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Fighting Al Qaeda by SupportingAl Qaeda in Syria: The Obama

Administration is a StateSponsor of Terrorism

By Prof Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, June 19, 2013Url of this article:http://www.globalresearch.ca/fighting-al-qaeda-by-supporting-al-qaeda-in-syria-the-obama-administration-is-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism/5339728

A major transition in US counter-terrorism doctrine is unfolding.

While Barack Obama, following in the footsteps of George W. Bush,remains firmly committed to waging a Global War on Terrorism (GWOT),his administration is now openly supporting selected rebel units in Syriawhich are part of the Al Qaeda network.

Known and documented, Al Qaeda is a creation of the CIA, which hascovertly supported the Islamic Terror Network since the heyday of theSoviet Afghan war.

While Al Qaeda is a US sponsored intelligence asset, a New Normal hasbeen established.

An Al Qaeda affiliated organization, namely Syrias Al Nusrah, is beingsupported overtly by the US President, rather than covertly by theCIA.

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The support of Al Nusrah, an affiliate of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), is no longerchanneled in secrecy as part of a CIA-MI6 covert operation, it is now being

supported in a semi-official fashion as part of a US foreign policyagenda. The latter is also part of Americas diplomatic discourse,implemented in consultation with Britain, Canada, Germany and France.

Although Al Nusrah was not mentioned explicitly, support to the Syrianrebels was the main topic of debate at the June 2013 G-8 meetings inNorthern Ireland.

While intelligence covert ops continue to perform an important role,Washingtons support to Al Qaeda in Syria is now out in the open, withinthe public domain. It is no longer part of a secret undertaking. It is part ofthe mainstay of US foreign policy, carried out under the helm of Secretaryof State John Kerry.

Support to the rebels is also debated in the US Congress. It is the objectof a bill which has already been adopted by the Senate Foreign RelationsCommittee. Senator Corker who co-sponsored the bill stated that:

The future for Syria is uncertain, but the U.S. has a vested interest in tryingto prevent an extremist takeover, which poses a very real risk for us and

the region, (emphasis added)

In a twisted logic, the bill purports to prevent an extremist takeover bysupporting an Al Qaeda terrorist formation.

The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations voted 15-3 in favor of theproposed bill.

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Ironically, the pro-Israeli lobby was also actively involved in lobbying infavor of aid to jihadist rebels.

Israel has supported Al Nusrah militarily in areas adjacent to the occupiedterritories of the Golan Heights.

Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky (left) voted against the bill, warning:

You will be funding today the allies of al Qaeda (quoted by RT)

Al Qaeda, Osama and The Blowback

Everybody knows that Al Qaeda is now directly supported by the USgovernment.

The implications are far-reaching. Obamas decision not only undermines

the legitimacy of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), it also casts doubton the blowback thesis.

Moreover, it begs the embarrassing question: Why is the US presidentsupporting Al Nusrah, which is on the US State Department list ofterrorist organizations?

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The CIA refers to the so-called blowback thesis whereby an intelligenceasset, (i.e. the Islamic jihad) is said to have gone against its sponsors;

The sophisticated methods taught to the Mujahideen, and the thousands oftons of arms supplied to them by the US and Britain are now tormentingthe West in the phenomenon known as `blowback, whereby a policystrategy rebounds on its own devisers. (The Guardian, London, September15, 2001).

What weve created blows back in our face. The US government and theCIA are portrayed as the ill-fated victims. The CIA had been tricked by adeceitful Osama. Its like a son going against his father.

