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Thu May 31 04:51:47 MDT 2012

I almost met Prince Bandar.  Well, not really.  I was in charge of taking
room meal orders at at Hilton Boutique hotel on the Boston shore of Long
Island Sound.  He would phone in his own lunch orders.  I would take them.
 He calm voice with slight  lisp.  Wonder if he still does.  His family has
had ties to the Bush family going back generations.   One of his Saudi
cousins just a year ago was given the management of the al-Jazeera world
news station in order to skew the news from it the way the US/Israel want
it to be told.  Many old al-Jazeera operatives quit in protest. It is an
extremely US dependant royal family numbering now in thousands of members.
 In this Chossudovsky piece you will read other proofs of the US planning
behind the massacre in Houla.   Those US citizens who give up their
citizenships and those who become permanent expats will be most carefully
scrutinised.  Punished for their choices too.  Especially if they cannot be
forced to return to the US. These will increase.   Suzanne

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"THE SALVADOR OPTION FOR SYRIA": US-NATO Sponsored Death Squads Integrate
"Opposition Forces"

By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, May 28, 2012

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31096

[photo: US ambassador to Syria, Robert Stephen Ford]

Modelled on US covert ops in Central America, the Pentagon's "Salvador
Option for Iraq" initiated in 2004 was carried out under the helm of the US
Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte (2004-2005) together with Robert Stephen
Ford, who was appointed US Ambassador to Syria in January 2011, less than
two months before the beginning of the armed insurgency directed against
the government of Bashar Al Assad.

"The Salvador Option" is a "terrorist model" of mass killings by US
sponsored death squads. It was first applied in El Salvador, in the heyday
of resistance against the military dictatorship, resulting in an estimated
75,000 deaths.

US–sponsored death squads carrying
out their brutal work in El Salvador

John Negroponte had served as US ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985.
As Ambassador in Tegucigalpa, he played a key role in supporting and
supervising the Nicaraguan Contra mercenaries who were based in Honduras.
The cross border Contra attacks into Nicaragua claimed some 50,000 civilian
lives.

In 2004, after serving as Director of National Intelligence in the Bush
administration, John Negroponte was appointed US Ambassador to Iraq, with a
very specific mandate: the setting up of "Salvador Option" for Iraq.

John Negroponte, architect of "the Salvador Option in Iraq",
US Ambassador to Iraq (2004-2005

The Salvador Option for Syria": The Central Role of  US Ambassador Robert
S. Ford

The US Ambassador to Syria (appointed in January 2011), Robert Stephen Ford
had been part of Negroponte's team at the US Embassy in Baghdad
(2004-2005). In this regard, "The Salvador Option" for Iraq laid the
groundwork for the launching of an armed insurgency in Syria in March 2011.

In relation to recent events, the killing of 108 people including 35
children in the border city of Houla on May 27 was, in all likelihood,
committed by US sponsored death squads under the "Salvador Option for
Syria". The deaths of civilians have been casually blamed by the Western
media on the Al Assad government and the incident is being used as pretext
for a "humanitarian" R2P intervention by NATO. Outright media fabrications,
including the manipulation of images by the BBC suggest that the Syrian
government was not behind the massacre:
"As information trickles out of Houla, Syria, near the city of Homs and the
Lebanese-Syrian border, it is becoming clear that the Syrian government was
not responsible for shelling to deaths some 32 children and their parents,
as periodically claimed and denied by Western media and even the UN itself.
It appears that instead, it was death squads at close quarters - accused by
anti-government "activists" as being "pro-regime thugs" or "militias," and
by the Syrian government as the work of Al Qaeda terrorists linked to
foreign meddlers." (See Tony Cartalucci, Syrian Government Blamed for
Atrocities Committed by US Sponsored Deaths Squads, Global Research, May
28, 2012)

Chronology of the Syria "Protest Movement"

US Ambassador Robert S. Ford was dispatched to Damascus in late January
2011 at the height of the protest movement in Egypt. (The author was in
Damascus on January 27, 2011 when Washington's Envoy presented his
credentials to the Al Assad government).

At the outset of my stay to Syria in January 2011,  I reflected on the
significance of this diplomatic appointment and the role it might play in a
covert process of political destabilization. I did not, however, foresee
that this destabilization agenda would be implemented within less than two
months  following the instatement of Robert S. Ford as US Ambassador to
Syria.

The reinstatement of a US ambassador in Damascus, but more specifically the
choice of Robert S. Ford as US ambassador, bears a direct relationship to
the onset of the insurgency integrated by death squads in mid-March 2011
(in the southern border city of Daraa) against the government of Bashar al
Assad.

