CONFIRMED: US "Operation Rooms" Backing Al Qaeda in Syria
US policy think-tank Brookings Institution confirms that contrary to propaganda,
US-Saudi "moderates" and Turkey-Qatar "Islamists" have been coordinating all
along.
By Tony Cartalucci
May 11, 2015 "Information
Clearing House" - The war in Syria continues to drag
on, with a recent and renewed vigor demonstrated behind an opposition long
portrayed as fractured and reflecting a myriad of competing foreign interests.
Chief among these competing interests, the public has been told, were the US and
Saudis on one side, backing so-called "moderate rebels," and Turkey and Qatar on
the other openly backing Al Qaeda and its various franchises including the
Islamic State (ISIS).
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Image: The conflicts in Syria
and Iraq are far from internal. Looking at a map of territory used or
held by ISIS and other Western-backed sectarian extremists, it is clear
that the current conflict is a regional invasion streaming out of
NATO-member Turkey and US ally Jordan, now admittedly with the help of
both Saudi Arabia and Qatar. |
However, for those following the conflict closely, it
was clear from the beginning and by the West's own admissions that success
hinged on covertly providing arms, cash, equipment, and both political and
military support to Al Qaeda and other sectarian extremists, not opposed by
Saudi Arabia, but rather by using Saudi Arabia as the primary medium through
which Western material support could be laundered.
And this fact is now confirmed in a recent article published
on the Brookings Institution's website titled, "Why
Assad is losing."
It states unequivocally that (emphasis added):
The involvement of FSA groups, in fact, reveals how the
factions’ backers have changed their tune regarding coordination with
Islamists. Several commanders involved in leading recent Idlib operations
confirmed to this author that the U.S.-led operations room in southern
Turkey, which coordinates the provision of lethal and non-lethal support to
vetted opposition groups, was instrumental in facilitating their involvement
in the operation from early April onwards. That operations room — along
with another in Jordan, which covers Syria’s south — also appears to have
dramatically increased its level of assistance and provision of intelligence
to vetted groups in recent weeks.
Whereas these multinational operations rooms have previously demanded that
recipients of military assistance cease direct coordination with groups like
Jabhat al-Nusra, recent dynamics in Idlib appear to have demonstrated
something different. Not only were weapons
shipments increased to the so-called “vetted groups,” but the operations
room specifically encouraged a closer cooperation with Islamists commanding
frontline operations.
Overall, Brookings is pleased to report that with the
infiltration and overrunning of much of Idlib in northern Syria, it appears
their long-stated goal
of creating a seat of power for their proxies within Syria's borders and
perhaps even extending NATO aircover over it, may finally be at hand. Brookings
still attempts to perpetuate an adversarial narrative between the West and Al
Qaeda, despite admitting that it was only with Western backing that recent
offensives spearheaded by Al Qaeda itself were successful.
In reality, as far back as 2007, it was the admitted policy of the then Bush-led
White House
to
begin arming and funding sectarian extremists, including Al Qaeda, through
the use of intermediaries including Saudi Arabia. Veteran journalist and
two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh in his report "The
Redirection: Is the Administration's new policy benefiting our enemies in the
war on terrorism?"would lay bare this conspiracy which has since then
unfolded verbatim as described in 2007.
The above mentioned Brookings article also alludes to a grander geopolitical
landscape taking shape beyond the Syrian conflict. It states in regards to the
US now openly backing what is for all intents and purposes an Al Qaeda-led
offensive that:
The most likely explanation for such a move is pressure
from the newly emboldened regional alliance comprising Turkey, Saudi Arabia,
and Qatar. The United States also is looking for ways to prove its continued
alignment with its traditional Sunni Gulf allies, amid the broader context
of its rapprochement with Iran.
The continuation, even expansion of the US-backed conflict in
Syria is the most telling evidence of all regarding the disingenuous nature of
America's rapprochement with Iran. The entire goal of destabilizing and
potentially overthrowing the government in Syria is to weaken Iran ahead of a
similar campaign of encirclement, destabilization, and destruction within Iran
itself.
The fact that events in Syria are being accelerated, with Brookings itself
admitting that "international and ideological differences," have been "pushed to
the side," illustrates a palpable desperation among the West to finish the
conflict in Syria in hopes of moving forward toward Iran before regional
dynamics and Iran's own defensive posture renders moot the West's entire
regional agenda, jeopardizing its long-standing hegemony across North Africa and
the Middle East.
Similarly rushed operations appear to be underway in Yemen. With Western-backed
conflicts embroiling virtually every nation surrounding Iran, the idea that the
US seeks anything but Iran's eventual destruction, let alone "rapprochement"
must surely have no one fooled in Tehran.
While Brookings enthusiastically reports on the continued destruction in Syria
it itself played a part in engineering and promoting, it still admits that
overthrowing Syria's legitimate government is not inevitable. While it attempts
to portray Syria's allies as withdrawing support for Damascus, the reality is
that if and when Syria falls, Syria's allies are indisputably next in line.
Iran will face an entire nation handed over to Al Qaeda and other heavily armed
and well-backed sectarian extremists dreaming of a cataclysmic confrontation
with Tehran, fueled by a global network of US-Saudi backed madrases turning out
legions of ideologically poisoned zealots. And beyond Iran, Russia faces the
prospect of its Caucasus region being turned into a corridor of terror aimed
straight at the heart of Russia itself.
The conflict in Syria is but a single battle among a much larger war - a global
war constituting what is basically a third World War, fought not upon vast but
clearly defined fronts, but rather through the use of fourth generation warfare,
proxies, mercenaries, economics, and information. For those that fail to see how
Syria is linked to the survival of many nations beyond its borders and the very
concept of a multi-polar world built upon the concept of national sovereignty,
they invite not just Damascus' defeat, but that of the world as we know it.
Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and
writer, especially for the online magazine“New
Eastern
Outlook”.
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