Zafar Bangash
Zafar Bangash
This is not to suggest that Asad’s regime was representative of the people. Far from it. The reality, however, is that West Asia (aka the Middle East) is full of tyrants as brutal as Asad or worse. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt or Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) in the Arabian Peninsula, erroneously named “Saudi” Arabia, provide ready examples.
Egypt’s dungeons are full of political prisoners undergoing horrible torture. The Egyptian Pharaoh, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is nervous after Asad’s ouster. He fears a similar fate may befall him.
The Saudi head choppers, meanwhile are doing overtime to keep up with the execution of innocent people. This campaign of terror has been ongoing for many years since Muhammad bin Salman (MbS) became the de facto ruler. His aged, ailing father is in no capacity to rule.
Western regimes led by the US have never had any qualms about dealing with brutal dictators, monarchs, sheikhs, amirs or other assorted tyrants masquerading as ‘strongmen’. So, why did Asad become unacceptable when in 2002, he was invited to Britain and even received by the Queen at Buckingham Palace?
Was he any less brutal at that time? This was soon after 911 and thousands of innocent people, kidnapped by the CIA and its allied intelligence agencies, were shipped to tyrannical regimes to be tortured.
Asad’s Syria was one of them; Egypt was another. And then there were the black sites in Thailand, Romania and Poland etc. Bagram prison in Kabul was soon followed by the opening of the notorious Guantanamo Bay that still holds around 27 detainees. Not one of them has being brought to trial much less convicted by a properly constituted court of law.
In order to maintain a clean image, western regimes subcontracted torture, waterboarding, beatings etc, to the Arabian criminals. Was the Queen or Tony Blair, who was British prime minister at the time, unaware of Asad’s record? In 2002, he was their SoB and, therefore, welcomed at Buckingham Palace.
Asad’s real crime was that he joined, or more accurately helped the Axis of Resistance. Syria was an important land bridge for Iran to send weapons and other help to Hizbullah in Lebanon to fight the zionist war criminals.
While Syria never participated in the military struggle against zionist Israel directly, allowing his territory as transit route for shipment of material to Hizbullah was an unforgiveable sin. Asad had to be punished; he had to go. The campaign to oust him had started in March 2011 but unlike the hapless Muammar Qaddafi in Libya, Asad survived, thanks to the help of friends.
The odd assortment of terrorists with divergent outlooks operating under various labels—Jabhat al-Nusra, Daesh, Jaysh al-Sunnah, Liwa al-Haqq—came together under the umbrella of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (Committee for the liberation of Syria). The committee was cobbled together by Turkish intelligence agency MIT on instructions from the CIA and Israeli Mossad. Funding came from the CIA. The HTS had a single point agenda: overthrow of Asad’s regime.
With that achieved—itself a tale of immense treachery, both by the Syrian army and the Arabian regimes—there is nothing binding these disparate outfits together. HTS is headed by one Abu Muhammad al-Julani, who emerged from the bowels of al-Qaeda and is a ‘graduate’ of the Bucca prison camp in Iraq which also produced that other terrorist, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
This latter creature went on to establish his ‘khilafah’ in Mosul in 2014. How he obtained brand new Toyota pick-up trucks is not difficult to figure out. All his equipment was provided by the CIA. Al Baghdadi’s ‘khilafah’ excelled in torture, beheadings and rape.
Such acts are expressly forbidden in Islam but his handlers and financiers had a specific purpose: to present a horrible image of Islam. The name given to his outfit, the ‘Islamic State of Iraq and Sham’ (ISIS) or the ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL), was also deliberate. It was meant to discredit the concept of the Islamic State. After all, who would want to live in an Islamic State where head choppings and rape are common?
Despite undergoing many name changes—from al-Qaeda, Daesh, Jubhat al-Nusra or other fancy titles—the HTS remains largely a terrorist outfit. Western regimes and media outlets are busy refurbishing Al Julani’s image presenting him as a “moderate”. Perhaps it is time to get used to the idea of “moderate terrorists”.
He is so “moderate” that he does not want to fight Israel even if the latter is busy gobbling up large parts of Syria. Also, the zionist war machine has bombed and destroyed almost all of Syria’s air force and naval vessels as well as radar installations. The only statement Al Julani has made regarding Israeli crimes is to say that he has expelled Iran and Hizbullah from Syria. There is, therefore, no reason for Israel to continue to strike Syria! He has also vowed that Syrian territory will not be used to attack Israel.
When Britain’s Channel 4 News reporter asked a spokesman for HTS about Israeli bombing of Syria’s military assets, he refused to answer the question. Instead, he sought refuge behind the excuse that their priority was to stabilize the situation in Syria. When pressed to answer the question, the HTS spokesman merely said, “We hope everyone will respect the sovereignty of new Syria.” Really?
Zionist Israel is in no mood to respect Syria’s sovereignty. The indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahi with an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) has made clear that Israeli forces will stay in Syria “for the foreseeable future”. What are Syria’s newly-minted “moderate” rulers going to do about it?
Precious little, since they are serving the interests of the zionist and imperialists who pay their salaries. They cannot afford to upset their paymasters and lose their new won positions.
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