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Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad
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 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, 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:
If the West bombs Islamic State militants in Syria without consulting Damascus, LiveLeak reports 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 (as was the impetus behind the 2013 intervention push), 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 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, 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.
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 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 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 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 — ?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, a former MI5 intelligence officer who blew the whistle 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 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 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.
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 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.
Dr Nafeez Ahmed is an investigative journalist, bestselling author and international security scholar. A former Guardian writer, he writes the ‘System Shift’ column for VICE’s Motherboard, and is also a columnist for Middle East Eye. He is the winner of a 2015 Project Censored Award, known as the ‘Alternative Pulitzer Prize’, for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for his Guardian work, and was selected in the Evening Standard’s ‘Power 1,000’ most globally influential Londoners.
Nafeez has also written for The Independent, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Scotsman, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, Prospect, New Statesman, Le Monde diplomatique, New Internationalist, Counterpunch, Truthout, among others. He is the author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), and the scifi thriller novel ZERO POINT, among other books. His work on the root causes and covert operations linked to international terrorism officially contributed to the 9/11 Commission and the 7/7 Coroner’s Inquest.
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Why am I not amazed or astonished at this revelation?
Because it's a WTF moment.
#SHEEPLEINTHEHEADLIGHTLOOK
Correction, the US and Israel.
Let's hope and change the nukes to the ME.
Hey this is a bit farfetched but it wouldn’t be the first time conspiracy became conspiracy fact.
Tell us something we don't already know, like when the MSM will carry this story and take these fockers to task...
""Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad""
LOL, Yeah Sure...
And Like My IPHONE Can Be Tracked By Big Brother Too, LOL...
Have some sympathy for these poor subhumans in the US gov and their hirelings. These killers are victims of their own virulent megalomania.
Poor misunderstood fellas.
Yet another conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact. Good job, zerohedge. You guys have been beating this drum for a while now, and this time it didn't even take 5 years to be proven right(HFT manipulation)
When Tyler breaks the whole "our overlords ain't human/they be some kind of amoeba-lizard" thingy then we can reach for the sky.
Just as the Armed Forces Journal 2006 suggested.
The oil fields of Saudi, Iraq and Iran will all go into a Shia super state:
http://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2014/06/the-map-of-the-new-middle-east-2561844.html
Not sure the Persians will agree.
Oh, and when ISIS disrupts the US across the US / Mexican border it will necessitate marshal law.
"martial law" FIFY...
You are right. Typo.
Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool"
puh-leeez
if you believe *that*, you might as well believe it "created" owl xaida as a "tool" as well
Is this why this funny dance around what it is actually called? One day ISIS, one day ISIL, one day IS.
I suppose, in these dawning days of Hitlery's looming presidency, it really does depend on what IS .... IS?
Seriously, this kind of really overt meddling, since Korea in the early 50s....especially then....on and on...
Blowback is a'comin to your shores Ummerica. One thing to kook upon this as some great scoop and another to look back and see what this caused, iraq, afpak, libya, syria, yemen.....
BOOM! time.... all around...
The drums of peace?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xtJApsB4cA
I do not enjoy your word play and all of that. Typically you bore me to the brink of death (not a comment on being correct or not). This one is in your wheelhouse...
And this one is gone, over the Green Monster!
Another Conspiracy Theory becomes Conspiracy Fact
Good job Tyler, with this year old story. How bout an article on Israel's involvement in 911 now?
https://youtu.be/llbzUyv1CLU
Macedonia and Syria..
Outside of the fact that they both end in “ia”
What else do they have in common?
Hint: starts with a “C”
"The most transparent administration ever"
Fucking clowns.
Correction. ISIS was *primarily* created to as a tool to expand the global war on terror, keep the FEAR FACTOR up, support for the GWOT, and more Big Brother initiatives to strip away our civil liberties.
ISIS = Operation Cyclone 2.0 on steroids
US-led airstrikes kill 52 Syrian civilians in a day, not 1 ISIS fighter – monitor
how much longer will the u.s. infantry (not planes or drones) fight for these increasingly obviously self-contradictory goals? risk your life for this? really?
also to fulfill biblical scenarios that call for "the men of ninivah" to destroy a lot in the end times.
"Good job Tyler, with this year old story. How bout an article on Israel's involvement in 911 now?
https://youtu.be/llbzUyv1CLU"
What a fucking brain dead link.
aw geez..
you gotta had it to those head-choppers and their western media consultants;
that nose-dived jet with the juhadi is a cool pic.
Forget the jet, they could make a mint with his walk on a vertical wall shoes!!!
Don't jets always crash like "lawn darts"?
JARTS were discontinued because they were poking holes in kid's heads.
UN Report: Israel in Regular Contact with Syrian Rebels including ISIS
heh heh..
most everybody missed the "juhadi" joke.
