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03-24-2013, 11:42 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSZHEMcn5bw
‘We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day’

Excerpt from a speech given by John F Kennedy to the ‘American Publishers Society’ where he elaborates on the employment of underhanded tactics by the PGA specifically via the PR Industry

Jumblatt then told me that he had met with Vice-President Cheney in Washington last fall to discuss, among other issues, the possibility of undermining Assad. He and his colleagues advised Cheney that, if the United States does try to move against Syria, members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood would be “the ones to talk to,” Jumblatt said.

Excerpt from ‘The Redirection’ by Seymour Hersh, Jumblatt is the leader of the PSP party in Lebanon.

When looking back two years ago to the youthful, secular revolts which swept across Africa and the Middle East blossoming in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Syria one wonders where these once dynamic forces have disappeared to and what they’ve been replaced by. Egypt is a telling example, take Wael Ghonim, the bright young computer engineer who was heavily involved with the social networking of the Egyptian revolution. in 2011 on what was declared the Day of Victory for the Egyptians, when going to the podium to speak he was disallowed by Muslim Brotherhood officials who instead allowed radical islamist Yusuf Al Qardawi, who was until then exiled by Nasser, to monopolise the podium[1]. The Newly Salafi dominated governments of Libya, Egypt and (with enough blindness on our part) Syria, shows how the once colourful secular Arab Spring has been hijacked; how the hijacking took place is something we will later explore.

The Arab Spring, post the West catching up, is a hijacked opportunity to re-assert the nodes of western hegemony in and around the Middle East; the cooperation of certain parties such as the Emir of Qatar and the Saudi Sudairi family act as the missing pieces completing a, what was once, obscure jigsaw. Consequently the NATO/GCC’s new groove broadens to fit into the Arab Spring Remix ft The West. Opening up with the defiant chants which dropped Mubarak from number one the not so harmonious rebel yell emerges, however, many times, these are not your ordinary kinda rebel; think Allende vs Pinochet. Hard wired to the data-base aka al-Qaeda these rebels are singing from an altogether different music sheet, they’re also of course pretty in with the PGA in a ‘you make a kill, we make a killing’ kinda way.

Although the PGA are well versed in orchestrating overtly what they desire to achieve whether it be regime change or cover-ups they still operate in their age old fashion of subversion and guerrillas and, as is well documented, they can exercise both methods simultaneously. However the response to the Arab uprising has been fashioned in the nature of the latter, a nature which is explained succinctly in the introductory quote by John F Kennedy, when he speaks on the PGA, ‘we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day’[2]. These Guerrilla armies are the hoards of Salafi Jihadists swarming into Syria via Turkey/Lebanon flooded with Saudi cash and Libyan/Lebanese weapons[3][4] and now flooding into North Africa in the same fashion.

The thing about working with Al Qaeda however is that they do live up to the ‘menace of the east’ persona which took the careful work of personalities like Bill O Reilly to create. In a sticky accelerator kind of way you can direct the forces of the mujahedeen but you can’t always reign it in. Take Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia who flushed with cash and with the help of Bin Laden fought the reds in Afghanistan; unable to stop the raw power of this militancy, and under the guidance of Osama, the militants went on to fight their overarching enemy, western interference.

The more recent examples are the AQIM in Mali or the Islamist insurgency in Libya, under the name Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (Al Qaeda in Libya). This group operated in conjunction with UK secret services and Special Forces to topple Gaddafi, a relationship illustrated most explicitly through the figure of Belhadj. Belhadj, the new military governor of Tripoli is an ex al Qaeda asset who after taking arms against Allied forces in Afghanistan, being detained by Gaddafi and then tortured by the U.S found himself leading LIFG fighters alongside the allied forces, a glaringly paradoxical affair[5]. However the utilisation of this militancy just as with Bandar’s army backfired most vividly with the explosion of the U.S Consulate and the killing of the U.S ambassador Christopher Stevens by the same forces who removed Gaddafi and facilitated Stevens entry.

Left, lifeless body of Gaddafi overlooked by Christopher Stevens. Right, lifeless body of Christopher Stevens, both died at the hands of the very same radicals insurgents.

