EXCLUSIVE
by Thierry Meyssan
The neo-conservatives and liberal hawks who have been
preparing the war against Syria since 2001 have been relying on several states
from the UNO and the Gulf Co-operation Council. While we know about the role
played by General David Petraeus in launching and pursuing the war until today,
two personalities - Jeffrey Feltman (number 2 at the UNO) and Volker Perthes
(Director of the main German think tank) - have remained in the shadows.
Together, with the support of Berlin, they have been using and are still
manipulating the United Nations in order to destroy Syria.
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | DAMASCUS (SYRIA) | 28
JANUARY 2016 
The German academic Volker Perthes has been working
with the CIA in the preparation of the war against Syria since 2005. He directs
the most powerful European think tank, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
(SWP).
In 2005, when Jeffrey Feltman – then the US ambassador
in Beirut - supervised the assassination of Rafic Hariri, he relied on support
from Germany, both for the assassination itself (Berlin supplied the
weapon) [1], and for the UNO Commission charged with accusing
Presidents el-Assad and Lahoud (prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, police commissioner
Gerhard Lehmann and their team). The international campaign against the two
Presidents was notably led by the German political analyst Volker
Perthes [2].
Volker Perthes studied in Damascus, Syria, in 1986 and
1987, funded by a German research grant. He then went on to pursue a career as
professor of political science in Germany, with the exception of the period
between 1991 and 1993, during which he taught at the American University of
Beirut. Since 2005, he has been the Director of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und
Politik (SWP), the main German public think tank, which employs more than 130
specialists, half of whom are university professors.
However, when Feltman organised the Israeli attack on
Lebanon in 2006, he implicated only the United States, hoping that once
Hezbollah was beaten, Syria would come to its rescue in Beirut, which would
provide an excuse for US intervention. Finally, Berlin sent only its marines to
participate in the United Nations Forces (Finul).
During the annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group,
between the 5th and the 8th June 2008 - five years before the war - Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice gave a presentation which underlined the necessity of
overthrowing the Syrian government. She was accompanied in this task by the
Director of the Arab Reform Initiative [3], Bassma Kodmani (future founder of the Syrian
National Council), and the Director of the SWP, Volker Perthes. The Bilderberg
Group is a NATO initiative, and NATO directly handles security for these
meetings [4].
According to a cable revealed by Wikileaks, Volker
Perthes advised Ms. Rice concerning Iran. He believed that it would be
dangerous to launch a military operation which could have unpredictable
regional consequences - it was, however, more efficient to sabotage its
economy. Volker Perthes’ advice was followed, in 2010, with the destruction of
the software of Iranian nuclear plants by the Stuxnet virus [5].
In March 2011, Volker Perthes published an opinion
column in the New York Times mocking President el-Assad’s speech to the
People’s Chamber, during which the President had denounced a « conspiracy »
against Syria [6]. According to Perthes, the « revolution » was under
way in Syria, and el-Assad had to go.
In the summer of 2011, the German government managed
the breakthrough of the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia and Egypt. It noted that
at the CIA’s demand, it hosted the international coordination of the
Brotherhood in Aix-la-Chapelle. Berlin thus decided to support the Brotherhood
everywhere they attained power, with the exception of Hamas in Palestine, in
order to avoid annoying Israël. Under the influence of Volker Perthes, the
German Minister for Foreign Affairs – at that time, Guido Westerwelle – persuaded
himself that the Brotherhood was not « Islamist », but « guided by Islam ». He
created a discussion forum with the « moderate Islamist movements” (sic), and a
Task Force for Syria. As for Perthes, he organised a reception at the Ministry
in July for a delegation from the Syrian opposition, led by Brother Radwan
Ziadeh.
Speech by Ahmet Davutoğlu during the closed Tusiad-Stratfor conference, 6th
October 2011.
On the 6th October 2011, on the proposition of the
State Department, Volker Perthes took part in the closed conference organised
by the Turkish Industry & Business Association (Tusiad) and the private US
intelligence company Stratfor in order to study Turkey’s energy options, and
also the possible responses of eight other countries, including Germany [7]. Present at the meeting were the ten top Turkish
fortunes and Taner Yıldız – the Minister for Energy – the man who was supposed
to help the Erdoğan family organise the
funding of the war with oil stolen by Daesh.
In January 2012, Jeffrey Feltman – then State
Department director for the Near East – asked Volker Perthes to direct the «
The Day After » programme, which was tasked with putting together the next
régime in Syria. These meetings were held over a six-month period and resulted
specifically in a report which was made public after the Geneva Conference.
« The Day After » mobilised 45 members of the Syrian
opposition, including Bassma Kodmani and the Muslim Brothhood. It was financed
by the US Institute of Peace, the equivalent of the National Endowment for
Democracy (NED), but is under the authority of the Department of Defense. Also
solicited were Germany, France, Norway, Holland and Switzerland.
« The Day After » drew up the first draft of the plan
for the total and unconditional capitulation of Syria, which became the
obsession of the United Nations once Jeffrey Feltman was nominated Director of
Political Affairs for the United Nations, in July 2012.