I'm not sure why you would be surprised by this. Fundamentalist Islamic groups have been used as pawns by governments from Pakistan to Washington. It doesn't mean as most here believe that fundamentalist Islam doesn't exist, but it does mean that fundamentalist Islam is being trained and armed by Western nations, and they are gaining real world experience. I'm afraid about half the major nations of the world are about to be devoured by the tiger they once rode.
@ Replacement, I had to look up both those statements for reference......well thanks dude. That is high praise...As for the rest of it, all good too. We usually take what we like from what we see right?
Bore you, like a drill perhaps ;-)
No, not like a drill. Still, is probably better than being boared, boored, or boarded.
So yeah, that was high praise since I'm a cranky bastard nigh impossible to please.
Excellente!
How about Boar'd?
.. like what the Brits did in Transvaal over 100 years ago.
.. I would think a genuine Indian would appreciate that one :-)
more like boer'd and i think it was done to the brits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War
oops.. ok, boer.. but nothing that the banker Brits did was good down there.
end of story.
We all live in massive illusions, this is just one of the many here in USSA today. Amerikans will suffer the most simply because they are so spoiled and lazy. No big deal or revealtion at all.
There is no more fight club, just the snark club of quasi smart guys ? about to find out they are not smart at all. :)
"Seriously, this kind of really overt meddling, since Korea in the early 50s..."
It goes back much further than Korea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
ORI, you are obviously telling the world that you are not associated with knurds!
- Ned
Dont forget Da'ash
I don't want to say I called it, but I fucking called it.
<snarky comment deleted>
You know that Marshall Mathers is a clone yeah?
N-Word please! I do believe this is true, but the proof coming from a declassified doc is some silly ass shit! They would never willingly hand over a smoking gun document. C'mon people! You are better than that!
Nancy? Nanny? Nincompoop? No Such Agency? Neophyte? Navy? Nazi? AshkeNAZI? Na na na na, heyeya goodbye?
ISIS Magazine Dabiq [run by Rita Katz ?] recently attacked 'conspiracy theories' which are causing Jihadists To flee because they are finding Out ISIS is run by "western intelligence" [read CIA/Mossad].
I saw this on twatter, #NukeTheJews and I kinda liked it.
You do know that this is part of the 'Greater Israel' plan....
Oh, NANCY!
B7GR, You must mean likr the 4 dual American citizens captured at an ISIL headquarters after a fierce firefight?...whatever happened to those gents, must be our imaginations.
cynicism is a necessary feature in the information war.
there are reasons for and against this document being true
there are patriotic americans in the military who are against the "American Empire" being used as a tool for the international cartel
there are those against commiting america to another possible straw to break the camels back engagement
there are those sick and scared of the purging of the military of nationalists and being replaced by globalist puppets
there are those who simply hate any "not invented here" intrigues
there are plenty of pros and cons, but taken in the context of what is know as true, it is a near certainty that ISIS exists because of western mechanations.
we are going to war in syria unless people get off their butts to stop it.
Because contrary to the old saw the devil you don't know is bound to be an improvement over the devil you do know? Isn't that scenario where everything falls to shit ever presented to our fearless leaders?
Let's give credit where credit is due
"originally posted in Medium"
If you go to the link it says"This story is published by INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project." Pretty cool!
What are you? A detective? Keep taking your pills. OH!
That's a little Dice Clay for you.
ISIS created by the US/Israel was never a theory.
It's true, the govt created dancing with the stars to _____________ us
Disclosure: Obama knew about Fast and Furious.
Disclusure: Hillary knew about the gunrunning and had Stevens killed.
Disclosure: OBL wasn't killed in Pakistan, he died in 2001.
Disclosure: ISIS is CIA.
If the following are disclosed, what difference will it make?
9/11 was an inside job.
ET's work with the gummit.
Michelle is a man.
When Hillary said, "what difference does it make?" it was a rhetorical question, and the answer is of course, NONE.
hillary didnt have stevens killed. why claim stuff you dont know?
isis is a biblically important outfit. there to insure the doom of vast numbers of people.
deep penetration mole? or just an assssssss-tard?
Reddie on ya!
What's the old saying? "It hard to remember that the initial purpose of the job was to drain the swamp when you're up to your ass in alligators."
When does the world come to terms with the fact that Benghazi was about buying Gaddafi's weapons for ISIS to use in Syria and that it was an Obama gun-running operation? Wasn't that what Ollie North went to jail for?
Ollie didn't actually go to jail.
"North was tried in 1988. He was indicted on 16 felony counts, and on May 4, 1989, he was initially convicted of three: accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and ordering the destruction of documents through his secretary, Fawn Hall. He was sentenced by U.S. District JudgeGerhard Gesell on July 5, 1989, to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines, and 1,200 hours of community service. North performed some of his community service within Potomac Gardens, a public housing project in Southeast Washington, D.C.[21]
However, on July 20, 1990, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),[22] North's convictions were vacated, after the appeals court found that witnesses in his trial might have been impermissibly affected by his immunized congressional testimony.[23]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North
north shopped cocaine into bill clinton's arkansas with barry seal for the cia under the direction of george bush senior. that's why iran contra amounted to nothing. ps fuck hillery.
