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    THE LIBERATION OF HOMS, BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE AGGRESSION AGAINST SYRIA

    Voltaire Network
    May 12 2014

    by Thierry Meyssan

    The liberation of Homs, the third largest city of the Syrian Arab
    Republic, is not just an event among others in the war waged by NATO
    and the GCC on Syria. For Thierry Meyssan, the agreement reached
    between the Republic and its attackers suggests a quick exit from
    the war. It will probably be accompanied by a redistribution of
    regional roles.

    Events follow and contradict each other in Syria. While at the
    beginning of the year, a smiling Washington sponsored the organization
    of the Geneva 2 Peace Conference, it sabotaged it from behind and
    yielded to all Saudi requests. The war seemed to be destined to last as
    long as the states of NATO and the GCC would finance it. Yet secretly,
    for two months, peace negotiations moved forward on the initiative of
    Iran. They bore their first fruit with the liberation of Homs which
    could mark the beginning of the end of the war of aggression.

    To understand, one must remember the official discourse and replace
    the signs in the chronology of the negotiations that were taking place
    at the time. This is also an opportunity for me to correct previous
    statements that could not have been complete because of the secrecy
    of the talks.

    Four Months of War Against Syria

    In early January, Washington had determined its strategy for Syria.

    President Obama secretly met Congress to hold a vote for war funding
    until the end of the fiscal year, that is to say until September. This
    unusual procedure, unworthy of a supposedly democratic state, was
    hidden from the American public and became known only because of a
    dispatch from Reuters UK [1]. Parliamentarians authorized the shipment
    of arms to "moderate opposition" groups, without identifying these
    famous groups as, in the field, all armed opposition groups, without
    exception, engaged in atrocities in the name of their vision of Islam.

    [2]

    At the same time, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, undisputed leader of Al
    Qaeda since the summer of 2001 and Saudi national security adviser,
    was hospitalized in the United States. The rumor spread that King
    Abdullah would place him in disgrace at the end of the six months he
    had been given to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.

    In Turkey, the judiciary tried to establish how Prime Minister Recep
    Tayyip Erdogan was diverting money to Al-Qaeda. It jeopardized the
    Muslim Brotherhood IHH Humanitarian Association. [3]

    Then the United States sabotaged the peace conference in Geneva that
    they were sponsoring jointly with Russia. John Kerry had Iran's
    invitation cancelled by Ban Ki-moon the day before the meeting,
    though the invitation had already been duly addressed to Iran. He
    presented a delegation called "Syrian Opposition" that was restricted
    to members of the National Coalition, which is to say exclusively to
    employees of Saudi Arabia. During his keynote speech, he kept going
    over the worst war propaganda, describing the onset of a "revolution"
    after the torture allegedly inflicted on teenagers in Deraa or citing
    "horrific reports" on torture and thousands of executions. [4]

    The Geneva conference was thus a dialogue of the deaf between, on the
    one hand, a Syrian national delegation requiring prior condemnation
    of terrorism in accordance with UN resolutions and on the other hand,
    a pro-Saudi delegation overwhelming it with fanciful accusations.

    Strangely, debates clenched around a seemingly very minor point :
    the fate of the inhabitants of old Homs. Several locations in the
    country and several places in Homs were besieged by the national army,
    but the pro-Saudis were anxious that humanitarian organizations should
    enter only old Homs.

    On February 15th, the Special Representative of Ban Ki -moon and of
    Nabil el-Arabi, Lakhdar Brahimi, noting that the Syrian Arab Republic
    would not bend because the balance of power on the ground was largely
    in its favour, suspended sine die the negotiations [5].

    During the three weeks of the conference, the United States had also
    taken the initiative to engage with their Saudi friends, followed by
    Poland with its European allies, to encourage them to take steps to
    protect themselves from the return of the jihadists. On February 6th,
    the Secretary of Homeland Security , Jeh Johnson, told his counterparts
    that peace was at hand and that the parties to the Western Jihad
    in Syria would come back, inebriated with blood, to commit crimes in
    Europe and the USA [6]. The first state to obey was Saudi Arabia, which
    by decree forbade participation in jihad under penalty of 4-20 years in
    prison, then it was France's turn, which adopted a vast, comprehensive
    anti-jihadist plan on April 23. On this occasion, false statistics were
    distributed to the press announcing that about 10,000 Westerners and
    5000 Arabs fought in Syria, while Lakhdar Brahimi spoke the preceding
    year of 40,000 foreign fighters and the Syrian military evoked 120 000.

