[Peace-discuss] Fwd: FW: [vfp-all] Who is Ambassador Robert Stephen Ford?

David Johnson via Peace-discuss peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
Sun Jun 8 11:20:32 EDT 2014





    Now that the Syrian election has reaffirmed broad support for  Assad
    it should be clear to all that there was no such thing as a "Syrian
    revolution". It was a terrorist attack on a sovereign nation
    initiated by the US/NATO War Machine. This article tells who the
    architect of it was.



    The Architect of US Sponsored Terrorism in Syria

*<http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-ambassador-robert-stephen-ford-the-architect-of-us-sponsored-terrorism-in-syria/5385973>*
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*fordrobert3*
***Author’s Note*
***/In recent developments, the Western media is portraying former US 
Ambassador to Syria Robert Stephen Ford as a “moderate”, committed to 
supporting so-called “moderate mainstream opposition rebels”. Ford is 
now upheld as a outspoken critic of US foreign policy,  tacitly blaming 
the US State Department for gross mismanagement:/*
**

    */“I was no longer in a position where*I felt I could defend the
    American policy*… We have been unable to address either the root
    causes of the conflict in terms of the fighting on the ground and
    the balance on the ground,*and we have a growing extremism
    threat.”*… (quoted in Slate,
    <http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/06/04/robert_ford_obama_s_former_syria_ambassador_won_t_defend_the_administration.html>June
    3, 2014, emphasis added)
    /*

***/Ford calls upon Washington to support the moderates:/*
**

    */“*We need – and we have long needed – to help moderates in the
    Syrian opposition with both weapons and other non-lethal
    assistance.* … Had we done that a couple of years ago, had we ramped
    it up, frankly *the al Qaeda groups that have been winning
    adherents* would have been unable to compete with the moderates who
    frankly we have much in common with,” (Reuters,
    <http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/03/us-syria-usa-envoy-idUSKBN0EE2IR20140603>
    June 3, 2014, emphasis added)/*

***/Responding to Ford’s comments, State Department spokeswoman Marie 
Harf said, “He’s a private citizen. He’s entitled to his 
views.”(Reuters, 
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/03/us-syria-usa-envoy-idUSKBN0EE2IR20140603> 
June 3, 2014)
/*
***/Who is Robert Stephen Ford? In a bitter irony, Robert Stephen Ford 
is no “Moderate” as portrayed by the media. /*
***/Ford played a central role in developing *the “extremism threat” 
scenario including the channeling of military aid to the Al Qaeda 
affiliated rebels.* /*
***/Ford was from the outset in the months leading up to the March 2011 
insurrection among the key architects involved in the formulation of a  
US “Terrorist Option” for Syria including the recruitment and training 
of death squads in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.
/*
***/The following text is based on a longer article first published by 
GR in August 2011 
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-pentagon-s-salvador-option-the-deployment-of-death-squads-in-iraq-and-syria/26043> 
under the title *The Pentagon’s “Salvador Option”: The Deployment of 
Death Squads in Iraq and Syria. 
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-pentagon-s-salvador-option-the-deployment-of-death-squads-in-iraq-and-syria/26043> 
as well as Terrorism with a Human Face: T 
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-ambassador-robert-stephen-ford-the-architect-of-us-sponsored-terrorism-in-syria/terrorism-with-a-human-face-the-history-of-americas-death-squads/>*//he 
History-of Americas Death Squads/ 
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-ambassador-robert-stephen-ford-the-architect-of-us-sponsored-terrorism-in-syria/terrorism-with-a-human-face-the-history-of-americas-death-squads/>*
***Michel Chossudovsky, June 6, 2014*
***-*
***Since his arrival in Damascus in late January 2011, Ambassador Robert 
S. Ford played a central role in laying the groundwork as well as 
establishing contacts with opposition groups.*
***A functioning US embassy in Damascus was seen as a precondition for 
carrying out a process of political destabilization leading to “regime 
change”.*
***Ambassador Robert S., Ford is no ordinary diplomat. He was U.S. 
representative in January 2004 to the Shiite city of Najaf in 
Iraq. Najaf was the stronghold of the Mahdi army*
***A few months later he was appointed “Number Two Man” (Minister 
Counsellor for Political Affairs), at the US embassy in Baghdad at the 
outset of John Negroponte’s tenure as US Ambassador to Iraq (June 2004- 
April 2005). Ford subsequently served under Negroponte’s successor 
Zalmay Khalilzad prior to his appointment as Ambassador to Algeria in 2006.*
***Negroponte’s mandate as US ambassador to Iraq (together with Robert 
S. Ford) was to coordinate out of the US embassy, the covert support to 
death squads and paramilitary groups in Iraq with a view to fomenting 
sectarian violence and weakening the resistance movement. Robert S. Ford 
as “Number Two” (Minister Counsellor for Political Affairs) at the US 
Embassy in Baghdad played a central role in this endeavor.*
***To understand Robert Ford’s mandate in both Baghdad and subsequently 
in Damascus, it is important to reflect briefly on the history of US 
covert operations and the central role played by John D. Negroponte.*
***Negroponte and the “Salvador Option”*
***John Negroponte had served as US ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 
1985. As Ambassador in Tegucigalpa, he played a key role in supporting 
and supervising the Nicaraguan Contra mercenaries who were based in 
Honduras. The cross border Contra attacks into Nicaragua claimed some 50 
000 civilian lives.*
***During the same period, Negroponte was instrumental in setting up the 
Honduran military death squads, “operating with Washington support’s, 
[they] assassinated hundreds of opponents of the US-backed regime.” (See 
Bill Vann, Bush Nominee linked to Latin American Terrorism, by Bill 
Vann, Global Research, November 2001, 
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/VAN111A.html)*
**

