Islamic
State. ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen like this,’ said one former senior American official.”
In other words, Defense Department officials expected Al Nusra to see Division 30 as
friends and were perplexed when it didn’t. The Americans “had no known plans to fight the
Nusra Front,” the Times went on, adding that, while “allied with Al Qaeda,” Nusra “is seen
by many insurgents in Syria as preferable to the Islamic State, and it sometimes
cooperates with other less radical groups against both the Islamic State and Syrian
government forces.”
According to the London Independent, a “distraught” Division 30 commander whom it
managed to catch up with in Turkey said that he and one of the captured trainees had
actually met with an Al Nusra leader ten days earlier to work out a truce. “They said that if
even one bullet reached them, they would attack us, but we assured them we were there
only to fight Daesh [i.e. ISIS],” he said.
But even though Division 30 had kept its part of the bargain, Al Nusra was now beating
the captured trainees and parading them in the hot afternoon sun with their shirts pulled
over their heads while Al Nusra fighters accused them of “collaborat[ing] with the crusader
coalition.”
So when the New York Times announced that the U.S.-Turkish plan “would create what
officials from both countries are calling an Islamic State-free zone controlled by relatively
moderate Syrian insurgents,” it’s now clear who those “moderates” are: Al Nusra. The
zone would be safe for U.S.-trained forces, which numbered only around 60 fighters prior
to last week’s attack, but it would be mainly safe for the much larger and more powerful
Syrian branch of Al Qaeda.
Teaming Up with Al Qaeda?
The U.S. teaming up with Al Qaeda – how can this be? Although the press doesn’t like to
talk about it, there in fact has hardly been a moment in recent history when the U.S. has
not worked hand in glove with the most dangerous fundamentalist forces.
It goes all the way back to President Dwight Eisenhower who, as Ian Johnson noted in his
excellent book, A Mosque in Munich (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), was always eager
“to stress the ‘holy war’ aspect” in his talks with Muslims leaders according to an internal
White House memo and, when informed that jihad might be directed against Israel, replied
that the Saudis had assured him that it would only be used against the Soviets.
More recently, President Jimmy Carter and National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski
opted to put the Eisenhower Doctrine to the test by channeling money and arms to Afghan
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mujahedeen battling a Soviet-backed government in Kabul. The effort, which eventually –
under President Ronald Reagan – morphed into a $20-billion-plus joint operation by the
Saudis and CIA, no doubt contributed to the collapse of the U.S.S.R., Brzezinski’s top
priority.
But it also destroyed Afghan society, paved the way for the Taliban takeover in 1996, gave
rise to Al Qaeda, and, of course, led directly to the destruction of the World Trade Center
in Lower Manhattan.
The U.S. may have backed off thereafter, although it continued to maintain close relations
with Saudi Arabia, which, according to Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called “twentieth
hijacker,” maintained close ties with Osama bin Laden right up to the eve of 9/11. [See
Consortiumnews.com’s “The Secret Saudi Ties to Terrorism.”]
But by 2007, as Seymour Hersh argued not at all implausibly in The New Yorker, the
Saudis had succeeded in convincing the Bush administration to concentrate on battling
Shi‘ite forces instead. This meant not only lightening up on Al Qaeda, but cooperating with
increasing militant Sunni groups in order to pursue the fight against Hezbollah and other
such Shi’te forces.
The consequences have grown more and more evident ever since the Arab Spring caught
up with the Assad family dictatorship in February 2011. Washington’s pro-Sunni orientation
required that it ignore reports that the radical-Sunni Muslim Brotherhood was dominating
the protests, which were taking on an ugly and bigoted anti-Shi‘ite and anti-Christian
coloration as the Assads – who are of Shi‘ite origin but otherwise non-sectarian –
struggled to maintain control.
When fighting broke out, the “re-direction,” as Hersh called it, also required that the U.S.
steer money and aid to Sunni rebels and even that it rely on the Muslim Brotherhood,
according to the Times, to determine which groups were deserving and which were not.
In order to rein in the Shi‘ites, the U.S. thus threw its weight behind ultra-Sunni Saudi
Arabia and its program of bloody sectarian warfare. As Vice President Joe Biden put it at
Harvard’s Kennedy School last October, Saudi Arabia and the gulf states “were so
determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did
they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of
military weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad except the people who were
being supplied were Al Nusra and Al Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming
from other parts of the world.”
In August 2012, a Defense Intelligence Agency noted that Al Qaeda, the Muslim
Brotherhood, and assorted Salafists were “the major forces driving the insurgency in
Syria”; that the Western powers, the gulf states, and the Turks were solidly behind the
uprising; that Al Qaeda was seeking to use the revolt to unite all Sunnis in a general
anti-Shi‘ite jihad; that the holy warriors were likely to establish “a declared or undeclared
Salafist principality in eastern Syria,” and that “this is exactly what the supporting powers
want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the
Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran).”
