U.S.-Backed Terrorists Execute Syrian Priest
July 17,
2013 A• U.S. ambassador to Syria condemns repeated
attacks by U.S.-backed rebels against Christian populace
By Ronald L. Ray
Father
Francois Mourad, a Syrian-born Catholic priest and monk, was beheaded on
Sunday, June 23, 2013, along with two other individuals in Ghassanieh, northern
Syria. The monastery, where Fr. Mourad resided with another priest and a
few Sisters of the Rosary, was also desecrated by looting. This was confirmed by the Vatican, although there are conflicting reports.
The
militant Muslim group, Jabhat al-Nusra, a branch of Al-Qaeda and part
of the United States-sponsored terror insurgency against the legitimate
government of Syria, was responsible for the vicious murders. Tragically,
this was not an isolated event, but part of the violent daily persecution of
Syrian Christians by those, we are told, who are bringing “freedom” to an
“oppressed” land.
Israel
and its proxies, the U.S., Great Britain, and France, try to conceal the
murderous face of the “rebels” for propaganda purposes. But in this case,
the criminals uploaded a live, extremely graphic video of the beheading of
an Orthodox priest to the Internet, where it immediately “went viral” to such a
massive extent that the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert
S. Ford, felt compelled to issue a statement condemning the actions.
In an
amazing display of double-speak, Ford claimed:
“The
Syrian Revolution against Assad’s tyranny and brutality is a struggle for
dignity and freedom—not about butchering civilians and prisoners.”
Apparently
forgetting that his government is backing insurgents seeking the establishment
of a Muslim caliphate, the ambassador continued:
“We call
on all Syrians to protect and respect the rights of all civilians, regardless
of ethnicity, gender, or religion.”
This
flies in the face of reality, since it has been President Bashar al-Assad’s
secular government which has ensured peaceful coexistence of the different
religions, not the mostly foreign mercenaries attempting to topple that
government with U.S. funding and weapons.
Mourad
began his life as a Religious with the Franciscans of the Holy Land, later
spending some time with the Trappists, and finally beginning construction of a
monastery in Ghassanieh. After the monastery was bombed, he moved back to
the Franciscan convent for safety reasons, where he was murdered.
Father Halim,
the Franciscan regional superior, appealed to the West not to aid anti-Assad
rebels, who have repeatedly attacked the Christian minority. “Otherwise,”
he stated, “there will be no Christians left in Syria.”
The head
of the Holy Land Franciscans, Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, called for
prayers, “…that this absurd and shameful war will soon be over, and that the
people of Syria will soon be able to return to their normal lives.”
Those who
wish to provide concrete aid to the Syrian people may do so through the website
“Emergency
Syria.”
According
to Archbishop Jacques Behnan Hindo of the Syrian Catholic Church:
“Lately,
[Fr. Mourad] sent me some messages that clearly showed how conscious he was of
living in a dangerous situation, and offered his life for peace in Syria and
around the world.”
Ronald L. Ray is a freelance author residing in
the free state of Kansas. He is a descendant of several patriots of the
American War for Independence.
Syria the New Afghanistan
• Obama using failed U.S. policies of the 1980s
to destabilize region
By Richard Walker
Muslim
nations, including Turkey and Pakistan, along with Washington and its allies in
Europe and the Middle East, are weaponizing Syria in a reckless free-for-all
reminiscent of the days of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Back
then, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spent billions arming and training a
mujahideen force (under the direct supervision of Israel’s Mossad) that
included the likes of Osama Bin laden. The success of that war turned on the
supply to Bin Laden and his acolytes of American-made Stinger missiles capable
of downing Soviet fighter jets and attack helicopters.
In an
echo of the past, surface-to-air missiles and antitank weapons are now flowing
in ever larger consignments to Syrian rebels, including groups like al-Nusra
that recently videotaped some of its members beheading three Christians, one of
them a Franciscan friar. The beheading was carried out with a kitchen knife and
was a barbarous spectacle.
The
weapons reaching Syria are generally assembled in countries like Croatia
and Libya and most recently in Jordan where the CIA is fulfilling President
Barack Obama’s pledge to arm his chosen elements among the rebels. How he
actually hopes to achieve that when the best and most prominent fighters are
radicals and terrorists is anyone’s guess.
Turkey,
despite all its denials, has been a major transit point for weapons supplied by
Pakistan and Britain, as well as by the Saudis. While most major enablers like
Pakistan prefer to say little about their roles in transforming Syria into a
much more brutal conflict, the tiny oil state of Qatar has no such
reservations. To date it has spent billions of dollars arming all groups within the
Syrian opposition.
A serving
intelligence source within Europe, speaking to AMERICAN FREE PRESS on condition
of anonymity, said the Saudis have been growing concerned about Qatar’s
apparent lack of judgment in handing out surface-to-air missiles like
“chocolate bars” – missiles that could later be used to bring down
civilian aircraft elsewhere in the world.
“The
irony of all this is that the arming of Syrian rebels is out-of-control because
it is coordinated by too many competing elements, some of them reckless. The
Qataris in particular have made it clear they want Assad gone and don’t seem to
care how they achieve it. There is a real danger that after militants in
al-Qaeda and al-Nusra are taught to use surface to air weapons, they’ll move
some of them into Europe to bring down U.S. passenger planes. While Qatar and
Pakistan have been primary weapons suppliers, they have also put military
specialists on the ground in Syria. One of the unreported elements of the
Qatari strategy has been their willingness to pay salaries to many of the best
rebel fighters, especially ones they recruited in Libya. That means there are a
lot of mercenaries on the rebel front lines with a large percentage of them
extreme Islamists. Cash for that project is filtering into the coffers of
groups that have no love for the West,” our confidential source warned.
Pakistan’s
role within the Arab world, and its determination like Turkey to shape the
Middle East to fit a Sunni and not a Shiite agenda, is not widely acknowledged.
However, its military role in working closely with Arab states, especially
Qatar, is made clear in its Pak-Gulf Defense and Security Cooperation guidelines.
The
danger of this external involvement is that as Syria descends into an expanded
civil war, there is potential for spill-over into Lebanon and Iraq, especially
with the arming of Sunni militant organizations. Missing in some of this is the
fact Qatar and Pakistan have unique links to the Muslim Brotherhood, and should
it decide to take on the military in Egypt, it will be seeking from its friends
a similar arms commitment.
One of
the most significant suppliers of missiles and heavy weapons reaching Syrian
rebels has been Libya and it militias. Qatar has bought many weapons from
militias that were backed by the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization in the
overthrow of Muammar Qadaffi. Qatar has been shipping those weapons through a
shadowy arms network run by middlemen in Britain, Croatia, Turkey and Jordan.
In some cases, weapons have been moved through ports or flown by transport
aircraft into Turkey and Jordan.
There
have been unconfirmed reports the late U.S. ambassador
Chris Stevens, may have known about the movement of weapons into Syria from the
port of Benghazi by militants he had contact with. The unofficial consulate
where he was killed was in Benghazi and so was a CIA post devoted to
monitoring and communicating with Libyan militants, many of whom have since
gone to fight in Syria.
Richard Walker is the pen name of a former N.Y.
news producer.
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