While the CIA acknowledges that the late Osama bin Laden, leader of Al

Qaeda, was an intelligence asset during the Cold War, the relationship issaid to go way back. In the wake of 9/11, news reports would invariablydismiss these Osama-CIA links as part of the bygone era of the Soviet-

Afghan war. They are invariably described as irrelevant to anunderstanding of the post-9/11 era:

Bin Laden recruited 4,000 volunteers from his own country and developedclose relations with the most radical mujahideen leaders. He also workedclosely with the CIA, ... Since September 11, [2001] CIA officials have beenclaiming they had no direct link to bin Laden. (Phil Gasper, International

Socialist Review, November-December 2001)

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Afghan Mujahideen Commanders meet with President RonaldReagan

While the blowback thesis is an obvious fabrication, it has nonethelessserved to provide legitimacy to the Global War on Terrorism. With overtsupport channeled by the US government to an Al Qaeda affiliatedorganization, the blowback thesis falls flat, it is no longer credible.

The evidence amply confirms that the CIA never severed its ties to theIslamic Militant Network. Historically, US covert support to terrorists was asafely guarded secret, unknown to the broader public. Moreover, the CIAwould never channel its support directly. It would proceed through itsintelligence counterparts in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Since the end of the Cold War, these covert intelligence links have not onlybeen maintained, they have become increasingly sophisticated.

The broad political and media consensus in the wake of the 9/11 attackswas built around the blowback: Al Qaeda had attacked America.

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The Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) against Al Qaeda and its affiliateshad been launched. Yet the evidence amply confirms that US intelligencecontinues to harbor several terrorist organizations which are on the USState Departments list.

Paradoxically, covert support to the terrorists by Western intelligenceagencies (including the CIA, MI6, Germanys BND) is an essentialinstrument of the Global War on Terrorism. Namely the war on terror toprotect the Homeland is waged by using US-NATO sponsored terroristsand mercenaries as foot-soldiers of the Western military alliance.

The support provided covertly to jihadist terrorist organizations in a largenumber of countries (e.g. former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia,Yemen, Libya, Syria, Niger, Mali, Algeria, Egypt, etc.) has been used by the

US-NATO alliance to destabilize sovereign states.

Obama and Al Nusrah. The State Sponsors of Terrorism

Al Qaeda was identified as the mastermind of the 911 attacks on the WorldTrade Center Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11 was immediately identified as a statesponsor of terrorism leading to the bombing and invasion of Afghanistanby US and NATO forces on October 7, 2001. In turn, a gamut of

counterterrorism legislation and executive orders were put in place in theimmediate wake of the 9/11 attacks.

Executive Order 13224, signed by President George W. Bush onSeptember 23, 2001 authorizes the seizure of assets of organizationsor individuals designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to assist,sponsor, or provide material or financial support or who are otherwiseassociated with terrorists. (Sept. 23, 2001).

The US Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act 2001, signed into law by

President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. The legislation was inresponse to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World TradeCentre and the Pentagon, which allegedly had been perpetrated by AlQaeda.

According to the 2001 Patriot Act, those who pay for the bomb, namelythose who fund affiliates of Al Qaeda, are terrorists. In the words of George

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Now let us examine in more detail the Al Nusrah Front, which constitutesthe main rebel fighting force in Syria. Al Nusrah is affiliated to Al Qaeda.The leader of Al Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Golani, has pledged hisallegiance to Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who replaced Osama binLaden after his death.

According to the State Department Bureau of Counter-terrorism, Jabhat alNusrah, the main rebel force in Syria is a terrorist organization, an affiliateof Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).

The State Department has issued a prohibition against knowinglyproviding, or attempting or conspiring to provide, material support orresources to, or engaging in transactions with, al-Nusrah Front, andthe freezing of all property and interests in property of the organization thatare in the United States, or come within the United States or the control ofU.S. persons. (emphasis added).

It is understood that US State Department Counter-terrorism policy alsoapplies to state sponsors of terrorism.

Al Nusrah is financed by Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Israel in closeconsultation with NATO and the Pentagon.

The Obama administration has openly confirmed its support for the Syrianrebels with most of this aid channeled to Al Nusrah.

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The PATRIOT Act prohibits knowingly harboring persons who havecommitted or are about to commit a variety of terrorist offenses.

Moreover, an entire gamut of executive orders as well as the 2001 Patriotlegislation prohibit the harboring of terrorists.

