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The Indian Foreign Minister's visit to Damascus and meeting with Syrian President Assad underscores India's support for Assad government in Syrian conflict. That the story of the Syrian conflict is clouded by
a fog of misperception is today almost a commonplace. The recent visit of a strong Indian delegation to Syria headed by the Indian Foreign Minister shows one other way in which this is true.
The way the Syrian conflict is
regularly represented in the West is of a Syrian government that has lost the support of the 'international community' save for its allies Russia, Iran and China.
This has never been true. The structure of the UN Security Council means that the US can normally rely on a majority there, and within the Arab world the Gulf Arab states led by the two Wahhabi monarchies
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been been able to rally the Arab League against Syria. However in the world as a whole the conflict is perceived very differently, not as some sort of Manichean struggle between good and evil, but rather as a geopolitical conflict and as part of a broader struggle against Jihadi terrorism.
The Indian government has been as
outspoken a supporter of the Syrian government as the Chinese and Russian governments have been. More so in some ways since like China but unlike Russia
India is not involved in the diplomacy of the Syrian conflict and does not therefore have to take even a theoretical position that President Assad's future should be eventually decided by the Syrian people.
Comment: It would be hard to imagine anyone being a 'focal point' in 15 terrorist plots since 2001 and just now coming under arrest. Would 16 plots be one too many?
Another source states Choudary's group and offshoots were responsible for half of all terrorist attacks in the UK and he was directly linked to: the RAF Lakenheath plot, to radicalizing Jihadi John's British successor Siddhartha Darr, the Anzac Day plot in Australia, the plot to behead a British soldier, the murder of drummer Lee Rigby at Woolwich in London, the Royal Wooten Basset plot, the London Stock Exchange Plot, and suicide bomber Omar Khan Sharif's 2003 attack in Tel Aviv. Choudary has also been indirectly linked to London's 7/7 bombings, the shoe bomber, the ricin plot, the fertilizer bomb plot, the dirty bomb plot, and the Transatlantic bomb plot.
The long, long delay in arresting Choudary gives rise to speculation of him being a UK tool within the framework of state-approved/sponsored/ignored terror attacks to further a covert agenda promoting and capitalizing on extremism.