Robert S. Ford was the man for the job. As "Number Two" at the US embassy
in Baghdad (2004-2005) under the helm of Ambassador John D. Negroponte, he
played a key role in implementing the Pentagon's "Iraq Salvador Option".
The latter consisted in supporting Iraqi death squads and paramilitary
forces modelled on the experience of  Central America.

Ambassador Ford in Hama in July 2011

Since his arrival in Damascus in late January 2011 until he was recalled by
Washington in October 2011, Ambassador Robert S. Ford played a central role
in laying the groundwork within Syria as well as establishing contacts with
opposition groups. The US embassy was subsequently closed down in February
2012.

Ford also played a role in the recruitment of Mujahideen mercenaries from
neighboring Arab countries and their integration into Syrian "opposition
forces". Since his departure from Damascus, Ford continues to oversee the
Syria project out of the US State Department:

"As the United States’ Ambassador to Syria—a position that the Secretary of
State and President are keeping me in —I will work with colleagues in
Washington to support a peaceful transition for the Syrian people. We and
our international partners hope to see a transition that reaches out and
includes all of Syria's communities and that gives all Syrians hope for a
better future. My year in Syria tells me such a transition is possible, but
not when one side constantly initiates attacks against people taking
shelter in their homes". (US Embassy in Syria Facebook page)

"Peaceful transition for the Syrian people"? Ambassador Robert S., Ford is
no ordinary diplomat. He was U.S. representative in January 2004 to the
Shiite city of Najaf in Iraq. Najaf was the stronghold of the Mahdi army. A
few months later he was appointed "Number Two Man" (Minister Counsellor for
Political Affairs), at the US embassy in Baghdad at the outset of John
Negroponte's tenure as US Ambassador to Iraq (June 2004- April 2005). Ford
subsequently served under Negroponte's successor Zalmay Khalilzad prior to
his appointment as Ambassador to Algeria in 2006.

Robert S. Ford's mandate as "Number Two" (Minister Counsellor for Political
Affairs) under the helm of Ambassador John Negroponte was to coordinate out
of the US embassy, the covert support to death squads and paramilitary
groups in Iraq with a view to fomenting sectarian violence and weakening
the resistance movement.

John Negroponte and Robert S. Ford at the US Embassy worked closely
together on the Pentagon's project. Two other embassy officials, namely
Henry Ensher (Ford's Deputy) and a younger official in the political
section, Jeffrey Beals, played an important role in the team "talking to a
range of Iraqis, including extremists". (See The New Yorker, March 26,
2007). Another key individual in Negroponte's team was James Franklin
Jeffrey, America's ambassador to Albania (2002-2004).

It is worth noting that Obama's newly appointed CIA head, General David
Petraeus played a key role the organization of covert support to Syria's
rebel forces, the infiltration of Syrian intelligence and armed forces, etc.

Petraeus played a key role in Iraq's Salvador Option. He led the
Multi-National Security Transition Command (MNSTC)  "Counterinsurgency"
program in Baghdad in 2004 in coordination with John Negroponte and Robert
S Ford at the US Embassy in Baghdad.

General David Petraeus  (prior to his appointment as  Head of the CIA)

The CIA is overseeing covert ops in Syria. In mid-March, General David
Petraeus met with his intelligence counterparts in Ankara, to discuss
Turkish support for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) ( CIA Chief Discusses Syria,
Iraq With Turkish PM, RTT News, March 14, 2012)

David Petraeus, the CIA chief, held meetings with top Turkish officials
both yesterday and on March 12, the Hürriyet Daily News learned. Petraeus
met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an yesterday and his Turkish
counterpart, Hakan Fidan, head of the National Intelligence Organization
(M?T), the previous day.

An official from the U.S. Embassy said that Turkish and American officials
discussed “more fruitful cooperation on the region’s most pressing issues
in the coming months.” Turkish officials said Erdo?an and Petraeus
exchanged views on the Syrian crisis and anti-terror fight. (CIA chief
visits Turkey to discuss Syria and counter-terrorism | Atlantic Council,
March 14, 2012).

The US State Department in collaboration with several US intelligence
agencies and the Pentagon is overseeing US support to the Free Syrian Army.

A Syria policy committee chaired by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
involves the participation of Ambassador Robert Stephen Ford, CIA director
David Petraeus, Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for Near
Eastern Affairs and Derek Chollet, Principal Deputy Director of Clinton's
Policy Planning Staff at the State Department.

Under Jeffrey Feltman's supervision, the actual recruitment of terrorist
mercenaries, however, is carried out in Qatar and Saudi Arabia in liaison
with senior intelligence officials from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Libya
and NATO. The former Saudi ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar, who remains
a key member of Saudi intelligence, is said to be working with the Feltman
group in Doha.

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