A Free Syrian Army fighter (Reuters/Yazan Homsy – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
N.nizah – CIA bermula mempersenjatai pemberontak Syria secara terang-terangan. Dalam 2 minggu yang lalu Amerika Syarikat telah dilaporkan mula menyampaikan senjata kepada militan melawan kerajaan Syria. Washington menjangka CIA memantau penyampaian agar bantuan itu tidak berakhir di tangan Al ‘Qaeda bersekutu.
Menurut laporan Washington Post, selepas beberapa bulan janji-janji untuk memberi bantuan kepada pemberontak Syria secara ‘Rasmi', Washington akhirnya dibenarkan penyampaian secara terbuka senjata dan peluru kuasa anti-Assad - walaupun kebimbangan bahawa beberapa senjata yang boleh berakhir di tangan fundamentalis Islam.
Sudah kembali pada bulan April Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat, John Kerry berjanji bahawa bantuan rasmi ‘nonlethal' akan mula mengalir “dalam masa beberapa minggu.”
Pada bulan Mei Jawatankuasa Senat Hubungan Luar telah meluluskan rang undang-undang yang akan membenarkan, jika ditandatangani, pentadbiran Obama untuk membekalkan senjata kepada pembangkang Syria. Walau bagaimanapun, pada hakikatnya ia mengambil masa beberapa bulan sebelum pentadbiran Obama membuat keputusan itu.
Halangan terbesar bagi Washington untuk membantu pemberontak Syria semakin sentiasa kehadiran Al ‘Qaeda membimbangkan di kalangan barisan pemberontak.
Akhirnya keputusan itu dibuat ketika Presiden Barack Obama sedang mempertimbangkan serangan peluru berpandu pada negeri Syria berdaulat mengejar tujuan untuk menewaskan Presiden Bashar Assad.
Setakat ini tidak ada sebarang komen rasmi daripada CIA.
Bantuan maut terutamanya disalurkan kepada pejuang bawahan kepada Ketua Salim Idriss, komander Majlis Tertinggi Tentera pasukan pemberontak yang berpaling tadah dari Tentera Syria tahun lepas.
Puak ini yang memisahkan kumpulan pembangkang bersenjata dianggap sebagai kejahatan yang lebih kecil jika dibandingkan dengan lain-lain unit militan jihad dengan pautan yang terbukti untuk diiktiraf di peringkat pertubuhan-pertubuhan pengganas antarabangsa seperti Al ‘Nusra Front, yang dikaitkan dengan cawangan Al ‘Qaeda Iraq.
CIA mengawal dan menjejaki penghantaran senjata ringan dilaporkan dan senjata lain melalui negara-negara yang bersempadan dengan Syria, seperti Turki dan Jordan.
Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat mempunyai program berasingan sendiri menyampaikan kenderaan dan gear yang lain tidak membawa maut seperti: Peralatan komunikasi, maju kit perubatan pertempuran dan paket makanan berkalori tinggi kepada kuasa-kuasa pembangkang Syria menggunakan saluran bekalan sama.
"Majlis Tertinggi Tentera menerima begitu sedikit sokongan bahawa mana-mana sokongan yang kami terima adalah yang menyenangkan," Khaled Saleh, jurucakap Gabungan pembangkang Syria, dilaporkan sebagai berkata.
2 tahun setengah pertumpahan darah yang berterusan di Syria tidak memberi kelebihan penting kepada kedua-dua belah konflik. Dalam keadaan bantuan Amerika ini boleh memberi pemberontak bersenjata Syria memaksa tangan yang atas ke atas tentera kerajaan di medan perang.
Selain itu, pegawai-pegawai Amerika Syarikat mengakui, bekalan senjata perlu bersorak sehingga tentera pemberontak yang telah mengalami kerugian besar sejak kebelakangan ini.
“Mereka melihat kepimpinan mereka yang mempunyai sedikit kesan,” kata Washington Post penasihat kanan Jabatan Negara mengenai bantuan ke Syria Mark S. Ward, bertanggungjawab bagi penyelarasan penghantaran bantuan ‘nonlethal’ kepada pemberontak Syria dari Turki.
