<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[CO-OP NEWS]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://cooptv.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Coop Anti-War Cafe Berlin]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://cooptv.wordpress.com/author/zeitgeistmusic/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Some Very Important Facts to understand the Syrian&nbsp;conflict]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<ol>
<li>1956: <a href="http://us-foreign-policy-perspective.org/index.php?id=328">CIA plot</a> to overthrow the Syrian government</li>
<li>1983: <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88B00443R001404090133-0.pdf">CIA document</a> on plans to obliterate Syria to enable an oil pipeline</li>
<li>1986: <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86T01017R000100770001-5.pdf">CIA document</a> on how to use Muslim Brotherhood to fuel a sectarian (Sunni v. Shiite) civil war in Syria</li>
<li>2001: Wesley Clark told that USA will take out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw">7 countries in 5 years</a> (Libya, Syria, etc.)</li>
<li>2005: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-VuasUUTQA">CNN Interview</a>. Christiane Amanpour tells Assad that the western governments are plotting a regime change in Syria</li>
<li>2006: <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html">State Dept cable</a>: Detailed discussion of various strategies to enable regime change in Syria</li>
<li>2009: <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09RIYADH445_a.html">State Dept Email</a>: Saudi Arabia is worried that a Shiite crescent is turning into a full moon (referring to a possible Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon coalition)</li>
<li>2009: <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE131801_a.html">State Dept Cable</a>: Saudi Arabia is the #1 source of funding of terrorism worldwide</li>
<li>2012 <a href="https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/18328">State Dept Email</a>: Conquest of Syria means a weakened Iran and this is important for Israel</li>
<li>2012: <a href="https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/18328">State Dept Email</a>: Use Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to arm/train rebels</li>
<li>2014: <a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774">Hillary Clinton admits</a> in an email that Saudi Arabia and Qatar fund ISIS</li>
<li>2015: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOf7jzc7faY">Joe Biden says</a> Saudi Arabia and Qatar arming/funding Al Qaeda in Syria</li>
<li>2016: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdVa5qoh_80">John Kerry in a leaked audio recording</a> explains how the US trained/armed the opposition and was hoping to use ISIS to force Assad into negotiation</li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RethinkingSociety/videos/958429187644729/">Israel’s Mossad chief admits</a> helping Al Qaeda and says that it’s because Al Qaeda never attacks Israel.</li>
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