Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
(RINF<\/a>) – A\u00a012 August 2012 U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency warning<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that the Obama Administration\u2019s strategy might drive ISIS from Mosul in Iraq to Der Zor in Syria, is now being actually carried out as a plan instead of a warning \u2014 a plan to weaken and ultimately oust Syria\u2019s non-sectarian President Bashar al-Assad and replace him with a Sunni Sharia-law regime (one led by jihadists). The DIA warning had called this scenario an \u201cunraveling,\u201d but Obama and the U.S. Congress are now actually choosing it, so as to set the incoming President Trump up with an opportunity to replace Assad\u2019s government by one that the Sauds and their U.S.-made weapons will control.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The DIA warning in 2012 had said:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “C. IF THE SITUATION UNRAVELS THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A DECLARED OR UNDECLARED SALAFIST [fundamentalist Sunni] PRINCIPALITY IN EASTERN SYRIA (HASAKA AND DER ZOR), AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SUPPORTING POWERS [U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey] TO THE OPPOSITION WANT, IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE [pro-Russian and pro-Iranian] SYRIAN REGIME.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Whoever wrote this assessment recognized that though the option would mean an \u201cunraveling\u201d of Syria, it\u2019s what the U.S. and its allies were actually seeking.<\/span><\/p>\n On September 17th, U.S. and UK jets bombed the compound of Syrian government troops who were fighting to oust jihadists from Deir Ezzor (or \u201cDer Zor\u201d), and killed 62 Syrian soldiers, with a hundred more injured, in that U.S.-led bombing attack. Der Zor was being softened-up for the coming U.S.-and-allied takeover.<\/span><\/p>\n The brilliant anonymous military blogger \u201cMoon of Alabama\u201d then became the first reporter to notice the possible connection that the DIA\u2019s warning might end up having to what is now the joint U.S.-Turkish-Iraqi operation against ISIS in Mosul; he headlined on 20 September 2016,\u00a0“Deir Ezzor Attack Enables The ‘Salafist Principality’ As Foreseen In The 2012 DIA Analysis\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and he wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n “Two recent attacks against the Syrian Arab Army in east-Syria point to a U.S. plan to eliminate all Syrian government presence east of Palmyra. This would enable the U.S. and\u00a0its allies to create a ‘Sunni entity’ in east-Syria and west-Iraq which would be a permanent thorn in side of Syria and its allies [Russia and Iran].\u00a0A 2012 analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency\u00a0said\u201d \u2014 and he then quoted the above DIA excerpt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Then on October 12th, he bannered \u201cThe \u2019Salafist Principality\u2019 \u2014 ISIS Paid Off To Leave Mosul And To Take Deir Ezzor?\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and reported that the Obama Administration had just negotiated with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, and with Saudi Prince Salman (who is the decision-maker in Saudi military matters), to provide safe passage into the large Syrian city of Deir Es Zor, for the ISIS jihadists who were occupying the large city of Mosul in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n He cited also a\u00a0tweet<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on the morning of October 12th, from the celebrated Syrian historian and journalist\u00a0Nizar Nayouf<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0reporting: \u201cBreaking news: Sources in #London say: #US&#Saudi_Arabia concluded an agreement to let #ISIS leave #Mosul secretly & safely to #Syria.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, on October 15th, the Turkish government posted online a map showing the \u201c\u2018Sensitive\u2019 Operation Plan for Mosul\u201d<\/span><\/a> including six steps, one of which was \u201cAn escape corridor into Syria will be left for Daesh [ISIS] so they can vacate Mosul.\u201d Though the U.S. government wasn\u2019t public about this part of the plan \u2014 moving the jihadists \u201cinto Syria\u201d instead of killing the jihadists (as Obama always claimed to be his intention) \u2014 the Turkish government was.<\/span><\/p>\n Slightly beyond Der Zor<\/span><\/a> is Palmyra<\/span><\/a> \u2014 another Syrian city that the U.S.-Saudi alliance want to grab. <\/span><\/p>\n On December 11th, Russian Television headlined \u201c4,000 ISIS fighters regroup, make new attempt to capture Palmyra\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and reported that:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOver 4,000 Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL) terrorists, reinforced by tanks, have started an offensive to retake the key Syrian city of Palmyra after\u00a0regrouping themselves. \u2026 The terrorists have received considerable reinforcement, including heavy military hardware\u00a0from the regions of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor. \u2026The terrorists are receiving support from jihadists coming from Iraq. \u2026 In October, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned that terrorists\u00a0\u2018could flee from Mosul and go to Syria.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s precisely what is now happening.<\/span><\/p>\n So: the Obama Administration seems to be making considerable progress to set up the next U.S. President, Trump, with an \u201cunraveling\u201d situation in Syria, so as to enable Trump to continue Obama\u2019s war against Russia and all its allies (such as Syria).<\/span><\/p>\n Whether President Trump will continue Obama\u2019s policy isn\u2019t yet clear.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n 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>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse (RINF) – A\u00a012 August 2012 U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency warning\u00a0that the Obama Administration\u2019s strategy might drive ISIS from Mosul in Iraq to Der Zor in Syria, is now being actually carried out as a plan instead of a warning \u2014 a plan to weaken and ultimately oust Syria\u2019s non-sectarian President Bashar al-Assad and 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