Although the consequences would be disastrous for Syria’s Christian, Druze and Alawite-
Shi‘ite minorities, the U.S. went along and the mainstream press supplied the all-important
cover-up.
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The non-aggression pact that Defense Department thought it had hammered out with Al
Nusra is the latest step in this strategy. While the Obama administration claims to be
battling ISIS, its attitude toward the hyper-brutal group is more ambiguous than it lets
on. The U.S. only raised the alarm when ISIS invaded Iraq in June 2014 and began
threatening the American-backed government in Baghdad.
Before then, the U.S. was content to sit back and watch while ISIS made life miserable for
Assad and the Baathists in Damascus. Turkey claims to oppose ISIS as well even though
it has allowed Daesh to turn its 550-mile border with Syria into “an open highway for
jihadists from around the world.”
After ISIS bombed a left-wing, pro-Kurdish rally in the border town of Suruç, killing 32
people and injuring more than a hundred, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed
to get tough. But instead of ISIS, he got tough with the Kurds, bombing targets in northern
Iraq and southeastern Turkey associated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) even
though the PKK, along with its Syrian branch, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) is one of
the few effective anti-ISIS forces in the field.
As Reuters observed, “Turkey’s assaults on the PKK have so far been much heavier than
its strikes against Islamic State, fueling suspicions that its real agenda is keeping Kurdish
political and territorial ambitions in check.”
Indeed, Erdogan’s agenda may be even more convoluted than that since striking out at
the PKK may serve to undermine the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP),
which, after an impressive 13-percent showing in June’s elections, poses a growing
danger to his rule.
Further, Turkey and other U.S. allies in the region have packaged their attacks on the
most effective anti-ISIS forces as indirect ways to undermine ISIS. Turkey offers the
curious belief that the best way to defeat ISIS is by defeating the Kurds.
Similarly, Saudi Arabia claims the best way to defeat ISIS is by toppling Assad since his
determination to remain in power is supposedly what fuels Sunni anger, which in turn fuels
the growth of ISIS. This rationale holds that even though Assad’s Syrian Arab Army is one
of the few bulwarks against an ISIS victory, defeating Assad is suppose to somehow spell
doom for ISIS.
Another country that claims to want to see ISIS go down in flames is Israel, except that
whenever it intervenes in the Syrian civil war, it ends up bombing Assad’s forces and their
Shi’ite allies, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iranian military advisers.
So, everyone claims to want to defeat ISIS, yet everyone bombs precisely those forces
that are working to stop ISIS. Of course, the most convoluted agenda of all is that of the
U.S. The Obama administration seems to believe that defeating ISIS is the top goal,
except when it says that priority number one is overthrowing Assad.
As the Times blandly puts it with regard to units like Division 30: “The training [of Division
30 to combat ISIS] is often at cross-purposes with a covert C.I.A. training program for
fighters battling Syrian security forces. Toppling Mr. Assad was the original goal of the
Syrian revolt, before the Islamic State sprang from its most extreme Islamist wing.”
(However, the actual history of ISIS is that it emerged from the Sunni resistance to the
U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, originally calling itself “Al Qaeda in Iraq” before
joining the war against Assad and taking the name “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” or
simply the “Islamic State.”)
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Tags: Al-Qaeda Barack Obama Daniel Lazare Islamic State Israel Saudi Arabia
Syria Turkey
What’s the Priority?
Based on recent developments, one might ask: is toppling Assad yesterday’s top goal
superseded by today’s top goal of defeating ISIS – or is it the other way
around? Meanwhile, the U.S. policy is to bomb ISIS whenever possible except when it is
engaged in battle with Syrian government forces, at which point the U.S. policy is to hold
off.
Explained the Times’s Anne Bernard: “In Syria, a new awkwardness arises. Any airstrikes
against Islamic State militants in and around Palmyra would probably benefit the forces of
President Bashar al-Assad. So far, United States-led airstrikes in Syria have largely
focused on areas far outside government control, to avoid the perception of aiding a
leader whose ouster President Obama has called for.”
In other words, the U.S. bombs ISIS except when it might help the most potent force
fighting ISIS. Washington is also at war with Al Nusra – sometimes. In early July, for
instance, a U.S. air strike killed seven Al Nusra members in Idlib Province in northern
Syria. But America’s neocons disapprove of such strikes because they may indirectly
benefit Assad’s forces.
Neocons were gleeful when a Nusra-led coalition swept through Idlib in April with support
from the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army, while the administration remained conspicuously
silent about the large numbers of U.S.-made TOW missiles – almost certainly supplied by
the Saudis – that provided Al Nusra with a critical edge. [See Consortiumnews.com’s
“Climbing into Bed with Al-Qaeda.”]
