Posted on 02/25/2015 11:31:16 AM PST by Enlightened1
The reason Assad has been vilified is because Qatar wants a natural gas pipeline to run through the Arabian peninsula, through Jordan, through SYRIA, to Turkey. From Turkey, it can connect with existing pipelines to Europe, in order to supply Europe with natural gas.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/mystery-sponsor-weapons-and-money-syrian-rebels-revealed
This proposed pipeline would threaten Russia economically, as Russia currently supplies Europe with natural gas.
Syria and Russia are allies. Thus, Assad said "No" to the proposed Qatar-Turkey pipeline that would run through Syria.
Next thing you know, there's an "uprising" in Syria, and Assad is public enemy number one.
And when it became clear that the American public did not want another war (potentially with Syria) and Putin diplomatically stymied potential U.S. aggression against Syria, "ISIS" suddenly pops up out of nowhere, with funding, arms, supplies, logistics, etc.
Imagine that!
The Globalist hates that Russia supplies Europe with energy (natural gas). It's Globalist policy to isolate and surround Russia.
Isolating Russia involves preventing, halting, or stopping the spread of Russia doing business past its borders as much as possible; particularly with Europe, which the Globalist in the West regards as its turf. Russia's natural gas supply to Europe has been a thorn in the Globalist side for some years now.
Here is the link with from above about the pipeline.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/mystery-sponsor-weapons-and-money-syrian-rebels-revealed
Fascinating theory! That would be one heck of a pipeline. And it would cross all of Saudia Arabia.
See link in post 2.
Check out this link too
http://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/qatar-seeks-gas-pipeline-to-turkey
Sure Assad is a bad guy but I don't remember him threatening The Mall of America.
Map of countries surrounding Syria (red) with military involvement.
Countries that have groups which either support the Syrian Assad government or the Syrian rebels
Final link for you.
Last link for you.
Foreign involvement in the Syrian Civil War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War#Qatar_and_Saudi_Arabia
You mean! You mean! The DEMOCRATS would kill people for money! Oh, I have to sit down and rest. The DEMOCRATS? I thought they were for peace and love and a good one dollar cup of coffee. They would kill people for money? Does the American Press know about this? They do! Oh, I need smelling salts.
Why....why.....if the Democrats lie about killing people, what WOULDN’T they lie about? Why, they could say they were for the poor, but ACTUALLY be about enriching themselves and their donors.
What if green energy was just a front for giving American taxpayer provided dollars to Democrat donors? Oh, I’m going to be sick.
That would be shameful! Just shameful!
But, the American Press would be all over this! Unless they were being paid off by the Democrats...........................Not them, too!
Oh, the sun doesn’t shine as bright today here in Blissful Ignorance Land.
I’ve read an article written by an instructor at from the Army War College stating that these gas pipelines were the real reason for destabilizing Syria, so no surprise there. We don’t want the Europeans dependent on Russian gas (and prefer Russia not have the revenues from selling them all that gas.) But then ISIS came along and complicated things. I doubt Obozo has a clue as to his next move, but you can be sure that whatever it is, it will just make things worse.
[and 85-90% of the world's Muslims are Sunni, IOW, Shiites kill twice as many per capita]
great map but the colors in the legend got lost. can you repost?
“www.zerohedge.com”
LOL !
IIRC, another FReeper suggested this too several months ago in a comment, but didn’t exactly connect all the dots. Oh, the old “”ISIS” suddenly pops up out of nowhere” trick.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5269/terrorism-supporters-obama
In short, the President of Egypt, Sisi, seems a very good man but he has been critical of the US’s relation with Qatar and that Qatar seems to yes, support ISIS is what the article says.
From the article:
“Many Arabs and Muslims see the meeting between Obama and Qatar’s al-Thani as a gift to Qatar for its continued support of Islamic radical groups across the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
On the eve of Obama’s meeting, Egyptian sources revealed that Qatar was providing weapons and ammunition to members of the Islamic State in Libya. The sources said that 35 Qatari aircraft were involved in transferring munitions.”
This is so fouled up, the Egyptian Prez and Jordanian King are doing the right thing but not only this, the British Prime Minister David Cameron says a lot of the right things too against Terrorism, as bad as all this is, the Socialist President of France, Hollande even has more grit in the war of terrorism. This, is beyond belief.
It is one thing if a Freeper says “Obama’s being a Muslim” etc. It’s another thing when the President of Egypt says the stuff he is saying. Disgusting on our administration.
And Assad, it is a complex situation, those Alawites are 12.5% of the population of Syria and yet they rule and that family has ruled for decades so I’m not prepared to call them saints but they are obviously better than ISIS who, as shown above, ISIS is probably getting support from Qatar. Pukesville. This is horrible.
That President of Egypt should just tell the world, more of what the Freaking USA Presidential Administration is doing wrong.
Egypt and Jordan get hit by those ISIS buzzards and those 2 countries went right back after them. What a nightmare our President is.
The theory might be correct but the Assads with the father before him, has seen Syria as a long time troubled spot, back in to the 1980s.
Tartus has been a long time sea base for the Russians in Syria. http://cyprus-mail.com/2015/02/26/walking-a-fine-line-with-russia/
“The issue of a base in Cyprus became pertinent due to the ongoing conflict in Syria and Russia’s concerns about the possible loss of its key naval base in Tartus.”
So, that the Russians looked for another place is hardly the stuff of conspiracies.
Assad is attacked for his repressive regime. But I look at the devastation of Syria and it’s apparent the forces he was repressing.
The Assads are attacked for their repressive regimes, let’s not forget since the 1970s, they’ve been backed by the Soviet Union and now Russia. So, yes, they are better than ISIS but they’ve been a bit more brutal than to just say who they are repressing now. They’ve been a thorn to Israel for always, caused trouble in Lebanon. Allies with Iran. And I hope somehow all of this can come to some sort of peaceful end. But if they weren’t blowing up their own people for 40 years, we might not have a lot of this going on as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Hama_massacre
When Syria can’t even allow protesters with signs out without shooting them, they are a big part of why this thing is the same way. You are brutal to someone, you might have them be brutal right back.
It’s a troubled area alright. The Russians just got the use of a seabase in Cyprus because they are getting weary of using their small seabase in wartorn Syria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Hama_massacre
The Beirut Barracks Bombings (October 23, 1983, in Beirut, Lebanon) occurred during the Lebanese Civil War when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces—members of the Multinational Force (MNF) in Lebanon—killing 299 American and French servicemen. An obscure group calling itself 'Islamic Jihad' claimed responsibility for the bombings.[4]
The chain of command likely ran from Tehran, to Iran's Ambassador to Syria, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur in Damascus, to IRGC commander Hossein Dehghan, in Beirut, as the Iranians drew on assets in Lebanon.[5] Hezbollah, Iran and Syria have continued to deny any involvement in any of the bombings; even though, in 2004, the Iranian government erected a monument in Tehran to commemorate the 1983 bombings and its "martyrs".[6]
People can believe what they want, things may not be proven and this may seem like a hundred years ago, but don't count me among those that are now going to see the Assads, governing there since the 1970s as some sort of good guys. Accordingly, they've seemed to have been all over terrorism for decades.
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