Apart from supplying weapons , did a Persian Gulf country engineer " prison breaks " to supply foot soldiers for Al Qaeda / Al Nusra in Syria ? And as almost none have been reportedly captured , did this nation provide transport to Syria ? Recall many allegations , numerous incidents of guards disappearing or assisting the break outs - one can surmise which specific Persian Gulf nation might be involved in such a caper.....
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/08/26/320637/persian-gulf-state-behind-alqaeda-agents-escape/
The report published by the Austrian daily, DerStandard said that the prison breaks were staged with the help of a Persian Gulf country, without saying its name, to support the al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group in Syria, al-Nusra Front.
It said that the prisoners were helped to escape under the condition that they will be sent to Syria to fight against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Pointing to the survival of al-Qaeda two years after the death of its founder, Osama Bin Laden, despite massive drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, sprawling surveillance programs, and global intelligence operations, the report said the real secret of al-Qaeda’s survival is that its offshoots in different countries closely cooperate with some of the regional countries.
Informed observers believe that Saudi Arabia has been mobilizing al-Qaeda operatives from regional countries to fight in Syria. They say Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar Bin Sultan is in charge of the operation.
Top Taliban commanders said that they have managed to smuggle over two dozen militants they broke out of a prison in the restive northwestern Pakistan on July 29. On July 27, Libyan security officials said that over 1,000 inmates have escaped from a prison near the eastern city of Benghazi in a stunning jailbreak.
Militants armed with mortars and machine guns also targeted two Iraqi prisons in Taji and Abu Ghraib on July 22, breaking hundreds out of jail.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said on June 25 that Riyadh believes the al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria should be armed, but weapons shipments to the Syrian government should be stopped.
Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have been killed and a total of 7.8 million others displaced since the outbreak of the violence.
http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2013/08/26/anti-syria-western-axis-coming-apart/
Anti-Syria Western axis coming apart
As in all criminal conspiracies when results do not go according to plan, the protagonists start blaming one another; and because of the treacherous nature of the conspiracy, the partners-in-crime are eventually prone to feelings of distrust, resentment and paranoia.
Anti-Syria Western axis coming apart
This splintering and bickering can be seen in the Western-led axis against Syria. In recent weeks, we have signs of emerging rivalries, spats and distrust that all point to the axis coming apart.
http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/08/26/syrias-reichstag-moment/
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/08/26/320637/persian-gulf-state-behind-alqaeda-agents-escape/
A Persian Gulf state behind al-Qaeda agents jailbreaks: Report
Foreign-backed militants in Syria (file photo)
Mon Aug 26, 2013 8:59PM GMT
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The intelligence agency of a regional state is behind the recent escapes of al-Qaeda agents from prisons in Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia to make them join foreign-backed militants in Syria, a new report says.
The report published by the Austrian daily, DerStandard said that the prison breaks were staged with the help of a Persian Gulf country, without saying its name, to support the al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group in Syria, al-Nusra Front.
It said that the prisoners were helped to escape under the condition that they will be sent to Syria to fight against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Pointing to the survival of al-Qaeda two years after the death of its founder, Osama Bin Laden, despite massive drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, sprawling surveillance programs, and global intelligence operations, the report said the real secret of al-Qaeda’s survival is that its offshoots in different countries closely cooperate with some of the regional countries.
Informed observers believe that Saudi Arabia has been mobilizing al-Qaeda operatives from regional countries to fight in Syria. They say Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar Bin Sultan is in charge of the operation.
Top Taliban commanders said that they have managed to smuggle over two dozen militants they broke out of a prison in the restive northwestern Pakistan on July 29. On July 27, Libyan security officials said that over 1,000 inmates have escaped from a prison near the eastern city of Benghazi in a stunning jailbreak.
Militants armed with mortars and machine guns also targeted two Iraqi prisons in Taji and Abu Ghraib on July 22, breaking hundreds out of jail.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said on June 25 that Riyadh believes the al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria should be armed, but weapons shipments to the Syrian government should be stopped.
Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have been killed and a total of 7.8 million others displaced since the outbreak of the violence.
http://www.islamicinvitationturkey.com/2013/08/26/anti-syria-western-axis-coming-apart/
Anti-Syria Western axis coming apart
As in all criminal conspiracies when results do not go according to plan, the protagonists start blaming one another; and because of the treacherous nature of the conspiracy, the partners-in-crime are eventually prone to feelings of distrust, resentment and paranoia.