So the U.S. opposes Al Nusra except when it supports it. Indeed, just about every player
in the Middle East is busy playing both sides of the fence, which is why ISIS and Al Qaeda
are doing so well.
As Karl Sharro, a Lebanese architect turned political satirist, noted: “Obama is an astute
strategist. His plan centers on supporting Kurdish factions as he also supports Turkey
which is now attacking the Kurds while also supporting Saudi Arabia in its war in Yemen
which upsets Iran whom U.S. forces are collaborating with in fighting ISIS in Iraq as he
simultaneously yields to pressure from allies to weaken Assad in Syria which complicates
things further with Iran which he pacifies by signing the nuclear deal upsetting America’s
traditional friend Israel whose anger is absorbed with shipments of advanced weapons
escalating the arms race in the region.”
Exactly. It would all be quite funny if the consequences – 220,000 deaths in Syria, millions
more displaced, plus widespread destruction in Yemen where nightly Saudi air raids are
now in their sixth month – weren’t so tragic.
Daniel Lazare is the author of several books including The Frozen Republic: How
the Constitution Is Paralyzing Democracy (Harcourt Brace).
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27 comments for “How US Allies Aid Al Qaeda in Syria”
AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 11:13 am
While Ankara would have the world believe that its hands are clean,
and that it is the innocent victim of international terrorism, the reality is
that Turkey has done everything to foster and promote the growth of
ISIS from the very beginning. As such, it is the Turkish government who
must shoulder much of the blame for the Suruç bombing.
Since at least 2012, Turkey has been the principal conduit for weapons
flowing into Syria. In June of that year, the NY Times confirmed that the
CIA was smuggling weapons to anti-Assad forces from the Turkish side
of the border using agents of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, long-time
assets of US intelligence. Also in 2012, Reuters revealed that Turkey
had “set up a secret base with allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar to direct
vital military and communications aid to Syria’s rebels from a city near
the border… ‘It’s the Turks who are militarily controlling it. Turkey is the
main coordinator/facilitator. Think of a triangle, with Turkey at the top
and Saudi Arabia and Qatar at the bottom,’ said a Doha-based source.”
It is now also documented fact that Turkish intelligence (MIT) has been
an active player in the ongoing campaign to arm and resupply the terror
groups such as the al Nusra Front and others. The evidence of this fact
was made public by the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet which published
video footage along with transcripts from wiretaps confirming what
many eyewitnesses have stated: Turkish security forces have been
directly involved in shelling and support operations for Nusra front and
other jihadi groups in and around Kassab, Syria, among other sites.
Many of the very same terrorists who have been armed and supported
by the Turkish government are today being held up as enemies of
Turkey, and rationalization of the need for Turkish military intervention.
So, with the inescapable understanding that Turkey’s government is the
primary supporter and sponsor of terrorist groups in Syria, the
justification for war becomes flimsy at best. But, if it’s not about fighting
terror, then what exactly is Ankara’s objective? What does it hope to
gain?
At the top of Erdogan’s agenda is using ISIS as a pretext for effecting
the regime change in Syria that he has failed to bring about for these
past four years. Despite providing weapons and cash, training sites and
political cover, Turkey’s terror proxies have been roundly defeated by
the Syrian Arab Army, Hezbollah, and allied forces. As such, Erdogan
now needs to provide the overwhelming military superiority required to
get the job done. This means air support and a “No Fly Zone” along the
Turkey-Syria border, one which ostensibly will allow Turkey to fight
ISIS, but in actuality is a means of securing territory for the terrorists
who otherwise have been unable to do so. It is a de facto military
intervention into Syria. Perhaps not even de facto, but outright
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declaration of war – a clear war crime.
Secondly, the alleged war on ISIS is a politically expedient cover for
Erdogan to wage a full-scale war on the Kurds, and the PKK
specifically. Within hours of announcing the new phase of the war,
Turkish forces were bombing Kurdish targets in Syriaand Iraq,
effectively declaring war on both countries, in blatant violation of
international law, to whatever extent such a thing still exists. Indeed,
Erdogan made his position quite clear when he stated, “It is not
possible for us to continue the peace process with those who threaten
our national unity and brotherhood.” Essentially, Erdogan has declared
war on all Kurds of the region.
Perhaps most important, and almost never discussed in the West, is
the simple fact that Turkey is perpetuating an outright myth in their
supposed strategy to create “Islamic State-free zones” along the
border; Turkey plans to work with “moderate opposition” and “Free
Syrian Army” in this endeavor. However, the fact remains that there is
really no such thing as the “moderates,” and those terrorists that had at
one time been labeled such have all either gone home, fled the country,
gone over to the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, or are now fighting
under the ISIS banner. And so, by stating such a plan, Erdogan is
unwittingly admitting what this author has already reported numerous
times – Turkey acts as military muscle for ISIS and al Qaeda in Syria
and now Iraq.
