US policy think-tank
Brookings Institution confirms that contrary to propaganda, US-Saudi
“moderates” and Turkey-Qatar “Islamists” have been coordinating all
along.
The war in Syria continues to
drag on, with a recent and renewed vigor demonstrated behind an
opposition long portrayed as fractured and reflecting a myriad of
competing foreign interests. Chief among these competing interests, the
public has been told, were the US and Saudis on one side, backing
so-called “moderate rebels,” and Turkey and Qatar on the other openly
backing Al Qaeda and its various franchises including the Islamic State
(ISIS).
However, for those following the conflict closely, it was clear from
the beginning and by the West’s own admissions that success hinged on
covertly providing arms, cash, equipment, and both political and
military support to Al Qaeda and other sectarian extremists, not opposed
by Saudi Arabia, but rather by using Saudi Arabia as the primary medium
through which Western material support could be laundered.
And this fact is now confirmed in a recent article published on the Brookings Institution’s website titled, “Why Assad is losing.”
It states unequivocally that (emphasis added):
The involvement of FSA groups, in fact, reveals how
the factions’ backers have changed their tune regarding coordination
with Islamists. Several commanders involved in leading recent
Idlib