Tony
Cartalucci
In 2007, the Wall Street
Journal published an article titled, “
To Check Syria,
U.S. Explores Bond With Muslim Brothers.” And even then, it was noted that
the Brotherhood held close links with groups the US recognizes and lists as
terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Al Qaeda.
The report gives a disturbing foreshadowing of US support that would
eventually see the Muslim Brotherhood rise as both a political and terroristic
power across the Arab World, after decades of hard-fought attempts to crush the
sectarian extremist organization everywhere from Tunisia to Syria, from Egypt to
Libya, to Jordan, and beyond. In fact, the 2007 Wall Street Journal article
specifically noted that the US partnership could “destabilize governments in
Jordan and Egypt, two US allies where the Brotherhood is a growing opposition
force.”
Egypt is now run by a
sectarian-extremist Muslim Brotherhood dictatorship,
after
the US incited unrest there in 2011, while Jordan is seeing increasing
unrest led by the Jordanian arm of the Brotherhood.
What is also disturbing about the 2007 report, is that it shows how allegedly
“Bush-era” policies transcended the 2000-2008 administration and continued in
earnest under President Obama.
The report, written by Jay
Solomon, echoes similar foreshadowing of the coming violent sectarian bloodbath
now engulfing Syria, found in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s
New Yorker piece titled, “
The
Redireciton: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the
war on terrorism?“
Solomon begins by stating:
On a humid afternoon in late May, about 100 supporters of Syria’s largest
exile opposition group, the National Salvation Front, gathered outside
Damascus’s embassy here to protest Syrian President Bashar Assad’s rule. The
participants shouted anti-Assad slogans and raised banners proclaiming: “Change
the Regime Now.”
Later in the article, it would be revealed that the National Salvation Front
(NSF) was in contact with the US State Department and that a Washington-based
consulting firm in fact assisted the NSF in organizing the rally:
In the weeks before the presidential election, the State Department’s Middle
East Partnership Initiative, which promotes regional democracy, and NSF members
met to talk about publicizing Syria’s lack of democracy and low voter turnout,
participants say. A Washington-based consulting firm, C&O Resources Inc.,
assisted the NSF in its planning for the May 26 anti-Assad rally at the Syrian
embassy, providing media and political contacts. State Department officials
stress they provided no financial or technical support to the
protestors.
Just
like the Arab Spring, what was in fact foreign-backed sedition, was peddled
publicly by professional PR firms with the help of a bought-off, complicit
corporate media, as a “pro-democracy” uprising.
And while the Wall Street Journal then, just as the US State Department and
the Western media houses are now portraying the Syrian opposition as
representing a wide range of interests across Syrian society, it was admitted
then, just as it is plainly obvious now, that the sectarian extremist Muslim
Brotherhood was in fact at the very center of the “uprising:”
One of the NSF’s most influential members is the Syrian branch of the Muslim
Brotherhood — the decades-old political movement active across the Middle East
whose leaders have inspired the terrorist groups Hamas and al Qaeda. Its Syrian
offshoot says it has renounced armed struggle in favor of democratic
reform.
The article would describe
a fractured, disorganized opposition, must like the 2011 “National Syrian
Council” (NSC) and its more recent
US-Qatari
contrived reincarnation, the “National Coalition,” whose only common
denominator and prevailing ideology was and still is the
sectarian extremism
practiced by the Muslim Brotherhood. Similarly, the current “National Coalition”
is headed by Moaz al-Khatib who,
on
Qatari state-owned Al Jazeera, openly admitted his aspirations of
establishing an “Islamic State” in place of Syria’s current secular society.
Al-Khatib also
vigorously
protested the US’ listing of Al Qaeda terrorist franchisee, Al Nusra, who is
openly fighting as part of Al-Khatib’s “National Coalition.”
These are the “freedom
fighters” then and now, that the US has been supporting, funding, and in fact
arming. The most recent accusation of the US arming known-terrorists
came
from retired US Army General and former Special Forces Commander, William G.
Boykin, who claimed the US is not only arming terrorists in Syria, but they
are doing so by running guns through
the
terror emirate of Benghazi, Libya.
From the
pan-Arab
logistical networks NATO is using to flood Syria with weapons and
terrorists, to the current leadership of the so-called opposition, and with
documented evidence from 2007 of a US conspiracy to prop up the Muslim
Brotherhood and other known, violent extremist groups in Syria to overthrow the
government, it is clear that every aspect of the US’, UK’s, NATO’s, and even the
UN’s narrative regarding the conflict in Syria is an intentional fabrication.
Furthermore, it indicates a much wider deception – one involving the
misconception that presidential elections bring in both new leadership, and new
policies. The wars engineered under Bush, are being carried out under Obama, by
the same policy makers from the very same
corporate-funded
think-tanks that handed Bush his agenda years ago.
With French, British, and
now US troops becoming
increasingly involved in Mali, allegedly fighting terrorists with direct
connections to the fighters armed, funded, and given diplomatic recognition by
the West in Libya, and with the conflict already spilling over the borders with
Algeria, one must recognize that an agenda is being carried out contra to both
the will of the people and their best interests. Identifying the
corporate-financier interests involved in this agenda, and both boycotting
and replacing them with
local alternatives is our only recourse. Clearly – as illustrated in the
case with the non-transition, continuity of agenda between “right-wing”
Republican Bush and “left-wing” Democrat Obama – elections don’t count. As
proven with the “Arab Spring” and the US underwritten protests of the NSF –
protests don’t either.
River to Sea Uprooted Palestinian
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