The Fake War on ISIS: US and Turkey Escalate in Syria
By Eric Draitser
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-fake-war-on-isis-us-
and-turkey.html
david t. krallAugust 4, 2015 at 12:19 pm
Great & excellent points…I tip my hat to you !!! BUT I would think
there is no way Turkey doing this without CIA AND NATO
orchestration via “wink and nod”… out of or due to their
(pre-)approval and “pressure: to some degree.on Turkey to begin
with….Turkey is part of NATO nas has been for a very long time
and being a part of NATO naturally involves a strong US
intelligence presence..so at the very least “some meeting of the
minds” took place recently….
So much duplicity and double dealing… so much double-talk and
double-speak… and “news-speak” (tv double.talk or “reverse
talk”) from US media outlets about the real and true
aganda…..US gov./intell/defense sectors are lying their pants-off
about what is happening and what the true goal and end game is:
Assad and control of Syria…
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I suspect that the “reason” (or “reasons”) still resonates deep and
wide and will for along time within US corridors of power, is that
the US “lost” the ‘war” in SE Asia and also why it was unable to
unseat Castro…was that either , on one hand the US public was
“told” too much and on the other hand not cleaver and too loud
with its “secret war” against Castro…now they have the best of
both…cleaver sheer duplicity and deception regarding the true
agenda, of who and what is the real, true instrument of the US
and what the true end-game and result is…all controlled and fitted
within a large covert operation.within the eve more rigidly
controlled “box”–called and labeled “the war on terror…..and
spoon-fed to US media outlets and supposed US congressional
“over-see’ers” in the US Senate and House of Reps…
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AbbybwoodAugust 4, 2015 at 1:28 pm
Here is your “wink and nod”.
Apparently Obama has decided to declare war on Syria by
using U.S. air power (and Turkey’s bases) to target any
entity fighting the rebels in Syria. Which means the Syrian
military and the Assad government (and ostensibly Syria’s
allies Russia and Iran).
Talk about a slippery slope leading to WW III!:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42541.htm
But all we will be hearing about on the MSM will be the
wildfires in California, what outbursts to expect from The
Donald at the big “debate” this Thursday night, Hillary’s
email fiasco and how another surfer fought off a great white.
david t. krallAugust 4, 2015 at 8:38 pm
YES ! I noticed that as well !!! You are so right…Do
these ultra/mega-pro-war nuts and their chicken hawk
allies in the US House and US Senate really believe
that BOTH RUSSIA –AND– CHINA will sit idly by and
watch this oh-so-slow, deceptive US military build-up
become active and directed towards Syria and possibly
“trip-wire” a larger war with Iran?…Right on Russia’s
door-step???…These guys are insane and incredibly
and dangerously short-sited…Just like the nuts who
tried to talk JFK into bombing and invading Cuba time
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and time again, ESPECIALLY DURING THE CUBAN
MISSILE CRISES….It’s the same exact thing all over
again…just a “new” or current “theater of
priority”…Cuba then,,,Syria now…Criminal exiled
gangs.&.thugs…trained, funded. sponsored terrorist
then…ISIS now…same exact thing….
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yuri_nahlAugust 5, 2015 at 6:21 pm
You forgot to mention the on-going “under-inflated
football scandal”, and the “growing size of the most
admired buttocks trend” dominating popular media.
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AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 12:14 pm
The world’s largest public television broadcaster is ARD
(Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der
Bundesrepublik Deutschland) in Germany. The ARD investigative news
magazine as Monitor reaches millions of viewers every week.
For several years, German viewers have seen how Turkey arms and
sends militants into Syria.
Monitor has reported extensively on links between the Turkish
government and militants in Syria. During a notable September 2013
Monitor broadcast, ARD journalists filmed a militant base on the
Turkish border.
Monitor interviewed an American (WATCH minutes 00:52 – 01:35)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ad0_1411956585
The guy “from California” with the sunglasses and preposterous “What
America hates, I love” remarks looks more like a US or Israeli military
adviser than a “jihadi” volunteer.
david t. krallAugust 4, 2015 at 12:33 pm
Awesome…especially that last line…this you know is what I have
suspected and researched.. To me Turkey is now the intell
“gateway” regarding the real and true covert recruitment program
of and for ISIS assets and “recruits”…in this “war” against
Syria…that’s where the so-called “vetting” is taking place..what
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lies and BS..!!! .John McCain and Lindsey Graham are fools or
liars… or more likely a combination of both…
That tip about the German media outlets looks like a real good
source to add to my interests and other outlets…thank you… .
