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By Pepe Escobar 

September 10, 2013 "Information Clearing House - "Russia Today" -  The frantic spin of the millisecond is that the White House is taking a ‘hard look’ at the Russian proposal for Bashar Assad to place Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal under UN control, thus at least postponing another US war in the Middle East.

Oh, the joys of the geopolitical chessboard; Russia throwing a lifeline to save US President Barack Obama from his self-spun ‘red line’.

True diplomats are supposed to prevent wars – not pose as warmongers. American exceptionalism is of course exempted. So just as Secretary of State John Kerry had the pedal on the metal selling yet another war in a London presser, his beat up Chevy was overtaken by a diplomatic Maserati: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

This was Kerry’s slip: “... [Assad] could turn over any single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. Turn it over. All of it. And without delay and allow the full and total accounting for that. But he isn't about to do it and it can't be done obviously.”

It can be done, obviously, as Lavrov turned Kerry’s move against him – forwarding a two-step proposal to Damascus; Syria turns its chemical weapons to UN control and later agrees with their destruction, as well as joining the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Syrian Foreign Minister Moallem took no time to agree. The devil, of course, is in the fine print.

Somebody help me! What’s the message?

Predictably, all hell broke loose at the State Department. Dammit! Darn Russki peacenik! A Kerry spokeswoman characterized it as a “rhetorical argument”. It was just “talk”. Damascus and Moscow have a horrible track record. This was just a “stalling tactic.” Washington could not trust Assad. And even if there was a “serious” proposal that would not delay the White House’s push to sell its war in the US Congress.

Yet two hours later, closet future US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton saw it as… a serious proposal, “suggested by Secretary Kerry and the Russians.” And she made clear she was for it after meeting with Obama himself.

Meanwhile, the batshit crazy department kept the pedal on the metal, with National Security Adviser Susan ‘Wolfowitz’ Rice busy warning that chemical attacks in Syria are a "serious threat to our national security" including to "citizens at home." What, no ‘mushroom cloud’?

Yet just as ‘on message’ was up in smoke, magically, deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf and Hillary herself started talking in unison (somebody forgot to brief Rice). And the White House decided to take its ‘hard look’. Sort of. Because expectations are not that high. And the push to war in the US Congress is bound to continue.

Not even hardcore Beltway junkies have been able to keep track in real time of the Obama administration’s ever-shifting ‘policy’. This is how it (theoretically) stands. “Assad is responsible for the gas attack.” Translation; he did not order it, directly (no one with half a brain, apart from the Return of the Living Dead neo-cons, believes the current White House “evidence” sticks). But he’s still “responsible”. And even if Al-Nusra Front did it – with ‘kitchen sarin’ imported from Iraq, as I proposed here, Assad is still “responsible”; after all he must protect Syrian citizens.

In his Monday TV Anschluss, Obama, clinging to the lifeline, was quick to steal Lavrov’s credit, saying he had “discussed” the broad outlook of what Russia announced directly with Putin at the G20 summit last week. This has not been corroborated by Moscow.

Obama told CNN this was a “potentially positive thought.” And he was keen to stress it only happened not because his Designated War Salesman slipped, but because of a “credible military threat.” To NBC, he kept peddling what Kerry defined as an “unbelievably small” attack; the US “can strike without provoking a counter-attack.” Yet to CNN he admitted, “the notion that Mr. Assad could significantly threaten the United States is just not the case.”

So why the need for the “unbelievably small” kinetic whatever? That’s too much of a metaphysical question for US journalism.

You have the right to remain inspected

Now for the fine print. Everybody knows what happened to Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi after they gave up their deterrence. Assuming both Washington and Damascus accept Lavrov’s proposal, this could easily be derailed into an Iraqi-style ultra-harsh inspection regime. At least in theory, no US Air Force will attack UN inspectors at Syrian chemical weapons depots. As for false flags, don’t underestimate Bandar Bush’s deep pockets.

Still, considering Washington won’t abandon its real agenda – regime change - Obama might eventually be re-presented with his full emperor hand to ‘supervise’ the chemical weapons handover and ‘punish’ any infringement, real or otherwise, by Damascus, facilitated by the usual spies infiltrated into the inspectors mechanism. As in, “if you complain, we bomb.”

