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Syria: U.S. Resumes Arms Delivery To Al-Qaeda, Furthers Destruction
The past U.S. policy of providing arms to the Syrian insurgency failed to achieve any of its purported objectives. Neither did it result in a success of the insurgency in its attempt to overthrow the Syrian government, nor did help to keep the various Al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria at bay. Instead the weapons provide to the "moderate" insurgents fell into the hands of the Al-Qaeda affiliates while the "moderate" insurgency fell apart. In effect the U.S. provided the logistics to those it claimed to have fought over the last twelve years.
As usual the U.S. response to a failed policy is to do more of the same.
The U.S. congress has voted to further arm "moderate" insurgents in Syria:
Light arms supplied by the United States are flowing to "moderate" Syrian rebel factions in the south of the country and U.S. funding for months of further deliveries has been approved by Congress, according U.S. and European security officials.
The weapons, most of which are moving to non-Islamist Syrian rebels via Jordan, include a variety of small arms, as well as some more powerful weapons, such as anti-tank rockets.
Earlier U.S. weapon deliveries have fallen into the hand of Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra:
Senior Free Syrian Army and Jordanian sources, along with video evidence, have confirmed that European-made anti-tank missiles were obtained, and in some cases sold, to the hard-line Nusra Front after being supplied to vetted Free Syrian Army battalions across the Jordanian border.
The vetted FSA in the south is little more than a public relations front for al-Nusra:
"They offer their services and cooperate with us, they are better armed than we are, they have suicide bombers and know how to make car bombs," an FSA fighter explained.
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"The FSA and Al Nusra join together for operations but they have an agreement to let the FSA lead for public reasons, because they don't want to frighten Jordan or the West," said an activist who works with opposition groups in Deraa.
"Operations that were really carried out by Al Nusra are publicly presented by the FSA as their own," he said.
A leading FSA commander involved in operations in Deraa said Al Nusra had strengthened FSA units and played a decisive role in key rebel victories in the south.
"The face of Al Nusra cannot be to the front. It must be behind the FSA, for the sake of Jordan and the international community," he said.
The U.S. as also resumed "non-lethal" aid to insurgents in the north:
The United States has restarted deliveries of nonlethal aid to the Syrian opposition, officials said Monday, more than a month after Al-Qaeda-linked militants seized warehouses and prompted a sudden cutoff of Western supplies to the rebels.
The communications equipment and other items are being funneled for now only to non-armed opposition groups, said the U.S. officials.
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The U.S. officials, who weren't authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity, said the aid was being sent through Turkey into Syria, with the coordination of the Free Syrian Army's Supreme Military Council, …
When the jihadists raided those warehouses with "non-lethal" aid provided by the United States they looted this stuff:
[A senior FSA Supreme Military Council official] said that the Islamic Front raided a total of ten warehouses belonging to the Western-backed umbrella group and seized a significant arsenal of weaponry, including 2,000 AK-47 rifles, 1,000 assorted arms—including M79 Osa rocket launchers, rocket-propelled grenades, and 14.5mm heavy machine guns—in addition to more than 200 tons of ammunition. At least 100 FSA military vehicles were also taken in the attack.
The resumption of arms supplies to the Syrian insurgency will not lead to any different outcome than earlier deliveries of such supplies. This then again proves that the real purpose of the U.S. instigated war on Syria and of the efforts to extend it is still this:
Destruction of the infrastructure, economy and social fabric of Syria is their and their supporters aim.
brian@48
I know. And so, I presume does Clapper. My point was that he can tell such easily detectable lies to the Senators confident that none of them will challenge them.
Sheesh troll:
The line you are advancing, and have done for months under a variety of aliases (hmm, foff, sftu etc) is central to the neo-fascist Gladio ideology. Fascism and Communism are polar opposites: the first is the capitalist class’s defence against egalitarian economic demands (from the 99%)the latter an attack on capitalism- there is no other way of interpreting the history of the C20th.
Your politics are those of the capitalist class which, intent upon preventing the spread of “communism”, picked up the infrastructure of European fascism, shook some of the filth from it, replaced its uniforms and founded the Christian Democratic and Conservative parties.
