by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research:
Today, December 8, 2024, our thoughts are with the people of Syria.The coup d’Etat in Damascus, was led by Jihadist terrorists supported by US-NATO-Israel.
President Bashar Al Assad has left the country.
We must understand the history behind the December 2024 Damas Coup d’Etat. The objective of thirteen years of war led by jihadist terrorists sponsored by US-NATO-Israel was to destroy and impoverish an entire country, and install an Islamic State controlled by Washington.
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And today, the media in chorus is applauding the Al Qaeda affiliated entities which have been used to destabilize Syria’s secular government and institutions.
There are no pro-jihadist demonstrations in the streets of Damascus.
At the outset of the US-NATO-Israel war on Syria in March 2011, the so-called “opposition”, was largely made up of Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists.
A US-NATO led war of aggression was portrayed as a “civil war”.
President Bashar Al Assad was casually described as a dictator who is killing his own people. The millions of deaths resulting from US-NATO led wars are not an object of concern.
The anti-war movement died in the wake of the Iraq war (April 2003). Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and counterterrorism prevail, which consists in supporting and financing terrorist mercenaries.
The war on Syria started 13 years ago in Daraa on the 17th of March 2011.
I was in Syria in early 2011 studying Arabic. I left the country in early March barely two weeks before the outbreak in Daraa.
The following article first published more than 13 years ago in May 2011 examines the inception of the jihadist terrorist insurgency.
It recounts the events of March 17-18, 2011 in Daraa, a small border town with Jordan.
It was not a protest movement, it was an armed insurgency integrated by US-Israeli and allied supported “jihadist” death squads
From Day One, the Islamist “freedom fighters” were supported, trained and equipped by NATO and Turkey’s High Command. According to Israeli intelligence sources (Debka, August 14, 2011):
NATO headquarters in Brussels and the Turkish high command are meanwhile drawing up plans for their first military step in Syria, which is to arm the rebels with weapons for combating the tanks and helicopters spearheading the Assad regime’s crackdown on dissent. … NATO strategists are thinking more in terms of pouring large quantities of anti-tank and anti-air rockets, mortars and heavy machine guns into the protest centers for beating back the government armored forces. (DEBKAfile, NATO to give rebels anti-tank weapons, August 14, 2011)
This initiative, which was also supported by Saudi Arabia the UAE and Qatar, involved a process of organized recruitment of thousands of jihadist “freedom fighters”, reminiscent of the enlistment of Mujahideen to wage the CIA’s jihad (holy war) in the heyday of the Soviet-Afghan war:
Also discussed in Brussels and Ankara, our sources report, is a campaign to enlist thousands of Muslim volunteers in Middle East countries and the Muslim world to fight alongside the Syrian rebels. The Turkish army would house these volunteers, train them and secure their passage into Syria. (Ibid, emphasis added)
These mercenaries were subsequently integrated into US and allied sponsored terrorist organizations including Al Nusrah and ISIS.
The Daraa “protest movement” on March 17-18 had all the appearances of a staged event involving covert support to Islamic terrorists by Mossad and/or Western intelligence.
Government sources pointed to the role of radical Salafist groups (supported by Israel).
In chorus, the Western media described the events in Daraa as a protest movement against Bashar Al Assad.
In a bitter irony, the deaths of policemen were higher than those of “demonstrators”.
