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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Fwd: Syria: Clinton Admits US On Same Side As Al Qaeda To
Destabilise Assad Government</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=articleTitle><FONT size=5><STRONG>Syria: Clinton Admits US On
Same Side As Al Qaeda To Destabilise Assad
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<DIV class=articleAuthorName>by Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham
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<DIV class=bigArticleText12><A href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/"
target=_blank>Global Research</A>, February 27, 2012</DIV></TD></TR>
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lang=EN-GB>US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that Al
Qaeda and other organizations on the US “terror list” are supporting the
Syrian opposition.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>Clinton said: “We have a very dangerous set of actors in the
region, al-Qaida [sic], Hamas, and those who are on our terrorist list, to
be sure, supporting – claiming to support the opposition [in Syria].” [1]
(<SPAN lang=EN-GB><A
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17170775"
target=_blank>Click here to watch video</A>)</SPAN></DIV>
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align=justify></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>Yet at the same time, in the above BBC interview the US
Secretary of State repeats the threadbare Western claim that the situation
in Syria is one of a defenceless population coming under “relentless
attack” from Syrian government forces.</SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>There is ample evidence that teams of snipers who have been
killing civilians over the past year in Syria belong to the terrorist
formations to which Clinton is referring to. </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>As Michel Chossudovsky points out in a recent article: “Since
the middle of March 2011, Islamist armed groups – covertly supported by
Western and Israeli intelligence – have conducted terrorist attacks
directed against government buildings, including acts of arson. Amply
documented, trained gunmen and snipers, including mercenaries, have
targeted the police, armed forces as well as innocent civilians. There is
ample evidence, as outlined in the Arab League Observer Mission report,
that these armed groups of mercenaries are responsible for killing
civilians. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"
lang=EN-US> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB>While the Syrian government and
military bear a heavy burden of responsibility, it is important to
underscore the fact that these terrorist acts – including the
indiscriminate killing of men, women and children – are part of a
US-NATO-Israeli initiative, which consists is supporting,
training and financing ‘an armed entity’ operating inside Syria.”
[2] </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>The admission at the weekend by Hillary Clinton corroborates
the finding that armed groups are attacking civilians and these groups are
terroristic, according to US own definitions, and that the situation in
Syria is not one of unilateral state violence against its population but
rather is one of a shadowy armed insurrection.</SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>Clinton’s admission retrospectively justifies the stance taken
by Russia and China, both of which vetoed the proposed UN Security Council
Resolution on 4 February, precisely because that proposal was predicated
on a spurious notion that the violence in Syria was solely the
responsibility of the Al Assad government.</SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>Clinton also acknowledges in the BBC interview that there is “a
very strong opposition to foreign intervention from inside Syria, from
outside Syria” – which tacitly concedes the fact that the Syrian
population is aware that the so-called oppositionists within their country
are Al Qaeda-affiliated mercenaries.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>Meanwhile, the US Gulf allies, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have
separately issued statements that they are willing to send arms to Syria
to support the insurrection against the Damascus government. Given the
still substantial popular support for the government of Bashir Al Assad,
such a declaration by Saudi Arabia and Qatar towards a fellow Arab League
member state signifies an unprecedented interference in the internal
affairs of a sovereign state. Indeed, legal opinion could argue that it
constitutes a self-indicting act of international aggression.</SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>Besides, such a declaration by Saudi Arabia and Qatar of being
willing to arm Syrian insurrectionists, can be seen as a cynical cover for
what is already taking place. It is known that the Gulf monarchical states
are already supplying weapons illicitly to the self-styled Syrian Free
Army, along with Turkey and Israel. </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>So far, the US is officially maintaining the fiction that it is
not involved in supplying arms to Syria even though Washington has
demanded “regime change” and in spite of evidence that Western covert
forces, including American, British and French operatives, are actively
engaged with the opposition groups. </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>It is richly ironic that the unelected fundamentalist Sunni
regimes of the Persian Gulf are supporting Al Qaeda affiliated groups
within Syria purportedly to “bring about democratic reforms”. This is the
same dynamic that prevailed in Libya where the overthrow of that country’s
government by Western and Gulf Arab powers has now led to a collapse in
human rights and social conditions. </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>Once again, Syria is indicating the same alignment of allies:
Washington, London and other NATO powers comfortably in bed with
Sunni/Salafist tyrants and terrorists, claiming to be supporting
democratic freedom and human rights.</SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>Of course, the real agenda has nothing to do with either
democratic freedoms or human rights – as the awry alignment of allies
clearly indicates. Rather, this is about Washington and its proxy powers
trying to engineer regime change throughout the Arab World and beyond to
conform to geopolitical objectives, principally the control of raw energy.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and now Syria are but a sequence of stops on a
global roadmap of permanent war that also swings through Iran. Russia and
China are the terminal targets. </SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>Washington is evidently prepared to use any means necessary to
assert this agenda: illegal wars, death on a massive scale, possibly
triggering global war and the use of nuclear weapons. But surely the most
preposterous mask is the “war on terror”, when it is seen – from the words
of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – that Washington is now openly
collaborating with the supposed “terrorist enemy” to bring about regime
change in desired countries.</SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>If somehow the weasel words from Washington could be taken at
face value, then if it were serious about wanting regime change to
facilitate democracy, human rights and world peace, the first regime that
pre-eminently qualifies for such change is Washington itself.</SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB><STRONG>Notes</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>[1] Transcript of Clinton interview on BBC, 26 February,
2012:</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB><A
href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1202/S00690/interview-with-kim-ghattas-of-bbc.htm"
target=_blank><FONT
color=#0000ff>http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1202/S00690/interview-with-kim-ghattas-of-bbc.htm</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=justify><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>[2] <A
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29234"
target=_blank><FONT
color=#0000ff>http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29234</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></DIV><!-- end of AOLMsgPart_1_ad56de86-60f8-4a15-a862-31cd730d8be5 --></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>