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AbbybwoodAugust 4, 2015 at 1:38 pm
Basically, the United States is going to be the Islamic State’s
private Air Force.
Now I am beginning to get why Congress refuses to
“debate” the “war” against IS.
Because they all know full well it is a war FOR IS!
Seriously! How much more obvious can it get? We are
fighting all the entities in the region who are making gains
against IS!!
And if you want to understand the twisted relationship the
U.S. has with Turkey, watch the Sybil Edmonds
documentary on YouTube, “Kill the Messenger”.
There is a huge reason they gagged her for life with State
Secrets Privilege.
david t. krallAugust 4, 2015 at 8:59 pm
Man…so true!!! it’s like some shell game..some
neighborhood corner “game” with marked, cards, or
loaded dice, or 3 card monty……I learned how to
decipher, within reason what is said on CNN,
MSNBC…think of it, in terms of what is NOT being said
or not elaborated on and couple that with what is being
left out , or ignored and also attribute some sort
additional “parallel” “news-speak” (a 1984 term? or is it
Animal Farm? or Brave New World?) which is really
some type of “double talk” or “reverse” talk…. You ( not
“YOU” !) already know this!) but the all of rest of YOU
really need to listen to what is being said, how it is said
and why and what is NOT being said.or ignored..that is
the key to understanding and recognizing BS…e.g.
people in occupied countries did use, since time
immemoriam, their “their eye”- the intuitive one, along
with their cognitive skills to decipher and decode reality
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from lies and BS…and believe that what we are being
told about ISIS would make the lies and
unaccountability regarding our prior operations and
programs against Cuba AND in SE Asia pale by
comparison….a large shell and con game…
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AbeAugust 5, 2015 at 2:03 am
Al Qaeda/ISIS function as US/NATO ground forces in
Syria/Iraq/regime change du jour.
Of course, there are the occasional building demolition,
occasional major building demolition, and not-too-many
grunts in body bags to keep up appearances.
But no military officers or officials are being subjected to
impertinent hearings before the US Congress, British
Parliament, Deutscher Bundestag, Parlement français or
North Atlantic Council.
Works like a charm.
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Kim DixonAugust 4, 2015 at 1:47 pm
Yesterday, Obama authorized Neocon airstrikes to help I̶s̶l̶a̶m̶i̶c̶ ̶r̶a̶d̶i̶c̶a̶l̶s̶
rebels take over Syria.
After which, the the Neocons will demand war against the Islamic
radicals running Syria. The “rebels” will by then be a threat to the
“Homeland”, you see.
If we still had an opposition Party and actual reportage in America,
none of this madness would be possible.
Zachary SmithAugust 4, 2015 at 10:08 pm
If we still had an opposition Party and actual reportage in
America, none of this madness would be possible.
Ain’t that the truth!
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What we actually have are Neocons of two flavors – (R) and (D).
Israel owns them all – lock, stock, and barrel.
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AnonymousAugust 4, 2015 at 1:52 pm
Turkey and U.S. can make all the double deals they want but the fact is
there is a ground war going on and it is a matter of life and death for the
alawites, Druze, Christians, Shia, that live in Syria and support Assad
as their protector.
No where in this strategy do I hear anything about these people and
their fate. They know Who their enemies are and so this war will go on
and on.
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AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 2:04 pm
NATO Member Busted Massively Supporting ISIS … Now Declares
War Against ISIS, But Instead Bombs Its Political Rival (Which Is the
Most Effective Force FIGHTING ISIS)
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/07/nato-member-busted-
massively-supporting-isis-now-declares-war-against-isis-but-
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AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 2:16 pm
The Daily Express tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom reports
that British SAS soldiers, “dressed in black and flying ISIS flags,” have
attacked Syrian targets on the pretext of combating ISIS “in order to set
the conditions for a potentially larger, future engagement”.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/595439/SAS-ISIS-fighter-Jihadis
AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 2:23 pm
The British SAS teams, part of a force known as the Coalition
Joint Special Operations Task Force, are under American
command.
The soldiers operate mini-drones, scouting the way ahead for
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targets, assigning and operating in so-called ‘kill-boxes’ – areas of
territory in which no coalition airstrikes will take place during the
soldiers’ time there.
The process of essentially outsourcing UK troops by placing them
under foreign authority came under the spotlight recently after it
was revealed UK fast jet pilots are carrying out combat operations
in Syria despite a 2013 parliamentary vote banning military action
in Syria.
In July it emerged that Royal Navy pilots embedded with US and
Canadian forces had been involved in missions flown from aircraft
carriers in the Gulf.
AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 3:03 pm
Britain was the main ally of the United States during the invasion and
occupation of Iraq.
