West, Zionists seek instability, division in Syria’

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While the West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of the killings, Damascus blames armed terrorist groups for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.


Syrian state newspapers said on Sunday that al-Qaeda is leading the terrorist attacks in the country with the support of the United States and some Arab governments.

Thousands of people have so far been killed in the year-long unrest in Syria.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Kevin Barrett, author and Islamic Studies expert from Madison, to further discuss the issue. The following is a transcription of the interview.

Press TV: According to state media, methods and choices by targets by armed gangs in Syria reflect al-Qaeda’s involvement. What do you have to say to that?

Barrett: …they’re saying what is this, the government of Syria is accusing al-Qaeda of working with the USA? Those of us who know our history would say they very well could be right.

Al-Qaeda, the word means “the base”, and it originated as a database of Arab Mujahedin who were fighting for us in Afghanistan trying to fight the Russians out in the 1980s.

Since then, that database of mostly Wahhabi, actually, people from all over the Arab world, has been used by the CIA and the US in fights against Russian interests.

It’s only this post 9/11 period that we’ve heard that al-Qaeda’s supposedly radically anti-American and yet some of these same people keep turning up place like Libya fighting for US interests.

Believe it or not, it’s actually pretty plausible that whatever al-Qaeda is, and it’s certainly a very loose kind of name, it’s not a very tightly knit organization that some of those people could be in Syria doing those things they’re accused of doing.

Press TV: Then it does raise serious questions about what the West has planned for Syria in the name of human rights and defending civil liberties even if Assad does step down or doesn’t.

Barrett: Well, that’s a very good point. The West’s rhetoric about civil rights and freedom of democracy, it sounds nice. But if you look the actual international behavior and policies of Western countries and I am said to say, first and foremost, in the United States of America, democracy and human rights is usually not very high up on their agenda.

The real agenda is a kind of a combination of real politic, that is a realist approach to foreign affairs, and a kind of radical Zionism in which these crazed ideologues like Wolfowitz, Pearl and the rest of the neo-cons and other Zionists who are primarily concerned about the project in occupied Palestine are actually wagging the dog of US foreign policy.

There is a fight between these hardcore real politic realists who do not care that much about democracy and human rights on one hand, and the Zionists who are supporting horrific ethnic cleansing projects in occupied Palestine who obviously do not care much about human rights either.

I think that both of these groups are far more interested in trying to get Syria out of the orbit of countries that are relatively independent of US power, and they are interested in messing with Syria because of its anti-Zionist policies and its alliance with the Russians and with Iran. Those are the real reasons…

Source: www.presstv.ir/

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