Syrian rebel commanders have boasted that the US military helped them overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad.
They acknowledged this in a report published by major British newspaper The Telegraph, titled “US ‘prepared Syrian rebel group to help topple Bashar al-Assad’”.
The article revealed that a rebel group armed, trained, and funded by the United States, based in the south of Syria, collaborated with rebranded al-Qaeda in the north to jointly topple the Syrian government.
According to the report, the US military helped to create a Syrian militia called the Revolutionary Commando Army (RCA). The US and UK armed and trained the RCA. The Pentagon paid its fighters a salary of $400 per month, which The Telegraph noted was “nearly 12 times what the soldiers in the now defunct Syrian army were paid”. (This was because illegal unilateral Western sanctions on Syria had crushed the country’s economy, causing high rates of inflation that decimated local purchasing power.)
The US military knew that an offensive was being planned to topple Assad, The Telegraph reported. The Pentagon pressured disparate rebel groups and mercenaries in southern Syria to unify behind the US-funded RCA.
In the lead-up to the assault, which was launched in November 2024, US military officers met with Syrian rebel commanders in the Al-Tanf base that the US had built on the border with Iraq.
The Pentagon told the Syrian rebels to “be ready” for the impending offensive. An RCA commander recalled in an interview with The Telegraph, “We were just told: ‘Everything is about to change. This is your moment. Either Assad will fall, or you will fall’”.
While the United States was overseeing the Syrian rebel operations in the south, NATO member Turkey was doing the same in the north.
When extremist Salafi-jihadist rebels took over Syria’s second-most populous city, Aleppo, in late November, French state media outlet France 24 reported, “Opposition sources in touch with Turkish intelligence said Turkey, which supports the rebels, had given a green light to the offensive”.
US allied with Al-Qaeda in Syria
Washington claims the fighters it sponsored in Syria were so-called “moderate rebels”, but they were in fact allied with rebranded Al-Qaeda.
The Telegraph wrote that there is evidence that “indicates not only that Washington knew about the offensive led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which toppled the Assad regime on Dec 8, but that it had precise intelligence about its scale”.
HTS is a rebranded version of Syrian Al-Qaeda, which was previously called Jabhat al-Nusra, before it changed its name in 2017.
An RCA commander said his US-backed rebel group and HTS “were co-operating, and communication between the two forces was being co-ordinated by the Americans at Al-Tanf”, The Telegraph reported.
The British newspaper noted the “irony” that “the US has been in an effective alliance with a group like HTS, which was al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria until it broke away in 2017”.
Jake Sullivan, the Biden administration’s national security advisor, published an email to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton back in 2012, when he served as her aide, admitting that “AQ [Al-Qaeda] is on our side in Syria”.
After the Syrian war broke out in 2011, the CIA launched one of its largest covert programs in history, called Operation Timber Sycamore, in which the spy agency spent nearly $1 billion per year arming and training anti-government rebels. According to the Washington Post, this made up roughly $1 out of every $15 in the CIA’s budget.
Many of these US-backed rebels went on the join Al-Qaeda and ISIS, or gave their US weapons to the extremist groups.
US diplomats meet with former Al-Qaeda leader in Syria
When Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra rebranded as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in 2017, the US State Department still recognized the extremist militia as a terrorist organization.
The US embassy even put a $10 million bounty on the head of Syrian Al-Qaeda leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani.
We remain committed to bringing leading AQS figures in HTS to justice. #Syria pic.twitter.com/R8evqffWum
— U.S. Embassy Syria (@USEmbassySyria) May 15, 2017
Al-Jolani led HTS as the extremist group took over Damascus in December 2024. He is now the de facto leader of Syria.
In a step toward recognizing the new rebranded Al-Qaeda regime in Syria, Washington has moved to delist HTS.
The US State Department even lifted its $10 million bounty on al-Jolani, who has also personally rebranded and now uses his birth name Ahmed al-Sharaa.
This decision came after the US government sent a delegation of top diplomats to Damascus to meet with the HTS chief.
US Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf said her in-person discussion with the former Al-Qaeda leader was “very productive”. She praised al-Jolani/al-Sharaa as “pragmatic”.
