Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Syria: US/UK/Saudi Arabia Want Assad Out

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How Saudis Are Working Obama Over To Attack Syria

August 27th, 2013 • 8:47 AM
An AP article carried by the Wall Street Journal [1] on Aug. 26 shows the role of Saudi intelligence chief Bandar bin-Sultan in leading the Obama administration, with the help of some of U.S. legislators, to attack Syria and remove Bashar al-Assad. Bandar did all that because "he could deliver what the CIA couldn't: planeloads of money and arms, and, as one U.S. diplomat put it, wasta, Arabic for under-the-table clout."
It is evident that the plan was put into motion months ago when Bandar began "jetting from covert command centers near the Syrian front lines to the Élysée Palace in Paris and the Kremlin in Moscow, seeking to undermine the Assad regime," Arab, American, and European officials told the authors. The target of Bandar was the Damascus suburbs as part of the "southern strategy" of the Saudis for strengthening the rebels in that area where the chemical weapons have been allegedly used recently.
Bandar, who was involved in the 1980s Contra operation— drugs for arms—does not visit Washington, but brings in influential U.S. legislators to Turkey and Saudi Arabia to make his case. It is his wasta, again.
He is the closest Saudi confidant of the new CIA chief, John Brennan, who has been in periodic contact by phone with Prince Bandar, officials told the authors. Bandar found early support from Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. He set up a rare one-on-one meeting for one of them, then-Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.), with King Abdullah in Riyadh. Sen. Nelson said he told the king that if regional powers pulled together with a common strategy, it would be easier for the U.S. to become a partner.
"In September 2012, Sens. McCain and Graham, who were in Istanbul, went to a meeting at an opulent hotel suite on the banks of the Bosporus. Mr. McCain said he made the case to Prince Bandar that the rebels weren't getting the kinds of weapons they needed, and the prince, in turn, described the kingdom's plans. The senator said that in succeeding months he saw a 'dramatic increase in Saudi involvement, hands-on, by Bandar,'" the article said.
Also, when U.S. intelligence agencies saw worrisome signs that Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia, in response to the influx of Saudi arms, were ramping up support to Assad, Bandar used his wasta. With the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ready to back arming the rebels, Bandar turned his attention to skeptics on the House and Senate intelligence committees. Saudis arranged a trip for committee leaders, which included Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D- Calif.), to Riyadh, where Prince Bandar laid out the Saudi strategy. "It was a reunion of sorts," officials told the authors.
In Washington Bandar works through Saudi Ambassador to Washington Adel al-Jubeir, who, according to the article, has used his access to policy makers, including the President, to push the message that U.S. inaction would lead to greater Middle East instability down the road, American officials told the authors.

"Drinking More Koolaid: Where Is the Proof in Syria?''

August 27th, 2013 • 9:13 AM
This morning, Col. Patrick Lang (USA, Ret) posted the following item on his website [1], delivering a strong condemnation of the drive for war against Syria. The following is the text:
"I wrote "Drinking the Koolaid." It was published in "Middle East Policy" in 2004. The article is analysis of the deliberate deception employed by the Bush Administration in lying the United States into war with Iraq.
"The same methods are being used now to drag the American people into another Middle Eastern war. The corporate, self-serving media are leading the effort to "brainwash" Americans into acceptance of war against Syria.
"The latest polling indicates that there is little support among Americans for ANY KIND of military intervention in Syria. Perhaps people are tired of being lied to.
"I seldom agree with Eliot Cohen but he has an opinion piece linked to below in today's Washington Post in which he sensibly makes the point that Air Power is a brittle instrument and that the use of any level of missile strike against Syria will inevitably lead to greater and greater measures in order to avoid the appearance of weakness that failure of effect will create. Richard Haas, president of the CFR, said today that polling indicating a 25% level of support in the USA for intervention is flawed because the polling might suggest a big war and Haas thinks it will be a small war.
"Where is the proof that the Syrian government killed all these people in the eastern suburbs of Damascus? Where is the proof? Show us the proof. The Obama Administration says it has no doubt. This is a matter of war and peace, of life or death. Show us the proof. Senator Corker stated this weekend that all the social media indicate that the Syrian government is guilty. Is that the proof? Social media?
"'Based on photographs, videos and witness accounts that emerged last week, U.S. officials said they have little doubt that Assad's forces carried out the attack.'
"Is that the "proof?"
"We can't be shown the proof because of "sources and methods?" BS. The USG was eager to display satellite photography before it invaded Iraq. Let's see the incriminating pictures. Do they have SIGINT indicating a command to use to such weapons? Issues of war and peace require the disclosure of intelligence secrets. Do the rebels say that the government did it? That would be interesting.
"Is there a "Syria Group" to match the Bushies "Iraq Group?" pl."