The key point in all this, though, is that for Damascus chemical weapons are just a detail - they are worthless in the battlefield. What matters is the 250,000-strong Syrian Arab Army (SAA), as well as military support by Iran and especially Russia – as in badass missiles of the Yakhont variety or S-300 (even 400) systems. Destroying the weapons – assuming Damascus agrees - is a very long-term proposition, measured in years; even Russia and the US have not destroyed theirs. By then, the myriad gangs of the “Un-Free” Syrian Army may have been thoroughly defeated.

Obama may have read the writing on the (bloody) wall; forget about convincing the US Congress to bomb Damascus when there’s a real diplomatic way out on the table. Yet nothing changes in the long run. Those who are paying or cheering in the sidelines for this operation - from Bandar Bush to Tel Aviv – want by all means to smash Damascus, for the benefit of Israel in terms of strategic balance, and for the benefit of the House of Saud in terms of isolating Iran in the Middle East.

So Lavrov’s chess move is not a checkmate; it is a gambit, meant to prevent the United States from becoming Al-Qaeda’s Air Force, at least for now. The quagmire would then move to a negotiating table – which would include those chemical weapons inspections.

No wonder assorted Western-weaponized psychos and jihadists on the ground in Syria don’t like this one bit. It’s happening just as more damning circumstantial evidence of false flags galore surface.

RT has been informed that the ‘rebels’ may be planning a monster false flag on Israel, to be launched from Assad-controlled ground.

And then there’s the release of two former hostages detained for five months by the ‘rebels’ in appalling conditions; Domenico Quirico, a correspondent for La Stampa, and Belgian historian Pierre Piccinin. Here is a shortened version of Quirico’s story, in English.

I talked to a very close friend at La Stampa who spoke directly with Quirico. He confirmed that Quirico and Piccinin overheard a Skype conversation between a ‘rebel’ speaking very bad English, who introduced himself as an ‘FSA General’, and somebody speaking very good English on the other side of the line. It was clear from the conversation that the Assad government was NOT responsible for the gas attack in Ghouta. So Quirico is admitting exactly what Piccinin told Belgian TV. It may not be conclusive; yet as proof goes, it certainly beats the Israeli-fed White House intel.

Unlike Piccinin, Quirico cannot tell the whole true story; most of all because La Stampa, a newspaper owned by the Agnelli family, very close to Henry Kissinger, is staunchly pro-‘rebel’.

Here’s a translation of what Piccinin said; “It’s a moral duty that we have, Domenico and myself, to say it was not the government of Bashar Assad that used sarin gas or other nerve agent, in the Damascene suburb of Ghouta. We are certain about this, it’s a conversation that we captured, even if it pains me to say it; I ferociously support the Free Syrian Army, and its fair struggle for democracy.”

Needless to say, none of this crucial development is being fully reported by US corporate media.

The Anschluss continues. Obama is addressing US public opinion this Tuesday night. Don’t expect him to announce yet another twist to the ‘Obama Doctrine’ – criminalizing ‘evil’ dictators who use Agent Orange, napalm, white phosphorous and depleted uranium against other people.

Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT and TomDispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from the US to East Asia.

DEMANDS USA OUT OF IRELAND POST McKEVITT FBI FRAME-UP PRE SYRIA

A report this Thursday will reveal MI5, the FBI in the USA, and special branch in the Irish State in the south, "starved" paramilitary police in British Occupied Ireland, of vital intelligence, that would have prevented a massacre, in which twenty-nine people died after a 500lb bomb exploded in the middle of Omagh..The victims families commissioned a private report by a London law firm, the SBP, which included experts, who obtained sensitive intelligence, demonstrating major failings by all the Police forces, before the attack, which caused the massacre.

Amnesty International has challenged the American government, with Ireland and the British to co-operate with a new inquiry into the bombing. Amnesty says said there are major concerns about the way intelligence was used leading up to the attack. Amnesty's director in British Occupied Ireland, Patrick Corrigan, said: "Fifteen years since the bomb ripped through Omagh, taking lives and causing injury, the families bereaved and those injured by the bomb are still left seeking the full truth about what happened that day and whether it could have been prevented.Beyond addressing the families' need for answers, there remains a broader public interest in establishing such an inquiry, in order to prevent such a tragedy recurring.The families have had to suffer the indignity of being drip-fed information over the years, with new wounds opened each time and with none of the bombers ever being held criminally responsible.It is doubly sad that the bereaved families and those injured have now had to commission their own report as a result of the many partial investigations, each one of which opens up new questions."

