EU Lifts Oil Embargo on Syria - Buys Directly from Al QaedaWestern media hails EU oil deal as potential game changer, despite admitting Al Qaeda holds oil fields. It was recently reported that the European Union would be lifting its oil embargo on Syria, in an effort to help fund what it calls rebels operating there. In the Associated Press article, EU lifts Syria oil embargo to bolster rebels, it states: The European Union on Monday lifted its oil embargo on Syria to provide more economic support to the forces fighting to oust President Bashar Assads regime. The decision will allow for crude exports from rebel-held territory, the import of oil and gas production technology, and investments in the Syrian oil industry, the EU said in a statement. A recent TIME article titled, Syrias Opposition Hopes to Win the War by Selling Oil, reports: On paper, the E.U.s idea seemed straightforward. Without an embargo, European companies can now legally begin importing barrels of oil directly from rebel groups, which have seized several oil fields in recent months, mostly around the eastern area of Deir Ezzor. That would provide the opposition with its first reliable source of income since the revolt erupted in Feb. 2011, and in theory hasten the downfall of Bashar Assads regime, by giving rebels the means to run skeletal local governments and consolidate their control. As part of the decision, the E.U. ministers also agreed to export technical equipment, insure the rebels shipments of oil and invest in the rebel oil businesses. Before the war, Syria earned about $3.6 billion a year exporting oil and gas to Europe, with its biggest customers in Germany and Italy, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Syrias main oilfields are in the eastern provinces of Deir al-Zour and Hassakeh, which both border Iraq. Just as in Libya, the West is wasting no time in despoiling Syrias resources, with the pillaging beginning long before the war even reaches a definitive conclusion. But in addition to the overt looting of Syrias resources, there is an added complication.TIME also reports: Still, analysts warn that the plan is deeply flawedand in fact, that the E.U.s decision could intensify the violence in Syria, by setting up a deadly competition for control of a resource that has languished amid two years of grinding civil war. And indeed, this deadly competition has already been taking place, as Al Qaedas al-Nusra front in Syria has been overrunning civilian populations, government positions, and local militias alike across Syrias oil-rich region. In fact, TIMEs itself admits that: Complicating the issue is the fact that several of the rebel-held oil fields are believed to be under the control of Jabhat al-Nusra, which has declared its allegiance to al-Qaeda. TIME concedes that several oil fields are held by Al Qaeda;however, other reports across the Western media indicate most, if not all rebel-held oil fields are under Al Qaedas control. Elsewhere, they [al-Nusra] have seized government oil fields, put employees back to work and now profit from the crude they produce. Additionally: In the oil-rich provinces of Deir al-Zour and Hasaka, Nusra fighters have seized government oil fields, putting some under the control of tribal militias and running others themselves. In Reuters Rebels battle with tribesmen over oil in Syrias east, it is admitted that: Islamist rebels are clashing with tribesmen in eastern Syria as struggles over the regions oil facilities break out in the power vacuum left by civil war, activists said on Saturday. The fighting, which started in late March and lasted 10 days, was part of a new pattern of conflict between tribal groups and the Nusra Front, said a report from the Observatory, a British-based group which opposes Syrias government and draws information from a network of activists in the country. The Reuters article had forewarned: The incentive for disputes over lucrative resources may be increased by plans by the European Union to lift an embargo on Syrian oil, which would make it easier to sell. In other words, the EUs announcement while lining the pockets of big-oil, is sowing increased chaos, violence, and death across oil-rich regions of Syria, compounding an already catastrophic humanitarian disaster of the Wests own creation. It is also clear that Al Qaedas al-Nusra front is the opposition the EU plans to buy the oil from, as there are no other opposition groups across the country to speak of according even to the New York Times, and more specifically, none besides al-Nusra holding significant ground in Syrias oil fields. The EU is openly preparing to do business directly with Al Qaeda, in a direct bid to bolster their control over territory they now occupy, and to overthrow the secular government of Syria in an unprecedented sectarian bloodbath. While many may claim the EUs policy is merely yet another manifestation of the corruption and incompetence that are hallmarks of the failed supranational bloc, it was revealed as early as 2007 that the West sought to intentionally arm and fund sectarian extremists, including Al Qaeda, to overthrow the Syrian government in just such a sectarian bloodbath. In 2007 a full 4 years before the 2011 Arab Spring would begin Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his New Yorker article titled, The Redirection: Is the Administrations new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism? would state specifically (emphasis added): 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 coperated 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. Clearly then, it is no accident that Al Qaeda has the weapons and cash to dominate the so-called opposition, nor a mystery as to how theyve managed to seize much of Syrias oil fields. It is also no accident that these very terrorists now stand to gain immensely by selling stolen oil to the European Union, in a bid to further increase their strength, capabilities, and reach, in an otherwise so-far unsuccessful bid to overthrow the Syrian government. The EU and their US and British allies, now have yet another deep scar that will permanently disfigure their reputation, legitimacy, and international standing ad infinitum. For the people of the West, it is imperative that they identify the corporate-financier interests truly driving this conspiracy against the Syrian people and both boycott and permanently replace these interests. If not, they will inevitably, and in many cases already are, turning their attention, exploitation, and rackets inward onto their own. 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