U.S. Air Force Is Supporting AlQaeda In Yemen And
- Coming Now - Also In Syria
By Moon Of Alabama
July 18, 2015 "Information
Clearing House"
- A few days ago newly Saudi trained
Yemeni forces were inserted into the southern harbor city Aden to
fight against Houthi and parts of the Yemeni army loyal to the
former president Saleh. The inserted forces had brand new mine
resistant vehicle and were led by special forces from the United
Arab Emirates. With Saudi and U.S. air support they managed to push
the Houthis from several Aden quarters. But after a day of fighting
the attack
got stuck and the Houthi hit back. An Emirati officer, likely
acting as Forward Air Controller providing target designation for
the air attacks,
was killed. The Wall Street Journal
notes that AlQaeda was part of the Saudi/U.S. supported forces:
Local militias backed by Saudi Arabia, special
forces from the United Arab Emirates and al Qaeda militants all
fought on the same side this week to wrest back control over
most of Yemen’s second city, Aden, from pro-Iranian Houthi
rebels, according to local residents and Houthi forces.
The U.S. is providing the ammunition, refueling
and targeting intelligence for the "Saudi" campaign. Not only did it
help to recently destroy various important bridges, hospitals and
all three cement factories in Yemen, it is now actively giving air
support to AlQaeda.
The same is likely
to happen in Syria:
They arrived in Toyota Hilux pickup trucks, the
favored vehicle of Islamist fighters in the Middle East and
South Asia. But these men, the first graduates in the faltering
U.S. train-and-equip program, were traveling into Syria to fight
against an extremist insurgency, the Islamic State. The U.S.
military calls them the “New Syrian force” and disclosed that
they are to coordinate with rebel forces already on the
ground who have a different objective – to fight the
government of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The goal, a
spokesman said, is to expand the effectiveness of all
moderate forces.
Who please are the "moderate forces" in Syria? The
clowns from Jaish al Fatah, Jabhat al Nusra (AlQaeda) and
their best friends, the Brookings favorite Ahrar al-Shams, come
to mind.
These groups,
supported with the help of U.S. intelligence by Saudi Arabia,
Turkey and Qatar, last month took Idlib in northern Syria. As
reaction to that the Syrian government received additional support
from its allies and pulled back to defensive positions. Since then
new Jihadist attacks against Aleppo, Daara and in the Golan heights
all failed with high casualties on the attackers side.
So now it is time to insert those "new" forces
and, like in Yemen, offer AlQaeda the help of the U.S. air force:
[Maj. Curtis J. Kellogg, a spokesman for the U.S.
Central Command, told McClatchy] “However, it is anticipated
that New Syrian Force personnel will coordinate with other
moderate opposition forces to build trust between organizations
that are countering ISIL and apply the skills they have learned
through the train-and-equip program to increase the
combat effectiveness of all forces they operate with.”
...
The “New Syrian Force” will be able to call in U.S.
airstrikes, as the Kurdish People’s Protection Units or
YPG, a militia that has captured dozens of villages from the
Islamic State in recent weeks. A U.S. government official who
spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to discuss
details of the program said the force on the ground will
communicate with a U.S. military officer who’ll pass requests
for air support to coalition commanders.
The "new" forces the U.S. is inserting will
thereby be the Forward Air Controllers who will call in the U.S. air
force "to increase the combat effectiveness of all forces they
operate with". They will join the other insurgents on the ground,
AlQaeda and other Jihadis, who have the premier aim of overthrowing
the Syrian government.
Does anybody believe that the targeting data the
"new" U.S. trained forces in Syria will be submitting will be solely
of Islamic State targets?
But while the U.S. is giving air support to
AlQaeda in Yemen and in Syria the lunatics of the Washington Post
are threatening Iran for "meddling"
in the Middle East:
Stopping Iran’s destabilizing behavior is the
priority in the Middle East, as senior Israeli, Saudi and
Emirati officials agree privately, whatever the public commotion
about the nuclear deal. This essential task of confronting
Tehran should be easier now that the Iranian nuclear program is
capped for at least a decade.
...
What’s the best way to confront Tehran on these regional issues?
As with the nuclear problem, the right strategy is a combination
of pressure (including possible military force)
and diplomacy.
"So yeah. Let's bomb Iran so we can help AlQaeda
to swallow up Yemen and Syria."
I remember from years ago travel that the water in
Washington DC is heavily chlorinated. Since then, it seems, they
added LSD to it.
Via
http://www.moonofalabama.org/