Wikileaks: U.S. Funded Syrian ‘Liberal, Moderate’ Islamists
According to internal government documents obtained by Wikileaks, the U.S. has sought to undermine the Assad dictatorship and promote democracy by secretly financing the Movement for Justice and Development — an opposition group described in a diplomatic cable as “liberal, moderate Islamists.”
At least $6 million was given to Syrian opposition groups, though one cable indicates the total was $12 million between 2005 and 2010, with financing earmarked as late as September of last year. The money came from the State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative through the Democracy Council based in Los Angeles. Major funding was provided for the Movement for Justice and Development (MJD), a group which the cables say is made up of former Muslim Brotherhood members seeking regime change in Syria and consists of “liberal, moderate Islamists.” The U.S. was especially interested in sponsoring Barada TV, whose chief editor, Malik al-Abdeh, is also a co-founder of MJD. The chairman of MJD is Anas al-Abdeh, his brother.
The files describe a split between the Brotherhood and MJD, particularly after the Brotherhood took Hamas’ side during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead and announced it would “suspend its activities against the Syrian regime” in response. The files say that MJD sought to “marginalize it [Muslim Brotherhood] abroad” and the division became public in June 2009 when the Brotherhood publicly lashed out at the external parts of the Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change, which MJD is a part of.
A cable from 2006 reveals that the U.S. had difficulty in finding Syrian opposition forces willing to take the money, fearing arrest or death at the hands of the Assad regime. It said that “no bona fide opposition member will be courageous enough to accept funding.” In September 2009, Syrian intelligence is documented as having interrogated political prisoners about the Middle East Partnership Initiative. One cable from June 2009 questioned whether the MJD is a “leaky boat,” saying its members had discussed sensitive matters on open lines and that “[r]eporting in other channels suggest the Syrian [Mukhabarat] may have already penetrated the MJD and is using MJD contacts to track U.S. democracy programming.”
The tenured Arabists in the State Department and Academia have been duped and are too smug to accept/admit their naivete.
They and their ilk cannot be persuaded away from their conventional wisdom that the United States Treasury is an international welfare fund for all believers in universal love and assorted bead-stringing leading to our eventual strangulation….which is the obvious Islamist strategy of infiltration.
What does it take to wake these people up? September of 2001 wasn’t enough.
This supposed opposition is a controlled front. What is wrong with the useful idiots in the State Dept. They can’t all have been subverted by the Left, this stuff has been known to State since at least the Second World War. They even suspected this. Can this whole thing be the result of these “opposition groups” duping State into paying it to commit “popular” coups d’etat in the name of “Islamist democracies” – like the “Communist democracies” before them? That would be pretty crazy if they pulled that off. It means we really, really suck at this game. Too bad we can’t just go in and crush them militarily. It may be really messy, but there probably actually is no other way. The American media is the worst political handicap to have in the world, so you can’t expect politicians to be able to be either subtle or blunt enough to defeat the Leninist-Islamists. They really did develop incredibly powerful political weaponry. We all here at this site have to resist its effects every single day.
A Liberal Moderate Islamist. At least while I am having to work this Friday night, I was given a good laugh.
The CFR fools are Globalists, and are doing all they can against Nationalism. They should be tried for Treason in a time of war.
On the one hand, we should support anyone that is against the current regime in Syria. On the other hand, recent events should make us wary of blowback.
Supporting Islamists probably only gets you a theocracy, like the one in Iran. Not much of a bonus there. America seems have an uncanny knack for supporting the wrong people. And our support for the Libyan “rebels” is proof of that. We should be staying out of civil wars, whether in Syria, Libya, Yemen, or Bahrain. Let them work it out. The key was and always will be Iran. If you really want to support a rebellion, do it there. That is the only civil war worth getting involved in because getting rid of the mullahs could actually change everything in the Middle East. Other than that, leave them alone. They don’t need our help to further destroy their own countries.
How to bribe the enemy? To make friends?
And herein lies the nonsense and pyschosis in US policy.
It is an oxymoron of DANGEROUSLY explosive proportions to juxtapose liberal and moderate with Islamist.It is akin to stating that KKK members are Jewish and Black lovers, all they need are ‘moderating’ forces.
