U.S./UK Paid "White Helmets" Help
Blocking Water To 5 Million Thirsty Syrians
By Moon Of
Alabama
January 03,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- "Moon
Of Alabama"
- The
blockade of water from Wadi Barada to 5 million people
in Damascus is taking an interesting turn. The U.S. and
UK financed White Helmet organization seems to be
directly involved in it. This increases the suspicion
that the illegal blockade of water to civilians in
Damascus is part of a organized campaign under U.S.
command. The campaign is designed to block utilities to
government held areas as revenge for the liberation of
east Aleppo.
As we
described it yesterday:
After the
eastern part of the city of Aleppo was liberated by
Syrian government forces, the local rebels and
inhabitants in the Barada river valley were willing
to reconcile with the Syrian government. But the
al-Qaeda Takfiris disagreed and took over. The area
is since under full al-Qaeda control and thereby
outside of the recent ceasefire agreement.
On December
22 the water supply to Damascus was suddenly
contaminated with diesel fuel and no longer
consumable. A day later Syrian government forces
started an operation to regain the area and to
reconstitute the water supplies.
Photos and
a video on social media (since inaccessible but I
saw them when they appeared) showed the water
treatment facility rigged with explosives. On Dec
27th the facility was blown up and partly destroyed.
The Syrian
government is ready to send repair teams to rehabilitate
the water flow to the millions of civilians in Damascus.
But access to the site is denied and the Syrian army is
now trying to push al-Qaeda and its allies away from it.
Curiously some
"civil" groups today offered access under several (not
agreeable) conditions:
Hassan Ridha @sayed_ridha
-
2:10 AM - 3 Jan 2017
Wadi Barada
statement: we will let teams to fix water spring if
SAA-Hezb stop attack, siege lift & monitor ceasefire
by intl observers
[attachment]
EHSANI2
@EHSANI22 -
6:43 AM - 3 Jan 2017
Offer by
opposition to trade access to water source for
#Damascus with halting of military operations by
army
[attachment]
Here is the
attachment to both tweets. Note who signed it:
bigger
Check the logos
of the undersigning organizations You will probably
recognize the middle one in the second row. Here it is
magnified.
And here is the
original of that logo taken directly
from the website
of the Syrian Civil Defense organization aka The White
Helmets:
The
organizations who make an offer to lift the water
blockade of Damascus obviously think they have the power
to do so. They then must also be held responsible for
keeping the blockade up. They must also have intimate
relations with the al-Qaeda fighters who currently
occupy the damaged water facilities.
The U.S. and UK
government
created and paid White Helmets are "impartially",
"neutrally" and "for all Syrians" blocking the water
supply to 5 million Syrians in Damascus. U.S. military
and CIA officers
run the "operations rooms" in Jordan and Turkey that
direct the insurgency.
This increases
suspicion that the blockade is part of an organized
response by the enemies of Syria to the recent
liberation of east-Aleppo. As noted yesterday:
This shut down
is part of a wider, seemingly coordinated strategy
to deprive all government held areas of utility
supplies. Two days ago the Islamic State shut down a
major water intake for Aleppo from the Euphrates.
High voltage electricity masts of lines feeding
Damascus have been destroyed and repair teams,
unlike before, denied access. Gas supplies to parts
of Damascus are also cut.
Even after 14
days of water crisis in Damascus the "western" media are
not reporting about the al-Qaeda blockade of water for 5
million Syrians. We can be sure that not a word will be
written by them about this illegal hostages taking of
millions of civilians in Damascus by their favorite
propaganda organization White Helmets.
The views
expressed in this article are the author's own and do
not necessarily reflect Information Clearing House
editorial policy.
Syria rebels freeze negotiations,
saying truce violated:
Sources told Al Jazeera the groups were freezing their
participation in negotiations being prepared by Russia
due to a government-led assault on Wadi Barada, a
rebel-held area near Damascus that is key to the
capital's water supply. |
