Investigative Report
Syria...A War In The Shadows
By: Diane Sori and Craig Andresen / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
Misinformation is a key strategic component of any battle plan.
George Washington knew this as being the nature of war in regards to the
public and the press.
The war in Syria has for many years been classified by both the
mainstream media and by politicians at large as the Syrian Civil War,
but nothing could be further from the truth for the fact is that the
civil war in Syria is a proxy war being waged by just about everybody
except the Syrians themselves.
To fully understand this concept one must first know the players
involved in what’s happening inside Syria and why they are so engaged.
And while we hear daily about the
“rebels” who are trying to oust duly-elected Bashar al-Assad from power, know that for the most part those
“rebels” are not all Syrians per se but are outsiders being driven and financed by entities outside of Syria.
In fact, the
“rebels” are proxy fighters being controlled in large part by Iran with a number of said
“rebels”
actually being ISIS fighters, and with smaller factions bearing
allegiance to various independent terrorist organizations. And with the
smallest number of
“rebels” actually being Syrians engaged in trying to overthrow al-Assad to better their own country, even those actual Syrian
“rebels”
have been taking up with Iranian proxy fighters out of both desperation
and a lack of resources. They are of little consequence in the grand
scheme of things.
Simply, Iran has sent their proxy fighters to Syria for one
reason...to take control of a country that borders Israel in their
effort to establish a launch point for military action against the
regions only true democracy. Iran wants Israel to be wiped from the map,
and they need a close-in base for such an undertaking.
And at the same time ISIS fighters in Syria are battling for their
own chunk of regional real estate...a home base if you will after losing
their grip on Iraq thanks to President Donald J. Trump. Remember, Obama
did all he could to establish ISIS in Iraq and ISIS doesn’t want to
just wipe Israel off the map...ISIS is seeking the Levant...as in
regional control of the Middle East...which puts ISIS in direct conflict
with Iran, and rest assured Iran does not want to play second fiddle in
the region to anyone.
That means that within Syria both ISIS and Iran are trying to rid
al-Assad of power, so as to control a country from which they can
attempt to destroy Israel, and yet both Iran and ISIS are also battling
each other...
“rebels” against
“rebels” in their quest for regional superiority.
And other terrorist factions engaged in Syria are apt to be playing a
sort of follow the leader, helping whichever of the Iran/ISIS entities
they feel has the best chance of coming out on top or whichever of those
two entities is currently gaining the most ground...more mercenary than
committed.
On the other side of things in Syria, we have the al-Assad regime
which quite frankly is using Russia as its proxy to engage both Iran’s
proxy fighters, ISIS, and other various terrorist factions for the
purpose of maintaining control of Syria.
Russia is playing both ends against the middle by being on friendly
terms with Iran and being friendly with al-Assad, but Russia when push
comes to shove will most definitely side with al-Assad because Russia’s
real estate interests inside of Syria are specific...as in Russia wants
Tartus...a deepwater port on the Mediterranean and make no mistake both
Iran and ISIS want Tartus as well. But should either Iran or ISIS
control Syria neither will allow Russia access to Tartus, but should
al-Assad remain in power, he would allow Russia said access.
Therefore, Russia has a vested interest in defeating all the various
factions lined up against al-Assad and should Russia...specifically
Putin...have access to Tartus he would be more than willing to turn his
back on any economic gains he and Russia get from being friendly to
Iran. And this brings us to why the port of Tartus is so important to all the key
players involved as Tartus is the geographical lynchpin for why all said
players are engaged in Syria.
It must be understood as fact that Russia wants the deepwater port at
Tartus as its permanent Mediterranean base of operations. Leasing
access to Tartus in a 1971 multi-billion-dollar debt write-off with
Syria, the then Soviet Union was Syria's main arms supplier and Tartus
was used to receive Damascus bought Soviet weapons. Becoming the Soviet
229th Naval and Estuary Vessel Support Division in the mid-1980s, Tartus
then became the 720th Logistics Support Point for the Soviet Navy with
the Russian Navy continuing to use Tartus after the 1991 breakup of the
Soviet Union.
And while some Russians officials continue to mimic the 2012 words of
Ruslan Aliev, the former head of information at the Centre for Analysis
of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) in Moscow that,
“Tartus is not a real naval base”... that...
"It
is just a point on the map to replenish food and water and carry out
some occasional repairs..and that from a strategic point of view
[Tartus] is insignificant"...nothing could be further from the truth.
In fact, a past report on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty stated that,
"Russia's greatest strategic and geopolitical interest in Syria is the use of a deep-water port at Tartus.”