CIA starts arming Syrian rebels overtly
In the past two weeks the US has reportedly begun delivering arms to militants fighting the Syrian government. Washington expects the CIA to monitor the delivery so that the aid does not end up in the hands of Al-Qaeda associates.
According to the Washington Post report, after months of promises to provide aid to Syrian rebels in an ‘official’ manner, Washington has finally sanctioned open delivery of arms and munitions to anti-Assad forces - despite fears that some of the weapons could end up in the hands of Islamic fundamentalists.
Already back in April the US Secretary of State John Kerry promised that official ‘nonlethal’ aid would start flowing “in a matter of weeks.”
In May the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations had passed a bill that would allow, if signed, the Obama administration to supply arms to Syrian opposition. However, in reality it took months before the Obama administration made up its mind.
The biggest hindrance for Washington to aid Syrian rebels has always been the ever growing presence of Al-Qaeda jihadists among rebel ranks.
In the end the decision was made at a time when President Barack Obama was considering missile strikes on sovereign Syrian state pursuing the aim of ousting President Bashar Assad.
So far there has been no official comment from the CIA.
The lethal aid is primarily being channeled to fighters subordinate to General Salim Idriss, the commander of the Supreme Military Council of the rebel forces who defected from the Syrian Army last year.
This faction of dissociated armed opposition groups is considered to be smaller evil if compared to other jihadist militant units with proven links to internationally recognized terrorist organizations, such as Al-Nusra Front, which is associated with the Iraqi branch of Al-Qaeda.
The CIA controls and tracks the delivery of reportedly light weapons and other munitions via countries bordering Syria, such as Turkey and Jordan. The US State Department has its own separate program of delivering vehicles and other non-lethal gear, such as communication equipment, advanced combat medical kits and high-calorie food packets to the Syrian opposition forces using the same supply channels.
“The Supreme Military Council is receiving so little support that any support we receive is a relief,” Khaled Saleh, a spokesman for the Syrian Opposition Coalition, is reported as saying.
Two-and-a-half years of ongoing bloodshed in Syria has not given a decisive advantage to either side of the conflict. In this situation American aid could give the Syrian armed rebel forces an upper hand over the government troops on the battlefield. Also, the US officials admit, the weapons supply should cheer up the rebel troops that have been suffering massive losses lately.
“They see their leadership is having some impact,” told the Washington Post the State Department’s senior adviser on assistance to Syria Mark S. Ward, responsible for coordination of nonlethal aid delivery to the Syrian rebels from Turkey.
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'Plea for Caution': Putin warns against diminishing intl law role. It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts has become commonplace for the US, President Vladimir Putin said in an editorial for The New York Times. Putin however has welcomed Barack Obama's decision to develop a compromise on Syria
Campur tangan Amerika Syarikat dalam konflik dalaman ‘membimbangkan’ - Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin (RIA Novosti/Mikhail Klimentyev – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
N.nizah – Campur tangan Amerika Syarikat dalam konflik dalaman ‘membimbangkan’ - Putin. Ia adalah membimbangkan bahawa campur tangan tentera dalam konflik dalaman telah menjadi perkara biasa untuk Amerika Syarikat, Presiden Vladimir Putin berkata dalam editorial untuk New York Times. Putin bagaimanapun telah menyambut baik keputusan Barack Obama untuk membangunkan kompromi di Syria.
Dalam sekeping yang panjang berjudul Rayuan untuk Awas dari Rusia, Presiden mengingatkan bahawa PBB telah diwujudkan sebagai alat universal untuk mencegah peperangan yang dahsyat.
“Tiada siapa yang mahu Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu untuk mengalami nasib Liga Bangsa-bangsa, yang runtuh kerana ia tidak mempunyai memanfaatkan sebenar,” Putin menulis. “Ini tidak mustahil jika negara-negara berpengaruh memintas Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu dan mengambil tindakan ketenteraan tanpa kebenaran Majlis Keselamatan.”
