Fabricating WMD
“Evidence”: Israeli Covert Operation inside Syria to “Track Chemical
Arsenal”
Julie Lévesque
Israel is conducting a covert cross-border operation directed against
Syria in liaison with NATO and the Pentagon.
After looking for a “smoking gun” in Iran earlier this year,
Israeli special forces are now “tracking” Syria’s “stocks of chemical and
biological weapons”, according to The Sunday Times.
“The cross-border
operation is part of a secret war to trail Syria’s non-conventional armaments
and sabotage their development. ‘For years we’ve known the exact location of
Syria’s chemical and biological munitions,’ an Israeli source said, referring
to the country’s spy satellites and drones. ‘But in the past week we’ve got
signs that munitions have been moved to new locations.’” (Uzi Mahnaimi and Lucy
Fisher Israel tracks Syria’s chemical arsenal, The Sunday Times 9 December
2012.)
Everyone recalls the
WMD hype prior to launching the war on Iraq. It turned out that the Iraqi WMD
threat was an outright fabrication.
Those involved in
the Iraq WMD propaganda ploy are now applying their skills with a view to
fabricating a WMD pretext to intervene in Syria. According to a report
from the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, “Israelis
‘misread’ the Iraqi threat”. In 2003, the BBC wrote on the report’s findings:
Israeli intelligence
miscalculated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein […] This contributed to the
“false” picture painted by US and British services […]
“Israeli
intelligence was a full partner with the US and Britain in developing a false
picture of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction capability,” said the
author of the report, retired Brigadier General Shlomo Brom.
“It badly
overestimated the Iraqi threat to Israel and reinforced the American and
British belief that the weapons existed.”
“From now on, when
we present serious data on other countries, like Iran for example, who will
treat us seriously?” Israel Radio quoted Israeli left-wing parliamentarian
Yossi Sarid as saying. (Israelis ‘misread’ Iraqi threat, BBC,December 5, 2003)
In late March 2012 The
Sunday Times reported that “Israel is using a permanent base in Iraqi
Kurdistan to launch cross-border intelligence missions in an attempt to find
‘smoking gun’ evidence that Iran is building a nuclear warhead.” (Israeli spies
scour Iran in nuclear hunt, The Sunday Times,March 25, 2012)
There is no evidence
that Iran has nuclear weapons, even US intelligence agencies agree on that.
Global Research ran a story on the Israeli covert op, potentially fabricating
WMD evidence in relation to Iran. What is now unfolding in relation to
Syria’s alleged WMD is a rerun of previous attempts to funnel fabricated
evidence into the news chain:
Western sources told
the Times Israel was monitoring “radioactivity and magnitude of
explosives tests” and that “special forces used Black Hawk helicopters to carry
commandos disguised as members of the Iranian military and using Iranian
military vehicles”. The sources believe “Iranians are trying to hide evidence
of warhead tests in preparation for a possible IAEA visit”. (Cited in Report:
Israeli soldiers scour Iran for nukes, Ynet, March 25, 2012)
The number of
Israeli intelligence missions focussing on the Parchin military base in
Iran has increased in the past few months, according to the article.
During that period, Tehran has been negotiating with the IAEA which had
requested to visit Parchin. According to Iran’s permanent representative to the
IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, both parties had agreed in early February that the
visit would take place in March. (Gareth Porter, Details of Talks with
IAEA Belie Charge Iran Refused Cooperation, IPS,March 21, 2012)
The
IAEA requested to visit Parchin in late January and late February, after
having agreed to a visit in March. The IAEA thus requested to visit the
military complex exactly at the same time Israel was intensifying its secret
operations to allegedly search for a “smoking gun”. (Julie Lévesque, Fabricating
a “Smoking Gun” to Attack Iran? Israeli Spies Disguised as Iranian Soldiers on
Mission Inside Iran Global Research,March 27, 2012)
Israel’s covert
operation in Syria is part of a longstanding intelligence agenda directed
against the Damascus government. According to intelNews:
[…]Israel’s covert
activities against the Syrian government’s chemical and biological arsenal go
back almost 30 years. Reputedly, some of the more recent such activities may
have involved the targeting of Russian scientists.
Although Russia
routinely denies it, it is believed that Syria’s non-conventional arsenal was
significantly augmented in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the help of
Russian retired general Anatoliy Kuntsevich [...]
Interestingly,
Kuntsevich died suddenly in 2003 onboard a flight from the Syrian capital to
Moscow. It was widely speculated at the time that the Mossad, Israel’s
covert-action agency, may have played a role in the Russian general’s sudden
death. In 2010, another retired Russian general, Yuri Ivanov, who had served as
Deputy Director of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, died in
unclear circumstances […]
According to
reports in the Israeli press, the former GRU official was on his way to a
meeting with Syrian intelligence officers when he went missing. Israel has
never acknowledged having played a part in Ivanon’s death, but many suspect
that Tel Aviv had been targeting the two Russians for quite some time. (Joseph
Fitsanakis Israel special forces conducting cross-border operations in Syria,
intelNews.org, December 10, 2012.)
This interpretation
of events is plausible since targeted assassinations of foreign scientists by
Israeli secret services have been acknowledged in the past:
The reduction [of
Israel’s covert operations in Iran] runs across a wide spectrum of operations,
cutting back not only alleged high-profile missions such as
assassinations and detonations at Iranian missile bases, but also
efforts to gather firsthand on-the-ground intelligence and recruit spies
inside the Iranian program, according to the officials. (Karl Vick, Mossad
Cutting Back on Covert Operations Inside Iran, Officials Say, TIME, March 30,
2012, quoted in Julie Lévesque, “Running Short of New Targets: Israel’s Secret
Service is “Cutting Back on Assassinations” in Iran, Global Research, April 17,
2012.)
While Israel’s
secret operation in Syria could conceivably also target Russian scientists, it
should be understood that its ultimate objective is to reinforce the intense
propaganda campaign pertaining to Syria’s chemical arsenal. This leak in The
Sunday Times could be part of the ongoing psychological operation against
Syria, with a view to building a pretext for waging a preemptive war on Syria.
Since the beginning
of the armed insurrection in March 2011, the US and its allies alongside
the Western mainstream media have been blaming the Syrian government for
committing atrocities directed against civilians, including the Houla massacre.
According to independent media reports as well as the testimony of witnesses on
the ground, these atrocities were committed by the US-NATO
sponsored opposition forces.
The Syrian
government has been demonized to such an extent by the mainstream media that if
an attack were to occur, public opinion could easily be led to believe, without
evidence, that the Syrian government is responsible for crimes against its own
people.
This is a perfect
context for a false flag operation or intensive propaganda involving chemical
weapons. These allegations based on fake WMD evidence directed against the
Syrian government could be used once again to pressure the UN Security Council
to give NATO a “legal mandate” to intervene in Syria under the “responsibility
to protect” doctrine.
CNN recently reported that
the US and “some European allies are using defense contractors to train Syrian
rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria.” The Syrian
government expressed its concerns in a letter to the UN:
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