“Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.” ~– John Sheehan, S.J., Jesuit priest
re the CIA death squads video: at the end Webster Tarpley gives his analysis; for the beginning, turn on captionssee also this PressTV video w Webster Tarpley interview: The Houla Massacre: A War Provocation by NATO Death Squads in Himmler's Gleiwitz Operation
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By Richard Edmondson
Uprooted Palestinians posted this video - Syria Hula Massacre, A CIA Death Squads False Flag Attack - on Saturday. The music you hear in the background is of course the Moonlight Sonata. I wonder if Beethoven would have been surprised at hearing his most famous piano sonata set to a report about a grisly massacre of more than 100 people? Perhaps. Then again, perhaps not. I'€™ve always found the music far more evocative of a funeral than a romantic evening spent in the moonlight.
Just how evil are the leaders of the NATO countries and Israel? Would they reallyorder a massacre like this'€"a monstrously shocking atrocity perpetrated not only against adults but also a upon a large number of children'€"in order to achieve their political ends? Or was it a case of the mercenaries and assassins of the '€œFree Syrian Army'€ going just a tad bit rogue and taking the initiative on their own for their own reasons? Certainly, when you have an army of hired killers on your payroll this is an ever-present risk. But even if the massacre wasn'€™t directly ordered from Washington or Brussels or Tel Aviv, those who supplied these '€œSyrian rebels'€ (I say '€œSyrian,'€ although a lot of them seem to have been imported from Libya) with their arms, bear a monumental share of the responsibility.
So it comes down to this: on a scale of one to ten, how bloodthirsty are the much-vaunted leaders of the '€œinternational community'€? Or, to put it another way, does Satan ride a tank in the general'€™s rank of NATO? You'€™ll have to try and answer that one yourself, but before you have a go at it, consider the purported eyewitness accounts to be found here (and also excerpted below). The translation into English is not the greatest, but you can easily decipher the gist of it. If the accounts are genuine, it would seem to be persuasive evidence that the Houla massacre was not the work of the Syrian Army (although you might want to consider the source website'€™s Disclaimer page). The translation is from a blog entry of a journalist named Marat Musin, whose work I am not familiar with. Nor am I familiar with his news service, ANNA News, although it does appear to be, if nothing else, a Russian channel on YouTube with a pretty lengthy catalogue of videos. Russian, yes, though with an uncommonly pronounced focus upon Syria. A good many of the videos collected there (all of them in Russian) seem to report on the Syrian conflict. And even if you don'€™t speak Russian, it'€™s a refreshing change from the propaganda peddled by the Western media.
I'€™m only going to provide excerpts from the translation of Musin'€™s blog post. To access the entire report, click here.
In the weekend of May 25, 2012, at about 2 PM, big groups of fighters attacked and captured the town of Al '€" Hula of the Homs province. Al-Hula is made up of three regions: the village of Taldou, Kafr Laha and Taldahab, each of which had previously been home for 25-30 thousand people.
The town was attacked from the north-east by groups of bandits and mercenaries, numbering up to 700 people. The militants came from Ar-Rastan (the Brigade of al-Farouk from the Free Syrian Army led by the terrorist Abdul Razak Tlass and numbering 250), from the village of Akraba (led by the terrorist Yahya Al-Yousef), from the village Farlaha, joined by local gangsters, and from Al Hula.
The city of Ar-Rastan has long been abandoned by most civilians. Now Wahhabis from Lebanon dominate the scene, fueled with money and weapons by one of the main orchestrators of international terrorism, Saad Hariri, who heads the anti-Syrian political movement '€œTayyar Al-Mustaqbal'€ ('€œFuture Movement'€). The road from Ar-Rastan to Al-Hula runs through Bedouin areas that remain mostly out of control of government troops, which made the militant attacks on Al Hula a complete surprise for the Syrian authorities.
Note that once, the exactly same provocation failed at Shumar (Homs) and 49 militants and women and children were killed, when it was organized just before a visit of Kofi Annan. The last provocation was immediately exposed as soon as it became known that the bodies of the previously kidnapped belonged to Alawites. This provocation also contained serious inconsistencies '€" the names of those killed were from people loyal to the authorities, there were no traces of bombings, etc.
However, the provocation machine is running all the same. Today, the NATO countries directly threat to bomb Syria, and a simultaneous expulsion of Syrian diplomats has begun '€¦ As of today, there are no troops within the city of Al Hula, but there are regularly heard bursts of automatic fire, nonetheless. Moreover, it is unclear whether the militants are fighting with each other, or whether supporters Bashar al-Assad are being cleaned out. Militants opened fire on virtually everyone who tries to get closer to the border town. Before us a UN convoy was fired upon and two armored jeeps of the UN observers were damaged, when they tried to drive up to an army checkpoint in Tal Dow.
