Syria, The UK And Funding The “Moderate Armed Opposition.” - TruePublica
By Felicity Arbuthnot
– A document (1, pdf) produced last December by the UK Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, headed: “ UK Non-Humanitarian Aid in Response to
The Syria Conflict”, makes interesting reading. The British government
it states, has spent “over £100 million” since 2012, “working closely
with a range of actors” to “find a political solution to the conflict
and prepare to rebuild the country in the post Assad era.” (Emphasis added.)
“Our efforts … include providing more than £67 million of support to the Syrian opposition.”
One of the “actors” to benefit from hefty chunks of British taxpayers
moneys is the Syrian National Coalition whose website (2) states, under
“Mission Statement and Goals”: “The coalition will do
everything in its power to reach the goal of overthrowing the Assad
regime …” and to “Establish a transitional government …” (Emphasis added.) Thus the UK government is overtly supporting the illegal overthrow of yet another sovereign government.
The all reads like a re-run of Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraq National Congress
and Iyad Allawi’s Iraq National Accord, backed by the British and US
governments to equally criminally overthrow Saddam Hussein.