Michael Gallagher a relative said: "All good policing is based on intelligence especially prior intelligence before any criminal act is committed. In the case of the events running up to the Omagh bomb it is now clear that the police in the north were starved of information." Aidan Gallagher,the father of a young man killed, said access to new intelligence, proved the FBI, the police and the Garda's crime and security branch all withheld critical information, saying "The security forces in America, Britain and the republic had two key agents inside the Real IRA but did not share the information they were providing to the police in Northern Ireland. Should the state fail to do so it is our view that they will be failing in complying with their obligations under article 2(1) and article 3 of the European convention on human rights," it said. "This report is compiled from a significant amount of information, some of a sensitive nature, which has come into the possession of the families."

The report to be released  on Thursday, will focus on the role of two agents who infiltrated the group. David Rupert, an American gangster/informer run by the FBI and Paddy Dixon, a criminal who acquired stolen cars in the southern Irish state, for transporting car bombs into British Occupied Ireland.The Gangster Rupert, came to Ireland in the mid 1990s and volunteered his services for the Continuity IRA  but was rejected and later volunteered for the Real IRA.The gangster Rupert infiltrated the Irish American community in the States, while being directed by the FBI as their agent. In 1997 British intelligence sneakily took control of him as well. Later an FBI agent took him to London, where he was introduced to an MI5 transvestite who called himself/herself Norman. Norma the Brit whispered to Rupert not to pass any serious information to the police in southern Ireland, branding them as eejits. and instead gave him a PO. box address, with a secret contact phone number.

MI5 then tried again to infiltrate the Continuity IRA, getting Rupert to offer intelligence, while willing to sacrifice more British army and police bases, as nice juicy targets for the IRA's mortat bombs in British Occupied Ireland. Posing as American tourists, admiring  the installations, Rupert, his wife and other American agents, would stop at border-crossings, gawk and take pictures, making hundreds of videos of themselves, police, soldiers for tageting inside the bases. According to the Omagh Support group new intelligence files demonstrate Rupert and the FBI, were also aiding the Real IRA, sending parts from America to bomb the British. It was Rupert's false, untruthful evidence, that sent the innocent brother-in-law of Bobby Sands, Michael McKevitt to prison for 20 years on false evidence, coached by the FBI, against the loving Irish father and devoted husband of Bobby Sands sister.

Dixon meanwhile, provided intelligence to a handler of the Irish state garda (police) on the IRA. He had a connection with a republican in Dublin called "the Long Fellow". Senior Garda ordered the agent to reactivate an old relationship with "the Long Fellow", who had a breaker's yard in south Dublin, where cars stolen by Dixon, were re-plated and explosives hidden inside the vehicles. Dixon gave the Garda vital information on the Real IRA, with inside information on more than nine Real IRA attacks, culminating in the Omagh bombing.The victims families maintain, that the "starving of intelligence" of Rupert and Dixon by MI5, was meant to improve their credibility within the the Real IRA, despite the huge loss of life, caused by the British directing the innocent crowd,.towards the bomb after an IRA warning, where they were totally informed about the precise location.The Omagh campaigners will demonstrate, that this lethal action by MI5 and the British, caused the catastrophe, whether by false Flag intent or American dirty war disinformation, to discredit the Irish insurgency with the bombing. 

Michael McKevitt, the totally innocent, brother-in-law of the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, was indirectly made the fall guy and the Irishman, was convicted on the false FBI evidence, rehearsed with FBI Gangster/Informer, Rupert, under direct FBI control. The affair has considerably soured Irish/American relations and in the run up to another invasion of Syria, there have been strident demands, that the American Airforce and Army stay out of Ireland altogther. They are no longer welcome, as the collaborate with the occupying British. imperialists, invading country after country and recruiting senior Irish politicians, as warmongers for their international war crimes with the British.The Omagh Support Group are also demanding a cross-border inquiry into the American/British bombing in Omagh.