21.12.2019 Author: Gordon Duff
Column: Politics
Region: USA in the World
On December 20, 2019, Donald
Trump signed H.R.31/S.52, the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act. In it, he
accuses Russia and Syria of murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians inside
Syria through a series of coordinated war crimes including bombing hospitals,
orphanages and schools and staging dozens, if not hundreds of chemical attacks.
Of course, no chemical
warfare attacks were perpetrated by Russia or Syria, quite the opposite, all
such attacks, some real, some staged for media, are clearly tied to the United
States, Israel and their terror allies.
From a CIA backed
organization tied to al Qaeda and ISIS, known as Americans for a Free Syria:
“I have waited years for
this day: with his signature, President Trump has taken tough action to hold
the criminal Bashar Assad—responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands
of Syrians—accountable for his reprehensible attacks on civilians,”
said Ismael Basha, President of Americans for a Free Syria. “Knowing
Caesar sanctions are on the horizon, Assad and his allies have ramped up their
attacks on civilians in Idlib province, bombing residential areas in Maarat al
Numan and Saraqeb. These sanctions are needed more than ever. The
Administration must not delay in bringing the full weight of the Caesar Act to
bear on Assad and his thugs.”
“Since the defector Caesar
came to Congress in 2014 to bear witness to Assad’s brutality, lawmakers have
worked tirelessly alongside their Syrian American constituents to urge two
Administrations to action. By sending the Caesar Act to the President’s desk,
Congress has delivered a message, loud and clear, to the Syrian people that the
U.S. will push to ensure their perpetrators face economic and legal justice,” said Erica Hanichak, Government Relations
Director for Americans for a Free Syria.
“The President signing
‘Caesar’ opens a new chapter in U.S. Syria policy. The most crucial step comes
now, in implementing it. Now that the legislation has officially been
signed into law, those who would continue feeding Assad’s war machine are on
notice. Once it’s taken effect, the economic weight of ‘Caesar’ will give the
State Department needed leverage for talks in Geneva toward a political
transition.”
The stated goal, a betrayal
of agreements long in place with Russia, establish Trump policy as the utter
defeat of the Syrian people and their elected government and the establishment
of a puppet state ruled by the US.
The idea of this, as the
Syrian Arab Army and their allies with the Russian Aerospace Forces are
starting to cleanse Idlib Province, the last terrorist bastion, is pure
insanity.
Then again, there are two
more terrorist bastions, one in the Syrian oil fields East of the Euphrates,
the oil that Trump boasted as “seizing” and another near the Jordanian border
where Trump regime forces are infiltrating weapons to isolated cells of ISIS
terrorists still at large in the Western Desert.
The “Caesar” issue
originated in 2014 when 50,000 photographs were delivered to the US, allegedly
from an anonymous source using the name “Caesar” which allegedly depict war
crimes by the Assad government.
At that time, it was not
openly known in the West that the “Free Syrian Army” was, in fact, simply an
offshoot of al Qaeda and ISIS and under CIA control, facts long established
since.
Examinations of the photos
by independent investigators show them to be cut and past or Photoshop
concoctions, primarily using sections of photos dead and wounded during the
fighting mostly in Hama and Aleppo Provinces.
Key, of course, is that many
of the photos are of victims of US backed groups who summarily executed Syria
officials and their families in terrorist occupied areas. Other photos are
clearly of unidentified combat dead, of Middle Eastern appearance, perhaps from
Syria, perhaps from Yemen or Iraq, as the photos have no metadata.
What is clear is that they
are images without context delivered to the perpetrators themselves and
represented as fact without validation of any kind.
What is most important is
this, as Russian President Putin stands stalwartly by Donald Trump during his
impeachment ordeal, Trump has made every effort to blacken and besmirch Russia
in their efforts to fight terrorism and to belittle the sacrifices of the
Russian dead inside Syria, most of whom we note were killed by American air and
artillery “accidentally.”
What is equally important is
that Trump is using propaganda material, not unlike the fake Facebook posts he
depended on as “proof” of Syrian gas attacks in Douma, fabricated in the most
childish manner as basis for his polices.
Those who took the time to
examine the trove of fake evidence find material taken off YouTube and
Facebook, sometimes the same material with pieces of one photo transposed on
another, an easy task with today’s software, “evidence” any child with an iPad
could create and seemingly did in this case.
The same photos were used
over and over as different people with fake investigative case numbers created
to push up the numbers.
Typical examples are case
765908 from Human Rights Watch which is the same person as case 948944.
Another is case 480324 who
is also case 706348.
The origin of most of the
photos is supposedly the archives of the Syrian Ministry of Justice under Dr.
Najem Al Hamad.
In 2014, I visited Damascus
as a guest of Dr. Najem and reviewed records on terrorist arrests and
detentions at the Ministry of Justice facility along with Dr. Franklin Lamb and
a combined Russian and American delegation.
The files being reviewed
were lists of detainees, hardly number in the thousands but rather the
hundreds, including senior officers from the armed forces of Saudi Arabia and
Qatar who had been captured at a chemical weapons facility near Raqqah.
Key to understanding the
issues here is America’s continual reliance on terrorism and mischief, which
not only includes using fake evidence, now many years old and long debunked but
also America’s most recent acts, theft of oil, which is being sold at profit to
finance ISIS operations which the US is trying to rekindle.
Gordon Duff is a
Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW
issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security
issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
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