Western politicians and news media are lying when they tell us that the current trouble in Syria is a civil war between Assad (the President) and the Syrian people. The insurgents are not Syrians. They are foreign mercenaries sent to Syria to disrupt and disable Assad’s government. They are sent by powerful people who want Assad killed and Syria handed over to pro-Western politicians and bankers.

Assad is NOT at war with his own people. He is at war with the US and Israel, along with the governments of Britain, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordon and Egypt. Fortunately, Syria also has friends — namely, Iran, Russia, and China. Also, the citizens of many other nations (including the majority in Britain, Europe and America) do not want to attack Syria.

The main protagonist in this war is the US Government, and it is in league with Israel. The insanity of all this is difficult to wrap your mind around … but it is epitomized by the fact that these governments (the US, Britain, Israel, etc.) are conspiring with, and sponsoring, Al Queda to do the dirty work in Syria.

Americans actually think that Al Queda is an enemy of the US. They’ve been told it over and over by the news media and the politicians. But now the truth comes out … and we’ve known it for a long time. Al Queda is actually a contract army of mercenaries recruited, trained and financed by the Bush/Obama administrations and the CIA. They are employed to help create false flag events (like 9-11) to keep the US at war and to scare Americans into supporting their war mongering.

This current set of ongoing wars. lies and deceptions perpetrated by Obama are merely carry-overs from the wars and lies that began with the Bush Administration and 9-11.

You should never believe, without outside corroboration, anything said by the major news networks or the politicians. They are all owned and controlled by the elite banking families who control them like puppets.  (-ed)

Recruited by Al-Qaeda: Foreign fighters in a Damascus jail tell their stories

September 11, 2013

A Turkish fighter of the jihadist group Al-Nusra Front, bearing the flag of Al-Qaeda on his jacket (C-back), holds position with fellow comrades on April 4, 2013 in the Syrian village of Aziza, on the southern outskirts of Aleppo.

Raouchan Gazakov brought his family to Syria, taught his 5-year-old son to make bombs and bade farewell to his relative, a suicide bomber. RT’s Maria Finoshina talked to him in a Damascus prison and asked him why he came to fight for Al-Qaeda.

“A group called Murad approached me a year ago and convinced me that Muslims in Syria are being oppressed and killed, and that I should go and take up arms against Assad for world jihad,” Raouchan said in the spartan prison, where some 200 inmates are held – most of them jihadist fighters for Al-Qaeda or affiliated groups.  The prisoners’ fate is unknown, although it looks grim.

Raouchan says he sneaked into Syria last January through Turkey. In Istanbul, two men claiming to be from Al-Qaeda met Raouchan and accompanied him to Syria. There, he joined a large terrorist group run by an Egyptian jihadist.

“My job was mainly to prepare bombs for cars. There were many people, all from different countries. Our ‘teachers’ showed us how to make bombs – which ingredients to use, and how exactly to make them,” he says.

Raouchan came with his entire family to Syria. In a macabre home movie later found on his laptop, he, his son and a group of men say goodbye to their male relative, who is about to go and blow up a police station in a suicide bomb attack.

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In another video, Raouchan shows his son how to make a bomb.

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In the Damascus prison, there are many stories of men recruited from faraway lands to come fight for jihad in Syria.

Another detainee, Amer El Khadoud, tells Maria Finoshina how he left a normal life in France, where he lived for years with his wife, a French woman, to join the Syrian jihad with an Al-Qaeda affiliated group.

“I volunteered,” says Amer. “I went to Turkey. In a refugee camp, there I met a Salafi group and I trained with them for about 2 1/2 months, and then we illegally crossed the border into Syria.”

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However, upon his arrival, Amer says he was disappointed that the jihad was not as he was promised.

“I saw my Sunni Syrian brothers suffering here. I saw on Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya and other channels that kids are also suffering. I took up arms, and I was ready to use them. But when I came here – I didn’t see the enemy.”

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The prisoners’ stories of Al-Qaeda recruitment came as a new report, published by the Washington think tank Bipartisan Policy Center, entitled “Jihadist Terrorism: A Threat Assessment,” concluded that “the civil war in Syria may provide Al-Qaeda with an opportunity to regroup, train and plan operations.”

The presence of so many foreign jihadist fighters in the Damascus prison appears to support the center’s findings.

“Foreign fighters hardened in that conflict could eventually destabilize the region or band together to plot attacks against the West,” the report said.

Reports have been growing for some time of jihadists recruited internationally to fight against Assad’s government.

For instance, in January, a leaked memo provided an inside look at how Saudi officials commuted the sentences of 1,200 death row inmates on the condition they join the rebels and fight against Assad in Syria, the Assyrian International News Agency reported.

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