In the attack on the convoy a twenty-year-old terrorist was spotted. The fire was directed on the unprotected slopes of the first jeep, the back door of the second armored car was hooked by a fragment. There are wounded among those accompanying. A wounded soldier: '€œThe next day, UN observers came to us at the checkpoint and as soon as they arrived, gunmen opened fire on them. And three of us were injured. One was wounded in the leg, the second '€" in the back, and I was hit in the hip.
Alawites, of course, are the ruling sect in Syria. So is Bashar Assad kidnapping and killing members of his own sect? The following is one of Musin'€™s most recent reports, uploaded to YouTube June 2. Again, it'€™s all in Russian, but notice how often you hear the word '€œterrorista,'€ including spoken at one point by one of the Syrian children. If the attack was carried out by their own army, do you suppose they would be referring to them as '€œterrorists'€?
Again, a bit more from the English translation of Musin'€™s blog post:
Interview with a law enforcement officer: '€œMy name is Al Khosam, I am a law enforcement officer. I served in the village of Taldou, the district of Al-Hula, a province of Homs. On Friday, our checkpoint was attacked by a large group of militants. There were thousands.
Q: How do you protect yourself?
Answer: A simple weapon. We had 20 people, we called support, and when they were coming for us, I was wounded, and regained consciousness in the hospital. The attackers were from Ar-Rastan and Al-Hula. Insurgents control Taldou. They burned houses and killed people by the families, because they were loyal to the government. Raped the women and killed the children.'€
Interview with a wounded soldier: '€œI am Ahmed Mahmoud al Khali. I'€™m from the city Manbej. Was wounded in Taldou. I come from a support group that came to the aid of our comrades, who were stationed at the checkpoint.
Militants destroyed two infantry fighting vehicles and one BRDM standing at our checkpoint. We moved out to Taldou in a BMP, to pick up our wounded comrades from the checkpoint within the city. We drove them back in the BMP, and I filled in their place.
And after a while the UN observers came. They came to us, we led them to the homes of families who were cut by thugs.
I saw a family of three brothers and their father in the same room. In another room we found dead young children and their mother. And another one- an old man killed in this house. Only five men, women and children. The woman raped and shot in the head, I covered her with a blanket. And the commission had seen them all. They put them in the car and drove away. I do not know where they took them, probably for burial.'€
A resident of Taldou on the roof of the police department:
'€œOn Friday afternoon I was home. Hearing the shots, I came out to watch what was happening and saw that the fire came from the north side, towards the location of army checkpoint. As the army did not respond, they started to approach the homes, were subsequently the family was killed. When the army started to return fire, they used the women and children as human shields and continued firing at the checkpoint. When the army began answered, they fled. After that, the army took the surviving women and children and brought them into safety. At this time, Al Jazeera aired pictures and said that the Army committed the massacre at Al Hula.
So how much longer before the violence in Syria engulfs Lebanon? In a recent report from Beirut, Franklin Lamb says it'€™s already happening:
It appears that Lebanon is not the simply the object or repository of spillover from the Syrian conflict but rather that it is very much an integral part of the escalating conflict in Syria.
The evidence appears clear and the signs multiply daily. They are too numerous for itemization but include the warning by all six Gulf Cooperation Council countries against travel by their citizens to Lebanon, the concern expressed by the two kings Abdullah (in Saudi Arabia and Jordan) over the current status of'€œa particular group in Lebanon'€, the alarm sounded by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton over the potentially catastrophic effects of the Syrian uprising on Lebanon, the arrest of Shadi al-Mawlawi, and the clashes in Tripoli that followed the shooting of Sunni cleric Ahmad Abdul Wahed at an army checkpoint.
They also include the fighting last weekend near Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in the mixed Tariq al-Jadideh neighborhood against a small Sunni party aligned with the anti-Syrian March 8 coalition, the kidnapping by still-unknown persons of a group of Lebanese Shiite pilgrims, the bombing of a bus carrying Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, clashes between students on Lebanese college campuses and even tensions at high schools, and the clash in Ras Beirut just last Wednesday. Indeed, there are regular skirmishes on Beirut'€™s streets.
William Engdahl says the U.S. '€œwants chaos in the Islamic world.'€ But of course it isn'€™t only the U.S. that wants that. Israel, in its Yinon Plan, envisioned a balkanization of Muslim states, from larger countries into smaller, weaker states, as far back as the 1980s (for more on that click here and here ). Whatever may be happening now in the Middle East, and Africa too, and whoever may be behind it, it sure does bear a striking resemblance to the Yinon Plan.
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