Puppet Masters
Who is Monajed? His background makes it clear that not only are these death-counts completely unverified, and not only do they come from the opposition itself, as columnist Phil Giraldi has noted, but that they probably originate from British Intelligence.
As was the case with the Libyan terrorists, LIFG, operating from Britain against the Qaddafi regime, Britain controls the Syrian, Ausama Monajed, head of the London-based Strategic Resource and Communications Center. Monajed, who provides the information to the western media about the "mayhem" committed by the Bashar al-Assad regime, wears many hats and is well-protected by British intelligence. He is a founder-member of the Syrian National Council, the group that is urging the Arab League to remove al-Assad, and Monajed is also a member of the London-based Syrian Observatory Committee for Human Rights.
Monajed, according to one report, works with other people based in France, Lebanon, and Qatar. It is evident that Qatar, which has become a cat's paw for Riyadh and London, and has now just adopted Wahhabism as its national religion, is a major source of financing for Monajed's operations.
Monajed is also trotted around in international forums. He was invited to the British intelligence-run Chatham House to speak in a panel on Envisioning Syria's Future. He is a darling of the U.S.-based Project Democracy, and has spoken at USIP (U.S. Institute of Peace, a Washington quango) seminars on Syria.
An economist by training, Monajed worked for the United Nations Development Programme and then the European Commission on development programs inside Syria. He quit the Syrian government job in 2005 and moved to Britain that year to be under the umbrella of MI6 and Tony Blair in working against al-Assad.
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Debka spells out the Qatar germinated intervention force, and this is getting really confusing...
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Qatar builds Sunni intervention force of Libyan, Iraqi terrorists against Assad
The Qatar oil emirate, encouraged by its successful participation in the campaign to overthrow Libya's Muammar Qaddafi, has established a Sunni Arab intervention force to expedite the drive for Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster, debkafile's military sources report. The new highly mobile force boosts the anti-Assad Free Syrian Army, whose numbers have jumped to 20,000 fighters, armed and funded by Qatar and now forming into military battalions and brigades at their bases in Turkey.
When they saw the Syrian massacre continuing unabated this month, the Qatari and Saudi rulers approved a crash program [...]
debkafile's military and counter-terror analysts stress that the rise of a new Qatari-led Sunni Muslim rapid intervention force breaks fresh strategic ground with ramifications for the United and Israel as well as for the Gulf Arab countries, Syria, Libya and Iraq.
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2. The new Sunni force, funded by the Persian Gulf oil states, is silently backed by the US and NATO members, with Turkey in the forefront of this support group. This means that the Sunni-Shiite divide is spiraling into overt conflict with Western support afforded to one side.
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5. Israel too must find cause for concern in the rise of a Sunni military intervention force capable of moving at high speed from one arena to another and made up almost entirely of Islamist terrorists. At some time, Qatar might decide to move this force to the Gaza Strip to fight Israel.
Wasn't this done for Iraq with another such operative here in the States?
Isn't this 'friend' of the CIA et al a member of govt over there?
Nice to see the Brits haven't lost their touch and still desire to keep a hand in the game, but then isn't that what 'friends' are for?