WikiLeaks: US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia Planned to Overthrow Syrian Govt. in 2006
by hqanon
(MINTPRESS)
Speaking from Ecuador’s embassy in London, Julian Assange revealed that
the United States planned to overthrow the Syrian government as far
back as 2006, several years before the start of the current crisis.
The founder of WikiLeaks took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in 2012. The premises remain under siege 24 hours a day by a large team of police to prevent Assange from ever stepping foot outside, at a cost to taxpayers that now exceeds £12 million.
The ongoing threat to his freedom hasn’t kept Assange from continuing
his work revealing the dirty secrets of world governments. His latest
revelations come in an interview with RT in support of his new book, “The WikiLeaks Files,” published late last month.
The United States and its allies in the Middle East, including Turkey andIsrael,
have been frequently accused of contributing to the ongoing
destabilization of Syria in the wake of the uprising and subsequent
civil war which began in 2011. But according to cables from the
WikiLeaks archive, discussed in the Syria chapter of Assange’s book,
plans to deliberately destabilize the region go back at least five years
further.
“In that chapter is a cable from US Ambassador William Roebuck,
who was stationed in Damascus, which apparently discusses a plan for the
overthrow of the Assad government in Syria,” RT reported.
In his appearance on the RT program “Going Underground,” Assange elaborated on the cable’s contents:
“… That plan was to use a number of different factors to create
paranoia within the Syrian government; to push it to overreact, to make
it fear there’s a coup …”
