Look at this! More factual gems unearthed from history.

Some fantastic stuff from pre-2011 being revealed that gives titanium strength force to statements that Assad was a keen facilitator for terror groups, including the base groups for ISIS in Iraq.

CASE 1

Iraq broke off diplomatic relations with Syria in fury over Assad assisting the flow of foreign jihadists into Iraq.

Iraq PM Maliki formally complained to the world that Assad was helping feed the flow of al quaeda into Iraq, then harbouring those responsible for major terror bombings in Baghdad.

“Ninety percent of terrorists from different Arabic nationalities infiltrated Iraq through Syrian territory,” Maliki said during a visit by the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, aimed at cooling the row.”

http://www.france24.com/en/20090901-maliki-blames-syria-attacks-assad-denies-claim-

and http://articles.latimes.com/2007/feb/05/world/fg-iraq5

An assertion amounts not to an evidence. The burden of proof is incumbent upon he who makes the allegation. When you propose that “Assad staged al-Qaeda bombings” or insinuate that he somehow helped create ISIS it is only natural that Mr. Ehsani2, myself, and many others would demand an ironclad evidence for your implausible claims and not just hearsay.

CASE 2

This story from 2005, which I can now recall reading back then – possibly on SyriaComment!

“The road from Syria, on the road with Iraq’s insurgents”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/08/iraq-al-qaida

If you want more of the above, here it is:

https://twitter.com/THE_47th/status/810492891445530624

Too little too late to try to rewrite the history of the Syrian war and provide cover for those who transformed a potential genuine reformist movement into an islamist thuggery bloody campaign headed by religious zealots and terrorists. Islamist jihadists are the whores used by all but there are people like Mr. Gutman who prefer to depoly one eye to see the events. Being Jewish does not disqualify any journalist from reporting on the Syrian war or expressing an opinion but jewish reporters should not be upset if their narrative is challenged and their hostility towards Iran is exposed especially when everybody’s hands including Israel’s got dirty in the Syrian war. There is a reason why “rebels” attacked air defense installations and assassinated scientists, military pilots and rocket engineers in the early days of this ” revolution” even before air force was a factor in this war. There is a number of journalists who are bitterly against Iran and / or Russia, and others who are feverishly pro Israel. Biased reporters often use standard language and references to hide their bias and discredit others who fail to do the same but in the noble search for the truth, facts are more important than style. Yes the regime dealt with and used islamists but that was after NATO (lead by the US)invaded Iraq in 2003 using false intelligence and manufactured “evidence”, so if you want to be objective you have to admit that western intervention not regional governments was the decisive factor in the creation of Isis. To suggest that isis was created by the regime or that the regime gave weapons to the opposition to kill regime soldiers is a stretch to say the least. Do not let the rebels get off the hook just because you dislike iran, the opposition is as guilty as the regime in this war, I say that the rebels’ move towards fascism and terrorism was more of a choice than a natural outcome of regime’s brutality. On the issue of Israel, Israel and islamist rebels are bedfellows and they share the same tactical objective and the same enemies, for NOW !!

A statement from a prime minister (Maliki) is a statement, not a proof of something. After all Maliki at that moment was eating out of the hands of the US. Roy Gutman’s claims are stupid.

Nice try, Mr. Gutman…but you don’t discredit the arguments against you. You’re actually using fallacies to try and counter what you deem fallacies, LOL

Dear Roy Gutman,

As a casual Jewish-American observer of the Middle East, I am aware of a few facts:

1.) Since Day 1 of the Syrian rebellion, Assad made the horrendous claim that unarmed demonstrators were “terrorists” and proceeded, with the help of his sabihah thugs, to murder anyone daring to speak out against the self-elected, Syrian Fuhrer.

2.) Assad made this “terrorist” claim, at the very beginning, knowing that it was his last card to play: obscuring the deep differences between those begging for freedom and the murderous Islamic cretins he couldn’t prevent (or didn’t want to prevent) from taking over his country, thus creating a diversion that you and others fell for.

3.) Assad employed other state actors knee deep in terrorism to protect his hold on power, namely Iran, Hezbollah and Russia.

After 500,000 dead, 11 million displaced and Syria becoming a pile of stone and rubble, I can’t feel too sorry for the Russian ambassador. That’s just one person.