Better Be Called “Friends of Terrorism”

Orders have been issued in Doha aiming at giving Syria’s enemies a green light to go further in supplying the armed terrorist groups in Syria with more sophisticated weapons allegedly to enhance “military balance”.

The meeting of the so-called “Friends of Syria” group, (better be called   “Friends of Terrorism”) who met on Saturday in Qatar, the site of the biggest American military base in the region, seemed in a hurry to announce their urgent military support for the “Syrian opposition” in a semi state of emergency to save the terrorists, particularly after the Syrian Arab Army had achieved great progress on ground and had had full control of the Syrian-Lebanese borders area following al-Qseir battle.

However, the American master seemed to keep a supervising role in this process by letting others implement the orders, without being involved in direct armament. Observers saw the American behavior as a US caution, because the United States knows where these weapons are going and expects that the American public opinion will one day question the US administration over who sent the weapon to al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria.

Blessed by three world powers, namely the U.S., Britain and France, who have been claiming that they are fighting terrorism, the Friends of Terrorism meeting decided in its communiqué to “urgently send all military equipments and support to the armed groups on ground and to what is called the “Free Army”, which comprises conflicting groups led by al-Qaeda-affiliated foreign mercenaries, in addition to bandits and outlaws of different nationalities employed to steal the Syrian people’s properties, kidnap citizens and terrorize civilians.

Qatar, the hosting Sheikhdom, has admitted that the conferees made “secret decisions” to coordinate military support for the “opposition”. The farce is that all the anti-Syria parties, who met in Doha, agreed that armament is the way to achieve peace and political solution in Syria. Hence, observers suggest that Washington must arm the Bahraini, Saudi and Qatari oppositions thus soon attaining a political settlement in these countries which have been witnessing a boiling state of complete refusal of the Oligarchic regimes which are based on family rule away from any kind of constitutions or laws.

The French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius’s call for providing the armed groups with anti-Sarin gas medicine, provokes caution more than any other thing, because the chemical weapons game has not been over yet as there are serious attempts to revive it and use the issue as a pretext to interfere in the Syria and violate  the state’s sovereignty as in the Iraqi model.

Senior international officials, including Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergi Lavrov have warned against using the chemical weapons game to interfere in Syria and stressed that the United Nations’ attempts to avoid investigating the use of chemical weapons by the terrorists in Khan al-Asal in Aleppo, indicates a Western intention to delay the issue until evidence is lost or distorted. This was what actually happened, because in order to justify his decision to arm the terrorist groups, Obama has depended on the secret file to convince the Americans that there are chemical weapons being used by the Syrian state.

Incitement, as a lethal weapon in wars, wasn’t absent in the Doha meeting. The “Friends of Terrorism” seized the opportunity to release their sectarian poisons against “Iran and Hizbollah” by calling on these two parties to “ stop interfering in Syria’, without a slight reference to the thousands of terrorists coming from Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Tunisia, and European  countries to join the so-called “jihad” in Syria.

While the US State Secretary John Kerry was speaking in his final statement about “supporting the Syrian opposition”, the Spanish Foreign Minister announced from Madrid that a terrorist group recruiting al-Qaeda terrorists to send them to Syria via European countries across Turkey, was arrested. The group admitted it has so far transferred 50 terrorists to Syria. This is only an example from a powerful state where law has the upper hand, so what about those coming from Afghanistan, Libya and Tunisia, the countries which are experiencing unprecedented chaos.

The call by the “friends of terrorism” for controlling the Syrian-Iraqi borders and the Syrian-Lebanese borders seemed so ironic since they didn’t even mention anything about controlling Syria’s borders with Turkey and Jordan. It is obvious that they want these borders opened, because, according to reports, the biggest number of terrorists and the biggest quantity of weapons are actually those flowing into Syria across Turkey and Jordan.

Nevertheless, whether the friends of terrorism rushed to provide military support for the terrorists or not, the Syrian state, backed by its honest people and real friends, has chosen to go ahead with haunting terrorists everywhere in Syria, terminate terrorism, restore security to the country and rebuild the homeland on stronger bases.

 H. Mustafa