Syrian air-strikes: Does the US have the foggiest idea who their enemy is?
America's bombing of Jabhat al-Nusra has raised
significant concerns over their strategy
KIM SENGUPTA - Monday 29 September 2014
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=168274#168274
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/syrian-airstrikes-does-the-us-have-the-foggiest-idea-of-who-their-enemy-is-9763439.html
The fog of war has been a recurrent theme through
time, the confusion and misapprehension that
comes amid the clamour and fury of combat. Even
in these early days of the war against Isis, the
fog appears to be descending fast with no clear
strategy in view and a moving gallery of enemies.
Barack Obama admits that his administration
underestimated the threat posed by Isis and
overestimated the capabilities of the Iraqi
military. This is surprising; the rise to
dominance of the Islamist group in Syria, and the
damage done by former Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki to his country's forces through
sectarian policies had been extensively charted by the media.
The real confusion began when the campaign moved
on to Syria, a necessary step. Instead of just
attacking Isis, the US also bombed Jabhat
al-Nusra, affiliated to al-Qaeda but which had
fought against Isis and was loosely allied with
the "moderate" rebels whom the West is sponsoring.
Just before the attack, there was a slew of media
reports in the US about a group called Khorasan,
linked to al-Nusra, and accounts of how it was
more dangerous and extreme than Isis, which, we
had already been told, was more dangerous and
extreme than al-Qaeda. Not just that, but there
was an imminent plot by Khorasan's master bomb-makers to bring down airliners.
Some of us who have spent time with the rebels
inside Syria were caught on the hop, we had not
even heard of Khorasan, apart from as an historic
name for a caliphate in south-central Asia. "This
just shows how much out of touch we are, we need
to get back in there," a colleague from another
newspaper pointed out gloomily. It is the case
that recent international reporting from Syria
has been from those who had gone in with the
regime; coverage of opposition areas has dropped
dramatically after a spate of kidnappings of
journalists. The murder of our friend Jim Foley
is still vivid in the minds of many of us.
But could it be that we have not heard of
Khorasan because it does not exist, certainly
under that name? And, furthermore, there was no attack imminent?
Andrew McCarthy, a former US federal terrorism
prosecutor was blunt in the National Review
magazine: "You haven't heard of the Khorasan
group because there isn't one. It is a name the
administration came up with calculating that
Khorasan had sufficient connection to jihadist
lore [so] that no one would call the President on it."
Aki Peritz, a former CIA counterterrorism
specialist told Time magazine: "I had never heard
of this group while working for the CIA".
Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman,
wanted to counter those who quibbled about the
imminence of an attack. "I don't know that we can
pin that down to a day or month or week or six
months. We can have this debate about whether it
was too soon or too late... We hit them, and I
don't think we need to throw up a dossier to prove that these are bad dudes."
A Tornado GR4 alongside a Voyager refuelling
aircraft during the RAF's first combat mission
against Isis in northern Iraq A Tornado GR4
alongside a Voyager refuelling aircraft during
the RAF's first combat mission against Isis in northern Iraq
One theory is that US officials "revealed"
Khorasan to justify bombing al-Nusra, knowing the
sensitivities this entailed. If that was the aim,
it has not worked; al-Nusra and Isis are holding
meetings to coordinate vengeance attacks. And the
attack on "Khorasan" will make supposed ground
operations by the Peshmerga, what's left of the
Free Syrian Army and friendly Arab states,
accompanying the air strikes, that much more difficult.
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