Lavrov at Emergency Press Conference on Syria: West Is on a "Dangerous and Slippery Path"

August 27th, 2013 • 9:06 AM
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday held a previously unscheduled press conference [1], to speak to "what is happening in and around Syria." Opening it, he stated the Russian government's position: "We are extremely concerned about the current situation. Hysteria is brimming over and a confrontation is being incited over allegations that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on August 21 in Huta. Under this pretext, there is a massive buildup of military assets in the region, as well as calls and even threats to use military force against the Bashar al-Assad regime. Washington, London, and Paris are officially stating that they have incontrovertible information and proof that the Syrian authorities are guilty. They cannot now produce such proof, yet they are saying more and more loudly that a 'red line' has been crossed and that there must be to further delay."
Lavrov said that these statements run counter to the G8's Loch Erne agreement [2] that any accusations about chemical weapons use should be meticulously investigated by the United Nations. Concerning the recent incident, Lavrov said that such investigation must include the numerous reports circulating in the Internet, such as charges that the chemical-attack photos appeared online before it was supposed to have happened. He questioned why the Western powers have suddenly become so concerned about the preservation of evidence, in contrast to the lack of such concern last March when insurgents fired a poison-loaded missile in Khan al-Asal.
Like many Russian officials and commentators, Lavrov asked what interest the Assad government would have had in using chemical weapons at the very moment it had welcomed the UN expert mission of Ake Sellstrom to Damascus. He said it was also suspicious at the coincidence of the chemical attack with Russian-American preparations for their latest consultations on convening a Geneva Conference. "On the whole, the course of events confirms that the minute the slightest chance appears of a political settlement process taking hold, attempts are made at regime change by force, in order to subvert these chances." Lavrov reviewed a chronology showing the willingness of the Syrian government to take part in talks for a peaceful resolution of the conflicts in the country.
The Russian foreign minister described his call to Secretary of State John Kerry, urging coordinated efforts to bring all parties in Syria into a peace process. This is far preferable, he added, to "what we have experienced in the cases of Iraq and Libya. In no instance has armed outside intervention led to the restoration of security or the improvement of life for a country, or to stabilization of the region as a whole. On the contrary, the region has now been destabilized to a practically unprecedented degree."
Asked whether Russia has a "Plan B", including military action, in the event the West intervenes unilaterally, Lavrov replied: "The use of force without UNSC authorization is a gross violation of international law. ... I underscore again that, even if we set aside the legal and moral side of the matter, the specific consequences of outside intervention, not sanctioned by the international community, can only lead to a sharp deterioration of the situation in a country that supposedly needs to be saved from dictatorship so that democracy may be established. I have heard with great alarm the statements coming from Paris and London, that NATO could intervene to destroy chemical weapons in Syria without UNSC authorization. This is a very dangerous and slippery path, and one onto which our Western partners have already stepped several times. I hope that common sense may still prevail."
Lavrov said that "the true motives of our Western partners are difficult to understand," given the outcomes of intervention in Iraq and Libya. He said he had asked Kerry directly, "What is your plan?" but that the latter's reply had been "narrow" — another demand for Russia and China to help stop the spread of chemical weapons.
A couple of years ago, Lavrov said, leaders in the West were constantly demanding that Russia and China get onto "the right side of history," referring to democratization. "Somehow, for the last six months or year, I don't remember anybody talking about 'the right side of history' any more." The outcome of the unrest in the Middle East is unpredictable, said Lavrov, but "if somebody conceived of this as a process of 'managed chaos,' only the second of those two words remains." He said that even if there is no "plot" behind all the West's activities in the region, the current apparently ad hoc policies, instead of "the comprehensive and logical policy that is needed," are leading to crazy decisions: "As I told my friend [French Foreign Minister] L. Fabius, the French in Mali helped fight against terrorist groups, which the French themselves had armed and supported in Libya."
Lavrov reported that Kerry had promised, after their "lengthy" conversation on Aug. 25, "to study our arguments carefully once again." The foreign minister's press conference included detailed discussion of many specific political elements of the Syrian political situation, as well as evidence and contradictions involved in the Aug. 21 chemical attack.

THE END OF THE LONDON/RIYADH TERROR AXIS

Overview

The U.S. remains under threat of future attacks not simply because of terrorist elements themselves, but due to the continuing complicity of President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush, in covering up for the British-Saudi elements that made 9-11 possible. If another major terrorist attack like what happened to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, or the armed assault on the Benghazi, Libya U.S. Mission occurs, you can blame it on George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the British and Saudi monarchies. The wellspring of all significant international terrorism today is the Anglo-Saudi imperial alliance, expressed most vividly in the 1985 Al-Yamamah arrangements between London and Riyadh that persist to this day.
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