That was in western Europe. In eastern Europe where the fascist remnants were being repressed, rather crudely and with Stalinistic brutality, the US took up the cause of these victims (fascist collaborators, SS veterans and the civil servants who had organised the filling of the Concentration Camps, the little Eichmanns) romanticised them as patriots fighting Soviet repression, subsidised their leaders in exile and armed them to undertake sabotage in their homelands.
You might recall the incident in which the predecessors of the KLA, Albanian fascists armed by the US, were infiltrated into Albania where,thanks to Kim Philby, they were picked up before they could carry out the terrorist attacks that they had been trained for.
What makes the half truths that you spew passable for the light minded is that all states are repressive, the regimes which emerged after the war in the Soviet sphere were, from the first, under intense pressure from the wealthier, much less war damaged, economies of the west. They did engage in very nasty treatment of those who they feared had collaborated in the war and suspected of being ready to ally themselves with the US.
What is not true, and makes a nonsense of the Communazi label, is that nothing that the Soviet Union did after 1945 came close to the extent of the brutality and totalitarian terror of the regimes that the west installed around the world: it was cold in the Siberian prisons but they were not as bad as the British gulag in Kenya or the US backed dictatorships’ Operation Condor. The USSR did nothing close to what the US did in Korea, Vietnam, Guatemala, Colombia or across Africa where it used the South African forces as its instrument.
Compared to the western sponsored bloodbaths in Indonesia the very worst offences of Beria and Stalin were mild and badly organized.
Understand this: the Nazis were a German attempt to reproduce the American Empire in eastern Europe. Its programmes of extermination were modeled upon a distorted reading of the American treatment of aboriginals. The Nazis, even in the darkest days of war with their backs to the Red Army’s inexorable-and life affirming-advance, remained wedded to the capitalist class, the protection of its interests and profits. The labour camps in which millions were starved, worked and beaten to death wr invariably contracted to large corporations eagerly lapping up the disciplined slave labour they promised.
The Soviet experiment was, for reasons that anyone who understands history finds quite unsurprising, not particularly successful. Its great credit is that it destroyed the last incarnation of fascism in arms. Anyone who regards communism and fascism as equivalents is engaged, consciously or because he has been duped by capitalist propaganda, in rehabilitating fascism. It was this which a paranoid, murderous Stalin feared: much of the responsibility for the extreme and violent methods he took to prevent its re-emergence lies with the Kissingers and Churchills of the world who, in their anxiety to serve their privileged class, restored the architects of Auschwitz, Belsen and Peenemunde to prosperity, saving them to use against their most feared enemy, the Communism that the Nazi party had been established to deter.
Show me a man who talks of “Communazis” and I’ll show you a nazi apologist and sympathizer. There is only one place for your sort sheesh: Coventry.
Posted by: bevin | Jan 30 2014 14:54 utc | 59
nice article from Al Manar
Shaaban: Tomorrow’s Talks Will Tackle Issue of Terrorism
Syrian Presidential Political and Media Advisor Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban said that Thursday’s talks between the Syrian Arab Republic delegation and the coalition delegation of the so-called “opposition” will tackle terrorism, as UN Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi became convinced that they must discuss how to stop terrorism first.
In statements to the press on Wednesday, Shaaban said that the coalition delegation of the so-called “opposition” doesn’t want to discuss anything other than how it can rise to power, and this is what those who support it want as well.
She pointed out that that former US Ambassador to Damascus Robert Ford came out into the open yesterday to confirm that he leads the coalition delegation of so-called “opposition” after he was leading it covertly.
Shaaban said that Ford addressed the Syrian people on Tuesday as if he were a high commissioner, telling the Syrian people what they want, don’t want, and what’s good and what’s not good, forgetting that Syria is 10,000 years old and that the Syrians have dignity, and that those he meets and dictates to don’t represent Syria nor its people.
She pointed out that the coalition delegation of so-called “opposition” doesn’t care about first Geneva communiqué nor about Syria; all they care about is reaching a transitional stage to carry out what its supporters want, adding that the coalition delegation claims to represent part of the Syrian people, but in fact it only represent foreign interests which are hostile towards Syria and its people.
