Truce hurts: Militants, West ‘want Assad discredited’

Published time: April 18, 2012 16:17
Edited time: April 18, 2012 20:17
Members of the rebel 'Free Syrian Army' gather inside their quarters in the Syrian town of Binnish (Binesh), in the restive northern Idlib province, on March 22, 2012. (AFP Photo / Ricardo Garcia Vilanova)
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Moscow has accused the Syrian armed opposition of inflaming the conflict to “bury” the peace plan by UN special envoy Kofi Annan and breach the truce. Experts say militants are trying to stir up the conflict to discredit Assad’s regime.

International media reveal more and more evidence of the armed Free Syrian Army groups organizing provocations to break the ceasefire, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Wednesday.

Lavrov also said there are reports the Free Syrian Army is using refugee camps in Turkey as safe havens to plan their assaults on government troops.

This comes as the Syrian regime is under fire from foreign powers who say the government is not keeping its side of the deal.

Syrian opposition leader Haytham Manna says Damascus is facing constant provocation from fragmented rebel factions.

“The ceasefire is being observed, except for some violations by weak and fragmented groups,” Manna told RT, adding that “They continue hostilities in order to engage the army in fighting, so that it stands against the Syrian people.”

Eric Denece, director and founder of the French Center for Intelligence Studies, also believes that the primary purpose of the armed rebels is “to push them to react so strong.”

“They [militants] want the regime of President Assad to be absolutely discredited because it did not respect the ceasefire,” he said , “It is a kind of a game as they want to put additional international pressure on the regime.”

Different armed factions defying the ceasefire in Syria are being backed by foreign sponsors, the activist asserted.

“Most of the opposition, supported by Western and Arab countries, is made of terrorist and Salafist groups. They use the bases in Turkey as a safe haven to go back to Syria everyday to create new turmoil and new attacks at the regime,” he said.

According to Denece, three interests intersect in Syria: the US want to support Israel’s regime and to weaken Iran; Gulf states such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia want to impose Salafist regimes everywhere in the Middle East; and there is also France, who is against Syria because they suspect Damascus to be behind Lebanese PM Rafic Hariri’s assassination in 2005.

“France, the United States, NATO with the support of the Saudi Arabia and Qatar, they think they can change the sense of history in Syria but I don’t think this is something they can do,” Denece concluded.

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Dimitri44a 19.04.2012 17:50

With regard to that "Al-Q" whatever it is that the West always blames, we should remember that it was that Polish foreigner, who somehow entered the United States, who used to have Jimmy Carter as his obedient pupil, who once told a French news magazine that he was the one who invented this "Al- Q" thing as a battering ram.

He then acknowledged that he had also invented a false religion, pretending to be Islam, so he could remove Russian influence from Afghanistan.  Then, he even told the French news magazine, "If you don't like it, you're stupid!"

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Boromir 19.04.2012 10:21

RUSSIA will lose and Lucierian plans will be fulfilled. Full Spectrum dominance is on its way in the Middle East. NATO RATS are going to win in Syria. Russia, China, India, Iran must overthrow the Dollar. It is the only way this madness&nb sp;to stop. AND LUCIFERIAN WARMONGERING US POLICY TO STOP. US will dissolve. By all UNIVERSAL LAWS THIS IS CLEAR TO ME. With s uch heavy NEGATIVE KARMA& nbsp;ON ITS WAY BACK TO WHITE HOUSE. But the timing is really the question... 

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Deo Cassar 19.04.2012 08:01

Ban Ki Moon again playing his US master's voice tune! At the UN he accuse the Syrian government of not fully complying with Kofi Annan's plan by not withdrawing its heavy weapons from cities and populated areas and its tropps to their barracks". But this is a deliberate misquotation of the Ceasfire agreement. In fact the cease-fire, quoting Annan's plan staes "heavy weapons withdrawal from populated areas by the Syriian Army" (Not "troop withdrawal" OR LESS "to their barracks"). Again such a move by the Syrian army should be accompanied by an immediate ceasfire by all sides. Therefore both conditiions are intrinsically inter-connected. The Syrian governemnt has done its part and stressed reapeatedly and officially its readiness to adhere fully to this plan but the terror squads are being pressured from Washington and co not to commit and they continue attacking Syrian security forces and civilains alike. So their is no breach on Syria's side as long as the terror squads fail to honour their part of the deal and stop violernce. But this is very unlikely considering that the US and its servant Arab Tyrannies and Turkey are either covertly or officially arming and supporting the terror squads logistically. Obviousely that staged show by those dozen men armed with video cameras and flags greeting the UN monitors had a lot of "logistic support" from the US side which of course staged the whole scene in true Hollywood fashion.

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