Repeat after me-to adhere to Islamic doctrine is by nature of its tenets the polar opposite of moderate and liberal.’The goal of Islam is to produce a theocracy with Allah as the ruler of society, a society with no separation between religion and state.This society would have no democracy, no free will and no freedom of expression’, regardless, western apologists blather on and on……while Islamists kill, kill and kill…….
After doing nothing about Syrian complicity in the insurgency in Iraq against US forces and then looking to fund Islamists, whatever their claimed bent, can only be described as psychotic.
The nonsense, for local consumption, is describing Assad as a reformer.
Except it isn’t impossible that USA/Israel/Etc. had a lot to do with the Iranian uprising earlier this decade. It may be that, having failed, they had to move to Plan B: pulling down the other states. I remember that at some point, I think in the 1970s, Kissinger had reason to threaten Pakistan to cooperate with us or else “we will subvert your country.” The Leninist strategy is a political weapon that the USA has been struggling to learn since subverting the French and Italian elections after WW2 in order to avert a Communist electoral victory. These Wikileaks and others suggest that we have been at least attempting to subvert these brittle, obnoxious little governments, the only real purpose of which is to act like terrorist whores of the Russians and Chinese while they enjoyed their billions in the French riviera or as “leaders of the revolution,” a la Kaddafi.
Sound implausible? If you were an American strategist, you would look at the Middle East circa 2002 and see that the terror infrastructure is strongest in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Afghanistan – all former/current Russian surrogates. Pakistan is most of all a surragote of CHINA – which the State Dept and the Military have said have done virtually nothing to even begin the discussion about the War on Terror, let alone help us. Gee, I wonder why our major trading partner would be so unresponsive to the era’s geopolitical challenge, which putatively has nothing to do with China or Communism?
Briefly, Islamism – strategic guerrilla warfare Islamism – is not a spontaneous phenomenon. Its state sponsorship is not limited to Pakistan and Iran. Who stands behind Iran? Obviously Russia and China. Who stands behind Pakistan? Less obviously, China. And we are currently tearing down their terror assets in the Middle East. Why would they give up Syria and Libya? Who do you suppose helped Libya acquire its WMD capability that it gave up after OIF? Why do you think NATO is intervening – albeit idiotically – to secure the “Libyan revolution”?
C’mon guys – this is not over oil on behalf of Italy! Oil is a red herring. Let the Left be mesmerized by it.
But let Iranian hegemony develop into total control of the region, they already have a base at the mouth to the Red Sea in Eritrea, to provide whoever is in league with them a stranglehold on Europe and an economic threat to the US.
Apparently the daughter of France’s Le Pen has said that that if she wins the election against Sarkozy, she will enter into agreements with Russia for petroleum. Maybe she she is better informed?
Well, 2 comments. To me, that suggests Le Pen & Co. already have Russian support. Supporting insurgent politicians has been a priority for the Russian foreign service since the Bolsheviks learned it from Zimmerman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Zimmermann). But even if not, and Mme. Le Pen is just being provocative, France runs on something like 80% nuclear power. Finally, it is well known that the Germans have a Russian-energy problem: they are basically already captives of Russian energy – witness, for example, the disgusting lawyer Gerhard Schroeder’s seat on the board of Gazprom – i.e., the Ministry of Gas Industry of the Soviet Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazprom). If you look at the Early Career section of the Wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der), and are not unfamiliar with agents of influence, you might have reason to wonder whether Russian capture of Germany via energy was entirely the coincidental of market forces…
Is it too much to ask to hate the Assad Regime and the Islamists both? What’s so unreasonable about that? Do we really want our tax dollars going to either one?
What exactly is wrong with autocrats and islamists slaughtering one another? Both are totalitarian, hostile yo democracy, anti-Semitic, and at war with western civilization.
There is no such thing as a liberal, moderate Islamist!
The State Department must be totally clean-housed of its America-haters and sellouts.
