"Jihadists" performed the Syrian revolution with US support

A Syrian activist and former political prisoner said the Syrian revolution, sparked by patriots and carried out by "international jihadists" with US support.

The jihadists in Syria have established close ties with the US State Department and many government agencies in the United States prefer to work with Islamists rather than the secular and liberal opposition group, Ahed al-Hindi said in an article in Foreign Policy magazine.

The result was the absolute dominance of groups such as al-Qaeda and Ahrar al-Sham, which have ambitions described by the Indian era as "Sunni imperialism in the first place."

Young writers who demonstrated peacefully in Damascus in March 2011 to demand democratic changes continued to see their revolution abducted by "criminals like these" who killed the secretary general of the Future Syria party, Hefrin Khalaf, on 12 October. the past.

At the start of the revolution, Syrians in exile opposed to President Bashar al-Assad were widely represented, before the liberal opposition ultimately failed to keep up with Syrian Islamists, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood-Syria branch, at least for reasons of US government support.

American support
But the writer does not absolve the United States of blame for what happened in Syria. "I saw with my own eyes how she (the United States) supported foreign Islamic jihadists in Syria with arms and money. I saw the United States intervene to stop a Russian aggression against Idlib and against the world's largest al-Qaeda branch," he said.

"I saw the United States doing its best to represent Syrian Islamists in the Syrian peace talks in Geneva, while the Kurds were eliminated at the request of Turkey."

The Indian, who acquired US citizenship, said he also saw how US President Donald Trump stood idly by over the "Turkish intervention" of the Kurdish enclave in Afrin and the rest of Syria's "multicultural" northeast.

He went on to recall that he co-founded a student organization that challenged Assad by documenting his crimes visually.

Confession and disqualification
He said he was among six Syrian dissidents who met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in August 2011 when Washington called on Bashar al-Assad to step down and began to recognize them as a legitimate Syrian party.

But one problem that emerged at the time was that the US recognition came without a strong commitment to regime change in Syria.

The writer that the United States preferred to work with local parties; which means dealing with jihadists who reject democratic values.

Although the State Department has tried to help the Syrian armed opposition to form an inclusive government system, its $ 500 million program to train and equip the opposition has helped support the aspirations of al-Qaeda and its allies.