How so...when first reported and continuing to this day, Tartus can
accommodate both nuclear submarines and missile cruisers at its docks;
it remains the receiving port for Russian made weapons shipments to
Syria; it is a much needed refueling port and a commercial cargo loading
and unloading stop; as well as being directly linked to a
well-developed network of roads and railways...railways that just happen
to encompass military transport routes from Tartus to major cities
across Syria...railway routes Russia needs to transport weapons to
al-Assad's government forces.
And Tartus is a touch point beyond just a Russian naval base as it's
also a touch point in transporting natural gas to Europe. Lying under
the Persian Gulf and being shared by both Iran and Qatar is the largest
natural gas field in the world, and with Qatar forging ties with the
European Union, Qatar along with Saudi Arabia and Turkey now want to
build a pipeline link, but said link would need to pass through Tartus.
And being that al-Assad and his ally Russia, as well as
“rebels”
supporting Iran having interest and competing proposals for said
pipeline...again going through Tartus...this translates into he who
controls said link controls the discrimination of the natural gas. And
with a full quarter of Europe's gas energy needs now being met by Russia
imagine the influence and power Russia would have if they controlled
the Tartus natural gas pipeline link.
Now as for the actual physical logistics of why Tartus is so
important to Russia. As it stands now Russia's most important foreign
naval base is the Black Sea Fleet base of Sevastopol in Ukraine.To
deploy beyond the Black Sea and especially into the Mediterranean,
Russian warships based at Sevastopol must pass through the Bosporus
Strait, but said strait has been militarized by NATO-member Turkey. As
per the 1936 Montreux Convention, the Bosporus Strait was deemed an
international shipping lane with military restrictions, and a 1982
amendment gave Turkey the right to close the Strait at its
“discretion” in peacetime as well as during wartime. Because of this
“discretion”
the only unfettered way out of the Black Sea for Russia is through the
out of the way Dardanelles, thus Tartus becomes a must have vital
strategic naval asset.
But no matter the reason, Russia today desperately needs said port if
they are to remain a key player in the Middle East, and that, in our
opinion, is why neither Russia nor Putin will ever abandon al-Assad or
his government. And when you add in that al-Assad struck a deal to
confer territorial sovereignty of the base to the Kremlin, it means that
as long as Russia continues to veto any and all U.N. Security Council
resolutions against al-Assad as well as continues to sell weapons to his
regime, their alliance will remain unbroken while at the same time it
becomes highly unlikely that any opposition government who might someday
replace al-Assad would allow Russia's current rights to Tartus to
remain in place.
But what of Iran whom Russia to some degree continues to play footsie with?
The simple fact is that if Iran were ever to rule Syria even via a
puppet government, Iran would then see Tartus as their Mediterranean
base of operations and would never allow Russia to keep or even have
access to Tartus. And why...in a word 'payback.' Remember, while Russia
currently backs al-Assad, in October 2017 Russia also made an agreement
with Iran's enemy Israel...an agreement seeing a 10-15 mile
“off limits buffer zone”
being placed along Israel's border with Syria...a buffer zone intending
to keep both Iranian and Hezbollah forces from entering and attacking
the Jewish State. Simply put, the Iranian mullahs have a long memory and
they will not ignore the fact that while Russia was playing footsie
with them, at the same time Russia was also making nice, if you will,
with Israel...and that is something Iran will neither forget, forgive
nor reward.
And this alone means that as much as al-Assad needs Russia to remain
in power, Russia in turn needs al-Assad to have access to Tartus.
So as you can see from all stated, U.S. involvement in Syria has a
very specific goal...with that goal being preventing Iran, ISIS or
Russia from either controlling or having full access to Tarsus, but as
with any U.S. military involvement anywhere, a shadow entity is to some
extent pulling the strings.
And we’re talking about the gathering and dissemination of
intelligence used in guiding both our military and the military forces
of our allies in their efforts. Gathering intel is tricky, but not as
tricky as disseminating intel and misdirection...the manipulation of
gathered intel has always been a key factor not only in military
operations, but in the court of public opinion regarding the use of
military operations.
The C.I.A. was present in Benghazi, and most likely was a key player in the illegal transfer of weapons from
“rebels” in Libya to
“rebels”
in Syria...actions that eventually resulted in the murders of
Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans...all of which
the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton tried to pin on a YouTube
filmmaker's video.
But, if you think such involvement by the C.I.A. is something
relatively new, think again. Look at the involvement of the C.I.A. in
such covert actions as Operation Mongoose
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/operation...and Operation Northwoods
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/northwoods.html...and know that those are just the very tip of the covert ops iceberg.
