US War machine in full motion – The rhetoric of defeat and resurrection of Al Qaeda

Once again the US war machine is in full swing, first Panetta boasts of a defeated Al Qaeda and now its about to grab Syria’s Chemical Weapons Supply. Sound Familiar? All this after the US and Saudi Arabia, only months earlier, recruited and armed Al Qadea and BlackWater operatives, who worked together in Iraq, to organize the Syrian Opposition. A familiar pattern has emerged reminiscent of George Bush’s orchestration of the invasion of Iraq. With President Obama’s “Victory in Libya” under his belt, a more sophisticated President Obama and “learned” Pentagon, has Prime Minister Cameron calling for Syria Regime change and King Abdullah of Jordan filling the role of General Colin Powell in Iraq, as town crier, warning of loose Chemical Weapons. One things is for certain, the American public is mostly brain dead and its Masters seek to beat down Syria in another Neoliberal feeding frenzy. Phlipn.

Al-Qaeda has presence in Syria, says Leon Panetta
11 May, 2012 – UK Guardian
US defence secretary Leon Panetta says intelligence indicates an al-Qaeda presence in Syria, but admits the US does not know what activities the group is engaged in. On Thursday Syria suffered its worst terrorist attack since the start of the uprising when 55 people were reported killed in twin bomb blasts in Damascus




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Eight Months Earlier – Al Qaeda defeat is imminent:

Former CIA Director and current Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta declared that the United States is “within reach of strategically defeating al Qaeda.”

Destroying Al Qaeda
America’s Greatest National Security Accomplishment in Decades
By Brian Katulis, Peter Juul – 1 November, 2011

The Al Qaeda network over the past three years suffered its greatest losses since the United States and its allies evicted the terrorist organization from Afghanistan in 2001. Consider the achievements:

President Barack Obama ordered a daring and risky Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011, and dozens of other senior Al Qaeda leaders have met their demise since President Obama took office.
This summer, U.S. drones killed Ilyas Kashmiri, commander of Al Qaeda’s Pakistan operation, and Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, Al Qaeda’s top operational planner who became the organization’s number two after bin Laden’s death.
Anwar al-Awlaki, a key member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula believed to be responsible for organizing a number of attempted attacks against the United States, was killed in another drone strike in Yemen at the end of September.

Hardly a week goes by without some key figure in the Al Qaeda network and its affiliates being targeted in a range of actions, including drone strikes as well as other actions by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to prevent attacks and degrade the Al Qaeda network. The damage done to Al Qaeda by the Obama administration represents America’s greatest national security success since the fall of the Soviet Union and the peaceful integration of Eastern European countries in the 1990s.

Given these major successes, it’s no wonder U.S. officials, including former CIA Director and current Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, are declaring that the United States is “within reach of strategically defeating al Qaeda.” As President Obama put it in June, the United States has “put al Qaeda on a path to defeat, and we will not relent until the job is done.” …more