Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
During the negotiations that had led to
the Syrian peace talks, a key question was whether Russia and the Syrian
army would be allowed to continue uninterrupted, their military actions
against ISIS and Al Qaeda. (Al Qaeda in Syria is called “Al Nusra.”)
Throughout the negotiations between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, there was agreement that
ISIS (the U.S. Government calls it ‘ISIL’) has no place there, and must
continue to be bombed and attacked without interruption until
exterminated there; but Kerry opposed Lavrov’s demand to include Al
Nusra’s (Al Qaeda’s) forces as also having no rightful place in Syria.
Kerry finally accepted that Al Nusra should have no part in ruling
Syria, and thus he reluctantly acceded to Russia’s demand. This
agreement by Kerry enabled the peace talks to begin.
These talks broke down on April 18th because Al Nusra was facing imminent defeat in the key city of Aleppo,
and because such a defeat was unacceptable to Mohammed Alloush, the
Saudi agent, and head of the Saudi-Wahhabist group, the Army of Islam. He was selected by King Saud to lead the rebel side
at Syria’s peace negotiations. “There was ‘no way’ the opposition could
resume formal talks amid a military escalation and a
worsening humanitarian situation, senior opposition negotiator Mohammed Alloush told Reuters,” on April 18th.
Mohammed
Alloush is allegedly a cousin of the recently deceased founder of the
Army of Islam, Mohammed Zahran Alloush, who was called simply “Zahran
Alloush.” Mohammed Alloush now runs it. The fathers of Zahran and Mohammed were allegedly brothers, and their father, Sheikh Abdullah Mohammed Alloush,
had immigrated to Syria from Saudi Arabia, and he led the growing Saudi
Wahhabist, fundamentalist Sunni, community, in the Damascus suburb of
Ghouta, which is the place where the 21 August 2013 sarin gas attack
that U.S. President Barack Obama has used as his excuse to invade Syria
took place. Zahran
Alloush had actually helped U.S. President Obama, and Turkey’s
President Erdogan, and King Saud, and Qatar’s Emir Thani, to plan and to
carry out that sarin attack, so as to blame it on Assad, in order that
the U.S. President would then be enabled to mobilize public opinion in
the U.S. to invade Syria and overthrow Assad — which is what they want; but, after this fraud started to become exposed,
Obama temporarily backed down — and, yet, Saud, Thani, and Erdogan (all
fundamentalist Sunnis allied with the U.S.), remained determined to
overthrow the secular Shiite Assad (who allies with Russia and with
Shiite Iran). The Sauds have the attitude that unless all Shiites die,
the Sauds will die, that it’s an “existential” matter for them. And the American Government backs their war against Shia.
Obama will now need to decide whether
Alloush’s ending the talks can serve as an excuse to blame Assad and
Russia’s Putin for the breakdown of talks, and resume overt support of
‘the Syrian opposition’ (the U.S.-Sunni-backed jihadists, all of whom
are fundamentalist Sunnis, like the Sauds), which one might more
properly call the Saud-Thani-Obama invasion of Syria, to overthrow the
secular Shiite Assad.
Sometimes, the ways of hiding a foreign
invasion of a country can become almost irrelevant, and the only thing
that actually still matters is whether the time appears to be ripe, to
resume, or escalate, a war that one remains determined to win. So it is
with the U.S. Government under Barack Obama, who still remains
determined to replace Bashar al-Aassad by a fundamentalist Sunni
proponent of Shariah law.
During the peace talks period, the
U.S. has sent to the Syrian rebels 3,000 tons of weapons, including
surface-to-air missiles that can shoot down Russia’s planes. So, for the jihadist side in this war, the peace talks might turn out to have been the pause that refreshes.
On April 17th, the
secular alliance, including Christians and Sunnis as well as Shiites,
and also including many women, were re-elected, and newly elected, to
constitute the next Syrian Parliament. Syria has the only
non-sectarian government in the Middle East. Almost all of the
fundamentalists are foreign mercenaries, salaried jihadists, paid by the
Sauds and Thanis, and armed by the Americans.
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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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