It is well known that we have about 2000 U.S. troops on the ground in
Syria, but what isn’t widely known is that the C.I.A. has embedded...as
in operatives...in Syria as well. And know that what has transpired in
Syria over the past couple of weeks has been known to the C.I.A., and
that certain intel we now believe has been manipulated by the C.I.A. in
its dissemination not only to our allies but to the American public as
well.
The latest volley of American cruise missiles fired into Syria was in response to what has been referred to as an
“alleged”
gas attack perpetrated by al-Assad...right? Not so fast as our military
strike on Friday night, April 13th was actually in response to what our
sources have told us was evidence and intel manipulated and carefully
disseminated by the C.I.A. for specific purposes.
Intel from the ground, most likely gathered by the C.I.A. or by
C.I.A. informants over the last couple of years, pointed to several
buildings in various locations that were at one time key elements of
al-Assad’s chemical weapons program. But the C.I.A. knew well that those
very buildings had not only been evacuated in the days prior to our
cruise missile attacks, but in fact had been emptied out long before
last Friday’s strikes, which is why casualties were less than a handful
and why virtually nothing of any great importance has been shown to have
been destroyed.
That, however, is not where the careful manipulation of intel ends. It is, in fact, where it begins.
The U.S. led military strike against what we have been led to believe
were al-Assad’s key chemical weapons facilities was supposedly in
response to al-Assad’s gassing of his own people a week prior. Killing a
reported 70 or so people...mostly children...a barbaric act if indeed
it actually happened, this is what certain elements of our primary
overseas intel agencies want us to believe, but we aren’t buying it.
Through our RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS sources and through what we have been
able to piece together from other sources, we believe the truth
contradicts the manipulated intel. We have good reason to believe Bashar
al-Assad did not do what he is accused of doing.
And why do we believe this...first let’s have a look at the two types
of chemical weapons most often mentioned in press briefings and widely
spread throughout the mainstream media that either sarin gas or chlorine
gas was used by al-Assad.
First, sarin gas would have had a greater kill rate than what was
reported, and sarin gas also leaves behind a residue making it
impossible for unprotected responders to handle sarin victims for some
time...and we have all seen the images of unprotected responders trying
to assist the Douma victims. Sarin gas also kills its victims at the
most in mere minutes, while the Douma victims remained alive, some for
more than an hour, after the alleged al-Assad gas attack occurred.
Simply, it was nor sarin gas...which must be vaporized into an
aerosol form...nor was it chlorine gas that killed those people for
something forgotten about chlorine gas is that it blinds its victims
both temporarily and in most cases permanently, and we have not heard or
seen any reports of the victims in Douma being blinded. Chlorine gas
also produces a very recognizable pineapple odor as well as a specific
yellowish-brown colored cloud, neither of which have accompanied any of
the reports or has been stated by any of the witnesses or surviving
victims...so it wasn’t chlorine gas either.
Our RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS sources tell us that the gas in question was
most likely CS or CS4 gas...commonly known as CS/tear gas...that killed
the people in Douma. And know that CS gas is the same potent tear gas
used in riot control situations by law enforcement world wide. And while
in most cases CS/tear gas is non-lethal, probably because it is most
widely used in outdoor settings, a study of CS/tear gas was conducted by
Prof. Dr. Uwe Heinrich
* and commissioned by
John C. Danforth of the United States Office of Special Counsel.
Investigating how the F.B.I. used CS/tear gas at the Branch Davidians'
Mount Carmel compound outside Waco, Texas, the study concluded that the
lethality of CS/tear gas used would have been determined mainly by two
factors: whether gas masks were used and whether the occupants were
trapped in a room. Prof. Heinrich suggested that if no gas masks were used and
the occupants were indeed trapped then,
"there is a distinct possibility that this kind of CS exposure can significantly contribute to or even cause lethal effects."
Large concentrations of CS/tear gas also produce a cloud of white
smoke or vapor, which is completely consistent with reports provided by
Syrians on the ground and in photos taken immediately after the alleged
al-Assad gas attack occurred...but if it wasn’t al-Assad then who did
it?
Because CS/tear gas is readily available and is easily packaged in
small easy to transport canisters, we have every reason to believe the
CS/tear gas in question was in the possession of the Jaysh al-Islam
“rebels” in Douma. We also have reason to believe that those Jaysh
“rebels”
knowing a setback was eminent due to the breakdown of negotiations with
the al-Assad regime, set in place their own covert op by which their
knowing of the sensibilities of the West regarding harm done to
children...something the barbaric islamist Jaysh
“rebels” have
no problem with...they gathered up just enough children from their own
area...possibly children of average Douma citizens...enclosed them in
unventilated rooms and set off more than enough CS/tear gas canisters to
cause the required 20% fatality rate so as to incur the wrath of the
West while blaming the alleged attack on al-Assad.
