Eric Zuesse
It has been an alliance between the
leaderships of U.S., Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and UAE; but,
regardless of whether it’s called “the U.S. alliance” or “the Saudi
alliance,” or even (possibly) “the Turkish alliance” (and it could be
called by any of those three names), it’s the jihadist alliance, and it
now seems to be near its final defeat, by, quite clearly, the Russian
alliance: Russian air power has enabled the Syrian army (called the SAA
or “Syrian Arab Army”) of Bashar al-Assad, plus Lebanon’s Shiite
warriors (called “Hezbollah”), plus organization by Iran’s generals, to
exterminate thousands of ISIS jihadists. The pro-Syrian alliance, under
Russian air-power, are now making final preparations to finish the job,
in the Syrian headquarters of ISIS — the city of Raqqa, where ISIS’s
“Caliph” is, who could soon be meeting his end.
This major military victory, in Palmyra — the center of the Jihadist-controlled region of Syria (and located south of Raqqa, separated from it only by desert)
— was announced on Easter Sunday, 27 March 2016, by the website Syrian
Perspective (one of the world’s two great news-sites covering the Syrian
war, the other being Al Masdar News), as they headlined, “Palmyra Liberated! General Ayyoob Reviews Troops in Aftermath of Enormous Victory; What’s Next?” Reporter Ziad Fadel opened:
HOMS: The rats inside were finally
given the go-ahead to withdraw to Al-Sukhna, Al-Raqqa and Dayr
El-Zor, but not by the rodent commanders in Al-Raqqa. This was a
desperate order by Abu-Ihaab Al-‘Iraaqi, the local commander who,
evidently, values his life on earth a lot more than what was promised to
him by the shamans of ISIS This morning at 5:00 a.m., the SAA had
confirmation from sources inside the city that the piece-meal escape was
taking place. The Syrian high command ordered troops to stand down
until the last rodent had left, after which time the SAAF and RuAF would
take to the skies to see how many of the stragglers could be
exterminated. It’s over.
The Syrian and Russian Air Forces have
been directed into the air to block any movement of terrorist ISIS
rodents to any area considered a stronghold. This means that no deal was
ever struck between the army and the murderers inside the city.
Instead, what happened was the army was commanded to permit a withdrawal
with the understanding that escaped rats would still be targets once
the city was liberated. As I write, SAA engineers are everywhere inside
the city removing IEDs, booby-traps and mines. It’s a thankless task
replete with danger, but, it must be done in order to return the
population to a safe city.
He went on to explain that the head of
SAA’s Special Forces unit, called “Tiger Forces,” “is very keen on being
the leader of the force which will liberate Al-Raqqa and his forces to
the east of Aleppo are preparing for exactly that.”
The key question now is whether a deal
can be reached with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS’s leader or “Caliph,” in
Raqqa — a deal which won’t require the entire population of Raqqa to be
massacred, in order for the Russian alliance to eliminate all of ISIS’s
leadership, and all of its jihadists there. Ideally, some way will be
found to salvage at least some of the civilian population who are being
held, essentially as slaves, by ISIS. However, Russia’s leader, Vladimir
Putin, has stated, on several occasions, that what’s most essential is
for the jihadists in Syria, and in Iraq, to be killed where they are —
not allowed to escape to become terrorist cells in Russia or anywhere
else (as has been happening, though not on the huge scale that would
result if Baghdadi and his jihadists are allowed to escape).
In a related event that also signals the
defeat of the terrorist alliance, Middle East Eye, yet another of the
key independent reporting sites regarding the war in Syria — and
specializing on the entire Middle Eastern region — headlined on Friday
the 25th of March, “Jordan’s King Accuses Turkey of Sending Terrorists to Europe,” and David Hearst reported:
King Abdullah of Jordan accused Turkey
of exporting terrorists to Europe at a top level meeting with senior US
politicians in January, the MEE can reveal.
The king said Europe’s biggest refugee
crisis was not an accident, and neither was the presence of terrorists
among them: “The fact that terrorists are going to Europe is part of
Turkish policy and Turkey keeps on getting a slap on the hand, but they
are let off the hook.”
Asked by one of the congressmen
present whether the Islamic State group was exporting oil to Turkey,
Abdullah replied: ”Absolutely.”
In other words: the U.S. alliance is
coming apart, at least at the edges, when the reality becomes revealed —
despite the long hiding of this fact on the part of Western ‘news’
media — that the U.S.-Saudi-Qatari-Turkish-UAE-Israeli alliance has been
supporting jihadist Sunni groups in order to weaken the only
non-Sunni-run nations in the Middle East, Syria and Iran, both of which
(and Syria’s government is more properly to be called non-sectarian than
Shiite, because the Ba’athist Party, which has been leading Syria since
the 1950s, is ideologically committed to secularism and against
sectarianism of any type, neither Shiite nor Sunni nor any) have allied themselves with Russia, instead of with the U.S.
The origin of the CIA aspect of this operation was well covered in an extraordinary BBC documentary in 1992, and the broader aristocratic operation was reported in my article, “The Two Contending Visions of World Government.” During
Obama’s Presidency, one of the major physical battlefields in this
global war has been in Syria; another, in Ukraine, Obama’s coup there, was well covered here.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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