American Hypocrisy and Barbarity of the Assad Regime

The U.S. State Department on Monday banned entry into the U.S. of a Syrian intelligence member who appears in a video showing him fatally shooting people during the country’s 12-year conflict. With such a severe punishment (the Syrian executioner can no longer go to Disney World, the poor sap), the US State Department is sending a strong signal to others who dare murder dozens of people!! No calls for international justice for human rights abuses, crimes against humanity and war crimes, as the US and its Euro-poodles are doing in Ukraine. Just a ban on entry in the US, as if the criminals of the Syrian regime are all dying to get a US visa to go visit Disney and Yosemite Park and go eat lobsters in Maine.

To watch the painful video and read an English transcript of the "conversations" between the criminal Syrian soldiers of Bashar Assad and their victims, go to:

https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2022/04/barbarity-of-syrian-regime.html

(You'll notice in the video that the victims of the Syrian Army criminals are well dressed, clean cut individuals who do not seem to have been fighting or engaged in any kind of armed activities. In other words, innocent civilians!)

Despite all the apparent "holier than thou" language of State Department below, be reminded that for the past 53 years, successive US administrations and State Department hypocrites, beginning with the criminal Henry Kissinger, have adulated, protected, and made deals with the Assad regime (Hafez Assad the father 1969-2000, then Bashar Assad the son, 2000-present), in which Lebanon was handed over to a brutal Syrian army occupation (1976-2005) among other concessions made to the Assads in exchange for the liberation of hostages that the Assad regime itself had kidnapped. Of all Arab dictators, only the Assad dictatorship remains extant. After Bashar Assad, backed by the equally brutal Russian army of Vladimir Putin, destroyed all the cities of his country, killed upwards of half a million of his own citizens, and sent close to 12 million out into refugee camps, there is a current movement to rehabilitate the Assad regime back into the ranks of pro-US Arab countries.

Here in Lebanon, we fear that the US and its European poodles are preparing to make another concession-compromise with the Syrian dictator by handing over Lebanon AGAIN to the Syrian regime by supporting a Hezbollah ally and Syrian puppet agent and former warlord Sleiman Frangiyeh to become the next president of Lebanon. The US either fears that the Syrian-Iranian proxy terrorist group Hezbollah will unleash its missiles on Israel, or the US is simply in bed with Assad who has protected the Israeli border and conceded to the Israeli annexation of his own Golan Heights by never firing a single bullet of "resistance" against the "Zionist enemy" during all these 5 decades, while shoving tiny and weak Lebanon into becoming the only Arab war front against Israel. Bottom line: The US will sell and backstab any so-called friends it has in the region for the sole objective of protecting the racist supremacist American colony in Palestine called the Jewish Theocracy of Israel.

The State Department's ban against Amjad Yousef, a member of Syria’s notorious Military Intelligence Branch 227, includes his wife and immediate members of his family. Yousef was one of several Syrian security agents who appeared in the video in which dozens of blindfolded, bound men were shot and thrown into a trench. 

The decision comes a week before Syria’s conflict entered its 13th year. The war has killed nearly half a million people and left large parts of the country destroyed. “As a result of today’s action, Yousef, as well as his wife, Anan Wasouf, and their immediate family members, are ineligible for entry into the United States,” the State Department said. In the logic of the con artists of the US State Department, this is a punishment that fits the crime! How painful it must be for a mass murderer like Amjad Yousef to not be able to take his wife and children and go to the US!

The 6-minute-43-second video clip stamped with the date April 16, 2013, shows intelligence members with a line of around 40 prisoners in an abandoned building in Tadamon, a suburb of Damascus near the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk. For much of the war, the district was a front line between government forces and opposition fighters. The prisoners are blindfolded, with their arms tied behind their backs. One after another, the Branch 227 gunmen stand them at the edge of a trench outside the building filled with old tires, then push or kick the men in, shooting them as they fall.

In a cruel game, the agents tell some of the prisoners that they are going to pass through a sniper’s alley and that they should run. The men tumble onto the bodies of those who went before them. As bodies pile up in the trench, some still move, and the gunmen shoot into the pile. Then the gunmen set the bodies on fire, presumably to erase evidence of the massacre.

The State Department said Yousef, a warrant officer in the Syrian security services, was involved in “gross violations of human rights" for his involvement in the killing of 41 unarmed civilians. The statement said the U.S. calls on President Bashar Assad’s government “to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture.” The hypocritical US has been calling on the Assads for five decades to cease their gross violations of human rights, but without ever taking any dissuasive action like those they take on a daily basis in Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and others.

Calls have been rising in recent months on the part of the US allies in the region for Syria’s return to the Arab League. Really? Does this mean that the US will one day embrace Putin and bring him and his criminal Russian regime back into the fold of the America-European western alliance?