May 29, 2012 (TSR) – On May 25, clashes broke out between Syrian forces and armed groups in the town of Houla, located in the central province of Homs and about 32 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of the provincial capital city of Homs.
The head of the 60 member nation UN observer mission in Syria, Major General Robert Mood, a Norwegian national, said in a briefing via video from Damascus to an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Sunday that the UN observers in Houla estimate 108 people were killed, including 49 children and 34 women.
According to a political analyst, the agents of the US company Blackwater are operating inside Syria and are involved in the deadly turmoil in the Arab country that began in March 2011.
Taleb Ibrahim, a political analyst from Damascus, in an interview with Press TV on Monday, said that they have real evidence now that the Blackwater company is working in Syrian territories and that there is a “third party” inside Syria that “wants to undermine” the six-point peace plan put forward by UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Kofi Annan in March. He added that the third party seeks to “prevent any political resolution for the crisis in Syria.”
Another analyst, Dr. Ismail Salami, wrote in an article published on the Global Research website on Tuesday, “Syria is bracing for more political chaos as all antagonistic forces appear to have entered into an unholy alliance of US-led Zionists and Wahhabis is funding and fuelling the deadly unrest in Syria to bring the government to its knees by ingeniously choreographing massacres and attributing them to Syrian government, thereby turning the country into fertile soil for US-led invasion”.
He further elaborated, “What deserves due attention in the carnage that happened in Houla is that many were shot dead at close range, many were Shia Muslims and many were women and children. In other words, these atrocities are conjectured to have been carried out at the hands of the extremist Wahhabis and al-Qaeda elements who are notorious for targeting women and children in their terrorist operations.”
Those murdered in Houla were mainly Shia Muslims reinforces the conjecture that the massacre was perpetrated by the “Wahhabis” who “nurse inveterate loathing” toward Shia Muslims.
Salami also pointed out the role of Washington in sponsoring Syrian rebels, referring to a recent report by The Washington Post
that they “have begun receiving significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the United States’”.
“Washington is pressing Qatar and Saudi Arabia to fund and provide the rebels with heavy weaponries,” he said.
Over the past few months, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey have expressed support for arming of the Syrian rebels.
Also highlighted in the Global Research article was that London’s financial support for the al-Qaeda-affiliated anti-Damascus forces in Syria, noting that “The government of al-Assad is losing ground thanks to the influx of the extremist Wahhabis and al-Qaeda members and on account of the financial and military support the rebels receive from the West and the Persian Gulf regimes.”
“Although these groups may ostensibly be at daggers drawn over different issues, they share one common point: the fall of al-Assad and therefore turning the situation to their own benefit,” he further explained.
Salami finally pointed to the key role of the Israeli regime which, in his words, “is silently and ironically funneling millions of dollars to the rebels in Syria” and “is capitalizing enormously on the collapse of Bashar al-Assad government.”
“Syria has now turned into a nightmarishly humanitarian catastrophe lavishly brought about by the regional Arab puppet regimes, extremist Wahhabis, al-Qaeda, Washington and Israel,” he concluded.
CONDEMNATION BY IRAN
The new 9th Iranian Majlis (parliament) lawmakers has strongly condemned the ruthless and barbaric massacre of defenseless and innocent Syrians in Houla, in Homs and is reminiscent of the merciless terrorist atrocities in Sabra and Shatila and is a blatant symbol of terrorist acts and mass murder in this juncture of human history. They also say the US is responsible for the attack on their statement on Monday.
The Iranian lawmakers said there is no doubt the terrorists responsible for such atrocities are armed and trained by the West and its regional allies and are dispatched into Syria by some of its neighbors. They also called on the United Nations Security Council to prevent the shipment of weapons into Syria.
AN AMERICAN CONFIRMS THAT US IS ALSO RESPONSIBLE
