{"id":231036,"date":"2021-04-04T07:38:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T07:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=231036"},"modified":"2021-04-05T07:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T07:13:53","slug":"more-proof-of-us-supporting-al-qaeda-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=231036","title":{"rendered":"More proof of US supporting al-Qaeda in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 April 3, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>T<strong>op US diplomat James Jeffrey has admitted that a Syrian rebranded al-Qaeda affiliate was a US \u201casset\u201d for pursuing Washington\u2019s hegemonic policy in the Middle East.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey, who served as a US ambassador under both Republican and Democrat administrations and most recently as former US President Donald Trump\u2019s special representative for Syria and later as the special envoy to the global anti-Daesh coalition, said the Syrian al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group known today as the\u00a0Hay&#8217;at\u00a0Tahrir al-Sham\u00a0(HTS) terrorist group was \u201can asset\u201d to the US\u00a0to undermine the democratically-elected government of Bashar Assad.<\/p>\n<p>The top US diplomat said the HTS militant group, which had emerged from Jabhat al-Nusra and later Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, was the \u201cleast bad option\u201d for the United States for implementing its strategy in Idlib, Syria.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/article\/abu-mohammad-al-jolani-interview-hayat-tahrir-al-sham-syria-al-qaeda\/\">FRONTLINE<\/a>\u00a0correspondent Martin Smith, Jeffrey said that Idlib was one of the crucial locations in the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are the least bad option of the various options on Idlib, and Idlib is one of the most important places in Syria, which is one of the most important places right now in the Middle East,\u201d he said in the March 8 interview.<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department had said that the group\u2019s leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, aimed to topple Assad\u2019s government, making him an ally for the US.<\/p>\n<p>Jolani\u2019s \u201cultimate goal is the overthrow of the Syrian regime,\u201d it said, noting that attacks carried out by his group \u201ckilled innocent Syrian civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>US supported Al -Qaeda in Syria, Libya and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2021\/04\/03\/648692\/US-Syria-Jeffrey-al-Qaeda-\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading U.S. diplomat James Jeffrey has admitted that an al-Qaeda affiliate group was chosen as the \u201cleast bad option\u201d to further U.S. goals in Syria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[95,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beheadings-by-muslim-militants","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231037,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231036\/revisions\/231037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}