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Terrorism Magnet

"Before Assad started killing his own people, these terrorists were not in Syria. The fact is that more and more terrorists keep coming because Assad keeps killing and Assad keeps directing his people to engage against innocent civilians."
"[The Syrian president is a' one-man super-magnet for terrorism."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Geneva

American Secretary of State John Kerry
The United States may have acceded to Russia's prompting to solve the issue of chemical stockpiles owned by Syria's Alawite regime, used in a barbaric nighttime attack on sleeping suburban residents of rebel-held Damascus killing one thousand men, women and children, by persuading President Obama of the virtues of restraint despite his 'red-line' warning that Bashar al-Assad overstepped, but it seems the green light has been given to John Kerry to insist on his removal, nonetheless.

Of course there is always that question: what then? There is no one who can answer it. The Syrian National Coalition, while having official recognition as the lead for the opposition, is ignored and held largely in contempt by the Syrian Free Rebel militias who claim those within the Coalition know little about Syria, since their leading lights studied and lived abroad before returning to Syria. The rebel militias themselves quibble among themselves. There is no cohesion and no power center among the opposition and the rebels.

Add to that inoperable admixture the pestilential and dangerous presence of Sunni Islamists who entered Syria to join the fray for the purpose of destroying a Shia-led Baathist government in a country that the jihadists view as a potential caliphate of their own, and solutions are nothing if not evasively challenging. While the rebels have reason now to battle the jihadis who themselves see nothing wrong in annihilating rebel commanders who criticize their presence in Syria, the distractions take from opposing the regime.

Now, in Geneva, Western interveners, the United Nations, the United States, along with Russia -- and in the background although not officially, Iran, Syria's benefactor and twin in support of terrorism at home and abroad -- harbour feeble but desperate hopes that some miracle of conciliation may occur to stem the dreadful catalogue of atrocities committed by the Syrian military against Syrian civilians, and the opposition itself, involved in human rights abuses.

Into the unsettling situation of dread human consequences, enters Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaeda's latest chief jihadi-mentor calling for a cessation of internal clashes. Islamic groups within Syria, he ordered, should set up an Islamic court to mediate and resolve the differences between the factions. As well, he decreed Islamic fighters must focus on "bringing down Assad's secular, sectarian, unjust and criminal regime to set up a just Islamic state."

Giving an instant opportunity to Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Al-Moallem, to emphasize that his government and its actions represents the only feasible alternative to preventing a further descent into bloody chaos in Syria. It is his government's priority"to fight terrorism", just as his president, Bashar al-Assad, claimed right from the very beginning of this unfortunate, but trivial rebellion against the just and rigorously upright regime fighting for its longevity in Syria.

Labels: Conflict, Islamists, Negotiations, Syria

posted by Pieface @ Saturday, January 25, 2014