Shaaban wondered if one can imagine that there are Syrians who refuse to denounce US interference in their country and sending weapons to criminals who murder and abduct, and who disagree to liberating occupied and to stopping terrorism and foreign interference.
She reiterated that the Syrian Arab Republic delegation wants to stop terrorism, stem bloodshed, and end the crisis and the tragedy affecting the Syrian people due to foreign interferences, noting that those who started this tragedy want to keep it going, while the Syrian government is trying to find a way to end the war and restore security and safety to Syria so that Syrians can decide upon their future.
Shaaban said the morning session was different, but the talks were positive, with the coalition delegation trying to discuss the issue of a transitional government, and the Syrian official delegation said it doesn’t mind discussing the first Geneva communiqué one item at a time from the beginning, noting that the first item of this communiqué calls for halting violence which has now become terrorism and creating a suitable atmosphere for launching a political process.
She noted that agreeing to discuss counterterrorism came due to the Syrian official delegation’s persistence on this point.
“The coalition delegation talked yesterday with a vision that almost made us feel like they had a magic wand and that they will solve all problems at once, but when we told them to let us bring humanitarian aid to Adra if they’re capable of stopping violence, terrorism and murder with their incredible capacities, they said that they cannot guarantee anything,” Shaaban pointed out.
On the interposition presented by the coalition delegation, Shaaban said this interposition’s main point is that they want a transitional government with full authority which they consider capable of ending violence, defeating terrorism and making Syria a paradise, noting that it’s clear that the coalition delegation need time to coordinate and agree on the ideas they want to discuss with the Syrian government, but it seems that there are sides who give contrary opinions to this coalition.
She pointed out that Friday may be dedicated to discussing when sessions will be continued afterwards, as the Syrian official delegation informed Brahimi that they will stay in Geneva only until Friday because they have commitments in Syria, stressing at the same time that the Syrian government wants to see a wide spectrum of opposition, particularly internal opposition.
On the US Congress decision to continue arming the so-called “opposition” and if this was discussed with Brahimi, Shaaban said that Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari discussed this with Brahimi.
“We know that they are arming and funding and overlooking Saudi Arabia which arms and funds, but declaring this while the Geneva talks are in session shows confusion on the part of the US administration which on one side talks to Russia and says it wants to hold Geneva to resolve the crisis in Syria, and on the other side hinders it, as announcing the arming constitutes real and tangible hindering of any political solution we seek to achieve,” she said.
Shaaban said that it’s unclear whether the contradiction in US step is between different US sides or strategies, contrasting it to the Russian government which has been consistent in its positions and statements.
She said that the results of what is taking place in the conference will be discussed by the Russians and the Americans who sponsored this conference, with an upcoming meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US State Secretary John Kerry, and Brahmi.
Shaaban voiced belief that the meetings in the Geneva conference will reflect positively on the Syrian people and their interests, adding that this optimism is drawn from what is happening on the ground, form the Syrian people, and the army.
She pointed out that the CNN correspondent told her during an interview that the Syrian government is “making a strong performance” which is why they cut down on media coverage, as the Syrian government has things to say while the other side seems not to have much that is convincing.
Shaaban said that the foreign press which had been against Syria and attempted to isolate it now realizes that Syria has convincing things to say, adding “we came to Geneva carrying the tears of the mothers, wives and children of martyrs, the strength of the Syrian Arab Army, President Bashar al-Assad, and the Syrian people, and the Syrians’ interests.”
She asserted that the foremost concern for any Syrian citizen is the restoration of security and stability to Syria, and the Syrian official delegation is representing this and hopes to be able to realize the Syrians’ aspirations.
On social media taking parts of statements she made out of context, Shaaban said this isn’t surprising as media misdirection was employed since the beginning against Syria, its people, and against her in person, adding that this is done by people without the least bit of respect and professionalism, and she will not respond to it because this does not worry her.
On whether there can by a Syrian-Syrian dialogue in Damascus instead of Geneva, Shaaban said that this is the Syrian government’s goal, and when all spectra of the opposition arrive and real dialogue begins, it must take place in Damascus.
Posted by: okie farmer | Jan 30 2014 16:10 utc | 65
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