Anti-Syria Western axis coming apart
This splintering and bickering can be seen in the Western-led axis against Syria. In recent weeks, we have signs of emerging rivalries, spats and distrust that all point to the axis coming apart.
That may be the important backdrop to this week’s alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus, in which over 100 people were killed.
Suspicion points to the atrocity being ultimately the work of Saudi Arabia or Israel, or both, in an attempt to trigger a full-scale Western military intervention. This despicable act is more a sign of desperation stemming from failing cracks in the Western-led axis against Syria. It is an attempt to bring about cohesion in the axis, which has in recent weeks seen its various adherents drifting apart as a result of the losing war situation.
Thus, this past week we witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of Saudi King Abdullah rebuking the United States for “ignorant meddling” in Egypt; we also saw NATO member Turkey accusing Israel of fomenting the military coup in Egypt against Ankara’s allied Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi; and then the US slapped down Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for leveling such accusations against its client in Tel Aviv.
Before that rash of grouching, the Persian Gulf Arab sheikhdoms were aggrieved by Washington’s unprecedented closure of embassies throughout the region over an alleged terror threat. There were even paranoid accusations from the monarchs that the US was trying to destabilize their autocratic rule.
Within the Persian Gulf oil monarchs, there has of course been a seething rivalry between the dominant Saudi Arabia and the upstarts of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. This came to the fore last month when the House of Saud pushed Qatar out of the driving seat for gun-running in the Western-led axis against Syria.
Why these tensions within the Western-led axis are emerging now is because of the imminent failure of the military option for regime change in Syria. The main Western powers of the US, Britain and France seem to have given up the ghost on overthrowing the Damascus government through covert state-sponsored terrorism. Turkey’s Recep Erdogan has also reportedly decided to back off from supporting the Takfiri militants in Syria, probably reflecting his government’s concern that the repercussions of blowback terrorism are destabilizing Ankara’s internal authority.
Saudi Arabia and Israel appear to be still committed to the militarist option, not only in Syria, but also in Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere.
The recent spate of military setbacks heralding eventual defeat for the Western-led axis has created a new dynamic of calculations among the protagonists. This is typical of a criminal conspiracy coming unstuck. The different priorities of the protagonists start to diverge; that dynamic then induces feelings of distrust, treachery and resentment.
For nearly two and half years, Syria has been targeted by a relentless covert war of aggression aimed at destabilizing the country and instigating regime change. The Western axis sponsoring the covert war comprises primarily the United States and the former colonial powers Britain and France, along with their regional proxies Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey.
The military option for regime change in Syria is proving to be a failure. The turning point was the battle for Qusayr when the Syrian army liberated the key mid-regional town. Since then, the Western-backed mercenaries have been decisively on the retreat, engaging in more and more sickening atrocities. The elusive goal of overthrowing President Bashar al-Assad has created a sense of defeatism among the Western-led conspiracy.
This explains why the Americans, British and French have not delivered on promised weaponry to the foreign militants in Syria, despite having given the official go-ahead for this supply more than two months ago. This delay has engendered bitter resentment among the mercenaries and their Saudi paymaster towards the Western governments, whom they accuse of betraying.
Notably too when the Saudi-backed exile group, the Syrian National Coalition, sent its top delegates to the US at the end of July to drum up weapons and materials, they came away jilted and empty handed. The SNC delegation, headed up by Saudi protégé Ahmad al-Jarba, was told by US Secretary of State John Kerry that there was “no military solution” to the Syrian problem, and that they would have to sit down to negotiate with the government in Damascus.
That change in US tune was hardly picked up by the media at the time, but it signaled a significant backing away from the military option by Washington. Not that the US was discovering a long overdue sense of ethics, with more than 100,000 total dead and millions of refugees. It was more a realist assessment that another option to unseat Assad was needed, perhaps through political wrangling in the Geneva II process, combined with stepped-up economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
It is worth noting that Britain and France have also shied away from their previous vociferous demands that “Assad must go”. Again, as with the US, it is not that these Western states are ditching their long-held desires for regime change in Syria. It is more a case that the Western imperialists realize that a more sophisticated, nuanced political option must now be exercised, since the brute military option has proven futile.
