Arab media in league with Western intelligence services

A prominent political analyst says Arab media are in cahoots with Western intelligence services to trigger tensions in the Arab world and more specifically Syria for the moment.

In an interview on Press TV, Kevin Barrett of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance from Wisconsin singled out Qatari Al-Jazeera network. He said: “We know that a couple of members of Aljazeera resigned earlier this year because what they saw as biased reporting on Syria.”

“So, Aljazeera has been in bed with the Western intelligence services, for at least the past decade and that should not surprise us since the nation of Qatar is basically one big US military base,” Barrett said.

“[The mainstream Arab media] want to destroy all of these Middle Eastern states, break them into much smaller pieces that could never be a threat to Israel,” he said. “They have been working to smash the Arab countries into pieces. They have been planning this for decades and the obvious way to do that, is to strike the fault lines of this sectarian differences and they are trying to turn Sunni against Shiite and they are trying to also incite ethnic nationalism among Kurds and other groups.”

In the interview, Barrett said Al-Jazeera’s broadcast of tapes from the former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was part of the Western intelligence operation “which the Mossad and elements of the CIA were perpetrating to deceive the world, to make the world believe that somehow Bin Laden who was not even ever indicted by the FBI for 9/11 was guilty of the 9/11 attacks”.