On Unrest in Syria (Three)

-DR. ABDUL RUFF

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3.  Syrian Uprising and International Politics

Energy rich Mideast is target of the CIA which views Islam as a serious threat to Western interests and US military hegemony and is eager only to kill Muslims by using NATO terrorist forces. Although Syrian oil is not so tempting, as in the case of vast high quality Libyan resources, for a quick invasion by NATO and subsequent destabilization of this Muslim nation by another bogus UNSC permit, yet destabilization of Syria is expected to fuel the CIA-NATO operations in Libya, putting an end o to Col. Qaddafi.

As a close ally of Iran, Syria has been slated for regime change since as early as 1991. In 2002, then US Dy-Secretary of State John Bolton added Syria to the growing "Axis of Evil." It would be later revealed that Bolton's threats against Syria manifested themselves as covert funding and support for opposition groups inside of Syria spanning both the Bush and Obama administrations.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner stated in an April 2011 CNN article that Americans were not working to undermine that Syrian government. “What we are trying to do in Syria, through our civil society support, is to build the kind of democratic institutions, frankly, that we're trying to do in countries around the globe. USA said that the Syrian government perceives this kind of assistance as a threat to its control over the Syrian people. Toner's remarks came after the Washington Post released cables indicating the US has been funding Syrian opposition groups since at least 2005 and continued until today.

In AFP report, Michael Posner, the assistant US Secretary of State for Human Rights and Labor, stated that the US government has budgeted $50 million in the last two years to develop new technologies to help activists protect themselves from arrest and prosecution by authoritarian governments. The report said that the US organized training sessions for 5,000 activists in different parts of the world. A session held in the Middle East about eight weeks ago gathered activists from Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon who returned to their countries with the aim of training their colleagues there. They went back and there's a ripple effect. That ripple effect of course is the "Arab Spring," and in Syria's case, the impetus for the current unrest threatening to unhinge the nation and invite in foreign intervention.

However, Washington needed a proper pretext to invade Syria. Unlike Libya where oil resources are the main stay and attraction, Syria did not interest the UNSC-NATO rouges, at least as much as Libya did, to invade by terror attacks on another bogus “noflyzone”.  Perhaps tellingly, the Arab League has remained silent on the issue of Syria - although it backed the Nato-led illegal bombing campaign against Libya's Col Muammar Qaddafi in a bid ostensibly to “protect” civilian lives there. The league has however called for an end to the violence, but cited hesitation over any action because of "strategic and political considerations".

Many of the protesters in Syria have turned more radical in the face of government repression, demanding that the president step down. More than 12,600 people have also been arrested and 3,000 others are reported missing. For four months, anti-government protests have appeared to gain momentum week by week but as the holy month of Ramadan starts, the expectation is that protests will grow. Operations by security forces also intensified.

The Syrian authorities have responded to widespread anti-government protests with overwhelming military force. The Syrian government has repeatedly accused foreign-backed extremists of armed criminal gangs of stirring up trouble. In a statement on the state news agency Sana, the government said armed groups had "set police stations on fire, vandalised public and private properties, set roadblocks and barricades and burned tyres at the entrance of Hama". "Army units are removing the barricades and roadblocks set by the armed groups at the entrance of the city," the statement said.

In a way to restore normalcy, Syrian armed forces appear to have withdrawn last week from the city of Hama, which has emerged as a center of opposition to Assad’s rule. Protests were held across Syria, including Aleppo and Idlib, near the Turkish border, and the capital, Damascus.

In response to Syrian unrest, the US embassy in Damascus said the Syrian government had launched "full-on warfare" against its own people. The US terror Secretary of State, Madam Hillary Clinton, who asks the NATO terror syndicates led by US-UK terror twins to keep killing Muslims in occupied Muslim nations, especially in Libya, Afghanistan and Pakistan, has asked the Turkish minister, who is not at all a paid agent by US regime, to press the Syrian regime to pull its troops back to barracks. Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara had "run out of patience" with President Assad's regime and that it could no longer "remain a spectator" to events across its border. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague called for stronger international pressure that includes from Arab nations and Turkey on Syria, including additional sanctions. Seeking military action against Syria, even with UN authority, was "not a remote possibility", he added.

Western economic analysts warn that time is against Assad. They say protests will gain added momentum when the newly-unemployed join their ranks and government subsidies on vital commodities like diesel run out. In a bid to shore up their currency, Syrian businessmen have reportedly deposited millions of US dollars with the country's central bank. But there are reports of mass layoffs in private businesses and fears that lucrative construction and telecoms projects - funded by Gulf investors - will be put on hold indefinitely.

US president Barack Obama who never called Israeli fascism as brutality or Indian extra judicial killing sin Kashmir as brutality, but he is quick enough to attack those leaders who do not promote US imperialism.  Obama said he was appalled by the government's use of brutality against its own people and promised to work to isolate President Bashar al-Assad. Even as he courageously faces the US debt limit, the policy deficit of Obama has yet again been exposed as he condemned the Syrian authorities' crackdown on protesters on 31 July.

Obama refuses to consider Muslims in NATO occupied nations as human beings and orders massacres but also said the reports from Hama were horrifying and demonstrated the true character of the Syrian regime. "Once again, President Assad has shown that he is completely incapable and unwilling to respond to the legitimate grievances of the Syrian people," he said. Obama said he was appalled by the government's use of "violence and brutality against its own people". Ministers from France and Germany also condemned the day's violence. Germany, currently a UN Security Council member, has requested emergency discussions in New York.

Russia - which has significant economic and military ties with Syria - has refused to back even a Western-drafted UN Security Council resolution condemning the violence, concerned that it would pave the way for military intervention.

Western terrocracies led by NATO terror syndicate gainfully play Sunni nations against Shiite countries and make considerable profits by trade in arms-oil-liquor. They used a Sunni leader to harm Shiites in  Shii'a dominated Iraq by propping up President Saddam Hussein  only advance their collective energy goals in the region. And, later, they employed Shii'a leaders to kill Sunni Saddam Hussein and other millions of Muslims there- both Sunnis and Shiites. They claim to impose their brand democracy every where and wanted use the opposition in Iran to destabilize that Islamic nation and kill their elected leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.