Reporting Syria propaganda style

NATO-US Intervention

The U.S. government has been waging a long and expensive covert campaign to overthrow the Assad regime, according to American diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks. Given the interventions prior to the actual invasions of other countries, it seems likely that as former Central Intelligence Agency officer Philip Giraldi claims in The American Conservative, December 19, 2011:“NATO is already clandestinely engaged in the Syrian conflict, with Turkey taking the lead as U.S. proxy…Unmarked NATO warplanes are arriving at Turkish military bases close to Iskenderum on the Syrian border, delivering weapons…as well as volunteers from the Libyan Transitional National Council…French and British special forces trainers are on the ground, assisting the Syrian rebels while the CIA and US Spec Ops are providing communications equipment and intelligence to assist the rebel cause…”.

Giraldi adds that CIA analysts know that the frequently cited U.N. account of civilians killed is based largely on rebel sources and uncorroborated. Likewise, accounts of pitched battles between deserters and loyal soldiers"appear to be a fabrication, with few defections being confirmed independently. Syrian government claims that it is being assaulted by rebels who are armed, trained, and financed by foreign governments are more true than false.”

The Free Syrian Army: Who are the rebels?

According to Pepe Escobarof the Asia Times, “Syria's top military - also members of the Ba'ath Party - are almost all Alawis, the folk Shi'ite sect (10 per cent of the overall population). They are not defecting. The defectors are overwhelmingly Sunni troops (70 per cent of the overall population); they are forming militias, Libya-style, heavily infiltrated by mercenaries weaponised by the GCC, and fighting government troops. The government's response has been to target the neighbourhoods where the families of these defectors live. The centre of Homs nowadays is controlled by the rebels.”

Outlawed since its terrorist campaign in 1977-1982, the Muslim Brotherhood has two prime objectives: the destruction of the Baathist government and the replacement of the secular state by an Islamic system. And to add to the potent mix, Osama bin Laden’s successor as head of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri has exhorted Muslims to back the Syrian rebels. The two recent bombings in the suburbs of Damascus and the suicide bombing in Aleppo suggests that infiltrated jihadists are already at work.

The U.N. Resolution

It was unilateral demanding nothing from Syrian anti-government armed groups. United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the double veto a "travesty", and called for a coalition of "friends of a democratic Syria" to coordinate efforts to remove Assad from power. But this insistent Western demand that “Assad must step down” is not really a call for “regime change”, but for regime self-destruction.

As in Libya, the country would be turned over to rival armed groups, but with sectarian strife much more horrific than the chaos in Libya. Syria has long had a tolerant attitude toward religious minorities, but, now, interventionists are ignoring warnings that ifthe Assad  regime falls to Islamists, there may well be a massacre of Christians.

Anti-Russian Rhetoric

The West`s propaganda barrage depicts Russia as the obstacle to democratic reforms and change in the Middle East. The SNC now holds Moscow and Beijing "responsible for the escalating acts of killing and genocide", and facilitators of a "license to kill". 

Russian Vested Interests in Syria