US secretly funding stir in Syria: Bashar Assad

[Lankan Ranger]

US secretly funding stir in Syria: Bashar Assad

The state department has been secretly financing opponents of Syrian president Bashar Assad, The Washington Post reported, citing previously undisclosed diplomatic documents provided to the newspaper by the WikiLeaks website.

One of the outfits funded by the US is Barada TV, a London-based satellite channel that broadcasts anti-government news into Syria, the Post reported on Sunday. Barada's chief editor, Malik al-Abdeh, is a cofounder of the Syrian exile group Movement for Justice and Development.

The leaked documents show that the US has provided at least $6 million to Barada TV and other opposition groups inside Syria, the newspaper said. The Obama administration has reached out to Assad's regime, hoping to persuade it to change its policies regarding Israel, Lebanon, Iraq and support for extremist groups. In January, the US stationed an ambassador in Damascus, the capital, for the first time in five years.

The Post said it was not clear from the WikiLeaks documents whether the US was still financing Assad's opponents, though they showed funding had been set aside through September 2010.

Syrian activists have been staging protests against Assad's authoritarian regime for more than a month.

'US secretly funding stir in Syria' - The Times of India

 

[TEXAS BATTLESTAR]

US secretly funding stir in Syria: Bashar Assad

The state department has been secretly financing opponents of Syrian president Bashar Assad, The Washington Post reported, citing previously undisclosed diplomatic documents provided to the newspaper by the WikiLeaks website.

One of the outfits funded by the US is Barada TV, a London-based satellite channel that broadcasts anti-government news into Syria, the Post reported on Sunday. Barada's chief editor, Malik al-Abdeh, is a cofounder of the Syrian exile group Movement for Justice and Development.

The leaked documents show that the US has provided at least $6 million to Barada TV and other opposition groups inside Syria, the newspaper said. The Obama administration has reached out to Assad's regime, hoping to persuade it to change its policies regarding Israel, Lebanon, Iraq and support for extremist groups. In January, the US stationed an ambassador in Damascus, the capital, for the first time in five years.

The Post said it was not clear from the WikiLeaks documents whether the US was still financing Assad's opponents, though they showed funding had been set aside through September 2010.

Syrian activists have been staging protests against Assad's authoritarian regime for more than a month.

'US secretly funding stir in Syria' - The Times of India

I'm not surprised by this news, CIA pundits has their hands all over the world.

 

[Vassnti]

Rolf the sum total of the evil empires satanic plot, um well we help fund a radio station.


Hundreds dead 40 years of rule by a police state, people gunned down in a Mosque for speaking out against the bathists and people want to say oh Assad has done nothing wrong its all nasty americas fault.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Tell us something new ?

Take 300 people , give them 3 million , and then use social media + more money = angry mob !

see it even makes me angry all this money floating around and I am not getting piece of pie

 

[Qasibr]

Rolf the sum total of the evil empires satanic plot, um well we help fund a radio station.


Hundreds dead 40 years of rule by a police state, people gunned down in a Mosque for speaking out against the bathists and people want to say oh Assad has done nothing wrong its all nasty americas fault.

You can "Rolf" all you want - but even a cursory look at history would show, that all these modern Arab governments in general were all the product of meddling in the geo-politics of that area, for a very very long time. They are all ethnic Arabs, they speak the same language and have the same shared heritage, but were split apart into dozens of little fiefdoms with little western-backed tyrants of their own.

A fascinating historical insight into this is provided in the book, "An Oriental Encounter" by M. M. Pickthall. It's a travelogue, stories of his traveling through Arabia and other Turkish states in the 1890s. And he talks about the lack of government presense in individual lives, how many people lived their entire lives without even meeting a policeman. How the European idea of having notions of "God save the Queen" and a deep propagandistic love for a burdensome government being ingrained into children from a very young age through mandatory schooling, were ridiculous for these people.

In his travels through Syria he observed how these people enjoyed more freedoms than people in Europe. It's remarkable to compare that Syria, and that Arabia in general, with the western monstrosity we see now. These tyrants have been cruel to their people for decades and decades, and only now when they're all in their 80's and would have died off and left the political system to finally evolve beyond, these wonderful revolutions come along and new western-backed tyrants come on in. Ain't it lovely how the defenders of "freedom and liberty" enslave humanity.

 

[Vassnti]

Not sure what the relevence of Pickthall's 1920 tour of arabia has to the current situation, yes many of the current problems in the middle east have a root in the division by the colonial powers of areas along artificial lines but we have to acept that that was almost 100 years ago. Its a little late to be blaming the British for the current situation.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

US secretly funding stir in Syria: Bashar Assad

I would not be surprised!

 

[Imran Khan]

yes US should not only send money but tomahawks and f-22 on this morons head. he and his bloody father rule 45 years and drink blood of public .these are worse decorators on earth should be wipe out without mercy. in my view dog is better then assad.

 

[BATMAN]

Again US-Iran collaboration

Stash of Iranian Weapons Heading to Syria