http://www.popularresistance.org/how-the-us-is-enabling-syriastan/
best viewed at the link- I'd like to note that regarding the massacre in Africa, the Al-Qaeda and Saud linked terrorists were able to hold out longer and do more damage since they had US ML 50 cal rifles. These are the same people we funded and armed so explode the Lybia into a crisis, and are 2 of the same factions the Saud's and the USA are arming in Syria. Without Terrorists, we could not have a war on Terror.- Scott Uncategorized By Pepe Escobar, www.atimes.com September 30th, 2013 3 Print Friendly Above: Screen capture of Syrian rebel eating the heart of a Syrian soldier. The Myth of a Syrian Revolution for Democracy Exposed If any extra evidence was needed to shatter the myth of a revolution struggling for a future democratic Syria, the big news of the week cleared any remaining doubts. Eleven, 13 or 14 rebel brigades (depending on the source) have ditched the moderate, US-propped Syrian National Council (SNC) and the not-exactly Free Syrian Army (FSA). The leaders of the bunch are the demented jihadis of Jabhat al-Nusra but it includes other nasties such as the Tawhid brigades and the Tajammu Fastaqim Kama Ummirat in Aleppo, some of them until recently part of the collapsing FSA. The jihadis practically ordered the myriad moderates to submit, unify in a clear Islamic frame, and pledge allegiance to a future Syria with Sharia law as the sole source of legislation One Ayman al-Zawahiri must be having a ball in his comfortable, drone-proof hideout somewhere in the Waziristans. Not only because his call for a multinational jihad a la Afghanistan in the 1980s is working; but also because the US-run SNC has been exposed for the toothless rodent that it really is. And facts on the ground keep corroborating it. The al-Qaeda-propped Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took over a town near the Bab al-Salam border crossing with Turkey that was held by the FSA because the FSA was accused of fighting for democracy and close ties with the West. Wrong; the FSA wants those ties but under a Muslim Brotherhood-controlled regime. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant of which Jabhat al-Nusra is the main Syrian component wants a Talibanized Syriastan. The hardcore jihadi gangs in Syria may number as much as 10,000 fighters; but they do account for arguably 90% of the heavy fighting, because they are the only ones with battleground experience (including Iraqis who fought the Americans and Chechens who fought the Russians). In parallel, and not by accident, ever since Prince Bandar bin Sultan, aka Bandar Bush, was put in charge by Saudi King Abdullah to run the Syria jihad, taking no prisoners, the moderate Qatar-aligned Muslim Brotherhood SNC has been progressively sidelined. Off with those peaceniks heads Yet as far as train wrecks go, nothing equals the Obama administrations excuse for a strategy, which theoretically boils down to weaponizing and extensively training the weakest link selected FSA gangs infiltrated with CIA assets and vetting weapons falling into the hands of jihadis. As if the CIA had reliable local intel on the myriad jihadi Gulf-based funding and logistical sources. The SNC, the FSA and the exile so-called Supreme Military Command led by the grandiloquent General Salim Idriss are now no more than a joke. This whole thing happened while SNC leader al-Jerba was at the UN General Assembly in New York where he met with Secretary of State John Assad is like Hitler Kerry. Kerry did not talk about weapons but about more aid and future negotiations at the perennially postponed Geneva II conference. Al-Jerba was furious. And to top if off, some is his FSA gangs openly embraced al-Qaeda. Why? Follow the money. This is how it works, in a nutshell. At least half of the FSA brigades are mercenaries they are financed from abroad. They fight where their masters who weaponize and pay them tell them to fight. The Supreme Command controls, at best, something like 20% of the brigades. And these people dont even live in Syria; they are based on the Turkish or Jordanian side of the border. The mercenary jihadis, on the other hand, are on the ground full-time. They are the real fighting force, receive their salaries on time, and their families are well taken care of. So for all practical purposes its now a war between the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and a bunch of jihadis. Of course this will NOT be explained by supine corporate media to Western public opinion. Now imagine these beheading, liver-devouring Sharia groupies willing to go to the Geneva II conference to negotiate a ceasefire with the Syrian government and a possible peace deal with the NATO-House of Saud axis. Obviously its not going to happen as Bandar Bush himself telegraphed Russian President Vladimir Putin in person in Moscow. Worse, from Washingtons point of view, theres no way to justify why no meaningful negotiations can take place. Even puzzled infidels with half a brain across the Beltway will be able to make a connection between hordes of Syrian rebels embracing al-Qaeda immediately after al-Shabaabs attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi. It goes without saying that Baghdad is freaking out with these developments. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is ramping up car bombing and suicide bombing in Iraq itself because the apostate Shiite-led al-Maliki government is as much a target as the secular Bashar al-Assad. Its hard to believe that only five months ago I was writing about the advent of the Islamic Emirate of Syriastan. Now its clear how invisible al-Zawahiri and wily Bandar Bush have appropriated Washingtons strategy to really get what they want. Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007), Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge (Nimble Books, 2007), and Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009). 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