Syria: Rogue Elements Rampant
By Felicity Arbuthnot
Global Research, February 26, 2012
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29501
"The
individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so
monstrous he cannot believe it exists." (J.EdgarHoover, 1895-1972.)
Smelt any proverbial rats, lately? If not, you have not been paying attention, there are plenty about.
Consider
for instance this: "Assad must halt his campaign of killing and crimes
against his own people now" and "must step aside ...” Hilary Clinton
(Asia Times, 9th February 2012.)
“I strongly condemn the Syrian government's unspeakable assault ...
and I offer my deepest sympathy to those who have lost loved ones.
Assad must halt his campaign of killing and crimes against his own
people now. He must step aside ...” said President Barack Hussein
Obama. (i)
Yet
responsibility for US victims, in their hundreds of thousands, spanning
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, in Guantanamo, Bagram, Abu
Ghraib and elsewhere, are wholly unaccountable – and uncounted..
Responsibility
for tyrannicide (including the horrific, state sponsored assassinations
of Osama bin Laden and others, Libya’s Head of State, Colonel Quaddafi,
have, seemingly entered a Presidential memory hole.)
"This
(Syria’s) is a doomed regime as well as a murdering regime. There is no
way it can get its credibility back either internationally or with its
own people”, Britain’s little Foreign Secretary, William Hague, chimed
in obediently, from the Washington script, on Sky News.
“Because
the regime is so intransigent, because it is conducting ten months
unmitigated violence and repression – more than 6,000 killed, with
12,000 or 14,000 in detention and subject to every kind of torture and
abuse – it is driving some opponents to violent action themselves”,
concluded Hague.
Hypocrisy
reigns supreme. Walking distance from Hague’s office: “living in style
and protection”, is Bashar Al Assad’s Uncle Rifaat, under whose Defence
Brigades onslaught killed up to perhaps thirty thousand people in the
city of Hama, which was also partially destroyed, Falluja style. The
thirtieth anniversary of a truly terrible event is commemorated today, 25th February. (See Robert Fisk, Independent, 25th February 2012.)
Of
Libya, in March 2011, Obama stated: "Going forward, we will continue to
send a clear message: The violence must stop. Muammar Gaddafi has lost
legitimacy to lead, and he must leave. Those who perpetrate violence
against the Libyan people will be held accountable. And the aspirations
of the Libyan people for freedom, democracy and dignity must be
met.”(ii.)
An anomaly (apart from the script similarity): In Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, deaths resultant from US-UK and “allied” actions are: “impossible to verify”, by Washington and Whitehall.
Indeed,
this month, the (UK) Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence, issued a
Report, after an Inquiry in to operations in Libya, stating that:
“Britain has no way of knowing how many civilians died in the Libyan conflict as a result of Nato bombing.” (iii)
Back
in March 2011, however, the exact figure of Quaddafi’s victims was
“known.” Coincidentally, it was also exactly 6,000, stated a “political
analyst” - using remarkably State Department-similar phraseology.(iv)
As
under Saddam Hussein in Iraq (with no diplomatic presence) in Libya and
now little in Syria - with no point of contact bar, seemingly, a
satellite dish fitter, in Coventry, England, alleged to be the “Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights” - exact death and casualty figures are
always miraculously available.
A
new nemesis appears on the horizon – or “Arab street”- and precise
numbers are trumpeted. Yet when Western forces, “Viceroys”,
“Intelligence” services, “mentors” and myriad, general meddlers,
mercenaries and marauders pitch up, murder and occupy, none are
available.
Of course no proposed invasion (sorry, “humanitarian intervention”) regime change and accompanying mass slayings would be complete without forces of a wicked tyrant switching off electricity to babies incubators.
For
anyone who has forgotten the details, the (1990-1991) Iraq model went
like this: vast US government employed PR agency, Hill and Knowlton (“we
create value by shaping conversations: we start them, we amplify them,
we change them. We can connect seamlessly with all of your
audiences...”)produced a fifteen year old girl called “Nayirah”, a
“Kuwaiti with first hand knowledge of ... her tortured land.”
“I
volunteered (tears) at the Al Addan Hospital .. I saw the Iraqi
soldiers ..with guns, they took fifteen babies out of incubators, left
them on the cold floor and took the incubators.”
Strangely, no one asked why she didn't pick them up and wrap and tend to them, or checked who she really was.
She
was the daughter of Saud al Sabar, the Kuwaiti Ambassador to US. The
incubators story of course, was a complete fabrication.
October
10th 1990, Amnesty presented evidence against Iraq with Hill and
Knowlton at the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on Capitol Hill.
Amnesty International trustingly endorsed the incubator story.
Apparently never investigating who “Nayirah” was, and in a charged
situation, whether propaganda might not be rampant.
