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SEEN THROUGH A SYRIAN LENSE, 'UNKNOWN AMERICANS' ARE PROVOKING CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ by Robert Fisk

 
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SEEN THROUGH A SYRIAN LENSE, 'UNKNOWN AMERICANS' ARE PROVOKING CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ by Robert Fisk
"Behind these grave suspicions in Damascus lies the memory of Saddam's long friendship with the United States."


www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12885.htm [link to www.informationclearinghouse.info]

Seen through a Syrian lens,

'unknown Americans' are provoking civil war in Iraq


By Robert Fisk


04/29/06 "The Independent" - [link to news.independent.co.uk] - In Syria, the world appears through a glass, darkly. As dark as the smoked windows of the car which takes me to a building on the western side of Damascus where a man I have known for 15 years - we shall call him a "security source", which is the name given by American correspondents to their own powerful intelligence officers - waits with his own ferocious narrative of disaster in Iraq and dangers in the Middle East.

His is a fearful portrait of an America trapped in the bloody sands of Iraq, desperately trying to provoke a civil war around Baghdad in order to reduce its own military casualties. It is a scenario in which Saddam Hussein remains Washington's best friend, in which Syria has struck at the Iraqi insurgents with a ruthlessness that the United States wilfully ignores. And in which Syria's Interior Minister, found shot dead in his office last year, committed suicide because of his own mental instability.

The Americans, my interlocutor suspected, are trying to provoke an Iraqi civil war so that Sunni Muslim insurgents spend their energies killing their Shia co-religionists rather than soldiers of the Western occupation forces. "I swear to you that we have very good information," my source says, finger stabbing the air in front of him. "One young Iraqi man told us that he was trained by the Americans as a policeman in Baghdad and he spent 70 per cent of his time learning to drive and 30 per cent in weapons training. They said to him: 'Come back in a week.' When he went back, they gave him a mobile phone and told him to drive into a crowded area near a mosque and phone them. He waited in the car but couldn't get the right mobile signal. So he got out of the car to where he received a better signal. Then his car blew up."

Impossible, I think to myself. But then I remember how many times Iraqis in Baghdad have told me similar stories. These reports are believed even if they seem unbelievable. And I know where much of the Syrian information is gleaned: from the tens of thousands of Shia Muslim pilgrims who come to pray at the Sayda Zeinab mosque outside Damascus. These men and women come from the slums of Baghdad, Hillah and Iskandariyah as well as the cities of Najaf and Basra. Sunnis from Fallujah and Ramadi also visit Damascus to see friends and relatives and talk freely of American tactics in Iraq.

"There was another man, trained by the Americans for the police. He too was given a mobile and told to drive to an area where there was a crowd - maybe a protest - and to call them and tell them what was happening. Again, his new mobile was not working. So he went to a landline phone and called the Americans and told them: 'Here I am, in the place you sent me and I can tell you what's happening here.' And at that moment there was a big explosion in his car."

Just who these "Americans" might be, my source did not say. In the anarchic and panic-stricken world of Iraq, there are many US groups - including countless outfits supposedly working for the American military and the new Western-backed Iraqi Interior Ministry - who operate outside any laws or rules. No one can account for the murder of 191 university teachers and professors since the 2003 invasion - nor the fact that more than 50 former Iraqi fighter-bomber pilots who attacked Iran in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war have been assassinated in their home towns in Iraq in the past three years.

Amid this chaos, a colleague of my source asked me, how could Syria be expected to lessen the number of attacks on Americans inside Iraq? "It was never safe, our border," he said. "During Saddam's time, criminals and Saddam's terrorists crossed our borders to attack our government. I built a wall of earth and sand along the border at that time. But three car bombs from Saddam's agents exploded in Damascus and Tartous- I was the one who captured the criminals responsible. But we couldn't stop them."

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Re: SEEN THROUGH A SYRIAN LENSE, 'UNKNOWN AMERICANS' ARE PROVOKING CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ by Robert Fisk
It certainly makes sense that American black-ops would foment civil war in Iraq to justify a continued massive American military presence. Cheney wants the troops to stay there because he plans to send them into the oil-rich Khuzestan province of Iran soon.
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applause righto


talk about necromancers stirring a cauldron



time to shut down their permanent bases
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The battle for Baghdad part 2
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"'UNKNOWN AMERICANS' ARE PROVOKING CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ"

I mean.... Noooooooooooo Really????
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PS: Great article BMG. People must get this trough their thick skulls already!
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Re: SEEN THROUGH A SYRIAN LENSE, 'UNKNOWN AMERICANS' ARE PROVOKING CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ by Robert Fisk
I remember Donald Rumsfield on seeing the local Iraqi running off with the countries possessions at the time of the looting and he laughted aloud and said"that is the fruit of freedom,thats what free people do".

They went in formenting a civil war Bremmer was the first to start the ball rolling,he wanted civil war,and worked hard,kicking out all the sunnies on the onslouth.

Who really bombed the Samara Golden Mosque?,sure them al cader people or yeah right sure.well it kicked off a war that will last.

You know what though the civil aint working as planned and its kicking back in the other direction folks.

they are feelin it





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