[Disarmo] Buone letture

[Jure Ellero LT <glry at ngi.it>]

Qualcuno mi ha segnalato un articolo da Il Fatto 
http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/04/07/siria-per-uscire-dal-conflitto-ce-ununica-via-istituire-una-commissione-dinchiesta-onu/3506050/#disqus_thread 
sulle ultime vicende il Siria. L'articolo è un po' reticente e ingenuo 
(?), e pure non aggiornato, visto che risale a tre gg. fa. Ma ugualmente 
alcune cose le dice, e soprattutto riporta alcuni links molto utili per 
schiarirsi le idee, qualora tali articoli fossero sfuggiti ai più, e i 
cui contenuti riportano nero su bianco fatti magari finora solo 
sospettati oppure odorati per 'sentito dire' tramite i post di qualche 
blogger frettoloso, volenteroso ma dilettante e di pochi mezzi. Insomma 
qui parlo di 'noi'. Notizie verificabili, poi d'urgenza mascherate da 
fake news dagli espertoni mediatici prezzolati professionisti della 
propaganda, stampa e radiofonia compresi (le rassegne stampa del mattino 
di radiotre RAI in questi ultimi tre giorni facevano vomitare).

Riporto qui un esemplare spezzone da uno degli articoli trovati grazie 
ai links suddetti, tratto da "The Red Line and the Rat Line :
Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels" ( articolo 
intero su 
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line 
).

Buona lettura.

Jure Ellero.


The full extent of US co-operation with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar 
in assisting the rebel opposition in Syria has yet to come to light. The 
Obama administration has never publicly admitted to its role in creating 
what the CIA calls a 'rat line', a back channel highway into Syria. The 
rat line, authorised in early 2012, was used to funnel weapons and 
ammunition from Libya via southern Turkey and across the Syrian border 
to the opposition. Many of those in Syria who ultimately received the 
weapons were jihadists, some of them affiliated with al-Qaida. (The DNI 
spokesperson said: 'The idea that the United States was providing 
weapons from Libya to anyone is false.')

In January, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the 
assault by a local militia in September 2012 on the American consulate 
and a nearby undercover CIA facility in Benghazi, which resulted in the 
death of the US ambassador, Christopher Stevens, and three others. The 
report's criticism of the State Department for not providing adequate 
security at the consulate, and of the intelligence community for not 
alerting the US military to the presence of a CIA outpost in the area, 
received front-page coverage and revived animosities in Washington, with 
Republicans accusing Obama and Hillary Clinton of a cover-up. A highly 
classified annex to the report, not made public, described a secret 
agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdoğan 
administrations. It pertained to the rat line. By the terms of the 
agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; 
the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from 
Gaddafi's arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up 
in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities. Retired American 
soldiers, who didn't always know who was really employing them, were 
hired to manage procurement and shipping. The operation was run by David 
Petraeus, the CIA director who would soon resign when it became known he 
was having an affair with his biographer. (A spokesperson for Petraeus 
denied the operation ever took place.)