On 19 September 2005, two undercover British SAS soldiers in Iraq
were caught wearing Arab clothing, carrying weapons and driving an
explosives laden Iraqi car.
Throughout Iraq, police and civilians had been targeted and killed by
“terrorists”.
The two British soldiers opened fire on Iraqi police officers after having
been stopped at a roadblock. Two Iraqi officers were shot, at least one
of whom died.
The two British soldiers were arrested and taken to the Al Jameat
police station in Basra.
British tanks encircled the jail where the men (whose photographs have
been widely circulated but whose names have not been made public)
were being held. A crowd gathered and began throwing stones and
petrol bombs at the tanks, setting at least one ablaze. Three British
soldiers were injured and, according to some reports, two
demonstrators were killed.
After nightfall, the British Army returned and stormed the police station
with overwhelming force.
According to the governor of Basra province, Mohammed al-Waili, the
British Army used “more than ten tanks backed by helicopters” to carry
out the raid.
Demolishing the walls of the police station, the British Army freed the
two SAS men.
Governor al-Waili denounced the event as “barbaric, savage and
irresponsible”.
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MarkAugust 4, 2015 at 7:27 pm
Many thanks to Mr. Lazare and all the commenters here who take the
time to post pertinent information. And while this is a considerable
amount of information, it’s just a small window into what are volumes of
existing evidence that with the USA as Israel’s proxy, together they are
the most successful war criminals since possibly Midieval times.
Because this is a Global war I wonder when the US of Israel, or the
press, will actually and legitimately explain that “this is” WWIII they are
waging…
MortimerAugust 4, 2015 at 9:55 pm
Sorry, Mark, this is not a “global war” vis-a-vis World Wars 1 and
2.
This is a Targeted war of aggression against Arabs/Moslems in
order to lay claim to a specific World Area.
You must read the Cliff Notes of S.P. Huntington’s “The Clash of
Civilizations” in order to realize the Planned Structure of this
Operation. BTW, Samuel P. Huntington is a very prodigious,
insightful seer of US policy & procedure. I have, in other writings,
declared him an American Political Alchemist in how he either
Foresees events or Declares them into being…
For example, in a 1981 book, “American Politics, the Promise of
Disharmony” Huntington foresaw that “between 2010 and 2030 –
The weakening of government in an effort to reform it could lead
eventually to strong demands for the replacement of the
weakened and ineffective institutions, (i.e. the Obama presidency)
by more Authoritarian Structures more effectively designed to
meet historical needs. Given the perversity of reform, moralistic
extremism in the pursuit of liberal democracy could generate a
strong tide toward AUTHORITARIAN EFFICIENCY”.
This is a quiet prediction, written in 1981, of right wing/oligarchical
control between 2010 and 2030, in America. That’s why our fiscal
policies are now under “sequestration” which in other words is
right wing directed AUSTERITY. Reagan’s Mantra (“Gov is the
Problem, not the Solution”) will, supposedly lead us into economic
salvation. Close your dumb eyes to the Fact that Reagan’s
“leadership” , i.e. tax cuts & cheap labor off-shoring was the First
Step into a weakened American social structure. What an
ass-hole of a “leader”, Worshiped by his right wing bigots, he
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really is.
If Huntington is correct, a crazy Republican will be our next
president. (God forbid!)
Before Our Eyes, under the control of a Brzezinski controlled US
President and the watchful eyes of the Trilateral Commission, and
other Controllers, with Brzezinski’s fierce desire to own and
control the World Island, which is confirmed by his book, “A
Blueprint for World Dictatorship” the land mass known as Eurasia.
It’s a Big Boys throw down as to Who will Own and Control the
New Silk Road. (Marco Polo’s European land road to Oriental
riches).
Huntington first garnered academic and political attention with his
published piece against egalitarianism titled “The Crisis of
Democracy” (excerpts can still be found on Google). The man and
his writing’s render a strong portrait of dedication to and embrace
of “American Exceptionalism” and primacy. His collective works
bear deep & thoughtful scrutiny as pertains to Clausewitz’s
remark that “All politics is war”.
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MarkAugust 5, 2015 at 2:12 pm
Mortimer, thanks for that perspective, I’ll look deeper into it
when I get a chance.
Where in the world has the US not engaged in political,
economic, or direct military or by proxy warfare?
This is a neocon war against the entire world as anyone
paying attention can see — call it what you like — waging
war across the globe is a WORLD WAR!
Not too long ago, G. W. Bush declared a “Global War on
Terrorism” and as we know the US and Israel both consider
anyone that doesn’t bend to their will and interests as a
“terrorist” — great excuse to invade and slaughter in the
name of war!
