How was providing weaponry to rebels in Niceragua an "interventionist 
failure"?
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the same way intervention in Vietnam and the middle east were failures.
not only was it a failure, it was illegal.

The *Boland Amendment* is a term describing three U.S. legislative 
amendments between 1982 and 1984, all aimed at limiting U.S. government 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._government> assistance to the Contras 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras> in Nicaragua 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua>. The first Boland Amendment was 
part of the House Appropriations Bill of 1982, which was attached as a rider 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_(legislation)> to the Defense 
Appropriations Act of 1983, named for the Massachusetts 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts> Democrat 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)>, 
Representative Edward Boland <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Boland>, 
who authored it. The House of Representatives 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives> passed 
the Defense Appropriations Act 411–0 on December 8, 1982 and it was signed 
by President Ronald Reagan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan> on 
December 21, 1982.[1] 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boland_Amendment#cite_note-apa-1> The 
amendment outlawed U.S. assistance to the Contras 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras> for the purpose of overthrowing the 
Nicaraguan government, while allowing assistance for other purposes.[2] 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boland_Amendment#cite_note-clr-2>

Beyond restricting overt U.S. support of the Contras, the most significant 
effect of the Boland Amendment was the Iran–Contra affair 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair>, during which 
the Reagan Administration circumvented the Amendment, without consent of 
Congress, in order to continue supplying arms to the Contras.

On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 5:13:31 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote:
>
> You obviously haven't a clue about what you're talking about....How was 
> providing weaponry to rebels in Niceragua an "interventionist failure"?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 5:32 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> 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]> 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
>>>>  
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