Brings to mind Iran contra. --- the same kind of US interventionist failure for sure.
On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 12:33:10 PM UTC-5, gtheist957 wrote: > > Brings to mind Iran contra. > > On Aug 12, 2016 12:30 PM, "MJ" <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> May 24, 2015 >> >> *Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To >> Overthrow Syria's President Assad *by Tyler Durden >> >> From the first sudden, and quite dramatic, appearance of the fanatical >> Islamic group known as ISIS which was largely unheard of until a year ago, >> on the world's stage and which promptly replaced the worn out and tired al >> Qaeda as the world's terrorist bogeyman, we suggested that the "*straight >> to beheading YouTube clip*" purpose behind the Saudi Arabia-funded >> Islamic State >> <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/america-s-allies-are-funding-isis.html>was >> >> a simple one: use the Jihadists as the vehicle of choice to achieve a >> political goal: depose of Syria's president Assad, who for years has stood >> in the way of a critical Qatari natural gas pipeline >> <http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/mystery-sponsor-weapons-and-money-syrian-rebels-revealed>, >> >> one which could dethrone Russia as Europe's dominant - and belligerent - >> source of energy, reaching an interim climax with the unsuccessful >> Mediterranean Sea military build up of 2013, which nearly resulted in >> quasi-world war. >> >> The narrative and the plotline were so transparent, even Russia saw right >> through them. Recall from September of last year >> <http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-11/russia-warns-obamas-two-faced-strategy-syria-will-lead-huge-escalation-middle-east-a> >> : >> >> If the West bombs Islamic State militants in Syria without consulting >> Damascus, LiveLeak reports >> <http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=760_1410383985#Iv1gTyxwvHzlfUFs.99> that >> the anti-ISIS alliance may use the occasion to launch airstrikes against >> President Bashar Assad’s forces, according to Russian Foreign Minister >> Sergey Lavrov. Clearly comprehending that Obama's new strategy against >> ISIS in Syria is all about pushing the Qatar pipeline through >> <http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/mystery-sponsor-weapons-and-money-syrian-rebels-revealed> >> (as >> was the impetus behind the 2013 intervention push) >> <http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/mystery-sponsor-weapons-and-money-syrian-rebels-revealed>, >> >> Russia is pushing back noting that the it is using ISIS as a pretext for >> bombing Syrian government forces and warning that "such a development would >> lead to a huge escalation of conflict in the Middle East and North Africa." >> >> But it's one thing to speculate; it's something entirely different to >> have hard proof. >> >> And while speculation was rife that just like the CIA-funded al Qaeda >> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/world/asia/cia-funds-found-their-way-into-al-qaeda-coffers.html?_r=0>had >> >> been used as a facade by the US to achieve its own geopolitical and >> national interests over the past two decades, so ISIS was nothing more than >> al Qaeda 2.0, there was no actual evidence of just this. >> >> That may all have changed now when a declassified secret US government >> document obtained by the public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows >> that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other >> Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad. >> >> According to investigative reporter Nafeez Ahmed in Medium, the "leaked >> document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the >> West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, >> despite anticipating that doing so could lead to the emergence of an >> ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). >> >> According to the newly declassified US document, the Pentagon foresaw the >> likely rise of the ‘Islamic State’ as a direct consequence of the strategy, >> but described this outcome as a strategic opportunity to “isolate the >> Syrian regime.” >> >> And not just that: as we reported last week >> <http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-22/how-you-boost-gdp-us-sells-over-4-billion-weapons-israel-iran-and-saudi-arabia>, >> >> now that ISIS is running around the middle east, cutting people's heads of >> in 1080p quality and Hollywood-quality (perhaps literally) video, the US >> has a credible justification to sell billions worth of modern, >> sophisticated weapons in the region in order to "modernize" and "replenish" >> the weapons of such US allies as Saudi Arabia, Israel and Iraq. >> >> But that the US military-industrial complex is a winner every time war >> breaks out anywhere in the world (usually with the assistance of the CIA) >> is clear to everyone by now. What wasn't clear is just how the US >> predetermined the current course of events in the middle east. >> >> Now, thanks to the following declassified report, we have a far better >> understanding of not only how current events in the middle east came to be, >> but what America's puppermaster role leading up to it all, was. >> >> From Nafeez Ahmed: Secret Pentagon report reveals West saw ISIS as >> strategic asset Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists >> to ‘isolate’ Assad, rollback ‘Shia expansion', originally posted in >> Medium >> <https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-west-saw-isis-as-strategic-asset-b99ad7a29092> >> . >> >> [image: []] >> <http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2015/05/isis%20US%20role.jpeg> >> >> Hypocrisy >> >> >> >> The revelations contradict the official line of Western government on >> their policies in Syria, and raise disturbing questions about secret >> Western support for violent extremists abroad, while using the burgeoning >> threat of terror to justify excessive mass surveillance and crackdowns on >> civil liberties at home. >> >> Among the batch of documents obtained by Judicial Watch through a federal >> lawsuit, released earlier this week, is a US Defense Intelligence Agency >> (DIA) document >> <http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf> >> >> then classified as “secret,” dated 12th August 2012. >> >> The DIA provides military intelligence in support of planners, >> policymakers and operations for the US Department of Defense and >> intelligence community. >> >> So far, media reporting has focused on the evidence that the Obama >> administration knew of arms supplies from a Libyan terrorist stronghold to >> rebels in Syria. >> >> Some outlets have reported the US intelligence community’s internal >> prediction of the rise of ISIS. Yet none have accurately acknowledged the >> disturbing details exposing how the West knowingly fostered a sectarian, >> al-Qaeda-driven rebellion in Syria. >> >> Charles Shoebridge, a former British Army and Metropolitan Police >> counter-terrorism intelligence officer, said: >> >> “Given the political leanings of the organisation that obtained these >> documents, it’s unsurprising that the main emphasis given to them thus far >> has been an attempt to embarrass Hilary Clinton regarding what was known >> about the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in 2012. However, the >> documents also contain far less publicized revelations that raise vitally >> important questions of the West’s governments and media in their support of >> Syria’s rebellion.” >> >> >> >> >> *The West’s Islamists*The newly declassified DIA document >> <http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/pgs-287-293-291-jw-v-dod-and-state-14-812-2/> >> >> from 2012 confirms that the main component of the anti-Assad rebel forces >> by this time comprised Islamist insurgents affiliated to groups that would >> lead to the emergence of ISIS. Despite this, these groups were to continue >> receiving support from Western militaries and their regional allies. >> >> Noting that “the Salafist [sic], the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI >> [al-Qaeda in Iraq] are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria,” >> the document states that “the West, Gulf countries, and Turkey support the >> opposition,” while Russia, China and Iran “support the [Assad] regime.” >> >> The 7-page DIA document states that al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the precursor >> to the ‘Islamic State in Iraq,’ (ISI) which became the ‘Islamic State in >> Iraq and Syria,’ “supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning, both >> ideologically and through the media.” >> >> The formerly secret Pentagon report notes that the “rise of the >> insurgency in Syria” has increasingly taken a “sectarian direction,” >> attracting diverse support from Sunni “religious and tribal powers” across >> the region. >> >> In a section titled ‘The Future Assumptions of the Crisis,’ the DIA >> report predicts that while Assad’s regime will survive, retaining control >> over Syrian territory, the crisis will continue to escalate “into proxy >> war.” >> >> The document also recommends the creation of “safe havens under >> international sheltering, similar to what transpired in Libya when Benghazi >> was chosen as the command centre for the temporary government.” >> >> In Libya, anti-Gaddafi rebels, most of whom were al-Qaeda affiliated >> militias, were protected >> <http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/good-news-uk-counter-extremism-plans-could-be-used-silence-katie-hopkins-1353190385> >> >> by NATO ‘safe havens’ (aka ‘no fly zones’). >> >> >> >> *‘Supporting powers want’ ISIS entity*In a strikingly prescient >> prediction, the Pentagon document explicitly forecasts the probable >> declaration of “an Islamic State through its union with other terrorist >> organizations in Iraq and Syria.” >> >> Nevertheless, “Western countries, the Gulf states and Turkey are >> supporting these efforts” by Syrian “opposition forces” fighting to >> “control the eastern areas (Hasaka and Der Zor), adjacent to Western Iraqi >> provinces (Mosul and Anbar)”: >> >> “… there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared >> Salafist Principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is >> exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to >> isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the >> Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran).” >> >> The secret Pentagon document thus provides extraordinary confirmation >> that the US-led coalition currently fighting ISIS, had three years ago >> welcomed the emergence of an extremist “Salafist Principality” in the >> region as a way to undermine Assad, and block off the strategic expansion >> of Iran. Crucially, Iraq is labeled as an integral part of this “Shia >> expansion.” >> >> The establishment of such a “Salafist Principality” in eastern Syria, the >> DIA document asserts, is “exactly” what the “supporting powers to the >> [Syrian] opposition want.” Earlier on, the document repeatedly describes >> those “supporting powers” as “the West, Gulf countries, and Turkey.” >> >> Further on, the document reveals that Pentagon analysts were acutely >> aware of the dire risks of this strategy, yet ploughed ahead