You’re absolutely right. There is no such thing as liberal moderate Islamist. The fact is that the West NEEDS Islam to be in control of middle east in order to preserve its interests. A free truly democratic middle east is death wish for the West and the Oil Cartel. Obama is silent to the killings of Assad regime against its citizens the same way he was silent towards the atrocities done in the Iranian citizens 2 summers ago. Why? Because Syria is Islamic Regime’s troll and both preserve the rule of Islam in one of the most important countries in the middle east which the West needs. On the other hand the other uprisings in the region such as Egypt, Libya there was no Islamic rule but authoritarian rules by 2 Presidents and to the West they have been used up and was time for them to leave. West rushed to their downfall to make sure that their lands do not fall into the hands of the real democratic rules but opening the vacuum for “liberal mild Islamists” to take over. In Iran and Syria there was no need for the West to do anything, since the rule of Islam was already in place in both countries. (Syria a bastard child of Islamic regime in Iran even though it seems a secular regime).
To explain this better, you see the West by the wish of the Europeans and the support of America the forever benevolent friend, had by the mid 20th century put in powers big dictators in the Middle East and Africa, however secular they were in order to clamp down on their own citizen’s will for freedom. All in exchange for absolute military and political support, safeguarding their dictatorial rules. You may ask why? Well a free people with free wills would not stand for the deals the West was making in their oil wealth. A free people of the middle east meant death of oil cartel and the West’s hegemony in the oil rich region. So they gave all the support to these dictators for so long until when their people decided they won’t stand. At this point once again the West (mainly Europe again with their colonial baggage) and the oil cartel decided that a free people is still detriment to their vast interests, so it is better to pop up Islamic regimes instead of the old dictatorial rules, this way using Islam and Islamic rule will deter people from any real democracy or freedom. They will lose the dictator and gain a cleric. This is exactly what was envisioned in Egypt,in Iran of 1979, in Libya, and Lebanon all secular regimes at one time. Once these people rose up for their own freedom, the West rolled up their sleeves quickly, really quickly demanding the departure of their dictators Mubarak and Ghadaffi (and of course the Shah some 33 years ago) while making sure the FREE people do not take control of their oil fields. This has been the game of the past 1 century. And that is why when the Iranian people and when the Syrian people, 2 of the most secular and educated people of the middle east rose up to fight their Islamic rule (of course Syria’s Assad is not a cleric and his rule not Islamic but nonetheless the biggest puppet of the Islamic regime of Iran and does what he is told)the West stays SILENT. The West has kept SILENT towards Islamic regime for the past 33 years. Why? Because the oil cartel says so. Islamic Regime can defecate onto the faces of the UN, the whole world, and still the West specially Europe kneels down and bows to them, they bark but not bite, they keep showing their “concerns” but it is all a game, and yes we still will have Hillary saying we do not want a regime change but we do want a change of behavior, or even may be possibly wishing for another terrorist but a smiling terrorist to replace that ugly Ahmadinejad one. The same scenario in Syria. The West is silent when it comes to Syria and their people quest for ousting Assad and his puppet rule. The West was definitely silent when it came to Iranians when they rose up bravely to fight the barbarians. They never asked the terrorist regime to step down or even any mention of regime change.
So what to do?
To get peace once and for all this is what needs to be done: Islamic regime in Iran must be toppled in its totality, Europe has to understand that it must pay a fair price for oil and stop playing the evil game they’ve been plying for decades in the middle east and we as people should decrease the consumption of oil in our lives. Europe should change its ways of running their economy so that they do not depend so much on oil from middle east and Africa. Instead of having nanny states which they have now, they should open up their economies so that their citizens get off their lazy couch and start working and pump their economies so much so that they can afford the price of oil from middle east and that is the middle east run by free people with true democratic institutions. No more dictators, no more Islamic regimes, no more clerics and no more ayatollahs. Let the region flourish and peace and security rule.
Peace!
And to put a cream on top of all of this Britain announced to its public that while the price of oil in other countries went up to skies, Britain WILL NOT rise the price of oil to its citizens!!!
Ummmm I wonder how they can manage that???
Oh wait could it be Syria / Iran giving a helping hand to their masters???
Remember Islamic regime was crafted, created, introduced and facilitated by and in Britain some 33 years ago. Ever since and even way before that Britain’s self interests were tied with Islam and Islamists regardless of what sect. America decided to play dumb, deaf and blind to all of this and after the marshall plan it continued to play the daddy figure to its Anglo Saxon bastard child.
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