    *“Under the rule of General Gustavo Alvarez Martnez, Honduras’s
    military government was both a close ally of the Reagan
    administration and was “disappearing” dozens of political opponents
    in classic death squad fashion.*
    *In a 1982 letter to The Economist, Negroponte wrote that it was
    “simply untrue to state that death squads have made their appearance
    in Honduras.” The Country Report on Human Rights Practices that his
    embassy sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took the same
    line, insisting that there were “no political prisoners in Honduras”
    and that the “Honduran government neither condones nor knowingly
    permits killings of a political or nonpolitical nature.”*
    *Yet according to a four-part series in the Baltimore Sun in 1995,
    in 1982 alone the Honduran press ran 318 stories of murders and
    kidnappings by the Honduran military. The Sun described the
    activities of a secret CIA-trained Honduran army unit, Battalion
    316, that used “shock and suffocation devices in interrogations.
    Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful, killed
    and buried in unmarked graves.”*
    *On August 27, 1997, CIA Inspector General Frederick P. Hitz
    released a 211-page classified report entitled “Selected Issues
    Relating to CIA Activities in Honduras in the 1980′s.” This report
    was partly declassified on Oct. 22, 1998, in response to demands by
    the Honduran human rights ombudsman. Opponents of Negroponte are
    demanding that all Senators read the full report before voting on
    his nomination. to the position of US Permanent Representative to
    the UN}” (Peter Roff and James Chapin, Face-off: Bush’s Foreign
    Policy Warriors, Global Research November 2001,
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ROF111A.html*

***John Negroponte- Robert S. Ford. The Iraq “Salvador Option”*
***In January 2005, following Negroponte’s appointment as US ambassador 
to Iraq, the Pentagon confirmed in a story leaked to /Newsweek/  that it 
was “considering forming hit squads of Kurdish and Shia fighters to 
target leaders of the Iraqi insurgency in a strategic shift borrowed 
from the American struggle against left-wing guerrillas in Central 
America 20 years ago”. (El Salvador-style ‘death squads’ to be deployed 
by US against Iraq militants – Times Online 
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article410491.ece>, 
January 10, 2005)*
***John Negroponte and Robert S. Ford at the US Embassy worked closely 
together on the Pentagon’s project. Two other embassy officials, namely 
Henry Ensher (Ford’s Deputy) and a younger official in the political 
section, Jeffrey Beals, played an important role in the team “talking to 
a range of Iraqis, including extremists”. (See /The New Yorker/, March 
26, 2007).  Another key individual in Negroponte’s team was James 
Franklin Jeffrey, America’s ambassador to Albania (2002-2004). Jeffrey 
is currently the US Ambassador to Iraq.*
***Negroponte also brought into the team one of his former collaborators 
Colonel James Steele (ret) from his Honduras heyday:*
**

