Word in Damascus is...

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...Abdel Hakim Belhaj, the head of al Qaeda in Libya (the Islamic Fighting Group in Libya) and the leader of the "rebels" who was named Military Governor of Tripoli after Gadhafi was slain, is now in Syria and has assumed the post of chief of the Free Syrian Army.

You reckon he's abetting the USSA/NATO just as much now in Syria as he did just months ago in Libya?

BTW: just as the military junta in Egypt facilitated the flow of USSA/NATO arms and expertise into Libya, Turkey is now mimicking their Muslim Brothers in that same role toward Syria...

BTW2: the Islamic Fighting Group in Libya - al Qaeda in Libya - is still on both the USSA State Department's and UN's terrorist groups list...

...and its members - with Belhaj being the most prominent one - are supposed to be arrested by any member State of the UN.

BTW3: while he's French and his politics are way too socialist for me, the writer was on the ground in Libya throughout virtually that whole ordeal.

Free Syrian Army commanded by Military Governor of Tripoli

by Thierry Meyssan

In the wake of the "Arab Spring" and NATO interventions, both official and secret, Qatar seeks to impose Islamist leaders wherever possible. This strategy has led it not only to fund the Muslim Brotherhood and to hand Al-Jazeera over to them, but also to support Al Qaeda mercenaries, who will henceforth oversee the Free Syrian Army. However, this new scenario raises serious concerns in Israel and among the supporters of the "clash of civilizations."

The UN Security Council members are at loggerheads over the interpretation of the events that are rocking Syria. On one hand, France, the United Kingdom and the United States claim that a revolution has swept the country, in the aftermath of the "Arab Spring", and suffering a bloody crackdown. On the other hand, Russia’s and China’s take is that Syria is having to cope with armed gangs from abroad, which it is fighting awkwardly thereby causing collateral victims among the civilian population it seeks to protect.

The on-the-spot investigation undertaken by Voltaire Network validated the latter interpretation [1]. We have collected eyewitness testimonies from those who survived an armed attack by a foreign gangs. They describe them as being Iraqis, Jordanians or Libyans, recognizable by their accent, as well as Pashtun.

In recent months, a certain number of Arab newspapers, favorable to the Al-Assad administration, discussed the infiltration into Syria of 600 to 1,500 fighters from the Islamic Fighting Group in Libya (IFGL), rebranded Al Qaeda in Libya since November 2007. In late November 2011, the Libyan press reported the attempt by the Zintan militia to detain Abdel Hakim Belhaj, companion of Osama Bin Laden [2] and historic leader of Al Qaeda in Libya, who became military governor of Tripoli by the grace of NATO [3]. The scene took place at Tripoli airport, as he was leaving for Turkey. Finally, Turkish newspapers mentioned Mr. Belhaj’s presence at the Turkish-Syrian.

Such reports have been met with disbelief on the part of all those who regard Al Qaeda and NATO are irreconcilable enemies between whom no cooperation is possible. Instead, they reinforce the thesis which I have defended since the attacks of September 11, 2001, that Al Qaeda fighters are mercenaries of the service of the CIA [4].

Who is telling the truth?

For the past week, the Spanish royalist newspaper ABC has published a daily report by photographer Daniel Iriarte. This journalist is with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the north of the country, right on the Turkish border. Iriarte champions the cause of the "revolution" and can never find words harsh enough against "Al-Assad regime."

The Free Syrian Army is made up of more than 20 00 people, according to its political chief Colonel Riyadh al-Asaad, but of only a few hundred when listening to the Syrian authorities [5].

However, in the Saturday edition dated 17 December 2011, Daniel Iriarte describes an encounter that shocked him. While his FSA friends were taking him to a new hideout, he came across some foreign insurgents: three Libyans [6].

The first one among them was al-Mahdi Hatari, a Libyan who lived in Ireland before joining Al Qaeda. At the end of the Libyan war, he was named commander of the Tripoli Brigade, then number 2 of the Tripoli Military Council headed by Abdel Hakim Belhaj. He resigned from this function, according to some because of a dispute with the Transitional National Council, according to others because he wanted to go back to Ireland to join his Irish wife [7] The truth is that he headed for Syria.

Even stranger: a member of Al Qaeda was among the pro-Palestinian activists, in June of last year, on board the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara. Numerous secret service agents, especially US, had infiltrated the "Freedom Flotilla" [8]. He was wounded and held prisoner for nine days in Israel.

