Dahlan to assume US envoy McGurk’s dirty role in Syria

With the resignation of the Special Representative to the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh, Brett McGurk, after President Donald Trump’s announcement that American soldiers would be drawing from Syria, Mohammad Dahlan, who is a great supporter of Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman, is set to take his place.

McGurk has had close dealings with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist organization in Syria for years and has tried to provoke locals against Turkey. He has also assumed a role in the chaos in Iraq. Trump declared that he is a “grandstander” and that he “did not know him” on Twitter.

Dahlan recently conducted meetings with representatives of the PKK and Assad in Dubai, Cairo and Amman. On the agenda was decreasing Turkey’s influence in Syria as well as supporting Daesh.

Dahlan, the former security chief for the Palestinian Authority who is also known as the “hitman” of the Middle East, was the main mediator between the UAE government and an assassination squad in Yemen.

The first goal of Dahlan, who is known to be supported by UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is to prevent Turkish military and political influence in the Syrian regions of Hasakah, Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa.

To this end, Dahlan recently came together with figures from the Syrian “political wing” such as Ahmad Jarba, Nawaf Bashir, Hassan Abdulazim and Haytham Manna. From the “military wing”, he met with commanders of the Jaysh Maghawir, Jaish al Ashair, and the Al-Senadid.

These meetings, in which dirty ploys regarding Syria’s northern and eastern region were discussed, were also attended by former private soldier for Iraq, Abu Nazir, who cooperated with the U.S. in Iraq’s invasion.

Following the meeting conducted in early December in Jordanian capital Amman, a six-person Saudi delegation, headed by the Saudi intelligence’s Syria chief, was sent to Syria. With a Syrian companion, this delegation visited the areas of Deir- ez-Zor, Raqqa, Ras al-Ayn, Ayn Isa, Manbij and Hasakah, and gave out $200 million. They requested that tribal leaders attend the anti-Turkey meetings and demonstrations organized by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and make statements condemning Turkey.

The new structuring prepared by the UAE and Saudi Arabia and headed by Dahlan aims to support and revive Daesh by giving the terror group the weapons allocated to the PKK in order to obstruct Turkey’s operations in the country.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signaled that a cross-border operation against the terrorist PYD/YPG in Syria will happen soon. Since 2016, Ankara has carried out two similar military operations in northern Syria.

In the first phase, 5,000 Daesh terrorists, who were detained by the PKK and Peshmerga, will be included in the “fight against Turkey,” which will be followed by recruiting members in Egypt’s Sinai, as well as Libya and Tunisia.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. The YPG and PYD are its Syrian extensions.

Dahlan’s team will work together with one of the darkest intelligence services of the Middle East, Syria’s Mukhabarat, in establishing Deash cells in Syria’s Idlib and Afrin, as well as the Euphrates Shield region.

A possible mission east of the Euphrates, which Turkey’s leadership has been suggesting for months, would follow two successful cross-border Turkish operations into Syria since 2016 – Operation Euphrates Shield and Operation Olive Branch – both meant to eradicate the presence of YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorists near Turkey’s borders.