anyway. >> >> The establishment of such a “Salafist Principality” in eastern Syria, it >> says, would create “the ideal atmosphere for AQI to return to its old >> pockets in Mosul and Ramadi.” Last summer, ISIS conquered Mosul in Iraq, >> and just this month has also taken control of Ramadi. >> >> Such a quasi-state entity will provide: >> >> “… a renewed momentum under the presumption of unifying the jihad among >> Sunni Iraq and Syria, and the rest of the Sunnis in the Arab world against >> what it considers one enemy. ISI could also declare an Islamic State >> through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, >> which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and the >> protection of territory.” >> >> The 2012 DIA document is an Intelligence Information Report (IIR), not a >> “finally evaluated intelligence” assessment, but its contents are vetted >> before distribution. The report was circulated throughout the US >> intelligence community, including to the State Department, Central Command, >> the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, FBI, among other agencies. >> >> In response to my questions about the strategy, the British government >> simply denied the Pentagon report’s startling revelations of deliberate >> Western sponsorship of violent extremists in Syria. A British Foreign >> Office spokesperson said: >> >> “AQ and ISIL are proscribed terrorist organisations. The UK opposes all >> forms of terrorism. AQ, ISIL, and their affiliates pose a direct threat to >> the UK’s national security. We are part of a military and political >> coalition to defeat ISIL in Iraq and Syria, and are working with >> international partners to counter the threat from AQ and other terrorist >> groups in that region. In Syria we have always supported those moderate >> opposition groups who oppose the tyranny of Assad and the brutality of the >> extremists.” >> >> The DIA did not respond to request for comment. >> >> >> >> *Strategic asset for regime-change*Security analyst Shoebridge, however, >> who has tracked Western support for Islamist terrorists in Syria since the >> beginning of the war, pointed out that the secret Pentagon intelligence >> report exposes fatal contradictions at the heart of official pronunciations: >> >> “Throughout the early years of the Syria crisis, the US and UK >> governments, and almost universally the West’s mainstream media, promoted >> Syria’s rebels as moderate, liberal, secular, democratic, and therefore >> deserving of the West’s support. Given that these documents wholly >> undermine this assessment, it’s significant that the West’s media has now, >> despite their immense significance, almost entirely ignored them.” >> >> According to Brad Hoff, a former US Marine who served during the early >> years of the Iraq War and as a 9/11 first responder at the Marine Corps >> Headquarters in Battalion Quantico from 2000 to 2004, the just released >> Pentagon report for the first time provides stunning affirmation that: >> >> “US intelligence predicted the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the >> Levant (ISIL or ISIS), but instead of clearly delineating the group as an >> enemy, the report envisions the terror group as a US strategic asset.” >> >> Hoff, who is managing editor of Levant Report >> <http://levantreport.com/2015/05/19/2012-defense-intelligence-agency-document-west-will-facilitate-rise-of-islamic-state-in-order-to-isolate-the-syrian-regime/> >> >> ?an online publication run by Texas-based educators who have direct >> experience of the Middle East??points out that the DIA document >> “matter-of-factly” states that the rise of such an extremist Salafist >> political entity in the region offers a “tool for regime change in Syria.” >> >> The DIA intelligence report shows, he said, that the rise of ISIS only >> became possible in the context of the Syrian insurgency??“there is no >> mention of US troop withdrawal from Iraq as a catalyst for Islamic State’s >> rise, which is the contention of innumerable politicians and pundits.” The >> report demonstrates that: >> >> “The establishment of a ‘Salafist Principality’ in Eastern Syria is >> ‘exactly’ what the external powers supporting the opposition want >> (identified as ‘the West, Gulf Countries, and Turkey’) in order to weaken >> the Assad government.” >> >> The rise of a Salafist quasi-state entity that might expand into Iraq, >> and fracture that country, was therefore clearly foreseen by US >> intelligence as likely??but nevertheless strategically useful??blowback >> from the West’s commitment to “isolating Syria.” >> >> >> >> *Complicity*Critics of the US-led strategy in the region have repeatedly >> raised questions about the role of coalition allies in intentionally >> providing extensive support to Islamist terrorist groups in the drive to >> destabilize the Assad regime in Syria. >> >> The conventional wisdom is that the US government did not retain >> sufficient oversight on the funding to anti-Assad rebel groups, which was >> supposed to be monitored and vetted to ensure that only ‘moderate’ groups >> were supported. >> >> However, the newly declassified Pentagon report proves unambiguously that >> years before ISIS launched its concerted offensive against Iraq, the US >> intelligence community was fully aware that Islamist militants constituted >> the core of Syria’s sectarian insurgency. >> >> Despite that, the Pentagon continued to support the Islamist insurgency, >> even while anticipating the probability that doing so would establish an >> extremist Salafi stronghold in Syria and Iraq. >> >> As Shoebridge told me, “The documents show that not only did the US >> government at the latest by August 2012 know the true extremist nature and >> likely outcome of Syria’s rebellion”??namely, the emergence of ISIS??