    Shortly after the launch of this campaign, the European Union
    confiscated the Syrian assets it had frozen, supposedly to finance the
    destruction of chemical weapons, contrary to a resolution of the OPCW
    which specified Syria's financial inability to pay such destruction
    and created a special international fund to act in its place. [7]

    All these maneuvers were discussed by Washington and its allies at
    a secret meeting of the Board of U.S. national security and heads of
    European intelligence services at the White House as revealed by the
    Washington Post. [8]

    Militarily, Saudi Arabia brokered a cease-fire between armed groups
    waging amongst themselves a terrible war of competition [9]. This
    agreement did not last long and the fighting resumed quickly and
    with greater gusto. However, its existence confirmed that the Saudi
    Kingdom had become the only entity capable of being obeyed by the
    "armed opposition". In addition, we learned in passing that Ã~IIIL
    was directly controlled by Prince Abdul Rahman al-Faisa , brother of
    the Minister of Foreign Affairs. [10]

    On February 22nd, Westerners had a resolution adopted by the UN
    Security Council on humanitarian aid to Syria. As pointed out by
    Ambassador Churkin, it came after many attempts to use this aid to
    overthrow the regime. In fact only 7% of funds were gathered for
    this aid, three-quarters of which was distributed by the Syrian Arab
    Republic and only a quarter by UN agencies. However, in practice,
    this resolution, not being respected by the armed opposition groups,
    amounts only to prohibiting the Republic from besieging the areas
    they control. [11]

    On February 27, the tone rises between Saudi Arabia and Qatar about
    the Muslim Brotherhood. Riyadh imposes requirements and sponsors a
    bombing in Doha. [12]

    It was then that began secret contacts on the liberation of old Homs.

    In mid- March, the new U.S. ambassador to Syria, Daniel Rubinstein,
    ordered the closure of the Syrian consular offices in the country.

    [13] Then, on the occasion of the visit to the White House of the
    President of the National Coalition, he announced the diplomatic
    recognition of this group of pro-Saudi opposition, without putting an
    end to diplomatic relations in international bodies with the Syrian
    Arab Republic . [14]

    On March 21st, the Turkish army, a NATO member, entered Syrian
    territory to support a new jihadist takeover of the town of Kassab
    [15]. While the Syrian army tried to save the Armenian population of
    the city and bombarded the jihadists, the Turks shot down a Syrian
    plane [16] . Armenia and all OTCS Member States protested in vain
    against what looked like a continuation of the massacre of Armenians
    by the Young Turks in 1915. Challenged by the Russian delegation to
    the Security Council, Westerners refused to condemn the violation of
    Syrian sovereignty by a NATO [17] member State.

    At the end of March, Saudi Arabia and Qatar concluded an agreement.

    Doha would gently cease its support for the Muslim Brotherhood whose
    foreign leaders are asked one by one to leave the Emirate. Their
    representatives would be excluded from the Syrian National Coalition.

    To restore its image, Qatar plans to create a new television channel
    that will soften the image of Al-Jazeera.

    On April 3 , the 11 surviving members of the Friends of Syria argue
    against the principle of a presidential election in Syria. They
    reaffirm that it is they, through negotiations, not the Syrians
    democratically, who must choose their future. [18]

    On April 16, Prince Bandar bin Sultan was officially relieved of his
    duties as national security adviser as well as Saudi intelligence
    chief. [19] To oust him, King Abdullah was supported by John Kerry who
    punished thusly the prince's reactions to the chemical weapons case.

    The Sudeiris Clan of whom Bandar is the leader, was forced to bow. The
    kingdom then tidied up its operations. On the one hand, the king
    ordered the release of French hostages and secondly he adopted jihad
    legislation. Now, participation is prohibited, however the returning
    Saudis will not be imprisoned but rather welcomed as prodigal sons.

