[Debate] Chossudovsky: Foreign Powers Behind Syria Unrest [video] (the "politically incorrect" Press TV)

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[For some, a politically incorrect source... so make up your own mind]


     Chossudovsky: Foreign Powers Behind Syria Unrest [video]

     by Amir

     Global Research TV
     February 14, 2012

     http://youtu.be/wMmz0mV7XNw

     A report recently released by DEBKAfile, an Israeli military 
intelligence website, which is believed to have close links to Israeli 
intelligence sources, has shown that the UK is providing logistical 
support to armed terrorist groups in Syria.

     Press TV has conducted an interview with Michel Chossudovsky, the 
director of the Centre for Research on Globalization in Montreal, 
Canada, to further discuss the issue.

     The video offers the opinions of two additional guests: Sukant 
Chandan, a filmmaker and political commentator in London and Hisham 
Safiedding from Al Akhbar, a Lebanese daily published in Beirut.

     The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

     Press TV: Doesn't this undermine the United Nations and its role, 
by the UK and Qatar, if this is true?

     Chossudovsky: Well, I should disclose the fact that this news 
concerning British special forces is nothing new.

     There's evidence of foreign interference in affairs of Syria, going 
back right to the beginning, when you know the... started in Dara'a, in 
southern Syria in March of 2011.

     We know, that these armed groups, which were recognized in fact in 
the Arab League report, are all supported by foreign powers, and they 
are operatives of those foreign powers on the ground inside Syria.

     We know that Turkey is involved, and we know that they are 
supporting those groups.

     So in effect, what the report published by Debka, the intelligence 
news agency or related to the Israeli intelligence is suggesting is 
something we know already, that this insurrection, this armed 
insurrection, is supported by foreign powers.

     And in fact, we have previous reports to the fact that both NATO 
and Turkey are not only recruiting fighters to go in, mercenaries, but 
they are also training them...

     Press TV: If they had been on a patch in terms of interference, 
their assistance and arming, was going to the UN then only a face-saving 
show for the world?

     Chossudovsky: Well, it's a face-saving show that had unexpected 
results. Because as you recall, the Arab League commissioned a mission 
to go into Syria, with a view of establishing the nature of this 
insurrection and the nature of the protest movement.

     The assumption was that the Arab League would instruct its mission 
to toe the line of media disinformation and come up with a report 
saying, blaming the government for the civilian deaths, when in fact 
what they presented was a much more balanced report, where they said 
there is an armed entity, and that armed entity is committing crimes 
against the civilian population, killing people and involved in 
terrorists acts.

     And consequently it's not an issue of blaming the Syrian authority, 
but one of acknowledging the existence of an armed insurrection.

     And of course they didn't mention who was behind it, but it ties in 
with other reports that we have that this armed insurrection is 
supported by foreign forces.

     I think that the issue of resolution between the government and the 
opposition is a red herring, because it can only proceed if these armed 
gangs are neutralized and that foreign forces withdraw from the country.

     There is an opposition within Syria, but what is at stake, in this 
insurrection is not an opposition, these are mercenary forces. These are 
trained paramilitary, they are equipped with heavy machine guns and so 
on, but they're not protesters.

     Originally aired on PressTV, February 10, 2012
     http://www.presstv.ir/detail/225933.html

     Amir | February 24, 2012 at 7:23 PM | Categories: 
co-opting/destabilization, news, sovereignty, Syria, tyranny, videos, 
war | URL: http://wp.me/p1KK0p-1Yf

     
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