Reps From Half the Worlds Population Meet to Resist Foreign Destabilization in SyriaTony Cartalucci, Contributor The meeting comes as revelations emerge that the United States, United Kingdom, NATO-member Turkey, and members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are supplying weapons, cash, and other assistance to foreign militants with direct links to Al Qaeda. These include Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) militants who are in fact listed by both the US State Department and the UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf) as a foreign terrorist organization and a proscribed terrorist organization respectively. Earlier this month, during a Saudi-Qatari sponsored, US-UK-backed UN resolution, a large number of nations either voted no, abstained, or failed to attend the vote, indicating slipping support for what is sometimes called the Washington consensus. US, GCC, and NATO actions in Libya in support of sectarian militants to install a stable of Western-created proxies into power has stripped away much of the primacy of international law and left the willfully abused geopolitical tenant of responsibility to protect (R2P) irrevocably in tatters. With the Wests attempted destabilization of Syria stalled, global public opinion has grown aware of the true nature of Syrias so-called rebels, and that many are foreign fighters committing an array of abhorrent atrocities. The UNs failure to act, or even worse, its role in facilitating what equates to military aggression couched in humanitarian pretenses, jeopardizes international law all together. The West has ungracefully faced this quandary of its own creation by simultaneously attempting to use the presence of Al Qaeda terrorists as a causus belli to militarily intervene while also rebranding Al Qaeda as champions of freedom in Syria. One breathtaking account was given by the Fortune 500-funded Council on Foreign Relations in their article, Al-Qaedas Specter in Syria, claiming: The Syrian rebels would be immeasurably weaker today without al-Qaeda in their ranks. By and large, Free Syrian Army (FSA) battalions are tired, divided, chaotic, and ineffective. Feeling abandoned by the West, rebel forces are increasingly demoralized as they square off with the Assad regimes superior weaponry and professional army. Al-Qaeda fighters, however, may help improve morale. The influx of jihadis brings discipline, religious fervor, battle experience from Iraq, funding from Sunni sympathizers in the Gulf, and most importantly, deadly results. In short, the FSA needs al-Qaeda now. Clearly, no nation in good conscience, or at least interested in self-preservation, could condone the overt destabilization of Syria by foreign powers with disingenuous motives, using listed-terrorist organizations to do so. The potential of this same ploy then being turned against other nations including members of Irans 30 nation conference, or even the US and UKs Friends of Syria confabs, becomes increasingly more likely if such tactics are not condemned and altogether balked. Iran plans to hold another such conference later this month. For more information, please listen to the first half of Dr. Webster Tarpleys August 11th broadcast ofWorld Crisis Radio. You can support this information by voting on Reddit HERE linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 