    On April 20th, a faction of Al-Qaeda in Syria, Ã~IIIL, freed four
    French hostages and handed them to the Turkish police. Officially,
    the four men were journalists held by Saudi Arabia (it is known that
    the Ã~IIIL is controlled by Prince Abdul Rahman al-Faisal ). They
    were released without compensation. [20] However one of the four
    hostages would have been a member of the French secret services and,
    according to the German magazine, Focus, their release was accompanied
    by a funding of $ 18 million to Ã~IIIL.

    On May 6th, Saudi Arabia arrested 62 members of Al- Qaeda accused of
    plotting against the officials of the regime . [21]

    The Liberation of Homs

    Negotiations on the liberation of Homs began in early March. That was
    two months ago. It was implemented from May 7 to 9. Combatants and
    civilians who supported them, a total of 2,250 people, were allowed
    to leave the city on buses. They could take with them small arms and
    personal belongings. The document states that the windows of the bus
    should be tinted or covered by curtains. An Iranian representative
    was on board each vehicle. The convoy was escorted by police to a
    rebel area twenty kilometers to the north.

    Homs, described by NATO and GCC propaganda as the "heart of the
    revolution", is returned to the authority of the Republic, without
    blood being shed. Its liberation marks the end of the takfisriste
    project in Syria. Upon entering the old town, Syrian soldiers
    discovered several mass graves in which the jihadists threw their
    victims.

    Curtains hid fighters from news reporters. We do not know how many
    were foreign officers. The only thing certain is that they are French
    and Saudis, with some Americans. They abandoned their heavy weapons.

    They were to continue their journey and be exfiltrated by Turkey. The
    Syrian government is committed not to speak publicly about the presence
    of foreign officers, but it is an open secret for journalists who
    approached civilians.

    If the presence of Saudis is not surprising, that of the French and
    Americans is. Paris had formally severed contacts with jihadists in
    Syria since its intervention in Mali, in January 2013 , against other
    jihadists. So much for severing, although these contacts were more
    discreet. As for the Americans, they have a reputation for leaving the
    ship to their allies when the weather turns bad. Yet there they were.

    Henceforth, the question is what is the intention of NATO and the GCC.

    It seems that the Nicaraguan style war is over. Perhaps because
    the Republic resisted, perhaps because it was becoming increasingly
    difficult to find candidates for jihad. Washington would fall back
    on simple support for its Syrian employees. From this point of
    view, the liberation of Homs corresponds to an escalation against
    Damascus. For the past week, rockets rain down on the capital, causing
    many casualties. Given the balance of power within the population,
    the outcome of the war leaves no doubt and will be speedy. Bashar
    Assad should be democratically elected by a large majority of his
    fellow citizens on June 3, and the war should slowly end, its funding
    being provided only until September.

    The campaign led by Washington to dissuade jihadists from going back
    to NATO countries suggests that a new purpose will be found for them.

    For over a year, the Russian Federation has been convinced that it
    will be the next target of Westerners. So, it prepares for a new shock,
    even if it does not know where it will happen exactly.

    Moreover, the liberation of Homs turns the page on the project of
    domination of Arab countries by the Muslim Brotherhood. While they
    were, since 2007, the privileged interlocutors of the State Department,
    and Washington had placed them in power in Turkey, Qatar, Tunisia,
    Libya, Egypt and elsewhere, they are now in reflux. Those who the
    academic, Robert S. Leiken, described in 2005 as moderates capable
    of governing an Islamized Arab world on behalf of the United States,
    have been or are being rejected or dismissed from all countries where
    they hold power.

    Finally, the victory of Homs hints at the possibility of a future
    rivalry between Iran and Russia. It is clear that if Washington had
    confidence in Tehran in this case, it is because the two states have
    previously entered into a comprehensive agreement. It seems that
    the United States is remaking Iran Constable of the area, as it was
    at the time of the Shah. In this perspective, military assistance
    to Hezbollah, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Palestinians should
    decrease slightly. Tehran should push its allies toward compromise. In
    exchange, Washington could give it free rein in Iraq, Syria and even
    Lebanon. It would follow that Shiism which, since Ayatollah Khomeini,
    was an anti-imperialist force would become once again just a way
    for Iran to assert its identity and its influence. This development
    would ruin Russian-US projects in the region. But can they still be
    envisaged after the Ukrainian crisis ?

    Thierry Meyssan

    Translation Roger Lagassé

    Your e-mail address Recipient Text of your message:

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    http://www.voltairenet.org/article183731.html

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