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Jihadi democrats ready for their close-up

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THE ROVING EYE Jihadi democrats ready for their close-up By Pepe Escobar Feb 29, 2012 Such a pity that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn't make the 2012 Oscars. La Clinton would stand a good chance of upstaging even tweet-exploding Angelina Jolie's right leg - that force of nature now all over the net, landing on the moon and even invading Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. [1] The Empress of Libya ("We came, we saw, he died") did try hard, including a photo op for the BBC, where she finally admitted that the US is fighting side by side with al-Qaeda to unleash regime change in Syria. [2] Well, old Cold War fox and former Russian prime minister (under vodka junkie Boris Yeltsin) Yevgeny Primakov actually beat her to the punch on Russia's Rossiya channel - adding that no one could seriously believe that regime change in Syria could lead to democracy. Yet when Clinton mentions "a very dangerous set of actors in the region" who "are on our terrorist list" she is just, once again, plugging the notoriously profitable Pentagon/Central Intelligence Agency /State Department franchise of Resident Evil - whose instalments, among others, include mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s, mujahideen in Bosnia in the 1990s and, recently, Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) stalwarts. Global war on terror (GWOT)? This is sooo George W Bush Dumb and Dumber era. As certified blockbusters go, The Invasion of the Regime Change al-Qaeda Democrats is the real deal. The Muppet show The Empress of Libya sometimes displays a Meg Ryan-esque inability of staying close to the script. In her BBC promo, she insisted on the official narrative; the "people of Syria" are under "relentless attack" from "government forces". At the same time she incites "security forces" to go for regime change. So what's the story; the killers suddenly become democrats? Why not? That's a classic Hollywood plot twist. Meanwhile, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland could give Octavia Spencer a run for her money as best supporting actress. Nuland - married to uber-neocon Robert Kagan - blasted Syria's referendum on the grounds that this "ridiculous proposal" put forward by Bashar al-Assad coincided with "the guns and the tanks and the artillery ... still firing into Homs and Hama and cities all over the country". Nuland seems to have conveniently forgotten that that's exactly what the US had been doing when promoting "free" elections in both Iraq and Afghanistan - with the helpful addition of electoral forces such as killer drones, F-16s, Apache helicopters and compliant corporate media shills reciting the Pentagon script. Both State Department actresses also conveniently forgot that if you're an unemployed sniper in the West or in the Arab world, the place to go - apart from Hollywood - is Syria. Many of the snipers who have been killing civilians in Syria belong to the Friends of Hillary coalition. They are working for the NATOGCC compound - the American, partly European and partly Arab coalition that financed, trained and weaponized a shadow army inside Libya and now Syria. Syria has nothing to do with a unilateral state-sponsored massacre; it's an internal war between a government and a shadow army - with civilians caught in the crossfire. La Clinton herself has been forced to admit "a very strong opposition to foreign intervention from inside Syria, from outside Syria"; that implies that most Syrians, not only minorities but even secular Sunnis, know al-Qaeda-style jihadists and/or fanatical Salafis are heavily infiltrated. They also know the Syrian National Council (SNC) is a Muslim Brotherhood and/or Washington puppet. What the Empress of Libya also conveniently leaves aside is how the "opposition", split between SNC opportunists and their rivals, the National Coordination Body (NCB), are virtual nullities inside Syria. The resistance against the undoubtedly police state Assad regime is mostly coordinated by local committees. Sunset Boulevard, revisited On with the show. Expect the Salafi-jihadist fest in Syria to soon rival Vanity Fair's after-Oscars party. After all, that's the official strategy of those paragons of democracy, Gulf Cooperation Council stalwarts Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The House of Saud's Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said that arming the rebels is "a very good idea". Same for Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani. The GCC loves the smell of a napalmed Arab secular republic in the morning. Feels like ... victory. What's actually happening, as Asia Times Online has reported, is that both Qatar and the House of Saud have been weaponizing the Free Syrian Army (FSA) for months now, while Washington sticks with the "lead from behind" plot twist. Now try arguing that arming Shi'ites in Saudi Arabia's eastern province, or the pro-democracy protesters in Bahrain is also a "very good idea". You'll be visited by a Hellfire missile - or hit by a sniper - in less time than it took Angelina to show off her leg. Anyway, as a Hollywood plot, what a better sequel to the Resident Evil franchise than this: Sunni Persian Gulf monarchies weaponize al-Qaeda-style freaks to promote democracy and human rights in Syria. This is even bigger than Angie's right leg. Forget this is not Hollywood, it's real life. And forget Norma Desmond; now it's al-Qaeda's CEO Ayman Al-Zawahiri who is ready for his close up. He used to be big, but now that the pictures became small, he's bound to be even bigger. Angie's right leg better watch out. Notes: 1. See here 2. See here. Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His new book, just out, is Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009). He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com (Copyright 2012 Asia Times Online (Holdings) Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact us about sales, syndication and republishing.) --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

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