US to Focus Exclusively on Arming Al Qaeda in SyriaUS dumps Syrian proxy political front in latest move to accelerate long-stalled regime change. The Washington Post in its recent article, U.S. looks to build alternative Syrian opposition leadership, claims: The Post also indicates that de facto administrative zones are being set up along the Turkish-Syrian border with nonlethal assistance provided by the United States, France and other like-minded governments. The so-called Syrian National Council is being discarded, as it is wholly seen as illegitimate by both Syrians and the world at large. Image: Will the Wests new resistance front in Syria officially include Libyan Mahdi al-Harati of the US State Department, United Nations, and the UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf)-listed terrorist organization, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)? Here he is addressing fellow terrorists in Syria. Harati is now commanding a Libyan brigade operating inside of Syria attempting to destroy the Syrian government and subjugate the Syrian population. Traditionally, this is known as foreign invasion, not rebellion. The Washington Post would also quote Secretary Clinton: While the US attempts to portray this latest move as an attempt to prevent extremist elements from gaining the upper hand within the opposition, it must be remembered that as early as 2007, US officials had admitted that efforts to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran would include primarily US, Israeli, and Saudi armed extremists drawn from across the Arab World, and sent into Syria to create the very sectarian bloodbath now unfolding. Rhetoric of freedom and democracy serve merely as cover within which foreign military aggression is couched. This was first exposed by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his 2007 New Yorker report titled, The Redirection: Is the Administrations new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism? In the report it specifically stated: Hershs report would continue by stating: The link between extremist groups and Saudi funding was also mentioned in the report, and reflects evidence regarding the origin and backers of similar extremists who flooded Iraq during the US occupation, sowing sectarian strife and killing Western troops alike: 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 was exposed in NATO Using Al Qaeda Rat Lines to Flood Syria With Foreign Terrorists, that indeed, the very networks used by Al Qaeda to flood Iraq with foreign fighters is now being used by the United States, NATO and the Persian Gulf States of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to violently overthrow Syria. The narrative that recent US efforts aim at heading off extremists from hijacking the armed violence in Syria, is exposed as a blatant lie. Extremists have constituted the so-called opposition from the very beginning, by design, with explicit US, NATO, Saudi and Qatari funding, weapons, and support. Image: The most prominent routes into Syria for foreign fighters is depicted, with the inset graph describing the most widely used routes by foreign fighters on their way to Iraq, as determined by West Points 2007 Combating Terrorism Center report Al-Qaidas Foreign Fighters in Iraq (page 20). These same networks are now being used, with the addition of a more prominent role for Turkey, to target Syria directly. (Click to enlarge) Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. 