A most intriguing report has been published by the Lebanese news organisation al Manar which states that Robert "Death Squad" Ford has told the Syrian rebs to attend Geneva or else their funding will cease.
...Quoting an official in the executive committee in the so-called “Syrian National Coalition”, Nidal Hamade said that Ford had called for an urgent meeting for the SNC figures in Turkey’s Istanbul, noting that the US envoy had threatened to cut funds for anyone who will not attend the meeting.
[source : Robert Ford to Syria Opposition: Bandar on Long Vacation, Go to Geneva 2, al Manar, http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=131228&cid=23&fromval=1&frid=23&seccatid=20&s1=1, 20th January 2014]
There are other mildly explosive statements in the same report too. But this report should be read with some caution because al Manar is Hezbollah's mouthpiece.
So let's look at the other claims being made in this report.
Ford told the Syrian opposition figures: “Bandar’s plan for the Syrian conflict, put in 2012, had catastrophic repercussions on Syria and the region. It had made of Syria a powerful hub for al-Qaeda that US cannot confront. For that, you have to stop objecting and to go to Geneva 2, this is the US’ interest.”Hmm. I will agree that Bandar's policy has been a disaster, turning Syria into a hub for al Qaeda. But the plan to unleash al Qaeda onto Syria was agreed in 2007, as reported by Seymour Hersh in The Redirection. What did they expect would happen? They unleashed the Jihadis onto Libya first. However, in Libya they were curiously (and perhaps suspiciously) able to get UN SCR 1973 passed to turn NATO in al Qaeda's air force to bomb a clear and unobstructed path for the Jihadis all the way into Tripoli while British Special Forces assisted the Jihadis on the ground. They tried to get something similar done in Syria in August last year following the horrific tragedy at Ghouta on 21st August. But they failed, spectacularly and tragically.
During the meeting, Ford told the SNC figures that Saudi prince Bandar Bin Sultan is on long vacation in the United States, “because of sickness and psychological fatigue,” Hamade added, citing the Syrian opposition official who is also close to former Prime Minister, Riyad Hijab.So, basically Bandar is knackered and depressed after his Jihadis slaughtered hundreds of Syrian civilians, children included, in a last desperate attempt to trick the world into supporting an overt large scale military attack on Syria. However, I recall in July 2012 that claims were made that Bandar was dead, claims which sadly turned out to be untrue. Due to Bandar's bloody failure he will be replaced. But who are these replacements? What are their policies?
“We would like to inform you that there are some changes that will take place in Saudi Arabia next March,” Ford said, noting that these changes will reach Bandar Bin Sultan and Saud al-Faissal.
...The US ambassador added that the Saudi committee for Lebanon and Syria (which compromises Abdulaziz Khoja, Abdulaziz Bin Abdullah Al Saud and Muqren Bin Abdullah Al Saud) is to be activated and will take over the Lebanese and Syrian file from Bandar.
“We also would like to tell you that the US had asked Saad Hariri (head of al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc in Lebanon) to participate in a coalition government with Hezbollah.”Last week Hariri made the statement that he was prepared to enter into a coalition with Hezbollah.
But how does this relate to the reports last week that some western security officials had visited Damascus, allegedly without the nod from their governments, to form a coalition against the Jihadis?
If this al Manar report is to be believed then the manner in which Ford speaks implies to me that those security officials had the full backing of their governments. Ford says several times, "US interest".
The big question is: who is Robert Ford really working for?
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