Finally, during the Battle of Tripoli, al-Mahdi Harati commanded the Al Qaeda group that besieged and attacked the Rixos hotel, where I was staying with my Voltaire Network companions and the international press, and whose basement served as a shelter for the leaders of the Jamahiriya under the protection of the custody of Khamis Gaddafi [9]. According to the latter, Mahdi al-Harati was being briefed by the French officers on the ground.

The second Libyan that the Spanish photographer in the Syrian army is none other than Kikli Adem, a lieutenant of Abdel Hakim Belhaj. As for the third Libyan, nicknamed Fouad, Daniel Iriarte was not in a position to identify him.

Iriarte’s testimony dovetails with what the Arab anti-Syrian press has been claiming for weeks: the Free Syrian Army is overseen by at least 600 "volunteers" from Al Qaeda in Libya [10]. The entire operation is run by Abdel Hakim Belhaj in person with the help of the Erdogan government.

How can it be explained that a daily newspaper as anti-Assad as ABC has decided to publish the testimony of its special envoy, who sheds light on the nauseating methods employed by NATO and confirms the Syrian government’s thesis of armed destabilization? The fact is that for a week, certain advocates of the clash of civilizations have been riling against a set-up which includes Islamic extremists in a "free world" strategy.

Writing on CNBC Guest Blog [11], former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar revealed on 9 December 2011 that Abdel Hakim Belhaj was suspected of complicity in the attacks of 11 March 2004 in Madrid [12], an event that put an end to Aznar’s political career.

Mr. Aznar’s outing goes hand in hand with the intervention made by his friends from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, the think tank headed by former Israeli ambassador to the UN Dore Gold [13]. They publicly voice their doubts about the validity of the current CIA strategy to place Islamists in power throughout North Africa. Their criticism is aimed against the secret society of the Muslim Brotherhood, but also against two Libyan figures: Abel Hakim Belhadj and his friend Sheikh Ali Al-Salibi. The latter is regarded as the new leader of Libya [14]. The two men are deemed to be the pawns of Qatar in the new Libya [15]. It was also Sheikh Salabi who distributed $ 2 billion of Qatari funds to help Al-Qaeda in Libya [16].

Thus the contradiction that was desperately kept hidden for the past decade returns to the surface: the mercenaries, formerly paid by Osama Bin Laden, have never stopped working in the service of US strategic interests since the first war in Afghanistan, including the period of the September 11 attacks. Yet they are portrayed ​​by Western leaders as implacable enemies.

It is likely that the objections of Mr. Aznar and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs will be overridden by NATO, as were those raised by AFRICOM commander General Carter Ham. At the beginning of the war Libya, he was incensed at having to protect jihadists who had gone to slaughter GIs in Iraq.

Detached from reality, the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee (aka "Committee pursuant to resolution 1267") and the US Department of State still have on their black list the organization of Abdel Hakim Belhaj and Sheik Salabi under its former label of Islamic Fighting Group in Libya. It would appear that is it the duty of every State to arrest these individuals if they enter their territory.

http://www.voltairenet.org/Free-Syrian-Army-commanded-by

 

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al-Mahdi Hatari seems almost certainly a CIA man.

The Irish tabloid the Sunday World featured a weird story in which travellers robbed a house of 200,000 euros - Hatari's house - and he explained that the money was a gift from grateful US secret service agents. I kid you not.

http://www.sundayworld.com/columnists/index.php?aid=9335

Patrick

 

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Here's more info re: the OP from a month ago...

Al-Qaeda Terrorists Airlifted From Libya to Aid Syrian Opposition

Weapons and fighters sent to support overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad

http://www.prisonplanet.com/al-qaeda-terrorists-airlifted-from-libya-to-aid-syrian-opposition.html

There's quite obviously been a change on the ground in Syria...

...the government is now being attacked in classic al Qaeda style:

“Two booby-trapped cars blew up at Syrian security sites in Damascus on Friday, state television said, and witnesses heard large blasts rock the capital, with Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV reporting that 30 people were killed in the blasts and 55 were wounded,” reports Haaretz.

The plausibility of terrorists targeting the Syrian regime is perfectly viable given the fact that hundreds of Libyan rebels, commanded by Abdulhakim Belhadj, a committed jihadist who fought with the Taliban against U.S. troops in Afghanistan, were airlifted into Syria last month to aid the opposition in carrying out attacks against government forces.

http://www.infowars.com/western-backed-terrorists-kill-30-in-syria-attacks/

Plus...

...I read two independent but similar reports a couple of weeks ago on this same development:

US Special Forces Mass On Syrian Border [in Jordon]

Troops airlifted out of Iraq to face Assad’s forces

http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-special-forces-mass-on-syrian-border.html

And...

