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Obama Stopped Plan to Topple Al-Assad!
Local Editor
Former Central Intelligence Agency agent, Doug Laux, wrote in a new book that he and other agents crafted a plan to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2012, but US President Barack Obama rejected it.
In further details, the book added that Obama did not allow the CIA to execute a plan, which would have sought to overthrow al-Assad government in 2012. If the program had succeeded, it possibly could have stopped the rise of Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist "ISIS" group] and the flow of refugees into Europe, fleeing the chaos in Syria.
It has been previously reported that former CIA Director David Petraeus offered to train and arm Syrian militants to topple al-Assad.
But Laux revealed, in his book, that the Obama administration refused to give the CIA a green light to carry out a multi-stage plan for the purpose. Laux, currently based in the Middle East, served as an operative there for a year and part of his job entailed meeting with Syrian militants and intelligence officials in the neighboring countries.
As he returned to the states the following year, he crafted a plan in cooperation with other agents, which he said included all the elements needed to topple al-Assad. His bosses presented the plan to the Senate Intelligence Committee, and a former senior CIA official recently told NBC that Laux's ideas were ultimately presented to President Obama, who rejected the plan.
Laux said in an interview: "We had come up with 50 good options to facilitate that. My ops plan laid them out in black and white. But political leadership...hadn't given us the go-ahead to implement a single one."
Security officials said they were surprised that the CIA authorized the publication of the book. However, they noted that the CIA heavily censored it, removing operational details. Eventually, Laux resigned from the CIA after Obama rejected his plan.
For his part, the CIA spokesman refused to comment on the details of the book and instead personally castigated Laux: "Sadly, Mr. Laux's career at CIA did not work out. We hope that someday, maybe with age and greater maturity, he will have better perspective on his time here."
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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