According to the US Justice Department:

The Patriot Act imposed tough new penalties on those who commit andsupport terrorist operations, both at home and abroad. The terror threatemanates both from the terrorist who pays for a bomb as by the onewho pushes the button.

According to the Patriot legislation, those who pay for the bomb, namelyfunding affiliates of Al Qaeda, constitutes a terrorist act.

In other words, the Obama administration and its allies are harboring aterror organization which is on the US State department list.

In this regard, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry couldbe held responsible forknowingly providing, or attempting orconspiring to provide, material support or resources to, or engagingin transactions with, al-Nusrah Front:

The [PATRIOT] Act created a new offense that prohibits knowinglyharboring persons who have committed or are about to commit a variety ofterrorist offenses, yet the Obama administration is openly supporting aterrorist entity, in violation of its own counter-terrorism legislation.

Media Complicity

According to CNN, quoting intelligence sources, Al Nusrah is the best-equipped arm of the terror group in Syria, with an estimated 10,000 forces.Where do they get their money and weapons? CNN does not provide any

details as to Why Al Nusrah is the best equipped, in relation to the variousso-called moderate rebels factions, which from a military standpoint arebroadly inoperative.

How many of these Al Nusrah forces remain operative following thegovernments counteroffensive remains to be established.

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Ironically, this latest CNN report (June 18, 2013 suggests that the rebelsrather than the government have chemical weapons in their possession:

They [Al Nusrah] are making desperate attempts to get chemicalweapons, the analyst told CNN, noting that in the past few weeks, securityservices in Iraq and Turkey arrested [Al Nusrah] operatives who weretrying to get their hands on sarin.

In relation to the later, Turkish Police confirmed that the arrested Al Nusrahoperative was in possession of sarin gas.

CNN contradicts its own reports. The same CNN article which intimatedthat the rebels were attempting to get chemical weapons, makes the casefor arming the rebels:

The Obama administration announced last week that it will start armingrebels because Syria crossed a red line by using chemical weapons including sarin gas against the opposition.

The development is likely to be at the center of the Group of Eight summitin Northern Ireland on Monday, setting a riveting backdrop to the meetingafter Syrias longtime ally Russia said the move supports those who killtheir enemies and eat their organs.

Obama has not detailed the increased military support, but Washingtonofficials told CNN that the plan includes providing small arms, ammunitionand possibly anti-tank weapons to the rebels.

The Broader Implications of Obamas Support of Al Nusrah

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The blowback thesis is now defunct. The US has never ceased to supportAl Qaeda. These terrorist organizations were created by US intelligence

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and supported by Washington. The blowback thesis is refuted not only byObamas overt support of Al Nusrah but also with regard to the LibyanIslamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an Al Qaeda affiliate, which was directlysupported by NATO from the outset of the insurgency and Libya bombingcampaign in 2011.

The Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) has become an increasingly fragileconcept. Waging a War on Terrorism with the active participation of an AlQaeda affiliated organization constitutes an obvious fallacy, a big lie, a nonsequitur.

The propaganda and media disinformation campaign behind the GlobalWar on Terrorism has also entered a dead alley. Going after the terroristsby supporting the terrorists? Will the American public support a government

which funnels billions of tax dollars to a terrorist organization as a means tocombating terrorism?

The Pentagons post-911 military doctrine is predicated on the Global Waron Terrorism. It is a consensus within US military. It is used in therecruitment, training and indoctrination of US forces.

Will American servicemen and women accept to swallow the big lie andfight in what visibly constitutes a fake war on terrorism.

The Criminalisation of the US State

President Obamas overt support to Syrias Al Qaeda rebels opens up acan of worms.

How are we to categorize an American President who says he is committedto fighting Al Qaeda, while at the same time supporting Al Qaeda?

The entire Homeland Security doctrine tumbles like a deck of cards.

The US government is in blatant violation of its own counter-terrorismlegislation.