US-British Al Qaeda Airlift: 3,000 Tons of Weapons Fuel Syrias DestructionTony Cartalucci It turns out, however, according the London Telegraph, that the US and Britain have already been arming terrorists operating in Syria for some time, including a massive airlift of 3,000 tons of weapons, sent across Syrias borders with Jordan and NATO-member Turkey. In the Telegraphs article titled, US and Europe in major airlift of arms to Syrian rebels through Zagreb, it is reported: It claimed 3,000 tons of weapons dating back to the former Yugoslavia have been sent in 75 planeloads from Zagreb airport to the rebels, largely via Jordan since November. The story confirmed the origins of ex-Yugoslav weapons seen in growing numbers in rebel hands in online videos, as described last month by The Daily Telegraph and other newspapers, but suggests far bigger quantities than previously suspected. British military advisers however are known to be operating in countries bordering Syria alongside French and Americans, offering training to rebel leaders and former Syrian army officers. The Americans are also believed to be providing training on securing chemical weapons sites inside Syria. 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? stated explicitly that: 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. Is there any doubt that the US has executed this plot in earnest, arming and funding sectarian extremists sympathetic to Al Qaeda on both Syrias northern and southern border? Where else, if not from the West and its regional allies, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, could extremists be getting their weapons, cash, and logistical support from? And, of course, Syrias borders with Jordan and Turkey have been long-ago identified by the US Armys own West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) as hotbeds of sectarian extremist/Al Qaeda activity hotbeds that the West is purposefully funneling thousands of tons of weaponry through, while disingenuously claiming it is attempting to prevent such weapons from falling into the hands of extremists. The CTCs 2007 report, Al-Qaidas Foreign Fighters in Iraq, identified Syrias southeastern region near Dayr Al-Zawr on the Iraqi-Syrian border, the northwestern region of Idlib near the Turkish-Syrian border, and Dara in the south near the Jordanian-Syrian border, as having produced the majority of fighters found crossing over into Iraq throughout the duration of the Iraq War. Not only has the US and UK lied to the world about their policy toward Syria and their current level of support for increasingly overt terrorists committing an array of atrocities their latest act including the taking of over 20 UN peacekeepers hostage in the Golan Heights but have revealed once again the manufactured facade that is the War on Terror. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own atLand Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 