The BBC noted that this was “the first formal American diplomatic appearance in Damascus in more than a decade”. The British state media outlet also sent a journalist to Damascus in December to help do public relations work for al-Jolani/al-Sharaa.
Other Western media outlets have tried to whitewash the former Al-Qaeda leader. CNN published a softball interview with him titled “How Syria’s rebel leader went from radical jihadist to a blazer-wearing ‘revolutionary’”. The Telegraph ran a similar puff piece with the headline “How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state”.
The former Syrian Al-Qaeda chief has publicly stated that he has “no intention of confronting Israel”. Al-Jolani/al-Sharaa stressed, “We are not looking to engage in a conflict with Israel”.
While the HTS leader calls for peace with Israel, the regime of Benjamin Netanyahu is colonizing Syrian territory. Immediately after the Assad government was overthrown, Israel invaded Syria, seizing more territory.
The Israeli regime announced that it had “annexed” the Golan Heights, which according to international law is Syrian sovereign territory that has been illegally occupied by Israel since 1967. Prime Minister Netanyahu announced plans to double the number of illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied Golan Heights.
Netanyahu also traveled for a photo op on Syria’s tallest mountain, Mount Hermon, which the Israeli military seized.
US military has 2000 troops occupying Syria
US-funded forces from the so-called Revolutionary Commando Army (RCA) now control roughly one-fifth of Syrian territory, in the south of the country, according to The Telegraph.
NATO member Turkey occupies land in northern Syria as well.
This is in addition to the approximately one-third of Syrian territory, in the east, that is run by another US-backed armed group, called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
A former top Pentagon official, Dana Stroul, boasted that “one-third of Syrian territory was owned via the US military, with its local partner the Syrian Democratic Forces”.
While the Defense Department had previously reported that 900 US troops were in Syria, it revealed in December that that number had increased to 2000.
These 2000 US soldiers are occupying some of Syria’s most strategic land, including its oil and wheat fields.
As president in 2020, Donald Trump gloated, “I left troops to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil”.
The Biden White House has continued Trump’s policy, emphasizing that these US soldiers will remain in Syria.
US troops are occupying Syria’s oil fields. Congress refuses to withdraw them
Eric Arthur Blair
2024-12-23 at 08:06
Lessons learned from the ‘sudden’ collapse of Syria.
Reasons for the collapse:
1. By 2017 the Syrian government had apparently triumphed against the US / Israel / Gulf State / Turkish sponsored Jihadi headchoppers, with help from Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. Unfortunately events in subsequent years served to incrementally weaken the Syrian government to the extent that a feather could have knocked it over.
2.Most important was severe curtailment of food, oil and important resources, even drinking water: US occupation of the Eastern third of Syria where the oil and grain production were situated and brutal economic sanctions by the US, made even more brutal after a severe earthquake.
3. >90% of the population became impoverished and military salaries could not be paid resulting in collapse of morale and rampant corruption / easy bribability of officers by foreign agents (Turks, Israelis etc) to betray Syrian interests.
4.The residual pathogenic cesspit of headchoppers in Idlib, protected by the Turkish army, remained a pus filled abscess that could flare up anytime again and spread out to cause a fatal infection.
5.The Astana agreement guaranteed by Turkey promised that the Idlib headchoppers would be contained and was stupidly believed by Assad.
6.Seductive acceptance of Syria back into the fold of the League of Arab nations by the Gulf States, with fake assurances they could get the US to ease sanctions if Assad distanced himself from Iran and Russia, were stupidly believed by Assad.
7.Hence even when warned months in advance of what the headchoppers were planning, Assad chose to refuse offers of military help from Russia and Iran.
8.Syria had no effective military means to retaliate against the saboteur countries of Turkey and Israel, who are right now grabbing huge swathes of land from the former Syria.
Lessons learned from Syria collapse:
1. Domestic integrity of necessities of life (water, food, sewage infrastructure and energy etc) and a basic economy are essential. The US and Israel had, by repeated bombing of Syria, and seizure of their oil/grain areas and relentless sanctions, basically destroyed Syria as a country even before its formal collapse. This could have been prevented if Russia had provided Syria with adequate air defences (as they have now to Iran) and if BRICS countries had ignored US sanctions and supplied Syria accordingly, as they are now doing for Iran.