There are several reasons why we believe this to be the absolute most likely scenario.
The militant Jaysh al-Islam
“rebels” who were in control of Douma at the time immediately hightailed it out of Douma following the
“alleged” al-Assad gas attack. Running to the north of Syria to regroup under the protection of Turkey, the Jaysh
“rebels”
hoped that by blaming al-Assad they could garner more support for their
cause, and the C.I.A. would have been fine with that as they would have
also seen a benefit in getting more civilians unaffiliated with terror
groups to rise up against al-Assad especially if a
“rebel” covert op perpetrated against those civilians was allowed to occur. And if those unaffiliated civilians knew it was the
“rebels” who were responsible and thus began to actively oppose such
“rebel” factions...the C.I.A. would be okay with that too.
And by carefully manipulating and disseminating the intel not only to
our allies but to the American people as well, and by doing so by spoon
feeding us said information via the mainstream media, outrage over a
harsh military strike against al-Assad would be minimized. So let’s be
honest here...it’s so much easier to sway public opinion in favor of
U.S. military action when the public is led to believe a brutal dictator
gassed his own people...gassed children...than it is to gin up support
for military action related to a sea port...Tartus...clear on the other
side of the world.
But know that there is also another player in Syria...a player who
has very strategic reasons for engaging in limited operations within
that country as it is a matter of their national security. And that
country is Israel who, over the past two weeks, has made two bombing
runs inside Syria. The first occurred on April 8th hitting a target east
of the city of Homs with the second strike occurring on April 14th
hitting targets just south of Aleppo, and both are so important when one
considers the misdirection in which covert ops so often engage.
In the April 8th mission Israel overflew Lebanon, which even at the
time we questioned, as Israel had no real need to take that air path
into Syria, as they share a small common border. So, why did they? The
second supposed Israeli strike, the one near Aleppo on April 14th struck
an Iranian used military base, destroying it and the ordinance stored
there... ordinance used by Iran’s proxy
“rebel” fighters.
And while we have no direct confirmation of this, we ask that you
consider what we believe to be a very plausible scenario...could Israel
have taken the flyover route across Lebanon for nothing more than to be
“seen”...to
intentionally be observed heading into Syria for that April 8th
mission...and could the accusatory Israeli presence over Aleppo on April
14th been nothing more than a misdirection?
Let us explain…in the U.S. led strikes of April 13th we have all been
told that 105 cruise missiles were deployed yet, according to RIGHT
SIDE PATRIOTS sources, official satellite images fail to show either the
level of destruction nor anywhere near the number of impact craters
produced by said cruise missiles when all three sites our strike
reportedly hit are added together. That tells us that between those
three targets considerably less than 105 cruise missiles were actually
used. By the way, each of those sites could have been successfully taken
out with between one to five direct hits alone.
So, what happened to the rest? Could the next day's Israeli bombing
of April 14th near Aleppo been a misdirection...a misdirection set up by
the previous week’s much noticed and much talked about Israeli
overflight of Lebanon. Could the Israeli war planes been nothing but a
mere distraction while American cruise missiles hit the targets...making
people believe Israel was dropping bombs, when in fact they were just
providing cover. The idea being a coordinated strike to see what cruise
missiles could do against a hardened, underground facility such as those
Iran is infamously fond of constructing and then using.
In other words, could we have been working in concert with Israel in
setting the stage for a not so distant future strike directly against
Iran? And dare we forget that Benjamin Netanyahu was informed ahead of
time about our soon to come bombing of April 13th so there is no reason
why we could not have been working in concert on the 14th...if the
possibility we laid out is indeed the case. Just something to think
about as the lack of impact craters at the three sites we and our allies
bombed says it all as witnessed by this Department of Defense photo
presented as part of a briefing at the Pentagon last Saturday. This
photo clearly shows the preliminary damage assessment from the Him
Shinshar Chemical Weapons Storage Site with maybe five impact craters at
best.
Over the past five years Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been
accused of committing all the chemical attacks in Syria...attacks on
both rebel factions and civilians. However, few if any have definitely
been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be his handiwork. And
something the world also knows but refuses to accept as fact is that the
so-called
“rebels”...the proxy army of Iran...are also in
possession of chemical weapons...of gas. And yet the world blames the
easy target for to uncover the truth might indeed cause even more
problems than exists today. Better in the world's eye to remove an easy
target than deal with the true enemy...Iran.
Remember, the rules of war are solely written by the winners.
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* Professor of Toxicology and Aerosol Research at
Hanover Medical School, and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute of
Toxicology and Aerosol Research, Hanover, Germany
Copyright © 2018 Diane Sori and Craig Andresen / Right Side Patriots / Investigative Reports / All rights reserved.
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