Not so Saudi Arabia or Israel. Their desire for regime change in Syria is born out of a sharper, more virulent need than that of their Western patrons. The regimes in Riyadh and Tel Aviv see the resistance bloc of Syria, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran as an existential threat to their despotism. Iran is the nemesis that Saudi Arabia and Israel are obsessed with. Of course, the US, Britain and France want to rid the region of what they see as an impediment to their hegemony in the form of Syria, Hezbollah and Iran. But the Western powers’ antagonism does not have the existential, rabid urgency that Saudi Arabia and Israel are afflicted with. For the Western powers, they are prepared to play the alternative cynical game of politics in order to achieve their regime-change objectives.
As a result of the losing war situation in Syria and the diverging tactical priorities within the Western axis this has led to internal tensions and resentment. The alleged chemical weapons massacre this week would be a convenient way for Saudi Arabia and Israel to force a red line for Western military intervention, and in that way get the Western axis to stiffen its faltering cohesion. No doubt there are belligerent elements within the Western ruling elite who are only too willing to buy that pretext.
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http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/95546-qabbani-says-rival-officials-responsible-for-deteriorating-security-situation
Qabbani Says Rival Officials Responsible for Deteriorating Security Situation
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani held officials from rival camps responsible for the recent developments in Lebanon, accusing them during a visit to the northern city of Tripoli of using the rhetoric of vengeance.
“What's happening today is caused by our politicians from March 14 and March 8,” Qabbani said at Tripoli's Dar al-Fatwa that he visited along with a delegation of Sunni clergymen to offer condolences over the coordinated explosions on Friday outside two mosques in the city.
“Their rhetoric are based on challenges and vengeance,” he said about the bickering politicians.
The twin Tripoli bombings that left hundreds of casualties are “a sign that the perpetrators don't have values,” he said.
Qabbani accused world powers of “insisting to shove Lebanon into the fighting in the Arab region because only Lebanon and Jordan have remained outside this system.”
“Israel knows that it won't have stability unless it divides Arabs and their countries,” he said, pointing his finger at the Jewish state. “It's clear that we area heading towards more fire on a dark road.”
The bombers thought that the faithful in the Tripoli mosques would rise up against Shiites following the bombings that came a week after a similar deadly blast in Beirut's southern suburbs, Qabbani said.
“Those who planted the explosives in Dahieh are responsible for the Tripoli bombings because there is a clear plan to create a clash among Islamic regions,” he said.
“Let's assume there was strife and massacres were committed between Sunnis and Shiites... what would have happened next?,” he wondered.
“We should resort to cooperation and understanding,” he said.
“The victims are paying the price of the sectarian strife in Lebanon,” the Mufti warned.
He urged Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam to form without any delay a “national government.”
Qabbani later visited the southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday afternoon to inspect the neighborhood of Rweiss, where a deadly explosion took the lives of at least 22 people earlier in August.
The Mufti warned that Christians in the country will be targeted as well, if rift persisted between the Lebanese.
"A rift between Muslims will frighten Christians and those who targeted Dahieh and Tripoli will not hesitate to attack them,” he stated from the scene of the explosion. “Christians are also targeted and what happened in Iraq is an example.”
Qabbani added: “The West is not loyal to Christians and it will not benefit us to trust these nations and cooperate with them.”
He continued: “The only goal is to ignite chaos in the Arab world to dismantle the ties in the region. Those behind the conspiracy in the region are in confusion. They were not able to trigger the Lebanese to fight each others and create chaos in the country. They believed sedition is the easiest way to achieve this.”
The Grand Mufti urged politicians to adopt a positive attitude when communicating with each others.
"If you don't, Lebanon will be heading towards a stage which consequences we cannot imagine.”
He called for the formation of a “national cabinet with the participation of all factions.”
“Parties can have their disputes inside the cabinet instead of creating conflicts on the street,” he explained.
“We must draw an end to the arrogant speeches of politicians as they are transforming us into victims.”
The Sunni cleric reiterated “that the pain is one in all the country.”
“I came to Rweiss to tell you that we share the same pain and the same wounds with you,” Qabbani said.
He explained: “The explosions in Tripoli targeted mosques because the assailants know that the people of the northern city, just like the residents of Dahieh, are committed to their religious beliefs."
“The assailants aim at maintaining security in Israel. The focal cause is the Palestinian cause and the peace negotiations are nothing but narcotic pills that the West and Israel are offering to the Arab world.”
Interesting point of view.....
Interesting point of view.....
