Al-Qaeda Leader Strikes Deal With U.S., Saudis To Send 5,000 Fighters
to Syria
Yemeni Jihadist personally trained by Bin Laden
Yemeni Jihadist personally trained by Bin Laden
A militant who fought alongside Osama
Bin Laden in Afghanistan and is now the leader of a group affiliated
with Al-Qaeda in South Yemen has struck a deal with the United States
and Saudi Arabia to send 5,000 Al-Qaeda fighters into Syria according
to reports out of the Middle East.
Tariq al-Fadhli, jihadist leader of
the Southern Yemen insurgency and a man personally trained by Bin Laden,
has successfully negotiated with U.S. and Saudi officials to send 5,000
jihadist fighters via Turkey to aid Syrian rebels in the attempted overthrow
of President Bashar Al-Assad, reports
AlAlam. The report was also picked
up by AdenAlghad.net.
In a newspaper interview, al-Fadhli
revealed that he had agreed to transfer 5,000 militants from the southern
Yemen cities of Zanzibar and Jaar "to Syria in order to fight in
war being waged by armed groups, including the Al Qaeda-linked groups
against the Syrian regime."
The militants, who refer to themselves
as "supporters of Shariah," will join other bands of Al-Qaeda
fighters who have swarmed into Syria from Libya, Iraq and Turkey with
the aid of NATO powers and Gulf states. In
a July 30 report, the London Guardian admitted that Al-Qaeda fighters
were commanding Syrian rebels and teaching them how to build bombs.
The Council on Foreign Relations, America's
most influential foreign policy think tank and a close ally of the U.S.
State Department, recently
praised the presence of Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria, while the RAND
Corporation reported that the terrorist group had been responsible
for suicide attacks and car bombings that have caused more than 200
deaths and 1,000 injuries.
President Barack Obama recently
signed a secret order confirming that he would use taxpayer money
to support Syrian rebels with "non-lethal aid". However, the
New York Times admits that the CIA is helping steer heavy weaponry
to the rebels on the Turkish border paid for by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Indicating his willingness to begin
a new alliance with Saudi Arabia, which helped train him during his
mujahideen years, Sheikh Fadhli announced "a regional deal for
the transfer of al-Qaeda fighters from Yemeni territory to Turkey to
the Syrian front, which explains the sudden withdrawal of gunmen from
Abyan."
(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)
Yemeni authorities were only able to
restore order in Zanzibar and Jaar this past June after battles that
killed a number of Al-Qaeda fighters.
AlAlam describes al-Fadhli as "one
of the elders of the tribe of Abyan and former leader of al-Qaeda."
According
to the New York Times, Yemen has denounced al-Fadhli as "one
the country’s most dangerous terrorists."
However, as
observers have highlighted, the Yemeni government is suspected by
many to be cultivating jihadi activity by tolerating the presence of
Al-Qaeda within its borders.
The Nation's Jeremy
Scahil noted earlier this year that “Since the mujahideen
war against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s and continuing after
9/11, Saleh has famously milked the threat of Al Qaeda and other militants
to leverage counterterrorism funding and weapons from the United States
and Saudi Arabia, to bolster his power within the country and to neutralize
opponents.”
Al-Fadhli has attempted to distance
himself from claims that the group he spearheads is affiliated with
Al-Qaeda, in one You Tube video flying a U.S. flag over his compound
while playing the national anthem. However, al-Fadhli fought with the
Mujahideen alongside Osama Bin Laden against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
At the very least, he has been a useful servant of U.S. geopolitical
objectives for decades.
In 2009, leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula Nasir Abdul Kareem al-Wahayshi (a.k.a. Abu Basir) released
an audiotape expressing
vehement support for the South Yemen insurgency led by al-Fadhli.
Syrian jihad strategist Abu Musa’ab al-Suri also revealed in his
book that al-Fadhli was "chosen and trained by Bin Laden to practice
jihad in Yemen."
The agreement to send militants from
Yemen into Syria to aid the west's hegemonic agenda to topple President
Bashar Al-Assad again illustrates how Al-Qaeda is a geopolitical pawn
habitually called upon by the military-industrial complex to achieve
regime change in the Middle East and North Africa.
*********************
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor
and writer for Prison Planet.com.
He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in
host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
No comments:
Post a Comment