US Bombed Empty Buildings in Airstrikes on ISIL in Syria
September 24, 2014 Patrick Henningsen <http://wp.me/p3bwni-8uX> 21st Century Wire The US fanfare surrounding Washingtons bombing raid over Syria was immense. WIth all the hype, youd have thought that it was a new Pearl Harbor. With a risk of popping President Obama and the US State Departments bubble, we need to ask: did the US bomb a load of empty buildings in Syria on Tuesday? According CNN Middle East correspondent Arwa Damon (photo, above), residents from the town of Raqqa, in northeastern Syria had mixed reactions to US strikes. The reason given was a real shocker: Damon revealed on air early Wednesday that ISIL terrorists who were held up in the town may have been tipped off weeks in advance to the US airstrikes on Tuesday. According to Damon: 15-20 days before the airstrikes, (ISIL) buildings were evacuated, and fighters then mixed in with the local population. Maybe Damon let the truth slip out by accident, or maybe she was trying to do what US journalists so often are not allowed to do by challenging Washingtons prefabricated narrative. Regardless, CNNs chief war enthusiast Wolf Blitzer did not feel the need to purse the point. This surprising admission by CNN would mean that the US military may have only destroyed empty buildings in Raqqa, and that Washingtons inflated claims of dead ISIL fighters are probably exaggerated. In other words, it was all a big show, and ISILs capabilities were not degraded at all by Obamas celebrated US blitzkrieg in Syria. EMPTY BUILDINGS: CNNs report suggest a hollow victory by US on Tuesday. CENTCOM Has a Leak If ISIS/ISIL operatives did indeed have advanced warning of US airstrikes in Syria as this CNN report definitely suggests, then we also have to ask, where was the leak? The most likely source of a leak would be from US CENTCOM located in Doha, Qatar. The other possibility is that ISIS/ISIL financial sponsors in Saudi Arabia and Qatar had received word of the coming US operation and were instructed to vacate any potential targets. No Chance of Transparency Many military experts have questioned the US airstrikes as ineffective because targeting static venues will not deter ISIS/ISIL, and these latest revelations will only reinforce that skepticism. So how much can the public trust US reports of its own bombing campaigns? As far as gathering and verifying intelligence goes, how can we know if US operatives knew who was where? Usually Washington can say anything and the mainstream press will not question it. If you are a bona fide intelligence analysts, it cant be easy with political busy bodies and State Department geniuses revising their work, and then going back to the intelligence community asking for authentification of various Tweets and very chilling YouTube videos the White House has scraped-up off the web. As a result, assessments are often conflicting, and patchy a running mess by anyones account. Given that Washington DC has a diabolical no track record of being highly politicized when it comes to intelligence, its hard swallow anything coming out of Pennsylvania Ave. At the end of the day, they tell us what they want us to hear. When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty. <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Snowden,_1st_Viscount_Snowden> Philip Snowden (1916) Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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