The Syrian Military Public Prosecution issued a statement yesterday not only reiterating the illegality of the U.S. military occupation of parts of eastern Syria but also charging that the illegitimate U.S. presence on the Syrian territory is a major factor of instability and impedes the political settlement of the crisis in the country. The statement, reported the official news agency SANA, underlined that Washington’s allegations regarding combatting terrorism have become exposed and the presence of its forces in Syria is to maintain its armed terrorist groups, including Daesh (ISIS), and others terrorist groups in order to achieve its interests in the region, far from the interests of the Syrian people. This includes the theft of the Syrian resources of gas and wheat and transporting them outside the border, “in a precedent that this world has not witnessed since the World War II.”
“The investigations showed with conclusive evidence that the Washington selected large numbers of terrorists, some of them from Daesh terrorists detained in prisons of groups loyal to Washington and transported them to its military bases at al-Tanf and other bases where they received intensive military training lasts three weeks under the supervision of U.S. instructors to train them to carry out subversive and terrorist attacks and to use modern reconnaissance equipment and means,” the statement said. The statement pointed to statements of some of those militants and their leaders which confirmed they participated, in exchange for money.
