New York Times Fakes The Record About Arming The
Syrian Rebels
By Moon Of Alabama
October 21, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" - History as faked by the
New York Times:
Kurds’ Sense of Betrayal Compounded by Empowerment
of Unsavory Rivals
Ben Hubbard, David D. Kirkpatrick, NYT 18.
Oct 2019
Now, [..] the sense of betrayal among the Kurds
[..] is matched only by their outrage at who
will move in: Turkish soldiers supported
by Syrian fighters the United States had long
rejected as extremists, criminals and thugs.
...
The deadly battles [..] have also given new
leeway to Syrian fighters once
considered too extreme or unruly to receive
American military support.
...
Grandly misnamed the Syrian National Army, this
coalition of Turkish-backed militias is in fact
largely composed of the dregs of the
eight-year-old conflict’s failed rebel movement.
Early in the war [..] the military and the C.I.A.
sought to train and equip moderate, trustworthy
rebels to fight the government and the Islamic
State.
A few of those now fighting
in the northeast took part in those failed
programs, but most were rejected as too
extreme or too criminal. Some have
expressed extremist sensibilities or allied with
jihadist groups.
The reality is the opposite of what the NYT
claims. The majority of the groups now fighting with
the Turkish army had earlier received support from
the U.S. Even their nominal leader is the same one
who the U.S. earlier paid, armed and promoted.
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COMPONENTS OF THE NATIONAL ARMY AND THE
IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNIFICATION
Ömer Özkizilcik, SETA, October 2019
On August 31, the Syrian National Coalition came
together and elected the president and the
cabinet of the Syrian Interim Government in
which Abdurrahman Mustafa was elected president
and Salim Idriss was elected defense
minister. With the new cabinet, the
Syrian Interim Government became more active on
the ground, started visiting each faction of the
National Army, and accelerated the stalled
negotiations to unite the National Army and the
NLF under one command.
Salim Idriss with U.S. Senator John McCain
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Idriss with Guy Verhofstadt, then
leader of the ALDE group in the European
Parliament
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Among the 41 factions that joined the merger, 15
are from the NLF and 26 from the National Army.
Thirteen of these factions were formed after the
United States cut its support to the armed
Syrian opposition. Out of the 28
factions, 21 were previously supported by the
United States, three of them
via the Pentagon’s program to combat DAESH.
Eighteen of these factions were supplied
by the CIA via the MOM Operations Room in
Turkey, a joint intelligence operation room of
the ‘Friends of Syria’ to support the armed
opposition. Fourteen factions of the 28 were
also recipients of the U.S.-supplied TOW
anti-tank guided missiles.
The SETA study provides a detailed list of the
groups involved in the current Turkish invasion of
Syria. Not only is their commander Salim Idriss a
former U.S. stooge but the majority of these groups
did receive U.S. support and weapons.
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The New York Times claim that only "a
few of those" who now fight the YPG Kurds took part
in the U.S. programs is a blatant lie.
The NYT piece quotes three 'experts' who
testify that the 'rebels' the U.S. had armed are
really, really bad:
“These are the misfits of the conflict, the
worst of the worst,” said Hassan Hassan, a
Syrian-born scholar tracking the fighting. “They
have been notorious for extortion, theft and
banditry, more like thugs than rebels —
essentially mercenaries.”
It was Hassan Hassan who since the start of the
conflict lobbied for
arming the rebels from his perch at the UAE's
media flagship The National.
Another 'expert' quoted is the Israeli
propagandist Elizabeth Tsurkov:
“They are basically gangsters, but they are also
racist toward Kurds and other minorities,” said
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a fellow at the Foreign
Policy Research Institute. “No human should be
subjected to their rule.”
Tsurkov earlier
lauded the Israeli hiring and arming of the very
same 'Syrian rebels'.
Another 'expert' quoted by the Times is
a co-chair of the 'congressionally sponsored
bipartisan Syrian Study Group':
“We are turning areas that had been controlled
by our allies over to the control of criminals
or thugs, or that in some cases groups were
associated or fighting alongside Al Qaeda,” said
Ms. Stroul, of the Syrian Study Group. “It is a
profound and epic strategic blunder.”
The 'Syrian Study Group' wants
to prolong the war on Syria. Ms. Stroul and her
co-chair Michael Singh
reside at the Washington Institute which is a
part of the Zionist lobby and has
long argued for 'arming the Syrian rebels'.
The Times report does not mention that
the 'experts' it quotes all once lobbied for arming
the very same groups they are now lamenting about.
When these groups ran rampant in the areas they took
from the Syrian government the Times and
its 'experts' were lauding them all the way. No
effort to support them was big enough. All crimes
they committed were covered up or excused.
Now, as the very same rebels attack the Kurds,
they are suddenly called out for being what they
always have been.
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