Desperate Western media fanfare to lift terrorists’ morale

The infiltration of gunmen into the Syrian territories has been on since the onset of the crisis in the country, but the recent reports on sending large numbers of terrorists and developed weapons there are aimed at igniting media uproar to lift terrorists’ morale after their humiliating defeats at the hands of the Syrian Arab Army in various governorates.

It has been proved that sending weapons, funds and terrorists to Syria via Turkey and other border crossings started from the very beginning of the crisis in Syria. The British newspaper The Times revealed videos and photos confirming the arrival of one of the shipments to the Syrian border affirming that it is not the first time that Libyan ships try to deliver weapons to the armed groups in Syria.

New media releases also referred to the existence of mercenaries and militants from various countries, including the countries of Europe and the United States in addition to citizens from tens of countries in Syria within illegal armed terrorist groups.

Chairman of the so-called Doha Coalition, Ahmad al-Jarba said that Saudi authorities ensured sophisticated arms to what he called the opposition fighters in Syria claiming that these weapons would change facts on the ground. This statement was a desperate attempt to raise the morale of the armed groups fighting in Syria after the heavy losses inflicted upon them because of the qualitative operations carried out against them by the Syrian Arab Army.

Sending these weapons could exacerbate the violence in Syria and fuel tensions between different extremist groups in the region. This was crystal clear in recent statements made by some Takfiri leaders who affirmed the sectarian nature of the conflict in Syria. However, the US and its European and regional allies, which have been encouraging sectarian war in Syria through offering unlimited support to the armed terrorist groups, started to realize that exploiting religious tensions may incite violence and could lead to large-scale atrocities not only in Syria but in the world at large.

Several Western intelligence reports stressed that most of the weapons which the Gulf and Western countries are providing to the so-called opposition fighters fall in the hands of al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra and other Takfiri groups, potentially presenting a long-term threat to European and world security.

Such concerns pushed British Prime Minister David Cameron to review plans to provide the armed groups in Syria with sophisticated weapons after being warned by military chiefs that it could involve British forces in an all-out war.

According to the London-based newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, senior military officers warned the Prime Minister that with the victories realised by the Syrian army, sending arms and missiles is unlikely to make a difference, referring that these weapons might fall in the hands of extremist groups.

 Syria’s steadfastness in the face of the war of terrorism waged against it will rid the region of extremists, and this steadfastness marked the beginning of the extremist terrorists’ recession in the region.

K.Q.