{"id":11686,"date":"2012-08-13T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11686"},"modified":"2012-08-13T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:57:13","slug":"syria-terrorists-mercenaries-as-combat-troop-extention-in-proxy-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11686","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Terrorists, Mercenaries As Combat Troop Extention in Proxy War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syria: Terrorism As Weapon<\/strong>
\nAugust 13, 2012 – John Cherian – Stop NATO<\/p>\n

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The terror groups operating in the country have been lavishly funded and trained by Saudi Arabia and Qatar and also by Turkey and the U.S., two North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) allies. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking after the rebels had briefly seized two border crossings and massacred the soldiers manning the posts, said that cooperation with the armed rebels should increase. Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al Assadi told the media that the Turkey-based Free Syrian Army (FSA) \u201cexecuted 22 Syrian soldiers in front of the eyes of Iraqi soldiers\u201d after they briefly overran a border post at Abu Kamal, in eastern Syria, close to Iraq, in the third week of July.<\/p>\n

The Iraqi government has obviously drawn a parallel with what is happening across its borders to the recent terror attacks in Iraq. Many of the Iraqi \u201cjehadis\u201d have transformed themselves into Syrian freedom fighters.<\/p>\n

July became one of the bloodiest months for Syria as the foreign-backed armed groups made a concerted attempt to further destabilise the government led by Bashar al Assad. The terror attack on July 18, which claimed the lives of Defence Minister Dawoud Rahja and three senior officials (Assef Shawkat, deputy head of the Syrian Army and brother-in-law of Bashar al Assad; Hassan Turkmani, Chief of Crisis Operations; and Hisham Bakhtiar, head of Intelligence) who were in the forefront of the security drive to clear the armed groups from their strongholds, was indeed a serious blow to the government. The fact that the bombing occurred in the National Security Building where meetings are often chaired by the President himself is a serious cause for alarm as it could not have happened without the help of hostile foreign powers.<\/p>\n

The Turkish newspaper Habberturk reported that Israeli Intelligence played an important role in the attack. It quoted an unidentified former American intelligence analyst as saying that the \u201centire attack smelled of Mossad\u201d. Israeli President Shimon Peres has publicly stated that he wants the Syrian government to collapse. If a pro-Western government is installed in Damascus, then Israel can turn its full attention to Hizbollah, and the United States can focus on regime change in Iran.<\/p>\n

The Syrian government said that foreign powers were behind the attack and named \u201cQatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel\u201d as the countries responsible for the act of terror. A Reuters report in the last week of July said that a secret base located in Adana province near Turkey\u2019s border with Syria was the \u201cnerve centre\u201d from where operations to topple the government in Damascus were being launched. The U.S\u2019 military base of Incirlik is also based in Adana.<\/p>\n

The leaders of the countries ranged against Syria virtually applauded the terror attack. The U.S. State Department spokesman, while saying that Washington was against further bloodshed in Syria, \u201cnoted\u201d that those killed and injured \u201cwere key architects of the Assad regime\u2019s assault on the Syrian people\u201d. A palpable regret could be noticed in the statements issued by some governments that the primary target of the bombing \u2013 the President \u2013 was not among the casualties. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the American reaction to the Damascus blasts \u201cas a direct endorsement of terrorism\u201d. He said that the position Washington had adopted was \u201ca sinister one\u201d.<\/p>\n

The terror groups operating in the country have been lavishly funded and trained by Saudi Arabia and Qatar and also by Turkey and the U.S., two North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) allies. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking after the rebels had briefly seized two border crossings and massacred the soldiers manning the posts, said that cooperation with the armed rebels should increase. Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al Assadi told the media that the Turkey-based Free Syrian Army (FSA) \u201cexecuted 22 Syrian soldiers in front of the eyes of Iraqi soldiers\u201d after they briefly overran a border post at Abu Kamal, in eastern Syria, close to Iraq, in the third week of July. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Syria: Terrorism As Weapon August 13, 2012 – John Cherian – Stop NATO ==== The terror groups operating in the country have been lavishly funded and trained by Saudi Arabia and Qatar and also by Turkey and the U.S., two North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) allies. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking after the more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2000],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11687,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions\/11687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}