NATO - Syria: Secret Meeting Approving Operation

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> Interview: NATO Holds Secret Meeting Approving Syrian Operation
>
>
> http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_09_05/NATO-holds-secret-meeting-approving-
> Syrian-operation-interview/
>
>  Voice of Russia
>  September 5, 2012
>
>  NATO holds secret meeting approving Syrian operation - interview
>  John Robles
>  Recorded on September 3, 2012
>             
>
>  Audio at URL above
>
>  Rick Rozoff spoke to the Voice of Russia's John Robles regarding the  
> recent "quiet" of NATO, and among the topics he touched upon was a 
> secret meeting by NATO which apparently approved military operations 
> against Syria. Mr. Rozoff says that NATO and its Western allies are 
> attempting to isolate Russia and China politically using Syria as a 
> pretext.
>
>  NATO has decided to stop training Afghan soldiers. Can you tell our  
> listeners a little bit about what you know about that? That seems to  be
> the latest development. They´ve been very quiet lately, which  worries
> me.
>
>  It worries us both, John. Yes, in fact NATO has suspended, I suppose,  
> what´s called the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan to develop, I 
> guess, a more comprehensive and reliable system of, to use their own 
> word, "vetting" potential recruits for the Afghan National Army and 
> this is after, as your listeners know, an unprecedented series of 
> so-called "green on blue" attacks by Afghan military personnel against 
> U.S. and other NATO forces in the country. Simultaneously the United 
> States´ armed forces in Afghanistan have announced that they are going 
> to suspend if not terminate the training of Afghan police personnel,  so
> it signals the West falling deeper and deeper into an intractable 
> quagmire in South Asia.
>
>  Would you characterize this as part of an overall failure of U.S.  
> policy and NATO policy in Afghanistan?
>
>  Yes, it´s a demonstrable, it's a signal indication of a catastrophic  
> failure in Afghanistan of course. On October 7th, which is to say next 
> month, the U.S. and NATO will be in Afghanistan for their 11th year  and
> it´s certainly not produced any successful results. It´s led to  the
> dislocation, impoverishment and in many instances killing of  Afghan
> civilians without any measureable achievements even according  to what
> the West itself claimed it intended to do in Afghanistan when  it first
> sent troops there on October 7th 2001. However, I should  mention, we
> are talking about a quiet NATO and for the most part they  have been,
> arguably since the summit here in Chicago in May, but  certainly over
> the last month or so, nevertheless, NATO is about to  launch fairly
> large-scale air exercises, a series of air exercises in  Czech Republic,
> something called Ramstein Rover 2012, which will  include the
> participation of 12 [actually 16] nations, presumably both  NATO
>  full member states and partners, and this is a test of what are  
> called Forward Air Controllers by NATO, by the United States Joint 
> Terminal Air Controllers. These are the people who call in air support 
> including attacks in Afghanistan. So, the fact that such a large-scale 
> air exercise clearly targeted either towards Afghanistan specifically, 
> John, or with applicability for an Afghan-style operation elsewhere in 
> the world afterwards, suggests that the US and NATO plans for 
> Afghanistan have certainly not ceased and contrary to pledges that  both
> the U.S. and NATO will draw down or withdraw troops from  Afghanistan in
> two years it certainly suggests that they are planning  ongoing military
> operations.
>
>  On Saturday September 1st an article was published on the Internet.  
> They say that NATO has secretly authorized an attack on Syria. Do you 
> know anything about that?
>
>  Yes, I do. It´s by Gordon Duff who is a former US intelligence  
> [military] official. It´s actually quite a valuable work. In the  
> article he talks about a meeting of NATO´s Military Committee in  
> recent days where they had two topics on their agenda, one was  
> Greenland, which he passes over quickly as that's not of primary  
> importance, but the second was on Syria. And what Duff indicates in  his
> article rather convincingly, I'm persuaded, is that NATO is  elaborating
> plans for military action in, and against, Syria. I think  it´s
> noteworthy that the meeting of the Military Committee that the  author
> refers to is nowhere addressed on the NATO websites, including  on the
> main NATO homepage. I don´t know how Duff gained access to that 
> information, but certainly it suggests that NATO is keeping a low 
> profile so as not to divulge what its plans may be.
>
>  I´ve seen some reports say that NATO is actually targeting Bashar  
> Assad and the Ayatollah of Iran for regime change. Do you know  
> anything about that?
>
>  You know, it´s nothing that we're going to see NATO openly  
> acknowledge but it´s common wisdom at this point, or conventional 
> wisdom that, to use the expression that's current, the road to Teheran 
> runs through Damascus, which is to say that the proxy war by NATO 
> forces and their allies amongst the Arab Gulf sheikdoms in the Persian 
> Gulf is, say, a warm-up exercise, if you will for a comparable  campaign
> against Iran. In that sense, if you want to draw a historical  parallel,
> it´s much like the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s where  forces on both
> sides of the political divide in Europe and in the  world gave support
> either to the Spanish Republic, that is to the  elected government, or
> to the military insurgents of Generalismo  Franco. To update that
> parallel, just as Mexico and the Soviet Union  had sent military and
> other aid to the Spanish Republic, so Hitler and  Mussolini supplied
> troops and warplanes against the government. And  something comparable
> is
>  occurring in Syria now where the United States and NATO allies, and  
> there was a recent story in the British press that at least 200  
> special forces troops from Britain and France, leading NATO members of 
> course, are active on the ground, and your listeners I'm sure have 
> heard or read comparable reports. So that what you have is a proxy war 
> by the NATO forces and their sheikdom allies in the Persian Gulf not 
> only directly against Syria but by proxy against Iran which, as you 
> indicated in your comments, is the ultimate target. Though as we've  had
> occassion to discuss before on your show, John, the other two  targets
> of the campaign against Syria are of course Russia and China,  you know
> diplomatically at this point. But one wonders if the Russian  North
> Caucasus or China´s Xinjiang province could not be made into the  next
> Syria at some point in the future.
>
>  What is NATO´s position on intervention by Russia and China in Syria  
> and Iran?
>
>  There is no question about military intervention by Russia and China  
> at this point but if you are talking about Russia and China´s defense 
> of international law in the cases of both Syria and Iran, the position 
> of NATO, which has not been formulated as a collective position by the 
> alliance, but certainly listening to the statements by the foreign 
> ministers and the heads of states of the major NATO powers, the United 
> States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and others, it´s patently 
> obvious that Russia and China are being criticized and in fact are 
> being excoriated for having the alleged temerity to defend the 
> territorial integrity and national sovereignty of other members of the 
> United Nations such as Syria and Iran. So, the NATO members acting in 
> collusion if not completely collectively under the banner of NATO are 
> criticizing, and more than criticizing, attempting to politically, and 
> diplomatically isolate Russia and China using Syria as a pretext.
>
>  That was PART I of the interview with Mr. Rick Rozoff, the manager of  
> the Stop NATO website and mailing list.
> 
>


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