Press TV, April 6, 2012
Leaked emails show an American private security company, SCG
International has been helping the Syrian opposition in its efforts to
overthrow President Bashar al-Assad at the request of US officials.
The whistleblower website, Wikileaks, released the emails sent by
SCG Chief Executive James F. Smith, the former director of the notorious
company Blackwater, which is blamed for the killing of many civilians in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
In one of the emails, Smith says his company was contracted to
engage the Turkey-based Syrian opposition in a so-called “fact finding
mission,” but “the true mission is how they can help in regime change.”
The emails were sent to the vice president of intelligence at
Stratfor, Fred Burton. Stratfor, a US-based global security think tank,
describes itself as a source of geopolitical analysis to corporate and
government clients.
Smith introduces his company to Burton by saying his “background
is CIA and his company is comprised of former Department of Defense (DoD), CIA
and former law enforcement personnel,” and his company provides services for
those same groups in the form of training, security and information collection.
SCG’s mission with the Syrian opposition had “air
cover from US Congresswoman Sue Myrick,”a Republican lawmaker
from North Carolina, according to the emails.
Smith also provided intelligence to Stratfor on Libya, where SCG
International was contracted to protect Libyan National Transitional Council
(NTC) members and train Libyan rebel fighters.
Impressed by
Smith’s intelligence, Burton praises him in one of the emails saying “Good
skinny. This is what is defined as a credible source. Not some windbag Paki
academic belching and passing gas.”
The emails are among a trove of five million messages hacked from
Stratfor in mid-December by the hacker group Anonymous.
PG/HGH
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