“Amnesty
US Executive Director, John Healey, compounded the incubator baby story
in testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on 8th.January
1991. The carpet-bombing of Iraq began nine days later.”(v)
Amnesty,
enjoined by Human Rights Watch, are amongst the most enthusiastic
champions of Syrian intervention and onward to Armageddon. Glen Ford
writes all you ever need to know.(vi)
The
first Syria incubator baby story surfaced last August. “Syrian
government troops”, had cut the electricity. It was quickly exposed as
beyond questionable.(vii)
Another
one came up on 8th February (viii) with numbers varying from eighteen
poor mites, to a subsequent eighty. With both tales, as the Iraq
version, no distraught parents, extended family, were found, no funeral
gatherings, then the stories, too, quietly vanished.
Coincidentally,
the current Speaker of the eighty eight Member Arab Inter-Parliamentary
union, which backs intervention in Syria, is Kuwaiti, Ali Al-Salem
Al-Dekbas, calling for all Syria’s Ambassadors to be expelled,
confrontation with Russia over her stance - and in remarkable US-speak,
for swift intervention, to stop the Syrian government “killing (their
own) people.” (Reuters, 4th February 2012.)
The
new Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, is Suzanne Nossel,
formerly Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Assistant for International
Organization Affairs, at the State Department. She has also previously
worked for Human Rights Watch.
She: “... has launched several campaigns against Iran, Libya and Syria.”(viii)
The
allegation that Kuwait gave Amnesty $500,000 for backing the Iraq
incubator baby story has never gone away. But the little island,
famously once called:”An oil company posing as a state”, with population
just 2,595,628 (July 2011) which includes 1,291,354 non-nationals, also has powerful American-proxy clout.
In
1999, an agreement was signed between the USA and Kuwait for a
permanent US force to be stationed there, in twelve facilities (there
are a further eight “spares”, seemingly not currently in use.)
The agreement for the bases, incidentally, was named: “Operation Desert Spring.”(x)
Here
is a further coincidence. In March 2010, Libya was voted, near
unanimously, on to the UN Human Rights Committee, after a glowing Report
on human rights progress. After a ferocious campaign by Geneva based UN
Watch(xi) not only were they expelled from it, but nineteen months
later, their country lay in ruins, their leader lynched and most of his
family dead.
Last
November, Syria was elected to the Committee and the fifty eight Member
Arab board added their votes to the country’s place on UNESCO panels.
UN Watch railed that: “Western democracies,
unanimously elected Syria to a pair of Committees – one dealing
directly with human rights issues – even as the Bashar al-Assad regime
maintains its campaign of violence against its own citizens.“ Syria’s
Committee places, as Libya before it, died a death.
Amnesty’s
Ms Nossel, unsurprisingly, has spoken at a number of events with UN
Watch Director, Hillel Neuer, a Montreal born attorney, whose career has
included serving as a judicial law clerk for Justice Itzhak Zamir, at
the Supreme Court of Israel.
In
March last year, there seemed a glimmer of hope that the US and
“allies”, would back away from repeating the tragic disaster that was
unfolding in Libya – and had already struck Afghanistan and Iraq.
Secretary of State Clinton committed on CBS (27th March 2011) that the US would not intervene in the way it had in Libya.
Now,
it seems, a miracle is needed, as it emerges Saudi Arabia and Quatar
are among those subsidizing insurgents with vast sums – as French
Foreign Minister Alain Juppe announced that the EU is about to further
tie the government’s hands, by freezing the assets of the Syrian Central
Bank, from 27th February. Syria is already under a crippling raft of
sanctions.(xii) France was, of course, one of the leading and most
enthusiastic cheerleaders for the destruction of Libya.
At
the same “Friends of Syria” Conference in Tunis (24th February 2012) UK
Foreign Minister William Hague declared that the UK recognized the
insurgents and Hilary “We came, we saw, he died” Clinton called Russia
and China:”despicable”, for their veto at the UN, which may well have
blocked further “intervention.”
The
US said it will consider military assistance to the insurgents – a
representative of them said they were already receiving “western aid.”
With “friends” like these, Syria certainly needs no enemies.
The US has, of course, “despicably”, vetoed thirty five UN peace Resolutions relating to the Middle East(xiii) including on“Operation Cast Lead”, the 2008-2009 Israeli Christmas-New Year onslaught on Gaza, and Israel’s 2006 blitzkrieg of Lebanon.
A “new world map.”
Chillingly,
no outrage, or cries of “despicable” has been given to Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement, in Switzerland, the day before
the Tunisia conference, that there: “would be no Lebanon in the new
world map.”(xiv)
He stated, further, that an Israeli strike against Lebanon would be supported by the United States and Gulf States countries.
There
surely is a wildlife park of elephants in the room. Given George W.
Bush’s “Crusade”; the belief by extreme right Israeli circles in their
control of the Middle East: “from the Nile to the Euphrates” and General
Wesley Clark’s revelations of 2007, that the Pentagon planned:“(taking)
out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria,
Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran”, there is an
obvious question, sparked by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s confidence over a
Lebanon attack:
Are these AIPAC and Israel’s wars?
Notes
v. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=0520083989 (For timely reminder that propaganda sells wars, well worth revisiting. A crash course.)
