History repeats
In late 2003, the year of the Iraq invasion, Matthew Jones, a Reader in International History at London's Royal Holloway College,
discovered "frighteningly frank" documents: 1957 plans between then UK Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, and then US President, Dwight Eisenhower, endorsing "a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion (of Syria) by Syria's pro-western neighbours."
At the heart of the plan was the assassination of the perceived power behind then President Shukri al-Quwatli. Those targeted were Abd al-Hamid Sarraj, Head of Military Intelligence; Afif al-Bizri, Chief of Syrian General Staff, and Khalid Bakdash, who headed the Syrian Communist Party.
The document was drawn up in Washington in the September of 1957:
"In order to facilitate the action of liberative (sic) forces, reduce the capabilities of the regime to organize and direct its military actions ... to bring about the desired results in the shortest possible time, a special effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals.
"Their removal should be accomplished early in the course of the uprising and intervention, and in the light of circumstances existing at the time."
"Once a political decision has been reached to proceed with internal disturbances in Syria, CIA is prepared, and SIS (MI6) will attempt to mount minor sabotage and coup de main (sic) incidents within Syria, working through contacts with individuals.
"Incidents should not be concentrated in Damascus ... care should be taken to avoid causing key leaders of the Syrian regime to take additional personal protection measures."
Furthermore, a
"necessary degree of fear .. frontier incidents and (staged) border clashes", would
"provide a pretext for intervention", by Iraq and Jordan - then still under British mandate.
Syria was to be "made to appear as sponsor of plots, sabotage and violence directed against neighbouring governments ...
the CIA and SIS [Her Majesty's Secret International Service, MI6]
should use ... capabilities in both psychological and action fields to augment tension."
Incursions in to Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon would involve "sabotage, national conspiracies and various strong arms activities". These were, advised the document, to be blamed on Damascus.
So there you have it folks: the same tired old 'blunt instrument' tactics have been pulled out once more. How many more times are we going to buy the outrageous BS that is being repeatedly serving up to us? If it's left to Western governments and Western media moguls, they'll keep on bullshitting us till the day we die, because clearly they are convinced that citizens of Western nations are utter imbeciles with the collective thinking capacity of a turnip.