Konflikten i Syrien

/../With a sardonic grin, Abdul Kareem described how he was slighted: “This Undercover in Syria, you can Google it — it won the prestigious Peabody Award, and it won the prestigious Overseas Press Club Award, which are basically the highest awards in journalism for international reporting. Now, [CNN] barely mentioned my name! I’m telling you, somehow CNN must have forgotten that I was the one that filmed it, I guess they forgot that.”
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Contrary to Abdul Kareem’s claim that CNN had simply “forgotten” him, the network may have had reason to airbrush him out of its public relations material. The man Ward contracted to take her into rebel-controlled territory was well established as one of the top English-language propagandists for al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, along with other extremist groups fighting the Syrian government.

In fact, the Saudi Arabian news outlet Al Arabiya reported on June 7 that Abdul Kareem officially joined al-Nusra in 2012.
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AlterNet contacted the senior press manager for CNN International, along with CNN’s Middle East press officer and public relations coordinator, to request comment on Abdul Kareem’s relationship to the network. We asked for details about Abdul Kareem’s contractual obligations with CNN and whether the network felt his well-documented relationship with al-Qaeda compromised the reporting it carried out in Syria.

CNN did not respond.
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During her acceptance of the International Center for Journalists' Excellence in International Reporting Award, Ward boasted of the sensitivity she displayed during interviews with jihadists who had infiltrated Syria to join ISIS.

“I don’t think we can be selective in who we listen to,” Ward proclaimed. “I don’t think we can be selective in who we try to understand. I fundamentally believe we can’t afford to dismiss people. That’s not our job.”

But Ward has not followed her own advice where the majority of Syria’s population is concerned. Her coverage has tuned out the voices of the 18 million people who live under government control in order to propagate a one-sided narrative aimed at generating public support for regime change. Since the beginning of Syria’s civil war, CNN has virtually ignored the experiences of those who live in constant fear of the U.S. and Gulf-backed rebels that Ward branded as "heroes."

In her apparent zeal for access, Clarissa Ward solicited a working partnership with one of al-Qaeda’s top propagandists in Syria, Bilal Abdul Kareem. Having reaped the benefits of its star correspondent’s partnership with a jihadist “media man,” CNN now seeks to erase their affiliation altogether.
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Krigsplanen för att skapa det Nya Mellanöstern

...Det är knappast någon hemlighet att USA:s strategi länge har varit att destabilisera och oskadliggöra ett antal stater i Mellanöstern och Nordafrika. Nyligen kunde den tidigare utrikesministern i USA, Condoleezza Rice i en intervju på Brookings Institute berätta att:

”We didn´t go to Iraq to bring democracy. The aim was simply to eliminate a security challenge”.

Yinon-planen och ”New Middle East”

Ingenting nytt i och för sig. Redan 1982 hade den israeliska Yinon-planen uttryckt samma färdriktning – Israels grannländer måste förstöras för att Israel ska kunna känna sig säkrare. Historikern Webster Tarpley tecknar ner en kopia av detta i ”New Middle East” vid en intervju med Zbigniew Brzezinski och Bernard Lewis från 2012. Deras utsaga är att:

”The US strategic goal in the Middle East is the destruction of all existing national states. There´s an outline for this that has been known for many years as the Bernard Lewis plan, and it´s been expressed again by people like Brzezinski; micro state, mini states, rump states, secessionism, chaos, war lords and NATO feels free to seize whatever assets they think are important”...

Läs mer:

http://newsvoice.se/2017/07/06/krigsplanen-att-skapa-det-nya-mellanostern/

'There Are No Moderate Rebels' – Tulsi Gabbard Destroys The Deep State's Syria Narrative

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-28/there-are-no-moderate-rebels-%E2%80%93-tulsi-gabbard-destroys-deep-states-syria-narrative