Halting criminal massacres by takfiri groups, pre-condition for success of Geneva 2

It seems that the international community has become convinced of the presence of al-Qaeda-linked terrorism in Syria.  But the Commission of Inquiry on Syria is still deliberately blowing things out of proportion when displaying its findings, also fully disregarding or downplaying core issues. Despite the fact that the recent report of the Special Inquiry on Syria admitted the existence of terrorist groups but it did not refer to the states supporting these groups. The Commission has stressed in its reports that a number of states had offered media and financial support to the armed terrorist groups as well as a number of operations have been done to smuggle weapons through borders. But the commission ignored naming the regimes of those states which sponsor the smuggling of weapons, particularly the Turkish regime who opened its borders to enter the weapons and mercenaries into Syria.

  It also avoided detailed description of the atrocious crimes and savage massacres committed by these groups against Syrian people and their properties. There are blood-curdling scenes that flagrantly contravene the Syrians’ dignity and human rights regarding the crimes of the armed terrorist groups, ranging from eating human flesh, cutting throats, mutilating bodies, beheadings on sectarian and confessional grounds, throwing bodies from rooftops to committing hundreds of suicide bombings using car bombs in densely-populated areas, recruiting children, abducting and slaughtering clergymen, assassinating scholars in mosques, issuing instigative fatwas on ‘sexual jihad’ and raping women, killing children on the charges of infidelity, robbing hundreds factories in Aleppo and Idleb  and transporting them to Turkey.

How could the international community allow the Saudi, Qatari and Turkish regimes to sponsor fundamentalist terrorism publicly? And how could Western governments which had suffered from terrorism accept to sponsor and support that terrorism? They are fighting these groups on their lands and offer them unlimited support to kill innocent Syrian people and destroy Syria’s infrastructure. Over the past two years, many European officials warned against the return of terrorists to their homelands in Europe.

Saudi Arabia is one of the main states that have been funding terrorist acts in Syria. From the very beginning of the crisis, Prince Saud al-Faysal, the foreign minister of Al-Saud considered arming terrorist groups as a religious duty. One of Saudi Arabia’s latest “feats” was the purchase of Israeli arms estimated at USD 50 millions to be shipped to the armed terrorist groups in Syria. Prince Bandar Bin Sultan was appointed as responsible for funding and training the armed terrorist groups and exporting them to Syria.

When an agreement was announced between the Syrian government and the United Nations to investigate into the use of chemical weapons in Khan al-Asal, the armed terrorist groups entered Khan al-Assal and committed a horrible massacre against civilians and soldiers there to eliminate the witnesses who could have testified against the ones who used chemical weapons there.

Some Arab and regional countries, particularly the Gulf States, are manipulating terrorism on the pretext of helping the Syrian people, but such steps will reflect on them and they will pay for their manipulations just as the US paid in Afghanistan.

If they are truthful and honest in their keenness on helping Syrian people, the first thing they have to do is to stop their “generous” support to the armed terrorist groups and contribute to the peaceful settlement of the crisis through encouraging the convening of the Geneva 2 conference.

K.Q.