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A commentator tells Press TV that the British authorities are trying to hide their destructive role of supplying the anti-Syrian terrorists with arms.

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A senior Syrian minister has deplored Britain and France for “directly or indirectly” providing support to terrorist group al Qaeda in an escalating war against Syria. Faisal al Miqdad, Syria’s deputy foreign minister, also denounced Jordan for playing “a dangerous game” in the region by facilitating arms supplies to be transferred from its territory to foreign-backed terrorists fighting the Syrian government.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Jim Brann, with the Stop the War Coalition from London to shed more light on the issue at hand. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Mr. Brann how do you react to the fact that now we have this…, you know, the fact that we now have these 200 American troops entering Jordan?

What exactly is the United States planning at this point?

Brann: Well, first of all I think that we should not be surprised because there have been so many indications in the last couple of years that to have some specific confirmations like these 200 troops is nothing more than confirming what we effectively knew already because you have to present a thing, I think, in its most basic context which is that what the United States has in the world today indisputably, is military power and the constant question for the United States is to bring that military power to bear and they have had some real setbacks because, you know, they thought that they were going to march into Iraq ten years ago and they were going to be greeted with flowers and sweets, as they said, and we know that nine years later they disappeared, basically, with their tail between their legs.

But there is a constant fact that they have to bring that military power to bear and that region of the world where Syria is, is an absolutely vital region, the most vital region you could say, for them to do that. So that should not surprise us.

On the other hand, they have a problem that they cannot work out effectively exactly how to do it and that is really how things have been for two years now.

Although you have to say that they have made constant efforts and they are always making constant efforts and I can speak more clearly about Britain because Britain is very closely allied to the United States.

And if you look at the series of announcements made by the British government, they are more and more deceptive because clearly Britain is introducing military aid of various kinds into the situation while at the same time pretending that it is not.

So it calls what it supplies for example, defensive, while it supplies armored vehicles which then says are defensive and not offensive and so on.

But it is all very deceptive and the constant position that they are taking, is to militarize the situation and to try and intervene militarily, either directly or by proxy.

MY/JR