U.S. & Israel Supporting Al-Qaeda As Conflict Erupts Again In Syria

Isn’t it interesting how those who are tolerated in government and the Mockingbird media always try and scare us with tales of Islamic terrorism?  While I do know that it does occur and pervasive in certain parts of the world, what I find even more criminal in nature from these people is their support of Islamic terrorists.  Take, for instance, those Islamic terrorists that Obama, Lindsey Graham and “Songbird” McCain funded, trained and armed in Syria.  Guess what?  Not only is the US supporting them again, but so is Israel, just like they did before.

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Since 2011, the United States has spent billions of dollars arming terrorists in Syria, including those linked to Al-Qaeda and ISIS, in a destabilization campaign attempting to topple the Assad government. As new hostilities break out the usual suspects are once again fanning the flames.

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The United States spent billions over years arming and training militants in Syria, many linked to Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

Current US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan admitted back in 2012 that “AQ [Al-Qaeda] is on our side in Syria”.

In late November 2024, armed extremists took over Syria’s second most-populous city, Aleppo, in an operation sponsored by NATO member Turkey.

Some of the Al-Qaeda-linked “rebels” that rule the Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Idlib told the Israeli media that they “love Israel”. They vowed to establish a new pro-Israel regime in Syria.

Israel has for years provided weapons and support to extremist “rebels” in Syria, including Al-Qaeda, which have sought to violently overthrow the government of President Bashar al-Assad, who has refused to recognize Israel and has provided military support to resistance groups in the region.

Rebranded Al-Qaeda takes over Aleppo

Although the Salafi-jihadist militants who attacked Aleppo in late November were portrayed sympathetically in Western media as “rebels”, they were led by rebranded Al-Qaeda.

The main armed group that conquered Aleppo is called Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which emerged out of Jabhat al-Nusra (known as the Nusra Front), which was the name of Syrian Al-Qaeda. It was previously the largest branch of Al-Qaeda in the world.

HTS superficially distanced itself from Al-Qaeda as part of a Western-backed public relations campaign to depict itself as more “moderate”, but the group maintains the same fascist ideology. In fact, despite this cynical rebranding effort, the US government officially recognized HTS as a terrorist organization in 2018, adding the extremist group to its previous designation of Jabhat al-Nusra.

Terrorist designations like this, nevertheless, have not stopped the US and its allies in Israel, Turkey, and the Gulf monarchies from providing support to Al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria.

HTS established a de facto government in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, where it has ruled with an iron fist, with direct assistance from NATO member Turkey.

The rebranded Al-Qaeda militia used Idlib as its base of operations to launch the assault on neighboring Aleppo in November 2024. Major French media outlet AFP reported that Syrian “opposition sources in touch with Turkish intelligence said Turkey had given a green light to the offensive”.

Jake Sullivan: “AQ is on our side in Syria”

The fact that Syrian Al-Qaeda has been allied with the West for a decade now was acknowledged by none other than Jake Sullivan, who serves as national security advisor in the Joe Biden administration.

During the Barack Obama administration, Sullivan was a top aide for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In 2012, he used his State Department email to send Clinton a message about Syria.

“AQ is on our side in Syria”, Sullivan wrote, using an acronym for Al-Qaeda.

This declassified document was published by WikiLeaks.

 

Operation Timber Sycamore: CIA support for Syrian “rebels”

After violent protest broke out in Syria in 2011, the United States began to flood the country with weapons.

The CIA launched a covert program to arm and train rebel groups attempting to overthrow the Syrian government. The Washington Post revealed that this initiative had “a budget approaching $1 billion a year”, meaning that “Syria-related operations account for about $1 of every $15 in the CIA’s overall budget”.

This CIA program, called Operation Timber Sycamore, was, as the New York Times put it, “one of the most expensive efforts to arm and train rebels since the agency’s program arming the mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the 1980s”, which was known as Operation Cyclone.

Just as Operation Cyclone gave birth to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Operation Timber Sycamore fueled the growth of Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

The Pentagon publicly admitted in 2015 that rebels armed and trained by the United States and its allies gave their weapons to Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra.

Amnesty International also found that the genocidal fascists in ISIS (also known as ISIL or Islamic State) were using US weapons.

The mainstream British organization Conflict Armament Research, which is funded by European governments, similarly concluded that many of the weapons that the US and allies such as Saudi Arabia provided to rebels in Syria ended up going to ISIS.

DIA document admits Al-Qaeda & ISIS dominated Syrian opposition from beginning

Although Washington publicly claims it did not support Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria, internal documents show that US officials knew their policies were strengthening the genocidal extremist groups.