Belhadj turns out to be the gift that keeps giving as we learn that Belhadj himself met with Free Syrian Army leaders in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey ,and that Mustafa Abdul Jalil (the interim Libyan president) sent him there [6]. It soon becomes clear that the SNC/FSA axis complete with its PGA funded rebels were never a force for good, accepting political training, funding and weapons from old and new PGA states including the NATO installed client regime of Libya which is facilitated by the United States Institute for Peace, who by no surprise have already began their post-Assad plan for Syria with their Transition Strategy Document[7].

The Salafi element of the PGA funded rebels who have been committing war crimes in Syria are in fact coming in their hundreds from none another than Libya, who will continue to serve the interest of its parasitic host.

The SNC which was the first official Syrian opposition, recognized by numerous UN member states soon became mired in controversy, rightly so since it differed in no way to the current corrupt regime; full of political and business opportunists, utilizing nepotism and corruption. In fact it’s worth noting that the SNC leader Radwan Ziadeh was a senior fellow on the designated American think tank formulating post Assad Syria, showing that Radwan and the opposition whom he represented were/are already talking for the wrong side[8].

The SNC whose initial momentum was owed primarily to a French and Qatari joint effort, led by the French DGSE and financed by Qatar, were soon hung up in favor of the National Coalition for Opposition Forces and the Syrian Revolution. This new group were formed amidst an international clamor to throw the PGA behind a group with some sort of reputation. Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah best describes what happened in Doha where this opposition group was formed; they met in Doha, locked themselves in a hotel to form a new group and did what Clinton and America wanted[9].

Amr Al Azm, associate professor of Middle East History and Anthropology at Shawnee State University in Ohio, provides a poignant analysis for Syria Comment, an online blog, explaining that the new opposition is a myriad nest of old troublemakers who are responsible for war crimes, former SNC figures who have been involved in the massacres which organization such as Human Rights Watch have brought to the fore [10].

Azm with great optimism concludes his report hoping that (in regards to the new opposition) It will not take them long to conclude that due to the unfortunate overpopulation of SNC members in the new coalition, the virus that struck down the SNC has been transferred to the new coalition and that it is now stricken with the same malaise[11]. This domination is due to the fact that the SNC were earmarked 22 of the 51 seats in the new council but have collected seats outside of this designation with people who don’t openly affiliate themselves with the SNC, but do.

Another important position in this new Syrian council, often un-discussed, is that of the Secretary General, a position currently inhabited by Mustapha Sabagh, Head of the Syrian Business Men Group. Azm suggests that the position would carry sweeping powers to rival even those of the head of the coalition Moaz Al-Khatib and was seen as a principle demand made by the Qataris.

But what about this genuine homegrown rebellion against Assad that often goes unreported and unrepresented, they don’t hold seats in the new Doha sponsored opposition but they continue to fight. Disconnected but determined they are the real rebels, these are the Syrians who ‘without the aid of the international community, are largely doing it themselves’[12] as David enders explains to Democracy Now.

Which brings us succinctly back to the aim of the game ‘topple the decrepit diktat’ but no, it’s not to restore direct democracy or re-distribute the wealth amongst the masses Mossadegh style, it’s more like, privatise, open up and re-structure super-cooperative Shah style with the PGA as the leading light.

[1]http://www.examiner.com/article/egypt-iconic-revolution-figure-wael-ghonim-barred-from-speaking-tahrir-square

[2] Excerpt from a John F Kennedy Speech to the society of American Publishers.

[3]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/8917265/Libyas-new-rulers-offer-weapons-to-Syrian-rebels.html

[4]http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/exclusive-inside-future-movements-syria-arms-trade

[5]http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/opinion/14572-the-libyan-quagmire

[6]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8919057/Leading-Libyan-Islamist-met-Free-Syrian-Army-opposition-group.html#

[7]http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/07/20/inside_the_secret_effort_to_plan_for_a_post_assad_ syria#.

[8]http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/12/syrian-opposition-doing-the-talking

[9]http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/12/249215.html

[10]http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/17/syria-end-opposition-use-torture-executions

[11]http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/?p=16730&cp=all

[12] http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/19/back_from_syria_reporter_david_enders
http://occupynewsnetwork.co.uk/exclusive-onn-report-the-ongoing-syrian-civil-war-syria-libya-2-0-part-four/

Long story short Christopher Stevens got what he deserved, if you step outside of range from statist propagandist media everything starts to make sense in short order.