Syrian Rebels Admit Terrorist Bombing Campaign [video included]
Then Deny Actual Bombings.
by Tony Cartalucci
May 10, 2012 – Perhaps in an attempt to soften coming revelations that Syria’s opposition will be increasingly armed and backed by the West for a final military push to divide and destroy a sovereign Syria, Reuters released a report titled, “Outgunned Syria Rebels Make Shift to Bombs.” The report admits that the Syrian rebels, depicted so-far as hapless pro-democracy protesters, are now turning to bombing tactics.
Reuters quotes one rebel fighter as saying, “we are starting to get smarter about tactics and use bombs because people are just too poor and we don’t have enough rifles.” The unnamed rebel continued, “it is just no match for the army, so we are trying to focus on the ways we can fight.” Reuters attempts to allay the fears of its readers by claiming rebels they interviewed insisted that, “unlike al Qaeda, their bombs were aimed at military, and never civilian, targets.”
Paradoxically, however, the Reuters story reveals that the rebel bombing campaign is being carried out by Sunni “hardliners” who learned their bombing skills from fighting (and killing) US troops in neighboring Iraq – or in other words, the very “al Qaeda” the rebels claim they are not like. A “Syrian Liberation Army” spokesman also admitted that his fighters were operating “manufacturing facilities” for bombs – like the one in Hama that recently exploded, killing 70 and leveled the greater part of a city block.
And as the loss of life to rebel bombings begins to escalate, and despite openly admitting their switch of tactics, the Syrian opposition has clumsily begun claiming any attack resulting in civilian deaths is the work of the government carrying out “staged attacks.” The Hama bomb factory was in fact first reported by the Syrian opposition and their supporters across the Western media as a possible “Scud attack,” after stories of “government shelling” didn’t add up. Clearly, between no evidence of “Scuds” and with open admissions that indeed the rebels are operating bomb factories, we are seeing a transparent example of the media distorting events to cover up what is in reality a deadly indiscriminate terrorist campaign.
Video: Paul Joseph Watson navigates the latest developments regarding a coordinated mass media coverup of Syrian rebels admittedly engaged in terrorist activities as well as the involvement of foreign terrorists being shipped in to fight for a supposedly “Syrian uprising.”
Now with a narrow escape by UN monitors targeted by a roadside bomb and bomb blasts rocking Damascus killing up to 55 people and injuring hundreds, the opposition and media are again teaming up to disavow any responsibility. But just as the rebels admitted to Reuters, the bombings in Damascus targeted a government intelligence building, the very sort of target the rebels claimed they were looking for.
The idealistic comments made to Reuters by rebels of only “targeting” military forces” fall flat when these forces are attempting to maintain order in populated civilian areas. Bombs targeting a military convoy or a government building are just as likely to kill and maim civilians as they are government troops.This is why there are strict internationally-recognized prohibitions on using improvised explosives, booby-traps, and car bombs off the battlefield and in populated areas – and why people who ignore such prohibitions are called “terrorists.”
Reuters admits that rebels are “channeling” outside donations into “better materials” leading to “more sophisticated bombs,” and that the rebels are fighting for a cause “that has widespread support [among] Sunni Arab states and the West.” What Reuters fails to mention is what support, if any, the rebels have domestically, beyond extremist Sunnis, and how that support will be affected by filling the streets with foreign-funded, indiscriminate terror and carnage.
‘Friends of Syria’ Group you have Blood on Your Hands for these 2 Terrorist Bombs [video included]
Friends of Syria
May 10, 2012
The so called “Friends of Syria” meeting in Istanbul, which agreed to pay salaries and continue giving weapons to Terrorists to de-rail the Kofi Annan’s 6 Point plan which was set up just one week before.
Two Terrorist Bombs shook Damascus early this morning, killing dozens of innocent civilians. The bombs targeted the buildings which were by security forces to stamp out the terrorism.
This comes just days after Bashar Al Jaafari spoke at the UN, telling he world he had evidence of the terrorist groups and had arrested terrorists from outside of Syria. We can only surmise that the aim of the terrorists is to destroy this evidence.
All of the countries represented at this meeting are responsible for the innocent people who have been killed by terrorists. Hillary Clinton shouting her mouth off, with words of warning to Bashar Al Assad, paying salaries to terrorist and suppling arms, or should we say the State Department gives the money to Freedom House to fund the terrorists with weapons. Just so that Hillary can say they are not doing it. Even though she is the one who sets the State Department budget and how it is spent.
Any country which is training these terrorists are also guilty of these atrocities.
WARNING THIS FILM IS GRAPHIC
BBC reporter Lyse Doucet who was at the scene after the attack told how the Syrian people took to the street chanting their support for Bashar Al Assad. Many of the people she spoke to, told her they blamed Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey for the attack. The death toll so far is 55 killed, 372 injured (Civilian & Military) and 15 unidentified remains.