    *Under the “Salvador Option,” “Negroponte had assistance from his
    colleague from his days in Central America during the 1980′s, Ret.
    Col James Steele. Steele, whose title in Baghdad was Counselor for
    Iraqi Security Forces supervised the selection and training of
    members of the Badr Organization and Mehdi Army, the two largest
    Shi’ite militias in Iraq, in order to target the leadership and
    support networks of a primarily Sunni resistance. Planned or not,
    these death squads promptly spiralled out of control to become the
    leading cause of death in Iraq.*
    *Intentional or not, the scores of tortured, mutilated bodies which
    turn up on the streets of Baghdad each day are generated by the
    death squads whose impetus was John Negroponte. And it is this
    U.S.-backed sectarian violence which largely led to the
    hell-disaster that Iraq is today. (Dahr Jamail, Managing Escalation:
    Negroponte and Bush’s New Iraq Team,
    <http://antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=10289>. Antiwar.com, January
    7, 2007)*

***John Negroponte described Robert Ford while at the embassy in 
Baghdad, as “one of these very tireless people … who didn’t mind putting 
on his flak jacket and helmet and going out of the Green Zone to meet 
contacts.”  Robert S. Ford is fluent in both Arabic and Turkish. He was 
dispatched by Negroponte to undertake strategic contacts:*
**

    *[O]ne Pentagon proposal would send Special Forces teams to advise,
    support and possibly train Iraqi squads, most likely hand-picked
    Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen, to target Sunni
    insurgents and their sympathizers, even across the border into
    Syria, according to military insiders familiar with the discussions.
    It remains unclear, however, whether this would be a policy of
    assassination or so-called “snatch” operations, in which the targets
    are sent to secret facilities for interrogation. The current
    thinking is that while U.S. Special Forces would lead operations in,
    say, Syria, activities inside Iraq itself would be carried out by
    Iraqi paramilitaries. (Newsweek, January 8, 2005, emphasis added)*

***The plan had the support of the US appointed Iraqi government of 
Prime Minister Iyad Allawi:*
**

    *The Pentagon declined to comment, but one insider told Newsweek:
    “What everyone agrees is that we can’t just go on as we are. We have
    to find a way to take the offensive against the insurgents. Right
    now, we are playing defence. And we are losing.”*
    *Hit squads would be controversial and would probably be kept secret. *
    *The experience of the so-called “death squads” in Central America
    remains raw for many even now and helped to sully the image of the
    United States in the region.*
    *…. John Negroponte, the US Ambassador in Baghdad, had a front-row
    seat at the time as Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-85. *
    *Death squads were a brutal feature of Latin American politics of
    the time. In Argentina in the 1970s and Guatemala in the 1980s,
    soldiers wore uniform by day but used unmarked cars by night to
    kidnap and kill those hostile to the regime or their suspected
    sympathisers.*
    *In the early 1980s President Reagan’s Administration funded and
    helped to train Nicaraguan contras based in Honduras with the aim of
    ousting Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime. The Contras were equipped
    using money from illegal American arms sales to Iran, a scandal that
    could have toppled Mr Reagan.*
    *It was in El Salvador that the United States trained small units of
    local forces specifically to target rebels.*
    *The thrust of the Pentagon proposal in Iraq, according to Newsweek,
    is to follow that model and direct US special forces teams to
    advise, support and train Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shia
    militiamen to target leaders of the Sunni insurgency. *
    *It is unclear whether the main aim of the missions would be to
    assassinate the rebels or kidnap them and take them away for
    interrogation. Any mission in Syria would probably be undertaken by
    US Special Forces.*
    *Nor is it clear who would take responsibility for such a programme
    — the Pentagon or the Central Intelligence Agency. Such covert
    operations have traditionally been run by the CIA at arm’s length
    from the administration in power, giving US officials the ability to
    deny knowledge of it. (Times Online, op cit, emphasis added)*

