U.S. Seeks to Exploit Anti-Assad Movement in Syria http://mostlywater.org/us_seeks_exploit_antiassad_movement_syria

The clear aim has been to replace the Assad regime with a pliant Washington-friendly government, made up of regime defectors and CIA operatives who would end Syria’s relations with Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine. This is part of its wider policy of “rolling back” Syria, first outlined in 1996 by neo-cons later to serve in the Bush administration and the clique around soon-to-be Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu in the document, “A Clean Break.”the State Department provided $6 million to an Islamic group, the Movement for Justice and Development, similar to Turkey’s ruling party of the same name, set up by Syrian exiles in London. This funded the operation of Barada TV, named after a river that runs through Damascus, the Syrian capital, and financed activities in Syria.

The US financed dissident Syrian exiles through government programmes such as its Middle East Partnership Initiative, under the guise of grants and scholarships for “leadership” programmes in Middle East countries. While the State Department claimed that the Middle East Partnership Initiative had spent $7.5 million on Syrian programmes since 2005, one cable cited a much higher figure of $12 million between 2005 and 2010.Syrian dissidents have received funding from the Los Angeles-based Democracy Council, which ran a Syria-related program called the “Civil Society Strengthening Initiative” funded with $6.3 million from the State Department. The programme is described as “a discrete collaborative effort between the Democracy Council and local partners” to produce, among other things, “various broadcast concepts”, which included Barada TV.

[I still say f#$k  wikileaks and assange,he exposed this only beacuse real researchers had already exposed this,and it knew in order to look credible,it would have to expose it to bigger audiances via msm..knowing if he didnt,people would question why he didnt release it before all others on the blog scene...btw i been exposinga sange since day one,and tehse connections as well between west and syrian opposition..since day one ;)