“but >> that this was considered an advantage for US foreign policy. This also >> suggests a decision to spend years in an effort to deliberately mislead the >> West’s public, via a compliant media, into believing that Syria’s rebellion >> was overwhelmingly ‘moderate.’” >> >> Annie Machon >> <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/24/mi6-whistleblowers-accuses-intelligence-agencies-annie-machon>, >> >> a former MI5 intelligence officer who blew the whistle >> <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/15/gender.uk> in the 1990s on >> MI6 funding of al-Qaeda to assassinate Libya’s former leader Colonel >> Gaddafi, similarly said of the revelations: >> >> “This is no surprise to me. Within individual countries there are always >> multiple intelligence agencies with competing agendas.” >> >> She explained that MI6’s Libya operation in 1996, which resulted in the >> deaths of innocent people, “happened at precisely the time when MI5 was >> setting up a new section to investigate al-Qaeda.” >> >> This strategy was repeated on a grand scale in the 2011 NATO intervention >> in Libya, said Machon, where the CIA and MI6 were: >> >> “… supporting the very same Libyan groups, resulting in a failed state, >> mass murder, displacement and anarchy. So the idea that elements of the >> American military-security complex have enabled the development of ISIS >> after their failed attempt to get NATO to once again ‘intervene’ is part of >> an established pattern. And they remain indifferent to the sheer scale of >> human suffering that is unleashed as a result of such game-playing.” >> >> >> >> >> *Divide and rule*Several US government officials have conceded that >> their closest allies in the anti-ISIS coalition were funding violent >> extremist Islamist groups that became integral to ISIS. >> >> US Vice President Joe Biden, for instance, admitted >> <http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/cancer-modern-capitalism-1323585268> >> last year that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Turkey had funneled >> hundreds of millions of dollars to Islamist rebels in Syria that >> metamorphosed into ISIS. >> >> But he did not admit what this internal Pentagon document >> demonstrates??that the entire covert strategy was sanctioned and >> supervised >> <http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/cancer-modern-capitalism-1323585268> >> by the US, Britain, France, Israel and other Western powers. >> >> The strategy appears to fit a policy scenario identified by a recent US >> Army-commissioned RAND Corp report >> <http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/pentagon-plan-divide-and-rule-muslim-world-1690265165#sthash.N7UEf4Dc.dpuf> >> . >> >> The report, published four years before the DIA document, called for the >> US “to capitalise on the Shia-Sunni conflict by taking the side of the >> conservative Sunni regimes in a decisive fashion and working with them >> against all Shiite empowerment movements in the Muslim world.” >> >> The US would need to contain “Iranian power and influence” in the Gulf by >> “shoring up the traditional Sunni regimes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and >> Pakistan.” Simultaneously, the US must maintain “a strong strategic >> relationship with the Iraqi Shiite government” despite its Iran alliance. >> >> The RAND report confirmed >> <http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG738.pdf> >> that the “divide and rule” strategy was already being deployed “to create >> divisions in the jihadist camp. Today in Iraq such a strategy is being used >> at the tactical level.” >> >> The report observed that the US was forming “temporary alliances” with >> al-Qaeda affiliated “nationalist insurgent groups” that have fought the US >> for four years in the form of “weapons and cash.” Although these >> nationalists “have cooperated with al-Qaeda against US forces,” they are >> now being supported to exploit “the common threat that al-Qaeda now poses >> to both parties.” >> >> The 2012 DIA document, however, further shows that while sponsoring >> purportedly former al-Qaeda insurgents in Iraq to counter al-Qaeda, Western >> governments were simultaneously arming al-Qaeda insurgents in Syria. >> >> The revelation from an internal US intelligence document that the very >> US-led coalition supposedly fighting ‘Islamic State’ today, knowingly >> created ISIS in the first place, raises troubling questions about recent >> government efforts to justify the expansion of state anti-terror powers. >> >> In the wake of the rise of ISIS, intrusive new measures to combat >> extremism including mass surveillance, the Orwellian ‘prevent duty’ and >> even plans to enable government censorship of broadcasters, are being >> pursued on both sides of the Atlantic, much of which disproportionately >> targets activists, journalists and ethnic minorities, especially Muslims. >> >> Yet the new Pentagon report reveals that, contrary to Western government >> claims, the primary cause of the threat comes from their own deeply >> misguided policies of secretly sponsoring Islamist terrorism for dubious >> geopolitical purposes. >> >> >> >> http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-23/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-us-created-isis-tool-overthrow-syrias-president-assad >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >> >> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >> * It's active and moderated. 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