***Under Negroponte’s helm at the US Embassy in Baghdad, a  wave of 
covert civilian killings and targeted assassinations was unleashed. 
Engineers, medical  doctors, scientists and intellectuals were also 
targeted. The objective was to create factional divisions between Sunni, 
Shiite, Kurds and Christians, as well as weed out civilian support for 
the Iraqi resistance. The Christian community was one of the main 
targets of the assassination program.*
***The Pentagon’s objective also consisted in training an Iraqi Army, 
Police and Security Forces, which would carry out a homegrown 
“counterinsurgency” program (unofficially) on behalf of the U.S.*
***Operation “Syrian Contras”: Learning from the Iraqi Experience*
***The gruesome Iraqi version of the “Salvador Option” under the helm of 
Ambassador John Negroponte has served as a “role model” for setting up 
the “Free Syrian Army” Contras. Robert Stephen Ford was, no doubt, 
involved in the implementation of the Syrian Contras project, following 
his reassignment to Baghdad as Deputy Head of Mission in 2008.*
***The objective in Syria was to create factional divisions between 
Sunni, Alawite, Shiite, Kurds, Druze and Christians. While the Syrian 
context is entirely different to that of Iraq, there are striking 
similarities with regard to the procedures whereby the killings and 
atrocities were conducted.*
***A report published by /Der Spiegel/ pertaining to atrocities 
committed in the Syrian city of Homs confirms an organized sectarian 
process of mass-murder and extra-judicial killings comparable to that 
conducted by the US sponsored death squads in Iraq.*
***People in Homs were routinely categorized as   “prisoners” (Shia, 
Alawite) and “traitors”.  The “traitors” are Sunni civilians within the 
rebel occupied urban area, who express their disagreement or opposition 
to the rule of terror of the Free Syrian Army (FSA):*
**

    *“Since last summer [2011], we have executed slightly fewer than 150
    men, which represents about 20 percent of our prisoners,” says Abu
    Rami. … But the executioners of Homs have been busier with traitors
    within their own ranks than with prisoners of war. “If we catch a
    Sunni spying, or if a citizen betrays the revolution, we make it
    quick,” says the fighter. According to Abu Rami, Hussein’s burial
    brigade has put between 200 and 250 traitors to death since the
    beginning of the uprising.” (Der Spiegel,
    <http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-atrocities-committed-by-us-nato-sponsored-opposition-executioner-for-syria-s-rebels-tells-his-story/30072>March
    30, 2012)*

