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Former UK ambassador to Syria accuses Foreign Office of lying about the country's civil war
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: April 9th, 2017
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-ambassador-...
The ex-British Ambassador to Syria has accused the Foreign Office of lying over the countrys civil war and said British policy there has "made the situation worse". [Peter] Ford, who was Britain's ambassador to Syria from 1999 to 2003, claimed that the UK had misread and misrepresented the situation in the country since the start of the conflict. He said: "The British Foreign Office to which I used to belong, Im sorry to say has gotten Syria wrong every step of the way. "They told us at the beginning that Assads demise was imminent. "But then they told us that the opposition was dominated by these so-called moderates. That proved not to be the case and now they're telling us another big lie that Assad cant control the rest of the country. Well Ive got news for them hes well on the way to doing so." Mr Ford said that when the conflict started the UK should have either "put everything, including our own forces on to the battlefield, or if in our judgement as it would have been my judgement that was not realistic, refrain from encouraging the opposition to mount a doomed campaign." He claimed the UKs tough talk on one hand, followed by little action to back rebels in Syria on the other had preceded a rebellion that had "only led to hundreds of thousands of civilians being maimed and killed". "We have made the situation worse." He added: "It was eminently foreseeable to anyone who was not intoxicated with wishful thinking." The UK has consistently taken the line that Assad cannot be a part of Syrias future.
Note: Regarding the recent chemical attack in Syria, the BBC has not posted it, but you can watch this BBC interview in which former U.K. ambassador to Syria Peter Ford raises serious questions about what happened and who is behind it. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing war news articles from reliable major media sources.
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