40 LINKS/SYRIA 🇸🇾
PROVING REGIME CHANGE INTENT FROM 1956-2015
THREAD🪡
1
20
34
Replies
1. The machinery began to get put in motion in early 1956 when the U.S. ambassador was contacted by rightist military officers. Dulles and Eisenhower, concerned that Syria was too independent, opened discussions with the British on covert action.
1
1
4
My detailed analysis of CIA / MI6 [SIS] Operations Straggle and Wappen is here:
Syria: The 'Preferred Plan'
CIA / MI6 Regime Change in Syria, 1956 - 1957.
Covert action, destabilization and kill lists.
Approved by the Dulles brothers, Eisenhower and Macmillan.
Thread 🧵
4
47
78
1
2
3
2. 1983
BRINGING REAL MUSCLE TO BEAR AGAINST SYRIA
CIA document and plans to obliterate Syria, with the "sole goal" of opening the pipeline.
1
1
5
3. 1986
SYRIA: SCENARIOS OF DRAMATIC POLITICAL CHANGE
Assad's nationalization and focus on rural development were hurting the fortunes of Sunni elites.
1
2
5
4. 2001
Wesley Clark stated that the USA will take out 7 countries in 5 years (Libya, Syria etc.)
1
8
12
5. 2005
CNN Interview.
Christiane Amanpour tells Assad that the Western governments are plotting a regime change in Syria.
Unlike the UK, Assad believes you should be born in the country you govern.
1
3
5
6. 2006
State Dept cable: Detailed discussion of various strategies to enable regime change in Syria.
1
3
5
7. 2005-2007
US-funded opposition leaders within Syria to defeat Assad in the 2007 election.
The US also funded anti-Assad Muslim Brotherhood groups based out of Washington! (Muslim Brotherhood is banned in Syria)
2
4
5
8. 2009
US and UK spend millions to start a satellite TV channel (“Barada TV”) to broadcast anti-Assad programs all over Syria.
1
4
4
9. 2009 SHIITE CRESCENT SHIITE MOON
State Dept Email: Saudi Arabia is worried that a Shiite crescent is turning into a full moon (Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon coalition). Saudi Arabia wanted Assad out and to turn Syria into a Sunni country.
1
3
2
11. 2011
Special Ops from the US/UK/Turkey were inside Syria, training the rebels.
[SOF = Special Operations Forces]
1
3
4
12. 2011
Weapons shipped from Libya to Syria after the fall of Gaddafi.
1
3
3
13. 2012
CIA spending $100,000 per “moderate rebel” [Western-backed takfiris] for training to fight in Syria.
$1 billion per year in training terrorists.
2
4
2
14. 2012
State Dept Email: Conquest of Syria means a weakened Iran and this is important for "Israel".
"Israel's" greatest fear: Losing its nuclear monopoly.
1
4
3
15. 2012
State Dept Email: Use Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to arm/train rebels.
1
2
3
16. 2012
Saudi Arabia demands that Assad be overthrown using all means available.
WikiLeaks leak “reveals Saudi officials saying President Bashar al-Assad must be taken down before he exacts revenge on Saudi Arabia.”
1
2
3
17. 2012
Hillary Clinton received an email from Jake Sullivan:
“Al Qaeda is on our side.”
1
4
2
18. 2012
DIA (Pentagon) memo: Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists (Wahhabi extremist Sunnis) are the main forces trying to overthrow Assad.
1
3
2
19. 2012
NY Times and others report that most US weapons sent to Syria were ending up in the hands of Jihadists.
1
2
2
20. 2012 - 2013
Experienced Al Qaeda leaders from all over the world go to Syria to overthrow the government.
1
3
2
21. 2011-2013
160 military cargo planes full of US weapons were sent to Syria (Sent from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to Turkey; then sneaked into Syria across the border).
1
3
2
22. 2011
British government was upset that Assad did not "make peace with Israel" – and along the way open the Syrian economy to "British business".
1
2
2
Side note 1:
Egypt vs. Syrian:
"All Syrians are aware of their country’s vulnerability to instability, which is why the vast majority are genuinely supportive, or tolerant, of the current regime, even if they are restless waiting for more reforms."
2
4
3
Side note 2:
Syrian Revolution Facebook page
"If you read the older posts on the Syrian Revolution Facebook page (before they got a facelift and professional PR help), you wouldn’t believe how much religious language you find, and also how much deception there is."
1
4
3
Side note 2a:
Facebook used to "whip up sectarian hysteria"
"They were trying to whip up sectarian hysteria, to radicalize Syria’s Sunnis so as to bring down the regime. This is not what most Syrians want, but they have enough Syrians they can potentially influence."
1
3
2
Side note 3:
Understanding Syria through the lens of Lebanon.
1
3
2
Side note 4:
Why only men? The pro-Assad protests had men and women, and the anti-Assad protests (much much smaller)were groups of men only.
1
4
4
Side note 4a:
Despite calls for "millions" to protest, the actual numbers were very small. 1%, about 150,000 Syrians. "This is not Egypt or Yemen where you had hundreds of thousands or millions of people protesting".
2
3
4
Side note 5:
"The only time millions demonstrated in Syria was the day Assad’s supporters went to the street in most of Syria’s large cities."
Ibid.
My thread on coverage of the pro-Assad rallies - with women and men, not just men.
🇸🇾 SYRIA
March - October 2011
Tens of thousands take to the streets of Damascus in solidarity with the Syrian president, chanting slogans against US and EU regime change events. The CIA / MI6 first attempted this (and failed) in 1956/57.
Thread 🧵
1
16
40
1
2
5