29 Mar 2024
Barack Obama has allegedly pulled the plug on a detailed 2012 CIA plan designed to support Syrian rebels and remove President Bashar al-Assad from power, a former CIA field operative Doug Laux, who came up with the initiative, asserted in an exclusive interview with the NBC News.





The initiative was ostensibly backed bykey decision-makers inWashington, including then CIA chief David Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, who served asthe US secretary ofstate, and Leon Panetta, who was secretary ofdefense atthe time. But it was Barack Obama, who remained unconvinced that the plan was the right way toproceed.
"We had come upwith 50 good options tofacilitate that. My ops plan laid them outin black and white. But political leadership hadn't given us the go-ahead toimplement a single one," Laux lamented.




Some inWashington believe that the plan, if given the green light, would have stopped the bloodshed inSyria, prevented Daesh fromrising and saved Europe fromthe unprecedented wave ofrefugees. But Laux is doubtful. "I think that's impossible topredict," he said.


Barack Obama later authorized a program aimed atproviding non-lethal support tothe Syrian rebels. He recently defended this approach inan interview withJeffrey Goldberg. "The notion that we could have ina clean way that didn't commit US military forces changed the equation onthe ground there was never true," the journalist quoted Obama assaying

The US has long maintained that al-Assad must resign beforeany meaningful peace process could be launched. The ongoing UN-sponsored peace process, endorsed byRussia and the US, offers indirect proof ofWashington's shifting agenda. The resolution that paved the way forthe Syrian ceasefire and the peace talks made no mention ofal-Assad's fate.

The book, titled "Left ofBoom," details Laux's eight-year-long stint inthe CIA. It will hit the shelves onApril 5. But don't expect tolearn additional details aboutthe plan tooverthrow the Syrian government sincethe CIA reviewed and redacted the account.

Laux is said tohave resigned fromthe agency "in frustration." The task tocome upwith a plan toremove Assad was his final assignment.
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