Also as we know, the US and Israel like to support genuine
terrorists whenever it suits their purposes — manufacturing
their own reason to wage war along with or against their own
mercenaries if desired — being the backstabbers they are.
Tell me, who has committed more war crimes on the
magnitude of The US of Israel since WWII? And who has
committed more since 9/11 2001?
Tell me how this is not a Global “World War”.
AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 8:02 pm
Kill The Messenger (French: Une Femme à Abattre) is a 2006 French
documentary film about Sibel Edmonds. An English version of the film
was produced in 2007 by SBS Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn10itGL5iM
Edmonds was fired from her position as a language specialist at the
FBI’s Washington Field Office in March 2002. She had accused a
colleague of covering up illicit activity involving Turkish nationals,
alleged serious security breaches and cover-ups and that intelligence
had been deliberately suppressed, endangering national security.
The documentary presents a terrifying picture of Turkish networks’
activities in global nuclear black-market, narcotics and illegal arms
trafficking activities in the United States, and examines the
extraordinary efforts of officials within the US Government to insure that
the secrecy surrounding Edmonds’ case be maintained at any cost —
from Edmonds’ termination from the FBI, to invoking the State Secrets
Privilege, to gagging the US Congress.
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The film explores the abuses behind the State Secrets Privilege as
invoked in FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds’ case as well as
highlighting the travails and persecution of US national security
whistleblowers.
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AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 8:28 pm
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds discusses her 2014 report, “Turkish
PM Erdogan: The Speedy Transformation of an Imperial Puppet.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAiAFqXPwZ8
As Edmonds points out, “the U.S. Empire spent over a decade
marketing and promoting its favorite puppet in the Middle East — the
AKP Party & Erdogan, as the model for the Islamic World, Islamic
Democracy, People’s Choice, Great Leader” before censuring Erdoğan.
Edmonds notes Erdoğan’s rift with CIA over his disruption of Imam
Fethullah Gülen’s Turkish networks.
According to Edmonds, “the State Department and the CIA pressured
the FBI prior and post 9/11 to close and cover-up those investigations
pertaining to Turkey and Al Qadi, because exposing those operations
would have resulted in exposure of covert CIA-NATO operations in
Central Asia and the Caucasus during the period between 1996 and
2002.”
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AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 8:36 pm
This is how USA-Installed puppets go from democratic presidents
to despots & terrorists when their time comes
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/01/18/turkish-pm-erdogan-
the-speedy-transformation-of-an-imperial-puppet/
AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 10:06 pm
The US is upset at the YPG [Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Gel —
People’s Protection Units] for their loyalty to democratic principles and
civilization-state sovereignty, as they have thus far refused to turn
against the Syrian government and unite with their Iraqi brethren in
forming ‘Greater Kurdistan’. This threw a wrench into the US’
geopolitical cogs, which is why it’s not at all opposed to Turkey’s
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punishing attacks against them. Plus, since the YPG has proven itself
to be an effective anti-ISIL actor, the more that its capabilities are
degraded by the Turkish military, the more powerful ISIL can become,
which circularly invites an even more pronounced American-Turkish
intervention in ostensibly wiping the terrorist group out. All of this is just
a smokescreen for the real objective, however, which has always been
regime change in Syria. The fact that Turkey granted the US
permission to finally use the strategic Incirlik air base for its anti-Syrian
operations as well as Obama’s authorization for the Pentagon to attack
the Syrian Arab Army under certain circumstances confirms that this is
undoubtedly the case, although it’s uncertain exactly how far both sides
will go in actualizing this grand objective.
Tick Tock
The timing for all of this (Turkey’s dual offensives, the Incirlik decision,
and Obama’s new anti-Syrian aggression) was specifically coordinated
so as to be rolled out almost immediately after the Iranian nuclear
agreement was concluded. The US didn’t want to risk upsetting Iran
and scaring it away from signing, ergo why such decisions were
pushed back until after the ink was dry. Now that Iran has committed
itself to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, there’s a little over a
six month window until it can receive the billions of dollars of frozen
funds that were withheld from it due to the UNSC sanctions. The
impending financial windfall will allow Iran to more robustly assist Syria
and its other regional allies in strengthening their defenses against
unipolar aggression, which is why the US knows that it only has a set
amount of time to act in fulfilling its regional designs. It’s for this reason
that the US is heating up its War on Syria at the same time that Saudi
Arabia has intensified its War on Yemen.
[…] Russia used its recent inroads with Saudi Arabia to broker a
meeting between the Syrian Chief of Home Security and the Saudi
Defense Minister. Obviously, the Saudis are wising up to the fact that
their Wahhabist plans in Syria have backfired and that there are more
pressing ‘security’ considerations for them to attend to, such as their
War on Yemen, which is why they’re now probing for a way out of the
fiasco that they themselves helped created. The clock is ticking, and
the US and Turkey know that they need to act fast in Syria before a
Russian-Saudi/Syrian-Saudi deal locks them out of the battlefield and
Iran’s forthcoming financial assistance helps Syria sweep out the rest of
the regime change remnants.
