{"id":234324,"date":"2016-03-27T18:17:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T18:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=234324"},"modified":"2016-03-29T10:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T10:58:59","slug":"putin-assad-liberated-syria-u-s-jihadist-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/putin-assad-liberated-syria-u-s-jihadist-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin & Assad Have Liberated Syria from the U.S.-&-Jihadist Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

It has been an alliance between the leaderships of U.S., Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and UAE; but, regardless of whether it\u2019s called \u201cthe U.S. alliance\u201d or \u201cthe Saudi alliance,\u201d or even (possibly) “the Turkish alliance\u201d (and it could be called by any of those three names), it\u2019s the jihadist alliance, and it now seems to be near its final defeat, by, quite clearly, the Russian alliance: Russian air power has enabled the Syrian army (called the SAA or \u201cSyrian Arab Army\u201d) of Bashar al-Assad, plus Lebanon\u2019s Shiite warriors (called \u201cHezbollah\u201d), plus organization by Iran\u2019s generals, to exterminate thousands of ISIS jihadists. The pro-Syrian alliance, under Russian air-power, are now making final preparations to finish the job, in the Syrian headquarters of ISIS \u2014 the city of Raqqa, where ISIS\u2019s \u201cCaliph\u201d is, who could soon be meeting his end.<\/span><\/p>\n

This major military victory, in Palmyra \u2014 the center of the Jihadist-controlled region of Syria (and located south of Raqqa, separated from it only by desert)<\/span><\/a> \u2014 was announced on Easter Sunday, 27 March 2016, by the website Syrian Perspective (one of the world\u2019s two great news-sites covering the Syrian war, the other being Al Masdar News<\/span><\/a>), as they headlined,\u00a0\u201cPalmyra Liberated! General Ayyoob Reviews Troops in Aftermath of Enormous Victory; What\u2019s Next?\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Reporter Ziad Fadel opened:<\/span><\/p>\n

HOMS: The rats inside were finally given the go-ahead to withdraw to\u00a0Al-Sukhna, Al-Raqqa and Dayr El-Zor,\u00a0but\u00a0not by the rodent commanders in Al-Raqqa. This was a desperate order by Abu-Ihaab Al-\u2018Iraaqi, the local\u00a0commander who, evidently, values his life on earth a lot more than what was promised to him by the shamans of\u00a0ISIS\u00a0This morning at 5:00 a.m., the SAA had confirmation from sources inside the city that the piece-meal escape\u00a0was taking place. The Syrian high command ordered troops to stand down until the last rodent had left, after which\u00a0time the SAAF and RuAF would take to the skies to see how many of the stragglers could be exterminated. It\u2019s\u00a0over.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The Syrian and Russian Air Forces have been directed into the air to block any movement of terrorist ISIS rodents to\u00a0any area considered a stronghold. This means that no deal was ever struck between the army and the murderers\u00a0inside the city. Instead, what happened was the army was commanded to permit a withdrawal with the\u00a0understanding that escaped rats would still be targets once the city was liberated. As I write, SAA engineers are\u00a0everywhere inside the city removing IEDs, booby-traps and mines. It\u2019s a thankless task replete with danger, but, it\u00a0must be done in order to return the population to a safe city.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

He went on to explain that the head of SAA\u2019s Special Forces unit, called \u201cTiger Forces,\u201d “is very keen on being the leader of the force which will liberate Al-Raqqa and his forces to the east of Aleppo are\u00a0preparing for exactly that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The key question now is whether a deal can be reached with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS\u2019s leader or \u201cCaliph,\u201d in Raqqa \u2014 a deal which won\u2019t require the entire population of Raqqa to be massacred, in order for the Russian alliance to eliminate all of ISIS\u2019s leadership, and all of its jihadists there. Ideally, some way will be found to salvage at least some of the civilian population who are being held, essentially as slaves, by ISIS. However, Russia\u2019s leader, Vladimir Putin, has stated, on several occasions, that what\u2019s most essential is for the jihadists in Syria, and in Iraq, to be killed where they are \u2014 not allowed to escape to become terrorist cells in Russia or anywhere else (as has been happening, though not on the huge scale that would result if Baghdadi and his jihadists are allowed to escape).<\/span><\/p>\n

In a related event that also signals the defeat of the terrorist alliance, Middle East Eye, yet another of the key independent reporting sites regarding the war in Syria \u2014 and specializing on the entire Middle Eastern region \u2014 headlined on Friday the 25th of March,\u00a0\u201cJordan\u2019s King Accuses Turkey of Sending Terrorists to Europe,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and David Hearst reported:<\/span><\/p>\n

King Abdullah of Jordan accused Turkey of exporting terrorists to Europe at a top level meeting with senior US politicians in January, the MEE can reveal.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The king said Europe\u2019s biggest refugee crisis was not an accident, and neither was the presence of terrorists among them: \u201cThe fact that terrorists are going to Europe is part of Turkish\u00a0policy and Turkey keeps on getting a slap on the hand, but they are let off the hook.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Asked by one of the congressmen present whether the Islamic State group was exporting oil to Turkey, Abdullah replied: \u201dAbsolutely.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In other words: the U.S. alliance is coming apart, at least at the edges, when the reality becomes revealed \u2014 despite the long hiding of this fact on the part of Western \u2018news\u2019 media \u2014 that the U.S.-Saudi-Qatari-Turkish-UAE-Israeli alliance has been supporting jihadist Sunni groups in order to weaken the only non-Sunni-run nations in the Middle East, Syria and Iran, both of which (and Syria\u2019s government is more properly to be called non-sectarian<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>than Shiite, because the Ba\u2019athist Party, which has been leading Syria since the 1950s, is ideologically committed to secularism and against sectarianism of any type<\/i>, neither Shiite nor Sunni nor any) have allied themselves with Russia, instead of with the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

The origin of the CIA aspect of this operation was well covered in\u00a0an extraordinary BBC documentary in 1992<\/span><\/a>, and the broader aristocratic operation was reported in my article,\u00a0\u201cThe Two Contending Visions of World Government.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0During Obama\u2019s Presidency, one of the major physical battlefields in this global war has been in Syria; another, in Ukraine, Obama\u2019s\u00a0coup<\/span><\/a>\u00a0there, was well covered\u00a0here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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