Free Syrian Army Uploading Evidence of Bombings Before They Happen [video included]
Friends of Syria
May 10, 2012
This film has been shown around the world in the media today, but it was published on Youtube yesterday, before the bombing actually happened. Claiming to be todays bomb blast.
The film claims to be the bomb blast in Damascus today, so the Free Syrian Army who made this film obviously knew that the blast was going to happen today. They then try to blame it on the Government, saying it was not them. Just like a little kid with chocolate all its face saying “I didn’t eat any chocolate”.
Just as we have seen in the past the terrorists set up the camera before they set the explosions. They are using one of their old films and claiming it is todays blast and as with all the terrorist films, they are citing religious quotes.
Most crimes videos have videos uploaded few days before talking about it as if it has been already happened. Regarding this video, a citizen or outisder against Syria is talking in a very happy tone saying “Allah Akbar, Here are the ambulances running to collect their LOSSES” he’s considering the victims as “Losers” He doesnt know that yet, those are our losses, Syria’s losses, they preferred to be ” a Loss” instead of being a country’s traitors!!
The evidence is on the film, just look at the date it was published and the date it claimed to be.
The Free Syrian Army claim to be doing this for freedom for Syrians, but instead they are just killing them. One member of the Free Syrian Army was quoted as saying “We are doing this for Freedom, whatever Freedom is.”
Syrian havoc: Twin blasts kill over 50 as peace mission in jeopardy [video]
Russia Today
May 10, 2012
Over 50 people have been killed and 372 others injured by two powerful blasts in the Syrian capital on Thursday morning. The car bombs detonated near a military intelligence building. The blasts happened just as employees were arriving at work. Ambulances are trying to reach the victims of what’s been branded a terrorist attack by the state television. RT’s Sara Firth is in Damascus.
Brookings Announces Next Move in Syria: War [video included]
Land Destroyer Report
May 9, 2012
After admitting UN peace plan was a ploy, Brookings predictably scraps it and begins promoting expanded military conflict.
by Tony Cartalucci
May 9, 2012 – By the US policy think-tank Brookings Institution’s own admission, the Kofi Annan six-point peace plan in Syria was merely a ploy to buy time to reorganize NATO’s ineffective terrorist proxies and provide them the pretext necessary for establishing NATO protected safe havens from which to carry out their terrorism from. In fact, Brookings actually stated in a recent report, “Assessing Options for Regime Change” (emphasis added):
“An alternative is for diplomatic efforts to focus first on how to end the violence and how to gain humanitarian access, as is being done under Annan’s leadership. This may lead to the creation of safe-havens and humanitarian corridors, which would have to be backed by limited military power. This would, of course, fall short of U.S. goals for Syria and could preserve Asad in power. From that starting point, however, it is possible that a broad coalition with the appropriate international mandate could add further coercive action to its efforts.” –page 4, Assessing Options for Regime Change, Brookings Institution.
Image: Also out of the Brookings Institution, Middle East Memo #21 “Assessing Options for Regime Change (.pdf),” makes no secret that the humanitarian “responsibility to protect” is but a pretext for long-planned regime change.
As if to alleviate any lingering doubts, NATO’s “Alliance News Blog” has confirmed that the US is committed not to “peace,” but rather to the overthrow of Syria’s government and is “already committed to helping [President Bashar al-Assad] fall,” but is “merely looking for the least violent, lowest cost way to get there.” The April 9, 2012 blog entry features an op-ed titled, “US ‘already committed to helping Assad fall’,” and fully admits that the US is equipping the so-called “Free Syrian Army” which has received weapons, leadership, and cash from the NATO-backed Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) terrorists led by notorious mass-murderer Abdul Hakim Belhaj.
Image: NATO’s official “Alliance News Blog proudly reports that the US is already committed to helping “Assad fall” and is simply using the lull in fighting brought on by Kofi Annan’s disingenuous “peace plan” to rearm, reorganize, and redeploy their terrorist proxy forces against Assad. The op-ed featured on NATO’s blog was featured in the LA Times and written by CFR member Doyle McManus. (click image to enlarge)
Video: Michael Weiss of the Neo-Con “Henry Jackson Society,” openly admits that diplomatic options are being paraded publicly to satisfy public opinion, but ultimately NATO plans to unilaterally intervene militarily in Syria, and will do so with the UN’s purposefully sabotaged “humanitarian operation” as its pretext.
As the Brookings Institution prepares the next stage of its premeditated escalation against the sovereign nation-state of Syria, and continues framing the violence as one-sided, a torrent of reports even from the corporate-media itself confirms what many geopolitical analysts have been saying for over a year – that the “Free Syrian Army” is conducting a vicious campaign of terrorism leaving Syrian security forces no choice but to continue fighting on to restore order.