At his official swearing-in as the number 2 of UNO,
the 2nd July 2012, Jeffrey D. Feltman takes the oath before General Secretary
Ban Ki-moon. As of that date, the Organisation, which is supposed to promote
peace, has been under the control of the « liberal hawks ».
Here are the principles of the Perthes-Feltman plan
the sovereignty of the Syrian People will be
abolished ; the Constitution will be repealed ; the President will be relieved of his functions
(but a vice-President will remain in charge of formal functions) ; the People’s Assembly will be dissolved ;
at least 120 leaders will be considered guilty
and banned from any political function, then judged and condemned by an
international Tribunal ; the Direction of Military Intelligence, the
Direction of Political Security and the Direction of General Security will be
dismantled and dissolved ;
“political”
prisoners will be freed and anti-terrorist procedures will be repealed;
the Hezbollah and the Guardians of the
Revolution will be made to withdraw ; then, and only then, will the
international community fight terrorism [8]
At the same time, Volker Perthes organised the «
Working Group on Economic Recovery and Development » for the « Friends of Syria
». In June 2012, under the co-presidency of Germany and the United Arab
Emirates, this group distributed to the member states of the « Friends of Syria
» concessions for the exploitation of Syrian gas, which could be claimed in
return for their support for the overthrow of Assad’s régime [9].
Volker Perthes also organised the “Working Group on
Transition Planning” for the Arab League.
Finally, he set up the “Syrian Transition Support
Network” in Istanbul.
As from the Geneva Conference (30th June 2012) and the
meeting of the « Friends of Syria » in Paris (6th July 2012), we can find no
more public traces of Volker Perthes’ role, apart from his publications, which
are aimed at maintaining Germany’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood. Germany
is maintaining its policy, and after the abdication of the Emir of Qatar and
the powerful rise of Saudi Arabia, nominated Boris Ruge - the director for
Syria in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as its ambassador to Riyadh.
In January 2015, Chancellor Angela Merkel demonstrated
for tolerance and against terrorism, arm in arm with Aiman Mazyek, the General
Secretary of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany. In reality, he is one
of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In the summer of 2015, during his visit to Damascus,
the Syrian government asked Staffan De Mistura for an explanation concerning
the Perthes-Feltman Plan, of which he had only just been made aware. Highly
embarrassed, the special envoy of the General Secretary of the UNO confirmed
that these documents did not engage him, and promised to take no notice of
them. It seems that Moscow had threatened to make them public at the Security
Council during the presence of the heads of state at the opening of the General
Assembly in September 2015. However, the documents were not divulged – their
revelation would have questioned the very existence of the United Nations
Organisation. During the same period, Berlin once again made contact with
Damascus, but the Syrians were unable to determine whether this secret
initiative was a reflection of a new policy by Chancellor Merkel, or one more
attempt at infiltration.
However, at the same time, Volker Perthes was
nominated by Staffan De Mistura and his superior Jeffrey Feltman [10] as a « peace negotiator » (sic) for the next meeting
in Geneva. He will be tasked with meeting alternatively with the delegation
from the Syrian opposition and the delegation from the Syrian Arab Republic.
For the last three years, in violation of their own
Charter, the United Nations, far from doing anything at all to help restore
peace to Syria, and without presenting the slightest evidence, accuse the
Syrian Arab Republic of having put down a revolution, of using chemical weapons
against its own population, of the massive practice of torture, and of starving
its people. Above all, it is dragging its feet on any peace initiative, leaving
time for NATO and the Gulf Co-operation Council to pilot the overthrow of the
régime by foreign mercenaries, in this instance the terrorist organisations
al-Qaïda and Daesh.
Keep in mind :
Since 2005, the group assigned to preparing the
war in Syria is being piloted by the US diplomat Jeffrey Feltman, assisted by
the German academic Volker Perthes.
Since 2005, the group assigned to preparing the
war in Syria is being piloted by the US diplomat Jeffrey Feltman, assisted by
the German academic Volker Perthes. In 2005, Feltman organised the assassination of
Rafic Hariri (because the security of Lebanon was handled by Syria) ; in 2006,
he organised Israel’s war against Lebanon (because Hezbollah was then armed by
Syria) ; in 2011, he directed the 4th generation war from the State Department
; since 2012, from the United Nations, for which he has become the number 2, he
has been working to make the war last long enough for the jihadist groups to
achieve victory.
Perthes associated himself with Feltman and the
private group Stratfor in order to influence German policy in the Near East. In
2008, he presented the project for régime change in Damascus to the Bilderberg
Group. In 2011, he convinced Merkel’s government to support the Muslim
Brotherhood during the « Arab Spring ». In 2012, he presided a work group
tasked with preparing the new régime, then drew up a plan for the total and
unconditional capitulation of Syria. Today, he is the UNO director for the
Geneva peace negotiations.
Translation
Pete Kimberley
Pete Kimberley
Source
Al-Watan (Syria)
Al-Watan (Syria)
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