2.Agreements, whether verbal or written, with Turkey or the Gulf States, are worth nothing. They are designed to lull you into complacency before stabbing you in the back. Ditto for Minsk accords over Ukraine, beteayed by the western European lying liars.
3.Effective retaliatory weaponry are the only thing that deter the genocidal lying USA and Israel and Gulf State and Turkish regimes and their proxies the Jihadist headchoppers. North Korea has kept safe because they developed nuclear weapons
4.Iran must now develop nuclear weapons and perpetually ignore fake assurances from the liars and their proxies. Anything less will be stupid in the extreme.
5.Russia, once they conquer Ukraine, must extend far West of the Dnieper. If a residual UkroNazi rump state around Lvov remains, it must be demilitarised and constantly surveilled such that any hint of armed movement of personnel East of that rump state is immediately bombed to smithereens.
6.Dedollarisation must now proceed apace to neutralise the possibility of future illegal US sanctions AKA economic warfare against other countries. This has a long history and must stop. Remember the interview decades ago with Madeline Albright who said that the US sanctions that caused starvation deaths of half a million Iraqi children BEFORE the Gulf War even started, were “worth it”.
USA = regime of mass murderers of children, a nation founded on genocide and slavery and still perpetrating perpetual wars everywhere.
The collapse of Syria was a tragedy, a setback for secularism, non-sectarianism and stability. Wholesale terrorism, arbitrary torture and murder of Christians, Alawites, Druze, Shiites and even secular Sunnis is now taking place.
However the lessons learned by Russia and Iran will strengthen their defences against the Satanic empire of AngloEuroZionist genocide, terrorism, deceit and hypocrisy.
Eric Arthur Blair
2024-12-24 at 07:14
If Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, then Syria is a puzzle wrapped in a conundrum inside a discombobulation.
Syria was a fake nation contrived by the Sykes-Picot and Balfour Machiavellian machinations, cobbled together by Froggy-Blighty malintent. With so many antagonistic sects and tribes squashed together it was designed to fail. After decades of chaos, stability could only be achieved by the forceful dictatorship of Hafez Al Wahash (=the savage beast) who later changed his name to Al Assad (=the lion).
Bashar Al Assad was an eye surgeon who qualified and trained and practised in the UK. He never wanted to be the leader of Syria but was forced into it by his father Hafez, after his older brother Bassel, the heir apparent, died in a car accident. Bashar is an Alawite who married a Sunni lady and was head of the Baathist secular party. He has always been non-sectarian.
Obama’s 2013 “redline” speech accused Assad of firing chemical weapons on his own people, which Obama wanted to use as a “duty to protect” excuse to bomb Syria. Obama’s accusations were later proven to be 100% lies in a scientific paper authored by a UN weapons inspector and by Ted Postol, an MIT professor of physics, who proved those chemical weapons were launched by the so-called rebels. It was a CIA false flag. Those rebels were proven by many investigative journalists (especially Vanessa Beeley and also the Grayzone) to be mostly foreign Islamist terrorists supplied and funded by USA, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar. There was nothing civil about the Syrian “civil” war, it was a regime change operation coordinated by the CIA, by recruiting terrorists and based on 100% lies, operation Timber-Sycamore.
It is remarkable Bashar held the country together for so long, but prolonged economic strangulation and repeated bombing by the forces of Satan finally crushed it.
The US, Turkish and Israeli sponsored terrorists have now prevailed and the principal terrorist with an existing US bounty of $10 million on his head, originally named Ahmed Al Sharaa, from Saudi Arabia, has renamed himself Al Jolani (=of the Golan, an essentially bullshit name justifying his occupation of Syria) and does interviews with the Western media wearing a suit.
This even as Christian families are being rounded up in Syria, the males being executed and the females being sold into sex slavery by the US and Israel sponsored terrorists.
This is the USA’s definition of bringing Democracy to the world, just as the USA brought Democracy to Libya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c7qW8g73-M
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