In fact, just today, Wednesday May 9, 2012, Syrian rebels attempted to attack a convoy consisting of Kofi Annan’s UN monitors. France inexplicably then blamed the Syrian government for not providing adequate security for the UN monitors, after a year of condemning the government for attempting to restore order in the face of the very growing militant violence the attacks resulted from. And in recent weeks, everything from Human Rights Watch reports, to open admissions from the rebels themselves confirm that they are committing widespread human rights abuses and turning toward indiscriminate bombing tactics. This indicates a threat Syria’s government would be remiss not to counter – and surely a threat the “international community” would be remiss to continue supporting, funding, and even arming.
Now a concerted effort will be made to sabotage the UN peace plan in every shape, form, and manner, especially through increased violence and particularly in cross-border incidents to help sell NATO-backed, Turkey-led incursions into Syria to carve out “safe havens.” From there a steady stream of weapons and fighters from around the world will be funneled in, in an attempt to, as Brookings Shaikh puts it, stretch Syria’s forces “to a breaking point.”
Image: The cover of the CFR’s flattering report on US-Turkey relations, full of empty promises to entice Turkish leaders into falling on their swords for Western ambitions across the Middle East. And of course, the report is written in the context of what Turkey can do for the US in terms of Syria and Iran in particular. Pro-genocide Madeleine Albright chaired the “task force” that produced the report.
To help convince Turkey to “take the plunge” for NATO, the Council on Foreign Relations has recently published a report attempting to flesh out an improved alliance between the US and Turkey – claiming the new relationship would trump the potential for US cooperation with any BRICS nation (except perhaps India). This patronizing political stunt attempts to fill Turkish leaders with delusions of grandeur, tempting them with “goodies” ahead of falling on their swords for Wall Street and London’s ambitions in Syria and Iran. Turkish leaders might reassess such grandiose claims and remember BRICS’ growth and benefits are based on solidarity and production, avoiding “alliances” with Wall Street, London, and their institutions, while conversely, Wall Street and London’s “benefits” are based on domination, exploitation, betrayal, and unsustainable pyramid schemes.
Syria’s fate rests on both Syria and its allies’ ability to produce a tactical reality on the ground that would make any foreign military incursion a disaster. It also depends on either Turkey’s wisdom or foolishness in considering the elementary ploy and poisoned “goodies” the West is dangling in front of it in exchange for complicity in dividing and destroying neighboring Syria.
The corporate-financiers centered around the capitals of the West have committed to a global war aimed at permanently destroying nation-states and replacing them with a homogeneous administrative system built out of Wall Street and London-funded NGOs, interlocking with the West’s contrived “international institutions.” It is in essence, a World War, currently being fought with 4th generation warfare to build a neo-imperial global government. With overt efforts to destabilize nations around the world, including Russia and China, the West’s hand is revealed and there is no turning back.
The only hope of stopping disaster if either the corporate-financiers succeed or fail (thus turning in and feeding on itself), is to recognize their source of power, and begin undermining it on a daily basis through both boycotting their goods and services, while simultaneously replacing their corporations and institutions with local, genuine alternatives. Syria may seem like an isolated conflict, but is in reality linked to us directly, regardless of where we live. Either we live in a nation that will be next, or a nation who will be further crushed under the hubris, power, and arrogance of an empowered Wall Street and London elite.
Italy, Turkey sign bilateral deals [video]
Press TV
May 9, 2012
On Tuesday, in Rome, the Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to sign a series of bilateral accords for cooperation on science and technology, social security, counter-terrorism and economic development.
Press TV’s Max Civili reports from Rome.
Explosion in Syria wounds six soldiers
Press TV
May 9, 2012
An explosion has wounded at least six Syrian soldiers escorting the United Nations monitors in the town of Daraa.
The incident occurred on Wednesday after a roadside bomb hit a Syrian military truck just seconds after a convoy carrying the head of the UN observer mission passed by.
The blast injured a 1st lieutenant and five troops.
The head of the UN observer mission, Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, was heading into the southern Syrian city with a team of observers and a convoy of journalists. The explosion was more than 100 meters (330 feet) behind the convoy.
The bomb attack took place a day after UN-Arab League envoy; Kofi Annan briefed the UN Security Council (UNSC) by videoconference from Geneva on his efforts to end the year-plus-long unrest in Syria.
After Annan’s briefing, Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari accused foreign countries, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, of plotting to sabotage Annan’s plan by fueling the violence.
“We need to see everybody on board. We need to see these Qataris, the Saudis, the Turkish government, as well as some other nations, stopping their incitement to violence, stopping their sponsorship of…the armed rebellion in Syria, stopping their financial contribution to cover up the needs of these armed groups and the needs of the terrorist groups, which are attacking…civilians as well as military targets in Syria,” said Jaafari.
The Syrian official also stated that his country was committed to the plan.
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