Syria faces humanitarian catastrophe
By Bill Van Auken
29 December 2012
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/29/syri-d29.html
US-NATO-Israeli Agenda: Syria to be Subdivided into "Three Weaker States"
Global Research, December 28, 2012
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Russian Forces Protect Syria's Chemical Weapons Stockpile against
Terrorists: Report
Global Research, December 28, 2012
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/russian-forces-protect-syrias-chemical-weapons-stockpile-against-terrorists-report/5317141>
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The United Nations Syria "Peace Plan" is a Fraud
By Tony Cartalucci
Global Research, December 28, 2012
Land Destroyer
UN "peace envoy" Lakhdar Brahimi is attempting to broker a
transitional government ahead of proposed elections in Syria. For
Brahimi, his efforts are not only in vain, they are entirely
disingenuous. The proposal of a "transitional government" in the
midst of what is in fact a foreign invasion, funded, armed, and
perpetuated openly by foreign interests violates both Syria's
sovereignty and the UN's own founding charter.
It would be not unlike a UN envoy visiting Poland at the beginning of
World War II, and proposing a transitional government in the midst of
the Nazi invasion. The UN would clearly be a facilitator of
injustice, not a broker of peace.
The LA Times reports in their article, "Lakhdar Brahimi works to
revive Syria peace plan":
"Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi made a new push Thursday to draw Syrian
officials and rebels into negotiations, aiming to revive a plan for a
transitional government and elections that faltered because of
disagreements over the future of President Bashar Assad."
The UN has categorically failed to delineate between legitimate
opposition inside of Syria, and bands of roving armed terrorists
committing wide scale atrocities against the Syrian people - many of
whom are not even from Syria, all of whom are heavily armed by the
US, NATO, and its regional allies including Israel, Saudi Arabia, and
Qatar as part of a long standing plan to effect regime change in both
Syria and Iran. The Western press is not only supporting the UN's
disingenuous efforts, it has gone through great lengths to
delegitimize any opposition in Syria that refuses to pick up arms, or
that speaks out against foreign intervention.
While the LA Times attempts to make the UN plan seem reasonable, with
only Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russia standing in the way
of peace, in reality, the plan is yet another effort to frame the
conflict as a political struggle instead of the foreign invasion it
actually is.
Syria is Being Invaded by Foreign Terrorists
The armed "rebels" the UN is refusing to condemn, constitute foreign
Al Qaeda fighters, including the US State Department, United Nations,
and the UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf)-listed international terrorist
organization, the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Al Nusra also
known as "Al Qaeda in Iraq," and Syrian Muslim Brotherhood
extremists. None of these terrorist factions would be negotiated with
by Western nations if by some means their weapons turned from Syria
and back toward the West. Yet the West demands that they not only be
recognized and negotiated with, but indeed handed the entire nation
of Syria to rule over.
In November 2011, the Telegraph in their article, "Leading Libyan
Islamist met Free Syrian Army opposition group," would report:
Abdulhakim Belhadj, head of the Tripoli Military Council and the
former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, "met with Free
Syrian Army leaders in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey," said
a military official working with Mr Belhadj. "Mustafa Abdul Jalil
(the interim Libyan president) sent him there."
Another Telegraph article, "Libya's new rulers offer weapons to
Syrian rebels," would admit
Syrian rebels held secret talks with Libya's new authorities on
Friday, aiming to secure weapons and money for their insurgency
against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, The Daily Telegraph has
learned.
At the meeting, which was held in Istanbul and included Turkish
officials, the Syrians requested "assistance" from the Libyan
representatives and were offered arms, and potentially volunteers.
"There is something being planned to send weapons and even Libyan
fighters to Syria," said a Libyan source, speaking on condition of
anonymity. "There is a military intervention on the way. Within a
few weeks you will see."
Later that month, some 600 Libyan terrorists would be reported to
have entered Syria to begin combat operations and in July 2012, CNN,
whose Ivan Watson accompanied terrorists over the Turkish-Syrian
border and into Aleppo, revealed that indeed foreign fighters were
amongst the militants, particularly Libyans. It was admitted that:
Meanwhile, residents of the village where the Syrian Falcons were
headquartered said there were fighters of several North African
nationalities also serving with the brigade's ranks.
A volunteer Libyan fighter has also told CNN he intends to travel
from Turkey to Syria within days to add a "platoon" of Libyan
fighters to armed movement.
