(WMR)—Apparently, the neocons never left the halls of power when Barack Obama became president. Just after mandatory budget sequestration kicked in, with White House tours for school kids being canceled and other government functions being pared back, the United States gave $60 million to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) battling the government of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
From Syrian exile sources comes word to WMR that the Western media is ignoring several major points in their coverage of the Syrian “civil war.”
First, it is not a civil war at all. The insurgency in Syria has been prompted by the financial, logistical, and military support of external players with the vast majority of Syrians backing Assad’s government. Chief among the foreign interlopers are the Wahhabi/Salafist regimes of Saudi Arabia and Qatar which intend to return Syria to the dark ages by making it an “imamate” on par with that of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and Salafist-ruled eastern Libya.
Even among those Syrians who at first supported the insurrection against Assad, many now prefer him over any puppet installed by Riyadh and Doha with the blessing of the United States, Britain, France, and Israel.
Second, most of the 60,000 plus deaths in the Syrian insurrection have been caused by foreign terrorists from outside Syria. FSA and other Syrian rebellion “leaders” have been supplied by recruiting programs run by the CIA, Britain’s MI-6, Israel’s Mossad, and the French DGSE intelligence service, which have targeted Syrian expatriates living in North America, Western Europe, Australia, and other countries. While these leaders enjoy the accoutrements of fine hotels in Beirut, Istanbul, and Irbil, the militia leaders on the ground in Syria are loyalists to such “Al Qaeda”-linked groups as the Al Nusra Front.
There are reports that Al Nusra takes its orders from the Saudi and Qatari governments, which in turn are advised by the CIA and other Western intelligence agencies. One of the Americans fighting for Al Nusra is former U.S. Army Private First Class Eric Glenn Harroun who was discharged in 2003 from his unit, the 568th Engineer Company (Combat Support Equipment) in Fort Riley, Kansas, as a result of what was said by the Army to have been a non-combat related injury. The CIA has dusted off its old playbook from the Afghan mujaheddin war against the Soviet Union and is, once again, relying on the Saudi “Al Qaeda” database run jointly by Langley and the Saudi Mukhabarat General Intelligence Directorate to drum up personnel, money laundering facilities, and other logistics support for Jihadists, including veterans of insurrections in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Chechnya, and Algeria, to enter and fight in Syria.
Third, the U.S. and Western/Israeli intervention in Syria to topple Assad is part of yet another neocon master plan drawn up for the entire Middle East. Former NATO commander General Wesley Clark revealed that in 1991 arch neocon Paul Wolfowitz let him in on a secret: that America would invade Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran and forcibly change their regimes. Iraq and Libya were invaded and their leaders overthrown and killed. Syria is currently the scene of such a scenario. Lebanon is being affected by the insurrection in Syria. After years of civil war, Somalia is governed by a U.S. and NGO puppet, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who also has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Southern Sudan has broken away from the north and is governed by a pro-U.S. and Israeli regime. That leaves Iran, which President Obama recently said is one year away from developing a nuclear weapon, a notion that runs diametrically counter to his own intelligence reports from the CIA and other agencies.
Fourth, the Syrian operation is not going all that well for the West and the Wahhabist regimes of the Arabian peninsula. Syrian refugees are beginning to return home from Lebanon. And there has been no splintering among the ranks of the Syrian army. The West concentrates on a few Syrian generals defecting but they have failed to convince their rank and file to join their cause.
And finally, Assad’s minority Alawite religious sect (which has religious ties to the Shi’as who dominate the governments of Iran and Iraq and is said to have more secretive links to Christianity) has fought an existential battle. The Alawites know that in the event of a Salafist victory and an imamate or caliphate in Damascus, they will be slaughtered, along with those whose interests they have protected for decades since Syria was a French territory: the Syriac Christians, Armenians, Druze, Kurds, Abkhazians, Circassians, and Palestinian refugees. Assad and the Alawites, therefore, have seen the full support from stakeholders who support one or more of the minority groups in Syria—Iran, Iraq, and Lebanese Hezbollah for the Shi’as; Russia for the Armenians, Abkhazians, and Circassians; Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party for the Alawites; Hamas for the Palestinians; and the Vatican for the Syriac Christians.
Many Syrians now voice the opinion that although Assad is a dictator he is the only leader who has been able to keep the tribes and ethnic and religious groups of Syria together in one nation-state.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).