A bombshell declassified 2012 memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reveals that, from the start, “The Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria”. AQI is a reference to Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which later evolved into ISIS.

“AQI supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning”, the DIA wrote in the cable, which was forwarded to the US State Department, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Homeland Security, and FBI, as well as directly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

“The West, Gulf countries, and Turkey support the opposition; while Russia, China, and Iran support the regime”, the document added.

 

The DIA could clearly see in 2012 that “there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in Eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime”.

Deir ez-Zor was later taken over by ISIS, just as the DIA predicted.

The Pentagon intelligence analysts similarly foresaw that, the Islamic State of Iraq, “ISI could also declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria”, which would attract “terrorist elements from all over the Arab world”, and pointed to the Iraqi city of Mosul as a potential location.

All of this is exactly what happened: ISI took over Mosul and expanded into Syria, forming ISIS (or ISIL), while committing genocide and mass murder.

 

This document makes it clear that US officials were fully aware from the start of their dirty war on Syria that their support for “rebels” would empower extremist groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

Israel supports Syrian rebels, including Al-Qaeda

Israel was providing support to Al-Qaeda-linked “rebels” in Syria as well. In 2019, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot publicly admitted that Israel had given weapons to Syrian rebels trying to overthrow the government of President Assad.

Israel even aided Al-Qaeda in Syria. The Times of Israel reported in 2015 that “Israel has opened its borders with Syria in order to provide medical treatment to Nusra Front and al-Qaida fighters wounded in the ongoing civil war”.

 

The Wall Street Journal quoted Israel’s former military intelligence chief, Amos Yadlin, who said that Shia Islamic-nationalist political forces like Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran “are the major threat to Israel, much more than the radical Sunni Islamists”. He added that Sunni extremists “understand who is their real enemy – maybe it isn’t Israel”.

A prominent Israeli think tank that does contract work for NATO published a paper in 2016 arguing that the West should not destroy ISIS, because it was a “useful tool” against Iran, Hezbollah, and the Syrian government. The think tank stressed, “The continuing existence of IS [Islamic State] serves a strategic purpose”.

While they committed genocide against Shia Muslims and other religious minorities, ISIS extremists publicly showed sympathy with Israel. In 2017, Israel’s former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon revealed that ISIS had “apologized” to Tel Aviv after accidentally attacking Israeli forces in the Golan Heights, which is sovereign Syrian territory that has been illegally occupied by Israel for decades, according to international law.

 

Syrian rebels say they “love Israel”

After rebranded Al-Qaeda took over Aleppo in late November 2024, several Syrian “opposition activists” spoke with the Israeli media.

Israel’s state media outlet Kan interviewed “rebels” from Aleppo and Idlib, who said, “We love Israel and we were never its enemies… [Israel] isn’t hostile to those who are not hostile toward it. We don’t hate you, we love you very much”.

According to the Time of Israel, the Syrian militants praised Israel for bombing Hezbollah in Lebanon. They credited Israel’s war on Lebanon for helping them take Aleppo.

A Syrian rebel commander told Israel’s Channel 12 that the militants sought to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad and to create a new government that has good relations with all countries in the region, “including with Israel”.

The Syrian rebel commander asked Israel to directly attack Syria, stating, “We call on the Israeli leadership to launch intensive attacks against the positions and troops of the Iran-backed militias in Syrian territory”.

Israel has already bombed Syria hundreds of times in the past decade, killing anti-colonialist fighters from the Axis of Resistance.

The United States has also repeatedly bombed Syria, including in November 2024.

 

A map of the Axis of Resistance in West Asia (the Middle East)

US tries to divide and conquer Axis of Resistance

Washington has sought to divide the Axis of Resistance, which consists of anti-colonialist political forces in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Palestine, including both state actors and armed groups like Hezbollah, Ansarallah (also known as the Houthis), and Hamas.

Syria has been an important part of this network, providing weapons to resistance groups fighting against US and Israeli military occupiers.

Reuters reported in December that the US government and its allies in the United Arab Emirates were pressuring Syria to cut off its close ties to Iran and to end weapons shipments to resistance groups like Hezbollah.

In return for fragmenting the Resistance Axis, Washington offered to lift the suffocating sanctions it has imposed on Syria.

The United States and European Union imposed devastating unilateral sanctions on Syria, in flagrant violation of international law, which have suffocated Syria’s economy.

The United Nations’ top expert, special rapporteur Alena Douhan, said Western sanctions on Syria are “outrageous” and are “suffocating” millions of civilians. She wrote that they “may amount to crimes against humanity”.