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Updates on Syria conflict +
VoltaireNet's June 2012 warning of vast NATO disinformation campaign now
seemingly underway. (Latest updates at top)
By Tony Cartalucci
UPDATED July 22, 2012 - "The Free Syrian Army ruined our lives,"
reports BBC in their article, "Syria
crisis: Iraqis flee 'sectarian violence' in Damascus." Refugees
returning to Iraq from Syria undulated a BBC reporter with accounts of
why they've fled, citing sectarian violence perpetrated by the Western
backed, armed, and funded so-called "Free Syrian Army" (FSA).
Accounts reaffirm that indeed foreign fighters are amongst the FSA's
ranks, including Iraqi sectarian extremists serving as commanders.
Reports from Libya earlier this year confirmed that hundreds of Libyan
fighters as well as NATO-supplied weapons and cash were
pledged to the FSA by Al Qaeda's Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
(LIFG) commander, Abdul
Hakim Belhaj.
These accounts of sectarian violence are by no means the first. Bloomberg
conceded recently that "the sectarian civil war
between Syria’s Sunnis and Alawites that the world had long
feared has begun," the manifestation of warnings by international
geopolitical analysts signaled as early as 2007.
Image: Christians in Syria have been particularly hit hard by
what is being described as "ethnic cleansing," not by Syrian security
forces, but by NATO-backed death squads under the banner of the "Free
Syrian Army." The LA
Times has been quietly reporting
on the tragedy of Syria's minorities at the hands of the Syrian rebels
for months - and indicates that wider genocide will take place, just
as it is now in Libya, should Syria's government collapse under
foreign pressure.
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It is admittedly under the current Syrian government that Syria's large
populations of ethnic and religious minorities, particularly Shi'ia
Muslims, moderate Sunnis, Christians, and Druze have been protected from
the inevitable sectarian onslaught by extremists cultivated by the
West. In 2007, in Hersh's "The
Redirection," the following foreshadowing
to Bloomberg's "sectarian civil war" was given:
"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.
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UPDATED July 21, 2012 - BREAKING: US WRITING NEW SYRIAN CONSTITUTION -
"TUTORING" SNC FOR SYRIA TAKE OVER - The US State Department, via
the "US Institute of Peace" is working directly with Syrian "opposition"
groups to formulate a "government" to put into place, if and when NATO
covert military operations succeed in collapsing the Syrian state.
The report written by Foreign Policy magazine titled, "Inside
the quiet effort to plan for a post-Assad Syria," indicates that
the US State Department-funded USIP plans on releasing a report soon,
detailing the US-crafted government being planned. The USIP, which already publishes details
of how it has crafted, created, and is continuing to manage and
facilitate the NATO-installed client regime now running Libya,
constitutes nothing less than implementation of modern-day imperialism.
The USIP claims that it is involved in not only "advising" the
Western-backed Libyan government, but that it is also involved in,
"constitution making, transitional justice, women rights" and
"education." The USIP, US government-funded, will also be writing
Syria's "constitution" as well - which they are now calling a
"transition strategy document."
Foreign Policy magazine, in an attempt to water down the implications of
the US government literally crafting the client regime they plan on
placing into the vacuum their US-Israeli-Saudi-Qatari mercenaries (FSA)
are attempting to create, by claiming:
The absence of Obama administration officials at these meetings, even as observers, was deliberate.
"This is a situation where too visible a U.S. role would have been deeply counterproductive. It would have given the Assad regime and elements of the opposition an excuse to delegitimize the process," [Steven] Heydemann said.
Steven Heydemann is heading the USIP Syrian project.
Unfortunately for this line of thinking, the USIP is in fact a direct
functionary of the US government, and more specifically the US State
Department, with acting members of the US State Department, including Michael Posner
and members of the US Department of Defense, including James Miller,
serving on the USIP
board of directors. Other compromising BoD members include Amnesty
International chairmen and policy makers drawn from Fortune 500-funded
think tanks like the Hoover Institution and big-oil's
Belfer Center.
To complicate matters further for the so-called "Syrian opposition,"
prominent members of the movement, including Radwan Ziadeh, is actually a "senior
fellow" of the US-funded institution - meaning the opposition
leaders were drawn from US institutions, not Syria. The Guardian's
article, "The
Syrian opposition: who's doing the talking?" has covered this in
depth, illustrating that Ziadeh's background is the rule, not the
exception.
Readers should recall that US State Department's Michael Posner, also
serving on the USIP BoD, conceded in
an AFP report in 2011 that the US had been funding, equipping, and
training "activists" from across the Arab World 2 years in advance for
the allegedly "spontaneous" "Arab Spring." These included activists from
Syria who created the rhetorical predication for the violence now
unfolding across Syria.
This admission by the US State Department and the head of USIP's Syrian
project indicates the absolute illegitimacy of the so-called "Syrian
opposition," - a complete contrivance of the US government, a
manifestation of its foreign policy toward Syria - and in no way
representative of the Syrian people. The opposition is literally
directed by the US government who is forming for them a government to
replace the one they are purposefully destroying through a series of
mutually supported economic sanctions, military attacks, and diplomatic
undermining.
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UPDATE July 21, 2012 - Thierry Meyssan of VoltaireNet updates
us on the latest, from Damascus, Syria.
Video: Thierry Meyssan in Damascus, Syria. Please choose from
"choose language" to see English subtitles.
Thierry Meyssan describes Syria's latest unrest as the result of a
coordinated NATO-backed terrorist operation aimed at creating confusion
and panic, coupled with Western propaganda - and warns that more
operations are likely on the way. NATO hopes to break the will of
Syrians as well as its military which is still clearly intact despite
assassinations and widespread violence. By falsely portraying Syria as
"collapsing," the so-called "Free Syrian Army's" foreign sponsors may be
able to justify more overt intervention on behalf of their so-far
ineffectual proxies.
More from VoltaireNet can be
found here.
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