Nov 24 Anti-government

'US, Israel funding terrorists in Syria'
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/211887.html
Thu Nov 24, 2011 4:3PM (For the original, read the next artcile.)

A prominent political analyst says that members of the anti-government "Free Syria Army" are not defected army personnel but militants backed, funded and armed by the United States, Israel, and Turkey.

In an article published on Global Research website on November 20, Thailand-based geopolitical expert Tony Cartalucci cited a report released by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) stating that Syria's opposition is armed and prepared to drag the country into more violence.

"The report comes in sharp contrast to the propaganda fed via the corporate-media and the West's foreign ministers on a daily basis, where the violence is portrayed as one-sided, with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad 'gunning down' throngs of peaceful, placard waving protesters," Cartalucci wrote.

He said the group calling itself a pro-democracy movement is turning out to be a militant group of extremists trained by British and US intelligence agencies, "whose leadership is harbored in London and Washington and their foot soldiers supplied a steady stream of covert military support and overt rhetorical support throughout the compromised corporate media."

The article described the unrest in Syria, which has killed thousands of people including hundreds of security personnel, as funded by Western corporate-financier interests and part of a long-planned agenda for regime change across the Middle East region.

Cartalucci said the regime change in Syria was planned to happen as early as 1991.

He said Washington's threats against Syria, which it listed in 2002 under then President George W. Bush as an "Axis of Evil," were later realized as secret backing for opposition groups inside Syria.

Cartalucci cited an admission made by US State Department officials in April to attempt to "build the kind of democratic institutions" in Syria, and that Damascus perceived the move "as a threat to its control over the Syrian people."

Secret government cables published by US media had earlier revealed Washington has been funding Syrian opposition groups since at least 2005 and continued until today, the article concluded.

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The "Free Syria Army": Placard-Waving Protesters are actually Machine Gun-Wielding Terrorists
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27766
http://backupurl.com/14i8zm
by Tony Cartalucci
Global Research, November 20, 2011

The "Free Syria Army" is literally an army of militant extremists, many drawn not from Syria's military ranks, but from the Muslim Brotherhood, carrying heavy weapons back and forth over the Turkish and Lebanese borders, funded, supported, and armed by the United States, Israel, and Turkey. The latest evidence confirming this comes in the form of a report out of the International Institute for Strategic Studies which clearly states that Syria's opposition is armed and prepared to drag Syria into more violence.

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