CNN also added:
On Wednesday, CNN's crew met a Libyan fighter who had crossed into
Syria from Turkey with four other Libyans. The fighter wore full
camouflage and was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle. He said more Libyan
fighters were on the way.
The foreign fighters, some of them are clearly drawn because they
see this as a jihad. So this is a magnet for jihadists who see
this as a fight for Sunni Muslims.
In essence, Syria has been under invasion for nearly a year by Libyan
terrorists. Additionally, in the immediate aftermath of the US
recognizing its own handpicked "opposition coalition" as the
"representatives of the Syrian people," its leader, Moaz al-Khatib,
immediately demanded that the US lift sanctions on Al Qaeda terrorist
organization al-Nusra.
Reuters quoted al-Khatib as saying:
"The decision to consider a party that is fighting the regime as a
terrorist party needs to be reviewed. We might disagree with some
parties and their ideas and their political and ideological vision.
But we affirm that all the guns of the rebels are aimed at
overthrowing the tyrannical criminal regime."
Not only is the West refusing to acknowledge that Syria's conflict is
one of foreign and domestic terrorism, it is actively arming,
funding, and offering safe haven to these terrorist factions.
NATO-member Turkey is directly complicit in facilitating Libya's
extraterritorial aggression by hosting Libyan fighters within its
borders, while coordinating their funding, arming, and logistics as
they cross the Turkish-Syrian border. Along Turkey's borders also
facilitating Libya's invasion of Syria, is America's CIA.
The New York Times admitted in June 2012 in their article, "C.I.A.
Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition," that "CIA
officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey," and directing
weapons including, "automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades,
ammunition and some antitank weapons." The NYT implicates Turkey,
Saudi Arabia, and Qatar as the primary underwriters for the weapons
while the CIA coordinates the logistics.
US policy versus Syria stretches as far back as 2007, where US
officials admitted that they planned to overthrow the government of
Syria with foreign-sectarian extremists, using nations like Saudi
Arabia to channel funds and weapons through - specifically to
maintain the illusion that they were somehow not involved.
Seymour Hersh's lengthy 9 page report, "The Redirection"
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published in the New Yorker in 2007 exposes US plans to use
clandestine means to overthrow the government of Syria in a wider
effort to undermine and destroy Iran. "A by-product of these
activities," writes Hersh, "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."
Al-Nusra are openly affiliates of Al Qaeda. To say that Libya's LIFG
are "sympathetic to Al Qaeda" would, however, be misleading. It is Al
Qaeda.
LIFG merged with the US-Saudi created terror organization in 2007,
according to the US Army's West Point Combating Terrorism Center
report, "Al-Qa'ida's Foreign Fighters in Iraq:"
The apparent surge in Libyan recruits traveling to Iraq may be
linked the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group's (LIFG) increasingly
cooperative relationship with al?Qa'ida, which culminated in the
LIFG officially joining al?Qa'ida on November 3, 2007. (page 9, .pdf)
Hersh's report would continue by stating, "the Saudi government, with
Washington's approval, would provide funds and logistical aid to
weaken the government of President Bashir Assad, of Syria." This
included billions to pro-Saudi factions in Lebanon who were propping
up militant groups linked to Al Qaeda. These militant groups are now
crossing over the Lebanese-Syrian border to join their Libyan
counterparts.
Clearly the conspiracy being pieced together and executed in 2007,
described by Seymour Hersh citing a myriad of US, Saudi, and Lebanese
sources, is unfolding before our eyes. It was a conspiracy hatched of
mutual US-Israeli-Saudi interests, not based on humanitarian concerns
or "democracy," but rather on toppling sovereign nations seen as a
threat to their collective extraterritorial influence throughout the
region.
The UN's failure to acknowledge a documented conspiracy by foreign
interests to violently overthrow the government of Syria (and
eventually Iran) once again exposes the international body as a tool
for special interests. Its attempts to broker a "peace plan" between
foreign terrorists invading Syria as proxies for Western powers,
lacks any dimension of legitimacy. The Syrian government and its
allies must redouble their efforts to frame the conflict as the
invasion that it is - and call for both support and patience globally
while Syria confronts and defeats these foreign invaders and the
foreign interests arming and driving them.
Lakhdar Brahimi, like Kofi Annan before him, is simply buying time
for the West's crumbling narrative. Syria and its allies must finally
let it crumble, so the real business of saving Syria can get underway
- through nation-wide anti-terrorism security operations, and the
diplomatic confrontation of foreign interests supporting terrorism in
and around Syria.
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