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To the surprise of absolutely no one, outgoing MI6 chief Richard Moore acknowledged on September 19 that the United Kingdom forged a backdoor relationship with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) before the group’s rise to power in Syria.
“Having forged a relationship with HTS a year or two before they toppled Bashar al-Assad, we forged a path for the UK government to return to the country within weeks,” Moore said in a speech at the British consulate in Istanbul.
Moore, who led the MI6 for five years, went on to boast that the relationship with HTS leader at the time Ahmad al-Sharaa facilitated Britain’s diplomatic return to Syria after the fall of the Assad regime.
“Syria is a good example of where people can get ahead of events, it really helps when they suddenly, unexpectedly, move to a faster pace,” the outgoing chief of Britain’s foreign intelligence service told reporters in Istanbul.
Sharaa was a lieutenant of ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. When the war first broke out in Syria, al-Baghdadi sent al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohamad al-Julani, to Syria to found the al-Nusra Front.
As the group evolved, it broke ties with ISIS and later al-Qaeda, eventually rebranding as HTS. The group led the final offensive that brought down the Assad regime last December. It then went on to dissolve itself after installing the Interim Government.
While Moore claimed that the UK began communicating with Sharaa just “a year or two” ago, Arab media reports from as far back as 2021 first revealed the relationship between the two sides. In that year, it was reported that Jonathan Powell, a veteran British back-channel negotiator, traveled to northern Syria and met with Sahraa.
Powell, who returned to the UK government as National Security Adviser last year, was among the first British officials to meet with the Interim Government in Syria right after the fall of the Assad regime.
The UK went on to re-established diplomatic relations with the Interim Government in July during a visit by then-foreign secretary David Lammy to Damascus. The visit was the first by a British minister to Syria in 14 years. It’s worth noting that Lammy also confirmed soon after the fall of the Assad regime that the UK had had previous contact with HTS.
Britain remains heavily engaged in Syria, with Special Representative Ann Snow involved in the country’s day-to-day affairs.
The UK is, without a doubt, very supportive of Sharaa. It has shown little to no criticism of the Interim Government, even after its forces massacred hundreds of Alawite civilians on the Syrian coast in March, then did the same with Druze civilians in the south in July. The British stance from these events, which were even condemned by the United States, stood out.
The depth of the relationship between Sharaa and the UK is clearly way older than what was acknowledged by Moore and it may be even older than earlier reports from four years ago. However, it remains to be seen how Britain will use this relationship to further its interests in Syria.
So far, Sahraa appears to be taking a moderate stance towards everyone, including Russia which is considered the main rival of the UK.
Back in 2000, when Assad first came to power, this was seen as a win for the UK. Just like Sharaa, Britain had an early relationship with Bashar who had studied in London and even went on to marry a Syrian born in the UK. Assad forged his early relations in the West with help from Britain. Reports from a few years ago even revealed that then-prime minister Tony Blair wanted to knight Bashar in 2002. But after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the relationship between the two went downhill. Considering this case, Moore may be celebrating too early.
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the snaggle tooth scum from pirate rock aka “england” are even more evil than the filthy head-chopping i$i$ garbage pig with lipstick the new best buddy of the sub-human monster nutnyahoo. the anglozionazi empire of s#it is getting flushed and nothing will save it…nothing.
jews taken control of the bank of england during napoléonic wars. france falls in late 19th century. the sykes-picot agreement was a secret treaty signed on 16 may 1916 to plan a french-british invasion of middle east and makes palestine a british protectorate. in 1917 lord rothschild gave order to balfour to make palestine a jewish colony. but according to chaim weizmann, it was done in exchange of plunging isolationist usa in the war. ( read his biography trial and errors).
general john french, commander-in-chief of the british expeditionary force during ww1, was very upset by this décision of the uk gvt. he asked soldiers to replace those sent in the middle east. when he saw american soldiers entering ww1 he understood (((who))) was really in charge in the west and wrote it after the war.
french opposed this secret agreément and was replaced by haig in 1915. but he was still a public figure and expressed himself more freely after beeing removed.
(((who)))wazzit…??????
multiple choice : a. joos. b. k*kes. c. a pack of inbred schizo misanthropes who are always victims.
((( it’s a tricky one )))
the traitorous russia must be plundered and destroyed by the royal pirates.
mossad and mi6 grab jewlani’s balls…. so surprising…..
i hope assad is enjoying his moscow apartment…heheheh
al jew-lani will always chose mossad over mi6
if i ever meet this motherfucker, i no punch and knock his teeth out at once, i pullem out one by one and put them back and so his nails, and every hair follicle and anything that grows back again and again. fuck them all al-qaeda headchoppers.
swindler’s list.
syria was a target for so long time of the western empire of the exceptionals. but now, syria will be a waste land for at least 50 years, and israel will control the southern part. israel is trying to expand their zone of control but if their supporters falls down (usa, uk france, germany) israel is kaput. anyways syria is nobody’s land and civilians will suffer so its going to leave that wasteland or stay and die.
these terrorists are desperate to establish their heretz israel. the whole operation not only targets middle east but also russia and the entire africa in order to plunder the resource.
it still hurts even now that i am dead and turning in my grave, when i see someone like sharraa al-jolani become president of syria and friends with trump and netanyahu.
when they cut my throat and slowly decapitated me with a rusty, dull knife i squealled like a pig being slaughtered, but seing how my al-qaeda excutioners in iraq and syria have become such friends with the us deep state and israel even hurst more. now i wish i hadn’t been such a zionist huren
the only one who will pay will be iran, because now israel has clean air because russia betrayed syria
never happened before and here it is again. anglos used wahhabis since tomas lowrence (of arabia) used them against turkey in 1918 to conquer suez and oil deposits of the arabian peninsula.
my tranny hillbilly ex husband spy for dr shekelstein so i demoted to toilet scrubber in gay bars
zio whore richard moore.
brits – crappy food and very bad teeth!
true but these “british” freaks love their deep fried mars bars. how stupid can these people be? very stupid…
jewlani was the 2nd in command of isis. the uk regime constantly plumbs new depths of evil, committing terrorism all over the world and supporting genocide. in 2017 over 1,000 people, many of them young girls, were killed and injured at the manchester arena bombing. the bomber, abedi, was an mi6 asset who had been on their payroll for years. they sent him to libya to overthrow gaddafi and brought him out on a navy warship.
some of us said this years ago, mi6 and other western intelligence services have backed head hacking savages for years and not just in syria, sometimes we get blowback like the manchester arena bombing when our sponsored terrorists go roague.
england is heavily involved in conflict creation. they expect the ussa to fix all the problems they make. israel is another product of the crown. example = england bombed berlin to get the germans to bomb london. why ? to get the us in to ww 2 !