America
is Supporting Al Qaeda:
Heavy Propaganda Rages in the Battle for Aleppo. The
Terrorists are Portrayed as “Freedom Fighters”
By Prof. Tim Anderson
May 01, 2016 "Information
Clearing House"
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Research"
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Heavy
propaganda accompanies the strategic battle in
Aleppo between the Syrian Army and its allies
(Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and other militia) and the
Saudi-Turkey-NATO backed terrorist groups (Jabhat al
Nusra, Jaysh al Islam, Ahrar as Sham and ISIS).
Fighting
escalated in late April when the armed groups sent
hundreds of mortars into Syria’s second city, and
the Syrian Army responded with its long awaited
offensive.
Western media
now claim that Aleppo’s citizens are under threat
from the Syrian Army, while Syrian sources show
civilians, reeling from constant mortar attacks,
demanding that the Army roots out all terrorist
groups.
In an
attempt to claim the moral high ground, Washington
uses proxy NGOs alongside proxy militia, to maintain
the fiction that the Syrian Army does nothing but
attack Syrian civilians.
Prominent
among these NGOs is ‘The White Helmets’ aka ‘Syrian
Civil Defence’, which has become a principal source
of claims that Syrian and Russian planes are
targeting hospitals.
In fact ‘The
White Helmets’, which claims to be independent, is a
Wall Street creation, led by former British soldier
James le Mesurier, co-funded by the US Government
and embedded with the terrorist organisation Jabhat
al Nusra, banned by the UN Security Council.
Every attack
on al Nusra is thus portrayed as an attack on
‘civilians’ and clinics, or on emergency health
workers. Much the same applies to Medicin Sans
Frontiers (MSF), which funds al Nusra clinics
(mostly without foreign volunteers) in several
terrorist held areas.
These links,
including participation in sectarian executions, are
well spelt out in a recent short documentary ‘The
White Helmets – al Qaeda with a Facelift’, by Steve
Ezzeddine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aAaReVn2I4
Background on
The White Helmets has also been exposed in a series
of articles by investigative journalist Vanessa
Beeley, including ‘’White Helmets’: New Breed of
Mercenaries and Propagandists’ (Sept 2015) at 21st Century
Wire:
http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/09/01/white-helmets-new-breed-of-mercenaries-and-propagandists-disguised-as-humanitarians-in-syria/
The
contradiction in US policy and practice was recently
highlighted when the Syrian head of TWH, Raed Saleh,
travelled to receive a humanitarian award, but was
refused permission to enter the US and was sent back
to Istanbul. The likely reason was Saleh’s notorious
association with Jabhat al Nusra.
Head of the
US military General Martin Dempsey and Vice
President Joe Biden admitted in 2014 that close US
allies Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar were financing
ISIS, along with all the other armed groups, in an
attempt to overthrow the government of Syrian
President Bashar al Assad.
ANNEX
Professor Tim Anderson
has provided us with an analysis of the propaganda
campaign of the Western military alliance which is
led by the Western media as well as so-called NGOs
supported by corporate foundations.
Below
is the Communique Issued by the Fake Syria Civil
Society Network. The latter fails to acknowledge
that the opposition militants are largely made up of
Al Qaeda affiliated entitities supported by
US-NATO-Israel.
Syria
government forces with the support of Russia, Iran
and Hezbollah are involved in a massive
counter-terrorism operation against US-NATO
supported terrorists.
Below
is the text of their Appeal to the International
Community.
Who is
the self proclaimed international community?
The US,
UK, France, Germany, not to mention Saudi Arabia
and Turkey, have been involved for almost two years
in the routine bombing of Syria under a fake
humanitarian mandate.
These
NGOs echo US foreign policy, They blame Bashar al
Assad for the killings. They do not represent
Syrian civil society.
Amply
documented, those killings are attributable to:
1) US-led
bombings allegedly against the ISIS, which largely
strike civilians and civilian infrastructure,
including residential areas;
2) the
atrocities committed by the ISIS and al Qaeda
affiliates which are supported, financed and
protected by the US-NATO coalition. Coalition
mercenaries operate within the ranks of these
terrorist entitiies. More recently, the US has sent
special forces to provide “training” for al Qaeda
freedom fighters.
SPREAD THE WORD, COUNTER-PROPAGANDA IS A POWERFUL
INSTRUMENT TO REVERSE THE TIDE OF WAR
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research Editor, May 1,
2016
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Text of the fake NGO Civil Society Group
“We are being
left to die as the world watches.”
The people of
Aleppo need the international community’s
protection. In the past week, the Assad regime and
its allies have escalated their bombings of civilian
homes and hospitals across Aleppo, killing more than
200 civilians in the process. We, as
representatives of Syrian civil society and
humanitarian groups, strongly condemn the
indiscriminate killing of civilians in Syria and
demand civilian protection. Without the
international community’s protection and concrete
action to stop the bombs across Aleppo, where
250,000 people still remain, there is a very real
chance that Aleppo will be entirely destroyed and
more will die.
The
international community’s failure to prioritize
our protection amounts to a death sentence. We
are being left to die as the world watches.
In spite of the Syrian Cessation of Hostilities,
one Syrian is being killed every 25 minutes. In
Aleppo on Wednesday 27 April, at least 50
patients, medics and doctors were killed,
including the last remaining Pediatrician of
Aleppo, Dr. Wassim, after the Syrian regime
bombed Al Quds hospital. Just two days earlier,
on April 25, five rescue workers from the White
Helmets were killed during regime airstrikes on
Atareb, western Aleppo province. The attack
came shortly after Russian airstrikes that
killed ten civilians in Aleppo. A week earlier,
the Syrian regime launched attacks in a
marketplace in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province
that left dozens dead, including many women and
children.
The Syrian regime is deliberately targeting
civilians and hospitals. It is intentionally
destroying medical facilities, schools, and
marketplaces in an effort to bomb civilians into
submission. People the Syrian regime cannot
kill by air, it starves on land. Assad’s troops
continue to besiege civilian towns across the
country, where they impose deliberate starvation
methods and confiscate medical relief items from
aid convoys. As a result of these sieges, more
than 18 cities and towns across Syria are under
siege. But just one area—Dier Ezzor—receives
airdrops. For months, we have appealed to the
international community to airdrop aid to all
besieged areas, including to Homs and Hama. Our
calls have gone unanswered.
We do not understand why we are being condemned
to death when there are concrete steps that the
international community could take to protect
us. We appeal to the international community to
prioritize our protection and do what it takes
to stop the bombs across Syria. Help us save our
Syria. More lives need not be lost.
Signatories
· Syrian
Center for Media and Freedom of Expression ·
Independent Doctors Association ·
· Baytna
Syria · Union of Syrian Civil
Society Organizations · Zaytoon · Peace and
Justice for Syria ·
· Dr
Amer Masri · Alaa Basatneh · SAY
· Zaad · Syrian Welsh Society · Rethink Rebuild
Society ·
· Syria
Solidarity UK · Scotland4Syria · Help4Syria ·
Syrian Society in Nottinghamshire ·
· Syrian
Platform for Peace · Kurds House ·
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Prof. Tim Anderson, Global Research,
2016
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