As the situation in Syria continues to be worse for the minority every day. Alawittes and Druze females are kidnapped for ransom and they are treated violently, males get shot execution style. Kurds too suffer from the same harsh treatment. This Syrian government had fallen under Turkish influence and was working to change the face of Syria for good. Turkey was occupying Syria for 400 years and dreaming of coming back one way or another.
The U.S had a history with Syria since it became independent from France in 1945. It was the Oil pipeline, economic interests. This is why the U.S toppled Bashar Al Assad regime. He refused the American oil pipeline to pass through Syria to export mainly Qatar natural gas to Europe from Turkish ports. The goal was passed by Russia and cut off Russian gas exports to Europe. This was 14 years of crises in Syria all about gas and oil. It was nothing about freedoms and this American nonsense.
In 1949, CIA supported Husni Za’im coup until he approved the Arabian-American Oil Company pipeline. After that, they supported in the same year another army colonel Adib Shishakli to overthrow Husni Za’im. The CIA station chief in Damascus was Miles Copeland, who supervised the operation. In 1956, the CIA funded another coup in Syria in a joint operation with MI6. CIA Kim Roosevelt, the grandson of an ex American president, cooperates with MI6 Sir George Young. However, as the Suez Canal crisis threw the Middle East into chaos, the plan was postponed.
The plan was revived in 1957. A secret document revealed in 2003 spelled out the details. A manufactured armed activities and political conspiracies in Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan, and blame them on Syria. Then the next step is to order Muslim Brotherhood militia to spark revolt in Damascus parallel with manufactured border clashes with Jordan and Iraq. Then their pro-Western armies intervene and topple the government. This talk about manufactured border clashes reminds me of the Iraq-Iran war that started with border clashes that nobody knows who is responsible for.
The CIA sent as head of the Damascus office, Rocky Stone to work under cover of his position as second secretary in the embassy in Damascus. He was in charge of the plan which was quickly discovered by the head of Syrian security office Abdul Hamid Serraj. The officers took the money from Stone in coordination with Serraj and then went on T.V, and revealed it all. That they take money from corrupted Americans to overthrow the legitimate government of Syria. The story didn't end there.
The Syrian security forces surrounded the American embassy and arrested Rocky Stone. He was interrogated roughly, he told the officers all he knew. It was a scandal in front of public opinion. He was identified in public as a CIA spy working undercover as a diplomat, and that he was a veteran of Operation Ajax 1953 in Iran. The Syrian government declared him as persona non grata and expelled him out of the country. It was the first American diplomat expelled from a foreign country since WW1. The American by their turn expelled the Syrian ambassador. The Syrian conspirators with Stone including Adib Shishakli sentenced to death. All army officers ever associated with the American embassy were purged out of the army, arrested and interrogated. As a result of all this uncalculated turmoil, Syria and Egypt united under the name of The United Arab Republic.
However, regardless of all this past dark history of the CIA in Syria, they cooperated with the Syrian security office on a few rare occasions. Maher Arar received an apology from the Canadian government and 10 million dollars in compensation by court order after he was arrested by the CIA while changing planes in NY, transported to Syria, and interrogated extremely roughly for 10 months.
The CIA went again to Syria in the eighties on two occasions. In the first one, they mingle with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood militia working on overthrowing the Syrian regime. The Muslim Brotherhood committed many sectarian killing crimes in Syria. They also committed random killing for unprotected Syrians like city workers that they started working early cleaning streets. They tried to assassinate President Hafez Al Assad twice but failed.
The second occasion is the Syrian civil war between Syrian president Hafez Al Assad and his brother Refat Al Assad that he was in charge of top elite army unity, The Defense Brigades. The CIA involvement came through Saudi crown prince Abdulla Ibn Abd Al Azez. He and Refat were married with two sisters, Refat's wife was Abdullah's sister. Kamal Adham, the head of Saudi intelligence department was the connection. His wife was the sister of Egyptian president Anwar Al Sadat. Anwar Al Sadat wasn't holding good feelings for Syrian president Hafez Al Assad since the 1973 war. The Egyptian army pulled out at a critical moment leaving the Syrian army exposed to the Israeli air force. Hafez Al Assad accused Anwar Al Sadat of betrayal.
That isn't all, more to come in future threads. How is that U.S corporate with Al Qaida and Muslim Brotherhood in Syria to overthrow Bashar Al Assad Regime.
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