Human Rights Watch; 'Syrian Rebels' Guilty of Torture, Murder - by Tony Cartalucci
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/2012/09/human-rights-watch-syrian-rebel...
'US-Backed Syrian Terror Campaign Began in 2007 Under Bush, Continues Under Obama
A report published in 2007 by the New Yorker titled 'The Redirection' (full article here) cited US, Saudi and Lebanese officials who admitted that military and financial aid was already flowing to militant groups affiliated with both AQ and the Muslim Brotherhood with the aim of destabilizing Syria and Iran.
Former intelligence agents were also cited, warning that the plan being implemented under the Bush administration, would lead to a catastrophic sectarian bloodbath - the very sectarian bloodbath now unfolding in Syria today. In the report it explicitly states:
'To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has cooperated with Saudi Arabia's government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran.
The US has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant version of Islam and are hostile to Syria but sympathetic to AQ." Seymour Hersh, The Redirection (2007)