© YouTubeCIA stooge Graham Fuller.
When the United States and Saudi Arabia decided to curb Iranian influence in the Middle East by embarking on a strategy that involved bolstering Sunni extremist forces,
Prince Bandar bin Sultan and other Saudi officials told Washington not to worry about religious fundamentalists. Their message was plain and simple:
We've created this movement, and we can control it. It's not that we don't want the Salafis to throw bombs; it's who they throw them at—Hezbollah, Moqtada al-Sadr, Iran, and at the Syrians, if they continue to work with Hezbollah and Iran.[1]
At that time, the Bush administration began forging closer ties with the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood "to keep up the pressure" on the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.[2]
Four years later, the U.S. and its allies tried to capitalize on growing public discontent in Syria by launching an Operation Cyclone-style war against the Assad government.
Western media played a decisive role in enabling the covert operations which inevitably led to an escalation of violence.[3]
While Western and Gulf media were trying to perpetuate the myth of the "moderate rebels,"
U.S. intelligence knew full well that "the Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI [al-Qaeda in Iraq] are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria." The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) predicted early on that the insurgents "will try to use the Iraqi territory as a safe haven" and pointed out that "there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist Principality in eastern Syria." According to the DIA, "
this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime."[4]
Comment: They could add 100 more rapid response teams but, if the West doesn't stop funding terrorists and creating failed states, it's pointless. Also see: The West is leveraging the Paris attacks to force regime change in Syria