***In early July [2011], US Ambassador Robert Ford travelled to Hama and 
had meetings with members of the “protest movement” (Low-key U.S. 
diplomat transforms Syria policy – The Washington Post 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/low-key-us-diplomat-transforms-syria-policy/2011/07/12/gIQAc5kSBI_story.html>, 
July 12, 2011). Reports confirm that Robert Ford had numerous contacts 
with opposition groups both before and after his July trip to Hama. In a 
recent statement (August 4), he confirmed that the embassy will continue 
“reaching out” to opposition groups in defiance of the Syrian authorities.*
***The project required an initial program of recruitment and training 
of mercenaries. Death squads including Lebanese and Jordanian Salafist 
units entered Syria’s southern border with Jordan in mid-March 2011.  
Much of the groundwork was already in place prior to Robert Stephen 
Ford’s arrival in Damascus in January 2011.*
****
***Ambassador Ford in Hama in early July 2011*
***Ford’s appointment as Ambassador to Syria was announced in early 
2010. Diplomatic relations had been cut in 2005 following the Rafick 
Hariri assassination, which Washington blamed on Syria. Ford arrived in 
Damascus barely two months before the onset of the insurgency.*
***Behind Closed Doors at the US State Department*
***Robert Stephen Ford was part of a small team at the US State 
Department team which oversaw the recruitment and training of  terrorist 
brigades,  together with Derek Chollet  and Frederic C. Hof, a former 
business partner of Richard Armitage, who served as Washington’s 
“special coordinator on Syria”. Derek Chollet has recently been 
appointed to the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
International Security Affairs (ISA).*
***This team operated under the helm of  (former) Assistant Secretary of 
State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman.*
***Feltman’s team was in close liaison with the process of recruitment 
and training of mercenaries out of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Libya 
(courtesy of the post-Gaddafi regime, which dispatched six hundred Libya 
Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) troops to Syria 
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/report-new-libyan-regime-sends-600-troops-to-fight-in-syria/27946>, 
via Turkey in the months following the September 2011 collapse of the 
Gaddafi government).*
***Assistant Secretary of State Feltman was in contact with Saudi 
Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, and Qatari Foreign Minister 
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim. He was also in charge of a  Doha-based office 
for “special security coordination” pertaining to  Syria, which included 
representatives from Western and GCC intelligence agencies well as a 
representative from Libya. Prince Bandar bin Sultan. a prominent and 
controversial member of Saudi intelligence was part of this group. (See 
Press Tv, <http://www.presstv.ir/detail/241358.html>May 12, 2012).*
***In June 2012, Jeffrey Feltman (image: Left) was appointed UN 
Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, a strategic position  
which, in practice, consists in setting  the UN agenda (on behalf of 
Washington) on issues pertaining to “Conflict Resolution” in various 
“political hot spots” around the world (including Somalia, Lebanon, 
Libya, Syria, Yemen and Mali). In a bitter irony, the countries for UN 
“conflict resolution” are those which are the target of  US covert 
operations.*
***In liaison with the US State Department, NATO and his GCC handlers in 
Doha and Riyadh, Feltman is Washington’s man behind UN special envoy 
Lakhdar Brahmi’s “Peace Proposal”.*
***Meanwhile, while paying lip service to the UN Peace initiative, the 
US and NATO have speeded up the process of recruitment and training of  
mercenaries in response to the heavy casualties incurred by “opposition” 
rebel forces.*
***The US proposed “end game” in Syria is not regime change, but the 
destruction of Syria as a Nation State.*
***The deployment of “opposition” death squads with a mandate to kill 
civilians is part of this criminal undertaking.*
***The Free Syrian Army (FSA)*
***[syriafree army] 
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/syriafree-army1.jpg>Washington 
and its allies replicated in Syria the essential features of the “Iraq 
Salvador Option”, leading to the creation of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) 
and its various terrorist factions including the Al Qaeda affiliated Al 
Nusra brigades.*
***While the creation of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) was announced in 
June 2011, the recruitment and training of foreign mercenaries was 
initiated at a much an earlier period.*
***In many regards, the Free Syrian Army is a smokescreen. It is upheld 
by the Western media as a /bona fide/ military entity established as a 
result of mass defections from government forces.  The number of 
defectors, however, was neither significant nor sufficient to establish 
a coherent military structure  with command and control functions.*
***The FSA  is not a professional military entity, rather it is a loose 
network of separate terrorist brigades, which in turn are made up of 
numerous paramilitary cells operating in different parts of the country.*
***Each of these terrorist organizations operates independently. The FSA 
does not effectively exercise command and control functions including 
liaison with these diverse paramilitary entities. The latter are 
controlled by US-NATO sponsored special forces and intelligence 
operatives which are embedded within the ranks of selected terrorist 
formations.*
***These (highly trained) Special forces on the ground (many of whom are 
employees of private security companies) are routinely in contact with 
US-NATO and allied military/intelligence command units (including 
Turkey). These embedded Special Forces are, no doubt, also involved in 
the carefully planned bomb attacks directed against government 
buildings, military compounds, etc.*
***The death squads are mercenaries trained and recruited by the US, 
NATO, its Persian Gulf GCC allies as well as Turkey. They are overseen 
by allied special forces (including British SAS and French 
Parachutistes), and private security companies on contract to NATO and 
the Pentagon. In this regard, reports confirm the arrest by the Syrian 
government of some 200-300 private security company employees 
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/breaking-private-security-companies-in-syria-supporting-rebels-foreign-mercenaries-detained/31509>who 
had integrated rebel ranks.*
***The Jabhat Al Nusra Front *
***The Al Nusra Front –which is said to be affiliated to Al Qaeda– is 
described as the most effective “opposition” rebel fighting group, 
responsible for several of the high profile bomb attacks. Portrayed as 
an enemy of America (on the State Department list of terrorist 
organizations), Al Nusra operations, nonetheless, bear the fingerprints 
of US paramilitary training, terror tactics and weapons systems. The 
atrocities committed against civilians by Al Nusra (funded covertly by 
US-NATO) are similar to those undertaken by the US sponsored death 
squads in Iraq.*
***In the words ofAl Nusra leader Abu Adnan in Aleppo 
<http://world.time.com/2012/12/25/interview-with-a-newly-designated-syrias-jabhat-al-nusra/>: 
“Jabhat al-Nusra does count Syrian veterans of the Iraq war among its 
numbers, men who bring expertise — especially the manufacture of 
improvised explosive devices (IEDs) — to the front in Syria.”*
***As in Iraq, factional violence and ethnic cleansing were actively 
promoted. In Syria, the Alawite, Shiite and Christian communities have 
been the target of the US-NATO sponsored death squads.  The Alawite and 
the Christian community are the main targets of the assassination 
program. Confirmed by the Vatican News Service:*
**

