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Fares Shehabi on University campus |
Huge stockpiles of weaponry and ammunition, many with NATO
markings, were discovered in East Aleppo when the Al-Nusra militants, a
local branch of Al Qaida, were pushed out of the city by Syrian forces.
The previous reports that NATO personnel were captured are now
retracted, as they were allowed to leave with the militants on the buses
provided according to the agreement, to spare NATO the embarrassment.
FWM interviews the Syrian MP Fares Shehabi, an Aleppo resident himself. He calls the discoveries “SyriaGate”.
Mr. Shehabi, European mainstream media and leading
politicians are upset about the liberation of Aleppo by the Syrian Arab
Army. They write reports about massacres committed by the army and
horrified civilians in Aleppo…
It is the total opposite. The news in Europe is a real problem
because they report exactly the opposite of the real facts in Syria. We
were able to liberate around 100.000 civilians who were held hostage by
terrorists in Aleppo. A lot of them were taken hostage for more than
four years. These liberated civilians are happy now. The 1.5 million
civilians who left Aleppo since 2012 are now able to come home again.
This is a very positive and happy moment for Aleppo and Syria in
general. We were able to celebrate Christmas in Aleppo for the first
time since 4.5 years – we celebrate Christmas every day now in our city!
So the terrorists left the city completely?
– Yes, but before they left they executed more than a
hundred Syrian soldiers and hundreds of civilians. We found their
bodies. This is all documented. Any international independent
investigation can see and check the evidence of these terrorist crimes.
But we are happy that our city is now liberated. Some rural areas around
Aleppo are still under terrorist occupation. The next step will be to
liberate the countryside so the city is well maintained and well
protected.
American made weapons found when Al Nusra left. Photo: Syrian Arab Army
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American made weapons found when Al Nusra left. Photo: Syrian Arab Army |
Damascus reported about a huge amount of Western military material such as arms and ammunition in Aleppo…
– What we found there whole weaponry warehouses which were put in
former school buildings by the terrorist forces. Our schools were turned
into Al Qaida military bases. We found at those Al-Nusra bases –
Al-Nusra is a branch of Al Qaida – full with NATO weaponry. We found
tons of these weapons. I call that “SyriaGate” – the US and NATO arm and
support terrorist gangs which are even on the official UN terror list
in order to topple the legitimate government of a sovereign country.
This is totally ridiculous of the West…
Why ridiculous?
– Because nobody can guarantee that these weapons will not be used
one day against the West itself by these terrorists. American and
European tax payer’s money is abused to arm terrorist gangs which are
ready to direct their guns any time against America and European
civilians. This is a huge scandal.
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Fares Shehabi |
What do you know about the presence of Western military and
intel experts and advisors in the terrorist controlled areas of Aleppo?
Earlier reports spoke about captured NATO personnel.
– We didn’t capture any European or American military advisor in
Aleppo. However we have reliable information that many of them were
there and left the city with the buses we provided for the evacuation of
the terrorist forces after their capitulation. Also some of these
so-called activists as Bilal Abdul Kareem who is an Afro-American from
New York and a loud supporter of the Al Qaida gangs in Syria.
Kareem’s presence in Aleppo was supported by the Obama administration
and he was often in Western news introduced as “independent
journalist”. And there were many other Western agents and terrorist
supporters as well in Aleppo who left the city with the buses. This is
by the way the reason why the West pushed so hard for this evacuation.
Otherwise all these agents, advisors and supporters would have been
captured by us and would have been exposed. That would have been a big
embarrassment for the West.
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Shehabi calls the discovery “SyriaGate” because it proves the US armed a group that is on its own terror list. Photo: Syrian Arab Army |
The fate of Aleppo didn’t play such a big role in Western
media for the last 4.5 years. Since the start of the liberation
operations of the Syrian Arab Army the situation changed completely: All
of the sudden Western media, politicians and NGOs were campaigning –
against the Syrian Army. They accused the Syrian Army of committing
“genocide” in Aleppo, of bombarding hospitals, of massacring children
and babies…
– We Syrians paid in blood and destruction. Our own blood is the
currency for these Western lies and this “misunderstanding”. Someone in
the West can always say “Oh sorry, I got it somehow wrong!”, but we paid
with our blood and our lives for this horrible ignorance. Aleppo was
conquered by Al Qaida gangs in summer 2012. There were no Aleppo
residents involved, our city was very peaceful, no one took the arms
against the government. We were conquered by the terrorists with heavy
weapons and they took 70 percent of our city. In 2012 around two million
civilians lived in East Aleppo, 1.5 million left the occupied territory
to safe zones. Nobody in the West spoke about the displacement of these
1.5 million people who were fleeing into government controlled areas.
America and Europe were silent. Nobody in the West was interested in the
11.000 civilians killed by the terrorist gangs in four years of random
shellings and bombardments. 30 per cent of these killed civilians are
children. 4.5 years we were losing innocent civilians by terrorist
grenades, explosives and snipers.
European politicians, media and NGOs seem to care more about the fate of the terrorists than about the civilians of Aleppo?
– There is no other explanation for that behaviour. Again: 4.5 years
the terrorists brought the hell to the civilians of Aleppo, but the West
didn’t care. When we liberate the terrorist controlled areas the West
reacts with a huge campaign against us. At the same time the whole
Western media campaigns for liberating the Iraqi city of Mosul from the
terrorist gangs of the so-called “Islamic State”. Why is it allowed to
liberate Mosul, but forbidden to liberate Aleppo?
This is a big hypocrisy. I recommend to the Western audience to put
themselves in our shoes. Imagine that tens of thousands Al Qaida
terrorists occupy half of Berlin, Paris or London? What would the people
do? They would hope for liberation by their army. We Aleppo people
waited 4.5 years for our liberation! But we had to bring that sacrifice
in order to minimize the civilian casualties. We had to wait for a
superpower – the Russian Federation – to help us. If our Army would have
immediately started the counter attack in 2012 we might have had
thousands of civilian losses and much more destruction. But we waited
and we liberated our city. Thank god.
Source: Global Research
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