Putin berkata bahawa walaupun tidak ada keraguan bahawa gas beracun sememangnya digunakan di Syria, ada “sebab untuk mempercayai ia tidak digunakan oleh Tentera Syria, tetapi oleh pihak pembangkang, untuk mencetuskan campur tangan oleh mereka pelanggan asing yang kuat.”
“Laporan bahawa militan bersedia serangan lain - kali ini terhadap Israel - tidak boleh diabaikan,” katanya.
Potensi serangan oleh Amerika Syarikat terhadap Syria, walaupun pembangkang yang kuat dari banyak negara dan pemimpin utama politik dan agama, termasuk paus, akan menyebabkan mangsa yang tidak berdosa dan peningkatan, berpotensi menyebarkan konflik jauh di luar sempadan Syria. Serangan akan meningkatkan keganasan dan melepaskan gelombang baru keganasan.
US interventions in internal conflicts ‘alarming’ – Putin
It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts has become commonplace for the US, President Vladimir Putin said in an editorial for The New York Times. Putin however has welcomed Barack Obama’s decision to develop a compromise on Syria.
In a lengthy piece titled A Plea for Caution from Russia, the President reminded that the United Nations was created as a universal instrument of preventing devastating wars.
“No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage,” Putin wrote. “This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.”
Putin said that while no one doubts that poison gas was indeed used in Syria, there is “every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons.”
“Reports that militants are preparing another attack - this time against Israel - cannot be ignored,” he added.
The potential strike by the United States against Syria, despite strong opposition from many countries and major political and religious leaders, including the pope, will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond Syria’s borders. A strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism.
Penunggang motosikal mereka yang lalu konvoi PBB semasa kembali dari salah satu laman serangan senjata kimia yang dikatakan, di Damsyik (People ride their motorcycle past the U.N. convoy during its return from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack, in Damascus (Reuters/Mohamed Abdullah think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Dari awal-awal krisis, Rusia telah menganjurkan penyelesaian politik mengikut undang-undang antarabangsa.
“Kami tidak melindungi kerajaan Syria, tetapi undang-undang antarabangsa,” kata beliau.
“Ia adalah membimbangkan bahawa campur tangan tentera dalam konflik dalaman di negara-negara asing telah menjadi perkara biasa untuk Amerika Syarikat,” katanya.
DUNIA yang semakin melihat Amerika tidak sebagai “model demokrasi tetapi bergantung semata-mata kepada kekerasan, cobbling pakatan bersama-sama di bawah slogan” anda sama ada dengan kami atau menentang kami, “kata Presiden yang dinyatakan.
Sebaliknya, kompromi politik yang berjaya di Syria akan “membuka pintu untuk kerjasama dalam isu-isu kritikal yang lain” di antara Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat.
Walau bagaimanapun, setelah dikaji alamat Obama ke negara Amerika pada Selasa (Obama’s address to the American nation on Tuesday), Putin tidak bersetuju dengan “kes beliau yang dibuat pada exceptionalism Amerika.”
“Ia adalah amat berbahaya untuk menggalakkan orang ramai untuk melihat diri mereka sebagai luar biasa, apa sahaja motivasi. Terdapat negara-negara besar dan negara-negara kecil, kaya dan miskin, orang-orang dengan tradisi demokrasi yang panjang dan mereka yang masih mencari jalan mereka kepada demokrasi. Dasar-dasar mereka berbeza, juga.”
“Kita semua berbeza, tetapi apabila kita meminta rahmat Tuhan, kita tidak harus lupa bahawa Tuhan mencipta kita sama,” kata Putin dalam kesimpulan di New York Times editorial beliau (New York Times editorial).
From the very beginning of the crisis, Russia has advocated a political solution according to international law.
“We are not protecting the Syrian government, but international law,” he said.
“It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States,” he said.
“It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States,” he said.
The world increasingly sees America not as “a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan “you’re either with us or against us,” the President stated.
On the other hand, a successful political compromise on Syria would “open the door to cooperation on other critical issues” between Russia and the US.
However, having studied Obama’s address to the American nation on Tuesday, Putin disagreed with a“case he made on American exceptionalism.”
“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too.”
“We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal,” Putin said in conclusion of his New York Times editorial.
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