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UK Gov’t Exposed For Funding Terrorist “Councils,” “Police,” And “White Helmets”

by mosesman
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Affairs-Britains-Collusion-Radical/dp/1846687640#_
In this ground-breaking book, Mark Curtis reveals the covert history of British collusion with radical Islamic and terrorist groups. Secret Affairs shows how governments since the 1940s have connived with militant forces to control oil resources and overthrow governments. The story of how Britain has helped nurture the rise of global terrorism has never been told.
  • UK Gov’t Exposed For Funding Terrorist “Councils,” “Police,” And “White Helmets”
    by Brandon Turbeville, https://www.activistpost.com/
    The BBC has recently surprised everyone with a rare act of journalism, exposing the UK government for funding terrorists in Syria through a foreign aid programme that has dished out millions of pounds of taxpayer money over the years. The money has been awarded to groups like Adam Smith International which is then funneled to the extremists. At the focus of the BBC article is the fact that taxpayer money has been provided to the Free Syrian Police, a police force operated by “rebel” councils.
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    While ASI argues that the FSP is an unarmed security force, an abundance of evidence demonstrates to the contrary as anyone who pays even a shred of attention to the Syrian crisis would already know. FSP is heavily armed, heavily sectarian, units of terror employed by units of terrorists. They are, in reality, simply more terrorists employed to control and oppress the people of Syria. Of this there is no doubt. As BBC reports,
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    The government has suspended a foreign aid project after a BBC Panorama investigation found taxpayers’ cash was being diverted to extremists in Syria. Officers from a UK-backed police force in Syria have also been working with courts carrying out brutal sentences.
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    A UK government spokesman said it takes allegations of co-operation with terrorist groups “extremely seriously”. Adam Smith International, the British company running the project, said it strongly denies the allegations.
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    The Free Syrian Police (FSP) was set up following the uprising in Syria, to bring law and order to parts of the country that were controlled by opposition forces. Adam Smith International (ASI) has been running the project since October 2014.
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    Britain was one of six donor countries paying for the project, which provides community policing to the rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Idlib and Daraa provinces.
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    read more.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq
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