“Al-Nusra” and the malicious American game in the South and the East

Written by Nasser Kandil,

Two major events have been coincided with a remarkable acceleration that is coincided with the progress in the field in Aleppo’s fronts, which prove that taking the initiative has become finally under the control of the Syrian army and its allies, and that the matter is a matter of time of days and weeks to resolve the whole situation of the city. It coincided also with the progress of the Russian American cooperation to settle the understanding which was reached by Moscow and Washington but waiting to be implemented, either regarding the military cooperation in the war’s fields on Al Nusra front and ISIS, or regarding the dealing with the political and the armed groups which fight under the banner of the opposition and work under Washington and its allies’ umbrella, in addition to rearrange their issues according to the Russia American understanding where the truce and the political process are available only for those who accept the priority of the war on terrorism and accept the disengagement with Al-Nusra front, and postponing the internal conflicts including the future of the Syrian presidency for after this war, in order to be settled at the ballot boxes. With these two events suddenly two major events occurred, first, what was announced by the leader of Al-Qaeda organization which was followed by the announcement of Al-Nusra Front about to change the name its name and its independence of Al-Qaeda organization on one hand, second, the announcement of the US Defense Minister Ashton Carter about the Washington’s intension to focus on the southern and eastern fronts of Syria in the war on ISIS.

The US Secretary announced that changing the name of Al-Nusra front which its statement has included an independence as a Syrian opposition front of any external front does not change the classification of Al Nusra as a terrorist organization. But is it acceptable for any sane to accept the idea that what has been issued by Al-Qaeda and Al Nusra within the acceleration of the variables is isolated from the international regional context that is related to what is coming? Al Nusra and its reference in Al-Qaeda organization have already refused similar proposals that are accompanied with the Qatari and the Saudi money, the French and the Turkish encouragement, and the American sponsorship which was expressed by the head of the CIA David Patreous by saying that Al Nusra is a necessity to defeat ISIS, and then it is reformulated by the US Secretary of State John Kerry the partner of the understanding with Moscow against Al Nusra by saying according to what was reported by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov few months ago, and which was reaffirmed by him publicly that the dispute between Moscow and Washington is not on the classification of Al Nusra but on finding priorities for the war on terrorism that puts ISIS at the forefront and seeks for temporal joining of Al Nusra to the truce.

What does grant an importance and a meaning to the change of the name of Al Nusra front, since it is a change by announcing the independence of Al-Qaeda organization which has ordered that itself, although Al Nusra proves the high loyalty to the organization is that it coincides at a crucial moment militarily and politically with the US announcement of the interest in the southern and the western fronts instead of the northern front. This practically means that the American is proposing a geographic military sharing to Russia within the understanding and the cooperation to make the North under Russian responsibility while the South and the East under American responsibility, and that the announcement of the war on ISIS in the south and in the East means mysterious war, where ISIS is a mysterious presence outside Raqqa Deir-ez-Zout and Hasaka, and the cooperated groups with Washington under the names of the opposition are mysterious, and where ISIS is weak and the groups led by Washington is weaker.

The American is seeking for a geostrategic game in the military field, so he leaves crushing Al Nusra in the north to Syria and its allies, as well as the arrangement of the Syrian Turkish borders, but he devotes himself to the task for which originally the Americans behold it to ISIS through the Turks, as they already behold the complemented bordered geography to Al Nusra Front, which means the bordered separated lines which we talked previously about their meanings and dimensions in details, where each of ISIS and Al Nusra do not find interest in the major cities such as Damascus and Aleppo where the population is supposed to get the interest of their speech from the sectarian aspect, as they interested in the borders of Syria with Turkey, the borders of Syria with Iraq, the borders of Syria with Jordan, the borders of Syria with the Syrian occupied Golan, and the borders of Syria with Lebanon and they shared them. Now the American rushes to fill the vacancy which resulted from the decision of cancelling ISIS to restore the bordered points without having forces that fill the vacancy, he will wage battles under the title of overthrowing ISIS in Quneitra, and giving the control to the groups entitled the moderate opposition, as in the borders of Syria with Iraq, and the borders of Syria with Jordan, these groups accpet the loss of the game in the Syrian Turkish borders, while they leave the situation on the Lebanese borders for later quiet discussion.

The American alternative will appear successively under a new name as the Future Army of Syria, the Tomorrow Army of Syria, or the Army of the Unified Syria, it will include groups that are separated from Al Nusra front theoretically, and show that the decision of the independence of Al-Qaeda and the return to the pure Syrian base liberates them from the compliance to the instructions of the leader of Al Nusra Abou Mohammed Al Joulani. And then these groups which the Americans will arrange them will be given two tasks; first, preventing the connection between Syria and Iraq, second, preventing the resistance from approaching the borders of the occupied Golan, which means ensuring the strategic security of Israel, because the line of Iraq- Syria, and the borders of Golan are title of the this security to the resistance and its opposite to Israel.

What the Americans did not consider is that the war of the Northern of Syria will be resolved before they arrange their alternative for the South and the East, and they will find that the Syrian army and its allies in front of them in the Southern fronts till the borders of Golan and on the Syrian Iraqi borders from Tanf to the North.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,