CONFIRMED: US Shipping Weapons to Syria - Al Nusras Mystery Sponsors RevealedTony Cartalucci With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syrias opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts of rebel commanders. The airlift, which began on a small scale in early 2012 and continued intermittently through last fall, expanded into a steady and much heavier flow late last year, the data shows. It has grown to include more than 160 military cargo flights by Jordanian, Saudi and Qatari military-style cargo planes landing at Esenboga Airport near Ankara, and, to a lesser degree, at other Turkish and Jordanian airports. The New York Times piece attempts to spin Americas role in arming militants in Syria. The Times continues by stating: The American government became involved, the former American official said, in part because there was a sense that other states would arm the rebels anyhow. The C.I.A. role in facilitating the shipments, he said, gave the United States a degree of influence over the process, including trying to steer weapons away from Islamist groups and persuading donors to withhold portable antiaircraft missiles that might be used in future terrorist attacks on civilian aircraft. This is categorically false. To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has cooperated with Saudi Arabias government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda. Perhaps more importantly, the report would also state: Some of the core tactics of the redirection are not public, however. The clandestine operations have been kept secret, in some cases, by leaving the execution or the funding to the Saudis, or by finding other ways to work around the normal congressional appropriations process, current and former officials close to the Administration said. Clearly, that sense that other states would arm the rebels anyhow was gleaned from premeditated conspiracies long-ago hatched between Washington, Tel Aviv, and Riyadh. And as the terrible consequences of this conspiracy come to fruition with tens of thousands dead, the West is eager to disclaim any and all responsibility, hoping sincerely that the public hasnt the collective memory or intelligence to pick up a newspaper from 2007 and read what they had already admitted to planning. Mystery of Al Qaedas al-Nusra Sponsorship Revealed The confirmed admission implicates NATO directly in militarily intervening in Syrias ongoing conflict and reveals the source of arms and cash that have ended up primarily in the hands of Al Qaedas Syrian franchise, US designated terror front, Jabhat al-Nusra. (see here for other examples of US arming listed terror organizations) The CIA, Western media, and Western politicians insist that they have taken every precaution to ensure the now admitted torrent of cash and weapons that have been flowing into Syria to compound and perpetuate the bloodbath, did not end up in the hands of terrorists. However, no plausible explanation has been given as to where al-Nusra is getting its cash and weapons from, or how it has managed to eclipse the extensively Western-backed moderates, to become the premier front in the fight against the Syrian people. Indeed, the New York Times article Syrian Rebels Tied to Al Qaeda Play Key Role in War, states: The lone Syrian rebel group with an explicit stamp of approval from Al Qaeda has become one of the uprisings most effective fighting forces, posing a stark challenge to the United States and other countries that want to support the rebels but not Islamic extremists. While the London Telegraph reports in their article, Syria: how jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra is taking over Syrias revolution, that: The effect is changing the face of the Syrian revolution. The group is well funded probably through established global jihadist networks in comparison to moderates. Could the London Telegraph be capable of such incomplete or incompetent reporting regarding what it seems to allude to as an unsolvable mystery regarding al-Nusras sponsors? In October of 2012, the Land Destroyer Report published, NATO Using Al Qaeda Rat Lines to Flood Syria With Foreign Terrorists, which traced the logistical network now admitted to by the New York Times. This logistical network was then overlaid with Al Qaedas regional networks, documented extensively during the US occupation of Iraq by the US Armys own West Point Combating Terrorism Center. The very regions along the Turkish-Syrian border, the Jordanian-Syrian border, and the Iraqi-Syrian border which served as recruiting and staging grounds for Al Qaeda terrorists during the Iraq War, now serve as the primary logistical hubs admittedly overseen by the CIA. Image: (Left) West Points Combating Terrorism Centers 2007 report, Al-Qaidas Foreign Fighters in Iraq indicated which areas in Syria Al Qaeda fighters filtering into Iraq came from. The overwhelming majority of them came from Dayr Al-Zawr in Syrias southeast, Idlib in the north near the Turkish-Syrian border, and Dara in the south near the Jordanian-Syrian border. (Right) A map indicating the epicenters of violence in Syria indicate that the exact same hotbeds for Al Qaeda in 2007, now serve as the epicenters of so-called pro-democracy fighters. It is now admitted that thousands of tons of weapons have been smuggled into Syria by the US and its regional allies. While the Western media has attempted in the past to feign ignorance as to where Al Qaedas al-Nusra was getting their weapons from, it is now abundantly clear al-Nusras power has expanded across Syria in tandem with the CIAs ever-expanding operations along the nations borders. If the US is working directly with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey, to arm militants, who else could possibly be working to arm and fund al-Nusra on a greater scale if not this axis itself? Reports indicate that it was al-Nusra who used chemical weapons in Syrias northern city of Aleppo, according to the London Telegraph. An Al Qaeda terror front wielding WMDs, we are told, is the sum of all fears and the ultimate impetus driving the unending War on Terror. Through direct, intentional actions by the West itself, this nightmare has become a reality one that must be addressed, lest the world descend into global anarchy or worse. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 