Obama sends CIA to Syria, while Kofi Annan throws in the towel.
Il Giornale, August 3rd, 2012
When entering the Middle East scene, Obama does not usually resolve much, but he creates much ado. That is what looks like this time, too. While the State Department made public to have allocated 25 millions for non lethal support to rebels as well as 60 for humanitarian assistance, turns out that the president, disappointed by the inability of the Security Council to inflict fierce punishments on Assad, signed secret orders authorizing CIA and other covert organizations to provide American support to rebels. This is a kind of intelligence actions know as “finding” which enables various kind of support to partners deemed suitable by agencies. This and other developments highlight the US shift toward supporting Assad's armed opponents.Should be the USA so honest to use of his influence to show the world that this is the way openly, instead of working in hide?
The sources that issued the news insist that Obama apparently would not have provided “lethal weapons”; such a statement is however arduous to verify. According to an American source the United States is apparently collaborating with Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia within an organization purportedly based in Adana, in the Incirik base, a US military and intelligence center. Turkey's efforts in supporting the rebels are apparently the toughest. ABC news reported that the Free Syrian Army had obtained two dozen surface-to-air missiles as well as shoulder-fired missiles via the Turkish soil. The bottom line is that many weapons are being transferred into the rebels' hands, recognizing that, nothwithstanding the UN opinion, in order to have a say you will have to rely on guns. But at the same time it becomes nonetheless manifest that the opposition field is undermined by daunting powers, that the Muslim Brotherhood has a very important role in the revolutionary leadership.. It is a serious contradiction. Americans are also aware that Al Qaeda's presence on the field became significant and organized, resulting in about 200 dead and a thousand wounded among the security forces through suicide attacks. Al Qaeda doubled its henchmen with about 200 militants coming from Iraq: Syria used to be the throughway for Bin Laden's organization into Iraq, now the opposite applies. The organization set up cells led by Abu Muhammad al Julani, a veteran jihadist, in Aleppo, Damascus, Dera, and Idlib. Obama, therefore,at the moment beside having doubts about the real intentions of the insurgents, also knows to be dealing with his historical enemy, in whose hands his aids might land, as well as in the hands of other anti-American groups. It is a nasty dilemma, while Assad's militias are becoming increasingly fierce and the rais is hemmed. Russia opposed the Saudi resolution to the UN General Assembly, but it's nw known that also Moscow wishes Assad's exit, being unable to support the persisting power of a true butcher of his own people. Enemies multiply every day,: American Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, in chorus with Jordan King Abdullah, declared yesterday that Assad must step down. This happened while gun fires were heard between Syrians and Jordanians over the border, near the village of Ramtha. In the meanwhile, the prime minister of Siria defected. Meanwhile the rebels seized a foothold close to the borders to Iraq, so to control the highway that connects Syria to Baghdad. In a wordx, the entire world wants to put a seal on Assad's ends, because the outcome of the battle will hinge the future of the Middle East, peace or war will ensue. Everyday the scenario represents its usual chaotic horror: in a southeastern Damascus neighborhood 48 people were killed within the contest of the arrest of 100 youth in a school, while the country is ravaged by tortures, abuses, and summary executions; rebels hit with a air strike Menagh military airport, near to Aleppo, where helicopters and airplanes take off for their notoriously bloody incursions; always in Aleppo six days after the battle, rebels boast to control seventy per cent of the city, but the city six days after the battle is still a chaos, phone lines are cut off, rampant movements of hordes of people escalate, FAO reckons three millions of people are or will be needing all kind of aid, from food to irrigation for fields and farms that are dying out, everything perishes in a bloodshed: wheat, barley, olives, vegetables. But there is someone who still believes in Assad: an article of the Lebanese newspaper Joumhouria reveals that following the assassination of the four Assad's dignitaries some days ago, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah wrote a personal letter to Bashar Assad. After inquiring about his health and morale, Nasrallah had offered him two forms of assistance He told him he would send him Hezbollah special forces any time they are needed, even if they are required to fight in an open field against the rebels. Secondly, he told him invites him to his personal residence in Beirut (a nice bunker!) or to meet in the Iranian embassy, with which he evidently has made arrangements. In short, also this case scenario envisages a possible Assad's escape, and quite likely Nasrallah wonders also about his personal fate as well as the fate of the Iranian axis. The fact that the shiite axis is shaking is certainly good for all the world, but is also the reason why the Saudi Arabia – Qatar alliance is so active in supporting the muslim brotherhood and the extreme organizations all over the arab revolutions. Turkey, on its very special side, looks like looking forward beyond the sunnite line and Erdogan searches again, with a new move, some russian friendship. He wants to be in every Middle Eastern game, within and without the perspective of Assad's fall. The Curds in crowds on his border sometime make him think what many do: the end of Assad is really a very complicate issue. Obama should know, the CIA should help him "finding", at least in Syria the USA, who lost of all their friends, should look for a serious one.