    *Christians in Aleppo are victims of death and destruction due to
    the fighting which for months, has been affecting the city. The
    Christian neighborhoods, in recent times, have been hit by rebel
    forces fighting against the regular army and this has caused an
    exodus of civilians.*
    *Some groups in the rugged opposition, where there are also
    jiahadist groups, “fire on Christian houses and buildings, to force
    occupants to escape and then take possession [ethnic cleansing]
    (Agenzia Fides. Vatican News, October 19, 2012)*
    *“The Sunni Salafist militants – says the Bishop – continue to
    commit crimes against civilians, or to recruit fighters with force.
    The fanatical Sunni extremists are fighting a holy war proudly,
    especially against the Alawites. When terrorists seek to control the
    religious identity of a suspect, they ask him to cite the
    genealogies dating back to Moses. And they ask to recite a prayer
    that the Alawites removed. The Alawites have no chance to get out
    alive.”  (Agenzia Fides 04/06/2012)*

***Reports confirm the influx of Salafist and Al Qaeda affiliated death 
squads as well as brigades under the auspices of the Muslim Brotherhood 
into Syria from the inception of the insurgency in March 2011.*
***Moreover, reminiscent of  the enlistment of  the Mujahideen to wage 
the CIA’s jihad (holy war) in the heyday of the Soviet-Afghan war, NATO 
and the Turkish High command, according to Israeli intelligence sources, 
had initiated”*
**

    *“a campaign to enlist thousands of Muslim volunteers in Middle East
    countries and the Muslim world to fight alongside the Syrian rebels.
    The Turkish army would house these volunteers, train them and secure
    their passage into Syria. (DEBKAfile,
    <http://www.debka.com/article/21207>NATO to give rebels anti-tank
    weapons, August 14, 2011).*

***Private Security Companies and the Recruitment of Mercenaries*
***According to reports, private security companies operating out of 
Gulf States are involved in the recruiting and training of mercenaries.*
***Although not specifically earmarked for the recruitment of 
mercenaries directed against Syria, reports point to the creation of  
training camps in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).*
***In Zayed Military City (UAE), “a secret army is in the making” 
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-secret-army-of-mercenaries-for-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/24952>operated 
by Xe Services, formerly Blackwater.  The UAE deal to establish a 
military camp for the training of mercenaries was signed in July 2010, 
nine months before the onslaught of the wars in Libya and Syria.*
***In recent developments, security companies on contract to NATO and 
the Pentagon are involved in training “opposition” death squads in the 
use of chemical weapons:*
**

    *“The United States and some European allies are using defense
    contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons
    stockpiles in Syria, a senior U.S. official and several senior
    diplomats told CNN Sunday. (CNN Report,
    <http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/09/sources-defense-contractors-training-syrian-rebels-in-chemical-weapons/?hpt=hp_t3>December
    9, 2012)*

***The names of the companies involved were not revealed.*
***While conditions in Syria are markedly different to those in Iraq, 
Robert S. Ford’s stint as “Number Two Man” at the US Embassy in Baghdad 
has a direct bearing on the nature of his activities in Syria including 
his contacts with opposition groups.*
*May The Force be with you,
Bill

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