The Convenient “Confessions”
This morning a very small and toubling story appeared on the BBC.
It details how Iraqi rebels confessed to being directed and sent from Syria. As US pressure increases on Bashar & Co. in the wake of the Hariri assassination, in which no evidence has been marshalled of Syrian involvement, it appears certain interests are preparing a multi-layered smear campaign against the Syrian government.
To quote:
A US-funded Iraqi television station has aired what it says are confessions by Iraqi insurgents who claim to have been backed by Syrian intelligence.
Appearing on al-Iraqiya TV, the men say they were trained and financed by Syrian intelligence. The claims could not be independently verified.
The US accuses Syria of sheltering Saddam Hussein loyalists and allowing insurgents to cross borders.
Pressure has also mounted on Syria over an assassination in Beirut last week.
While the US has stopped short of blaming Syria for the bomb attack which killed Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik Hariri, calls have intensified for Damascus to pull its troops out of Lebanon.
‘Cause chaos’
The allegations made by the apparent rebels on al-Iraqiya TV would, if verified, back US and Iraqi claims of Syrian meddling in Iraq’s affairs.
A man who was identified as Syrian intelligence officer Lt Anas Ahmed al-Essa said he and his group had been recruited to “cause chaos in Iraq… to bar America from reaching Syria,” the Associated Press reported.
“We received all the instructions from Syrian intelligence,” he said in the video broadcast.
He claimed he infiltrated Iraq two years before the US-led invasion, because Syrian intelligence were convinced the US would invade.
This is just all too convenient.
I can see that US citizen, servant of neo-con power, and wanna-be Chalabi - Farid Ghadry - sitting in Washington smiling. Saddly, those willing to use any excuse to ideologically and strategically marginalize Syria in the region and in future peace talks will employ this Khara to prove their points.
We know….WMDs, uranium from Niger, and a capability to launch an attack in 45 minutes.
And failing that its all about democracy.
Categories: Syria.
in the same perspective, Joumblat the Druze leader and on e of the frontrmen of the pro american opposition in Lebanon is openly attacking hizbollah in the french “Liberation” newspaper. He described the resistance in Lebanon aas being dangerous and frightening. At the same Time and talking to the WPO this time, Joumblat reffered the the US invasion of Iraq as the start of a peridoe of change, and as a spark of democracy, chearing for the elections that were held in Iraq.
Things are becoming clearer with the day.
Juan Cole has a field day with the al-Iraqiya broadcast–as phony as a 3-dollar bill.
Fine with me.
Syria is using the Israeli-occupied territories as a cause to hold power. In a recent interview, Mubarak said that Israel, during Rabin, has offered to return everything to Syria but Syria refused to have an Israeli embassy in exchange.
The link in Arabic:
http://www.alarabiya.net/Article.aspx?v=9658#7
When I knew this, and I don’t think that Mubarak was lying in such a serious issue, I understood much more what kind of leaders we, the Muslim Arabs, have.
Also, let’s not forget that Syria has bombed Hama, a Syrian city killing 20,000 people. Also, let’s not forget the “extraordinary rendition” process where “terrorists” are sent to Syria for interrogation.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/courtwatch/main674973.shtml
So, when the Capitalist Democratic Empire starts harrassing the Ba’athist Syria, whether for just and true causes or not, I have no problem.
With all due respect but the fact that Syria refuses to have a one sided deal with Isreal and demands that any deal should also adress the palestinian issues and those of Lebanon is something that speaks in Favour of Syria and not against it. If ASyria was hypocritical on the issue os standing against teh Isrealis Syria would easily do what Sadat did and get back its Golan with billions of US aid and say to hell with the rest. The fact that this dioesnt Happen, is very much a medal on the chest of the regime, maybe the only one considering its appauling Human rights record.
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