The Truth Behind Turkey’s Dual Offensive against Iraq and Syria
By Andrew Korybko
http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20150803/1025350334.html
AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 10:17 pm
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In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the country of Oceania has been in a
war against Eurasia for years.
Oceania suddenly switches sides, naming Eastasia as its enemy and
making its mortal enemy, Eurasia, its new ally.
The government uses propaganda to convince people that, “We’ve
always been at war with Eastasia”. The dumbed-down public doesn’t
even notice that they’ve switches sides, and blindly rallies around
Eurasia as its perennial friend and ally.
The same thing is happening in real life with Al Qaeda.
Western governments and mainstream media have admitted that Al
Qaeda is fighting against the secular Syrian government, and that the
West is supporting the Syrian opposition … which is helping Al Qaeda.
Similarly, the opposition which overthrew Libya’s Gadaffi was mainly Al
Qaeda … and they now appear to be in control of Libya (and are
instrumental in fighting in Syria.)
The U.S. also funds terrorist groups within Iran.
The “War On Terror” Has Changed, and Not One In 1,000 Americans
Has Noticed
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/07/weve-always-been-at-
war-with-eastasia-allies-with-al-qaeda.html
AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 10:57 pm
Of course, it should be pointed out that there is no such thing as a
moderate rebel fighting inside Syria nor has there ever been such a
fighting force operating there. The entirety of the “opposition” is made
up of terrorists, jihadists, and mercenaries, all funded, supported,
trained, and armed by NATO and the GCC.
With that in mind, any confrontation that takes place would find the
United States in a flagrant act of direct aggression against a sovereign
country, even greater than those acts already perpetrated by the U.S. in
Syria.
This new policy is yet even more evidence that the US and NATO goal
is to destroy the secular government of Bashar al-Assad as well as the
entire nation of Syria. While this has been the goal of the U.S. since the
beginning of the Syrian crisis, recent weeks have seen a steady
increase in provocations and policies designed to bait a Syrian
response and create a situation in which U.S. bombing and direct
military assaults on the Syrian government could be presented as
somehow justified.
It is only a matter of time before Assad’s steadfast repulsion of ISIS and
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al-Qaeda fighters is used as a justification for American airstrikes on
the Syrian government.
Unfortunately, all signs are pointing to the possibility that Syria is about
to enter the second phase of destabilization, a phase that Libya knows
all too well.
U.S. Agrees To Act As Terrorist Bodyguard; Open To Attacking Assad
Forces
By Brandon Turbeville
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/08/us-agrees-to-act-as-terrorist-
bodyguard.html
AbeAugust 5, 2015 at 11:14 am
The Situation in Southern and Western Syria
Damascus is increasingly having difficulties to assert sovereignty over
the region along the Lebanese border, the Golan Heights and at its
border to Jordan. Israel has, by supporting Jabhat Al-Nusrah and
associated brigades via the Golan Heights and the Sheeba farm area
achieved two major objectives. It has weakened Damascus, but it has
also weakened Hezbollah and Hezbollah’s capacity to resist against
Israel. Israel has, by implication, weakened Teheran’s sphere of
influence. Long-term Israeli policy aims at the permanent annexation of
the Golan Heights and the Sheeba Farm area. Weakening Damascus
and Hezbollah was one of the main stumbling stones Israel is about to
have overcome. Considering the strength of the Israeli military, it will
have no problems with dislodging Al-Nusrah and others from the Golan
once that becomes opportune. This move would ultimately further
weaken Damascus and Hezbollah.
Syria has long been Moscow’s primary ally in the Middle East. The
naval base in Tartous was Moscow’s sole Mediterranean naval base.
Russian policy and strategy had, however, to adjust to the
developments in Ukraine and Syria. Moscow was, in other words,
confronted with the problem how to secure its export of gas to Europe
via Ukraine while searching for alternatives. It is here that Turkey is
playing a key role. Even though it is possible to compartmentalize
energy policy and geopolitics, this option is inherently risky. The more
secure option is to combine the two. Developments in Russian –
Turkish relations suggest that Turkey and Russia may be approaching
a consensus with regards to both gas pipelines, the Kurdish question
as well as the question about at least parts of Kurdish – Syrian territory.
Moscow has redirected its naval presence by agreement with Cyprus
as well as by attempting to gain leverage via developing and
repositioning Russian – Egyptian relations. Also this ultimately
suggests that Moscow is thinking in terms of – the inevitable –
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