Syria, now fertile soil for US war?

06 February, 2012 10:51

A political analyst says the United States and NATO are preparing the grounds for a military intervention in Syria under the pretext of “humanitarian grounds.””A US-NATO led intervention, which would inevitably involve Israel, is already on the drawing board of the Pentagon,” Michel Chossudovsky wrote in an article published on Global Research.Â

The author said a report conducted by the Arab League observer mission in Syria dispelled the mainstream media lies and fabrications, used by Washington to push for “regime change” in the country.Â

“[The Arab League mission] was also pressured into upholding the lies and fabrications of the mainstream media, which have been used to demonize the government of Bashar al-Assad,” Chossudovsky said.Â

Chossudovsky resembled the situation in Syria to Libya as in both cases armed terrorists supported by British and French Special Forces and said the armed Free Syrian Army is made up of Salafists and al-Qaeda affiliated militia covertly supported by Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia.Â

The analyst concluded that US Ambassador Robert Stephen Ford, who arrived in Damascus in January 2011, played a central role in setting the stage for an “armed insurrection in Syria.”Â

“Ford’s mandate in Damascus isâ€¦ promoting covertly the development of an armed insurrection. In this context, the killings of civilians perpetrated by armed gangs (supported covertly by the Western military alliance) are casually blamed on the Syrian government, thereby upholding the US-NATO mandate to intervene on humanitarian grounds,” he said.Â