...I'm offering this pic 'cause it's badazz and I'm pretty sure there'll be at least a few of these most quiet of professionals manning this same position somewhere in Syria on Christmas Day:

http://wapedia.mobi/thumb/25d7510/en/fixed/470/262/US_Navy_070907-N-6477M-113_A_U.S._Special_Forces_Soldier_conducts_rehearsal%252C_training_and_pre-operation_conformation_on_the_MK_12_sniper_rifle.jpg?format=jpg

 

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Angry Syrians bury Damascus bombing dead

By Mariam Karouny

BEIRUT | Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:22am EST


(Reuters) - Thousands of Syrians chanted "Death to America" on Saturday during funeral processions in Damascus for at least 44 people killed in twin suicide bombings that rocked the capital.

Syria blamed al Qaeda for the blasts which hit two security buildings on Friday and came a day after an Arab League delegation arrived to prepare for monitors who will report on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's implementation of a plan to end the bloodshed.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/24/us-syria-funerals-idUSTRE7BN08W20111224

Obama now employing Sunni al Qaeda against the Shi'ite Syrian government...

 

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Whose Spring? The CIA's Hand In The Rise of Islamists And International Terrorist Groups

http://english.al-akhbar.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/5cols/leading_images/Free_Syrian_Army_Main_pic_2.jpg
Members of the Free Syrian Army​

"The pattern of Washington working in unison with multinational, cross-border armed extremists - with, if the word has any meaning, terrorists - has now been revealed as a global phenomenon." - Rick Rozoff, "U.S. Implementing Afghanistan And Kosovo Models For Syria."

"The New York Times in their article, "C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition," confirms what many have already long known - that the West, led by the US and its Gulf State proxies, have been arming terrorists, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, while berating the Syrian government for "violating" a UN mandated ceasefire and for "failing to protect" its population.

The Muslim Brotherhood has been combated by nations across the Arab World to stem the tide of their sectarian extremism, violence, and their targeted erosion of secular nation-states. Ironically, the US which has claimed to have been fighting the forces of sectarian extremism and "terrorism" for over a decade now, have been revealed as the primary enabler of the most violent and extreme terrorist organizations in the world. These include, in addition to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) in Libya, Baluch terrorists in Pakistan, and the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) currently based in Iraq and being used as proxies against Iran." - Tony Cartalucci, "CONFIRMED: US CIA Arming Terrorists in Syria."

"Apparently, the CIA, Mossad and the Muslim Brotherhood are all close friends." - Aangirfan, "Who Loves The Muslim Brotherhood?"

It is curious that the people who opposed U.S. imperialism in Iraq and criticized the Bush administration for manipulating world public opinion to legitimize the U.S. invasion are now supporting U.S. imperialism in Syria and defend the Obama administration's policy of regime change in that country.

What changed?

The story changed.

The story that's been sold to the world is focused around a fake "Syrian revolution" against the current government. Liberal dupes who opposed Bush's war against Iraq on the grounds that it was an illegal war based on false intelligence are supporting Obama's war against Syria, and they feel confident that they are on the right side of history for doing so.

It is a stunning and shameless turnaround, and proves that the political entity known as "The Left" in Western politics is without honour, principles, intelligence, courage, consistency, and integrity.

Policy-wise, there is no difference that separates the Bush administration from the Obama administration in their approach to the Middle East. Regime change is the name of the game. Financing and arming terrorists is done by the CIA, Mossad, and their Arab clients at the word go. Washington's goal is to destabilize Syria, overthrow the regime, and split Syrian society apart.

Dupes describe what is happening in Syria a "revolution" against a tyrant. The reality is that Washington is conducting an illegal war against Syria and is responsible for mass murder, terrorism, and Hitlerian war crimes.

Contrary to popular opinion in the West, Assad is not hated by the Syrian people. There is more anti-Obama sentiment in America than there is anti-Assad sentiment in Syria. The "Syrian opposition" is a mysterious composition. It consists of, "a small collection of mercenaries, foreign fighters, and sectarian extremists, armed, funded, and directed by foreign interests solely to wreak havoc within Syria," writes Tony Cartalucci.

~ full story here:

http://disquietreservations.blogspot.ca/2012/06/whose-spring-cias-hand-in-rise-of.html

Do you remember who facilitated and nurtured the birth of al Qaeda?

When will the American people realize that when they allow one hand to become stained by the blood of innocents...

...the other hand cannot remain clean?