{"id":91229,"date":"2017-04-24T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=91229"},"modified":"2017-04-23T18:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T17:30:26","slug":"terrorists-are-terrorists-and-not-rebels-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/04\/terrorists-are-terrorists-and-not-rebels-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists Are Terrorists and Not \u201cRebels\u201d in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

21 Apr 20187<\/em> – Waging war depends on disinformation, deception and Big Lies \u2013 used to justify the unjustifiable.<\/p>\n

Conflict in Syria isn\u2019t civil. All anti-government forces are US-supported terrorists (under various \u201cjihadist\u201d Al Qaeda affiliated labels). Names of different groups don\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re all cut out of the same cloth. \u00a0They can\u2019t exist without foreign support. State actors bear full responsibility for turning Syria into a charnel house.<\/p>\n

After over six years of war, hundreds of thousands are dead, mostly defenseless men, women, children, the elderly and infirm \u2013 millions internally or externally displaced.<\/p>\n

Their struggle is ours. The same goes for their counterparts in other US war theaters \u2013 victims of imperial viciousness.<\/p>\n

What country will America attack next? How many more millions will die or suffer unspeakable human misery? How long will it take before full-blown tyranny rules the United States, fantasy democracy dispensed with altogether.<\/p>\n

On April 20 in Damascus, independent journalists visiting Assad\u2019s political and media advisor Bouthiana Shaaban explained that<\/p>\n

\u201cterrorist(s) (are) terrorist(s) and not\u2026rebel(s).\u201d<\/p>\n

Falsely characterizing them is part of the West\u2019s great deception, manufacturing false legitimacy for pure evil.<\/p>\n

\u201c(T)he main problem lies in the misleading (anti-Syria) media, (creating) a wall which separates the Western citizen from the reality of events\u201d on the ground, Shaaban explained.<\/p>\n

The April 4 false flag CW attack in Khan Sheikhoun and Trump\u2019s April 7 aggression, striking Syria\u2019s Shayrat airbase, are two of the latest examples.<\/p>\n

Assad had nothing to do with the attack, killing scores including dozens of children, injuring many others.<\/p>\n

Russia and Iran called for an independent \u201cunbiased investigation\u201d into what happened, involving OPCW experts and others from Russia, Western countries and regional ones.<\/p>\n

According to Sergey Lavrov, efforts to block the Russian\/Iranian proposal indicate \u201cthose who are taking such attempts have unclean conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvidence (is) multiplying that this was an orchestrated event\u2026(T)here are too many discrepancies in the (official Western) version.\u201d Their officials are blocking \u201csteps that could help establish the truth about what happened.<\/p>\n

Separately, Lavrov said it\u2019s<\/p>\n

\u201cevident\u2026that\u2026false information\u201d about the Khan Sheikhoun incident is part of \u201cthe longstanding\u2026regime change\u201d plan. \u201cI\u2019m sure that we must prevent it,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced Trump\u2019s Khan Sheikhoun attack as \u201can act of aggression against a sovereign nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Russia\u2019s Armaments Non-Proliferation and Control Department director Mikhail Ulyanov explained<\/p>\n

\u201cno steps (so far) have\u2026been taken\u2026to investigate\u201d the April 4 CW incident.<\/p>\n

Blaming Damascus for happened is \u201cgroundless,\u201d he stressed. He blasted Britain and Washington for claiming Syrian culpability is \u201cabsolutely certain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe heard them say the same things\u201d ahead of Bush\/Cheney\/Blair\u2019s 2003 Iraq invasion.<\/p>\n

Assad said his government formally asked UN authorities \u201cto send a delegation in order to investigate what happened in Khan Sheikhoun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course till this moment they didn\u2019t send (any) because the West and the US blocked any delegation from coming\u201d \u2013 wanting hard truths about what happened suppressed, proving Syria had nothing to do with what happened.<\/p>\n

OPCW British nationals said samples from Khan Sheikhoun indicated sarin or a similar toxin was used in the April 4 attack \u2013 despite not visiting the site first hand, invalidating their claim.<\/p>\n

What happened was a state-sponsored \u201cfalse flag,\u201d Assad stressed \u2013 to blame his government and justify Trump\u2019s aggression.<\/p>\n

On April 16, he tweeted:<\/p>\n

\u201cOur military is building and is rapidly becoming stronger than ever before. Frankly, we have no choice!\u201d<\/p>\n

Is he planning to unleash it more aggressively on humanity than already \u2013 to justify the unjustifiable at a time America\u2019s only enemies are invented ones?<\/p>\n

___________________________________<\/p>\n

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net<\/a>.\u00a0His new book as editor and contributor is titled <\/em>Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/a> – Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com<\/a> .\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Conflict in Syria isn\u2019t civil. All anti-government forces are US-supported terrorists (under various \u201cjihadist\u201d Al Qaeda affiliated labels). Names of different groups don\u2019t matter. They\u2019re all cut out of the same cloth. They can\u2019t exist without foreign support. State actors bear full responsibility for turning Syria into a charnel house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syria-in-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}