An attempt to reproduce armed groups

It is absurd to classify the terrorist groups in Syria through calling them extremist opposition and moderate opposition. All these groups have been committing atrocious massacres against Syrian people, children and infrastructure. Such a classification does not serve the objective of eliminating terrorism; rather it contributes to feeding terrorism and creating chaos in the Middle East region and in the world as a whole.

Any talk about arming the so-called moderate opposition is in fact a new malicious maneuver made by the enemies of Syrian people to prolong the crisis in Syria and serve the Zionist project in the region.  Training and arming the “opposition” in Syria under whatever names would be a violation of the international law. Such acts are an attempt to reproduce armed groups in a different form with the aim to fan the flames of violence in Syria. This portends continuous chaos and a long-term terrorist war which would give birth to new takfiri groups that are dangerous to the region and the world.

There have been proposals recently by the newly forged US-led international alliance against ISIS to conduct training and supply arms to so-called “moderate opposition” in Syria with the excuse of fighting the terrorist organization.

 Syria’s warnings since the outset of the crisis of spreading international takfiri terrorism have fallen on blind eyes and deaf ears. The facts on the ground have now proved right Syria’s cautions, with those countries have suddenly woken up to the fact that most of the fighters they have been supporting in Syria are members of ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra.

The international alliance against terrorism should be put on the right track by expanding it to include all countries of the world, including the Syrian government.  Syria has all along announced its readiness for cooperation with any international counterterrorism effort as long as it goes in the line of the international law and the Security Council’s relevant resolutions. The U.S. administration has formed the alliance in violation of the Security Council’s resolution No. 2170 on counterterrorism and outside the frame of the Council. The alliance has excluded countries like Russia, China, Iran and Syria contrary to the resolution which stressed that terrorism cannot be defeated except through a diligent and comprehensive approach that involves the participation and effective cooperation of all countries and international and regional organizations.

Is there any item in resolution 2170 or in the UN Charter that allows a country to train armed groups under the name of ‘moderate opposition’ to fight the Syrian Arab Army and press ahead in their ferocious war against Syrian people?” Combating terrorism starts with confronting the takfiri extremist thinking and implementing the Security Council’s resolutions on counter-terrorism and cooperating with the countries that are hardest hit by terrorism. Syria is fighting terrorism on behalf of the whole world, and whoever is keen to back it must support it in combating terrorism and in the reconciliation efforts the Syrian government is making in volatile areas.

The atrocious crimes committed by the takfiri terrorists are the results of Washington’s support of terrorists that Washington and its allies call moderate when they targeted Syria’s children in the blasts that hit Ikrima schools in Homs and arming kids by giving them money and fake religious arguments. The coordination between the international coalition to fight the ISIS and the so-called moderate opposition that kills Syrians raises doubts about the coalition’s intention to find a political solution in Syria. The US started conducting airstrikes on the ISIS terrorists only after its interests were threatened by the terrorists.

K.Q.