Careful with that ax - you don't want to be Arkancide'd
Long Live Vince Foster!
The truth never comes out of the deep state. There is an angle to everything. I believe that the true purpose of this (dis)information is to make you believe that these shadow warriors are all-powerful and direct every major global event from their super secret underground bunkers. This is not the case. If they created ISIS it was by hapenstance, and if ISIS furthers their objectives in the Middle East it's luck.
That makes no sense to me. That the Deep State wants to persuade us it's all-powerful. That's too vague.
As for creating and supporting ISIS, well, there are plausible reports of supplies being dropped by us to ISIS troops "by mistake" and A-10 pilots being unable to get authorization to engage targets. And the U.S. bullshit about arming and training house-broken, gelded, homogenized, vetted, 99% jihadi-free Jeffersonians is just that. Benghazi was a major effort for the U.S. to get a boatload of arms and ammo into the hands of anyone in Syria and Iraq with a bone through their nose. That was our top priority.
WMDs? Trained in Bengahzi? Deployed in Syria?
The ETs thing seems kinda interesting. What kind of marriage laws do would we need for that?
No no no...Property Laws.
"It's true, the govt created dancing with the stars to _____________ us"
I've always thought that there are 2 different factions that make up our government, The good guys who know and believe in the constitution. And the bad guys, basically the jews and their cronies.
Like Donald Trump, an American who whore-ships the jews so much so that he made his whore daughter marry Greg Hirsch.
In July 2009, after studying with Rabbi Elie Weinstock from the Modern Orthodox Ramaz School, Trump converted to Judaism and took the name Yael.
Nice huh?
Joo'merica! You da best!
The Dance?
http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.ca/2014/11/kurd-isis-symbiosis-imp...
http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.ca/2015/05/isis-of-saudi-arabia-cl...
The funny (haha) part is they will swing just like the German officials did after WWII. They think they are doing God's work but in the end, they will swing.
My Tax Dollars HARD at Work!!
RIPS
The Taliban, version 2.0.
They, too, were trained, funded and equiped by the CIA in order to hinder Soviet advances in Afghanistan.
The CIA created the mujahedin to force the russians to act, not the other way around - as they keep parroting.
ZBig has been pretty frank about the goals of their shenanigans in the late 70s; no one wants to admit that Carter's administration actually helped topple the Soviet Union, but there it is.
we all know that Zbigiike is a pig-fucker!
http://journal-neo.org/2015/05/15/what-if-putin-is-telling-the-truth/
^^^^^^^ dcohen is Correct
The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski,President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser
Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998Posted at globalresearch.ca 15 October 2001
Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?
B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.
Translated from the French by Bill Blum
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html
would that CIA director u mentioned have any family connection to Bill Gates? just a thought
No! Geez... Wikipedia????
We've been all over it since day fucking one. Do these people think photographs don't exist? You know, like the ones with John McCain grabassing with IS leaders? Or the video where John Rumsfeld shook Sadaam's hand for that matter?
Or the photo of the ISIS pickup truck, full of gun-toting terrorists, that says "Joe's Plumbing" on the side, and has a US phone number. Did they ever figure out how it got to Syraq from Houston, or wherever?
They scoffed and told me to adjust my tinfoil hat when I said this very thing in the barbershop today, prior to reading this story.
BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE LIBERAL CHOSENITE MEDIA!!!!!!
i tend to agree with you, with the exception of the liberal media part. The media is part of the complex. Definitely not liberal. It generally has a more right wing bent (look who is on the Sunday morning talk shows). The media is a tool of the establishment and corporations.
Yeah was with you until you exposed yourself. Right wing, seriously? You have to realize by now that right wing means less government, less control....
Nice try at the disinformation bit. Maybe you get a check and maybe not. Next time try to follow through with the truth. You won't get shot down by some drunk in his basement. All the same, you won't get a check either. With that in mind...
Fuck you SFopolis.
For the unedumacated: Left means more control by a central power, hence illiberal. Right means less control by a central power, hence liberal, hence libertarian.
Repeat the chorus boys:
Fuck you SFopolis
Excellent point. It's been a top objective of the left to draw attention away from the ultra left nature of the National Socialists by absurdly placing them on the right. This was done to smear the right as being fascist.
Right wing is what every decent person should be.
I'm an individual human being with natural rights not natural wings.
This is the same right wing that has voted for the Patriot Act how many times? Pushed for pointless war how many times?
All right wing means to a thinking man is that they'll spend my tax dollars on different stupid shit.
Actions not labels. Lack of action or participation is also action.
Be the edge of the coin aka door number 1 opened in the Monty Hall Problem. The system won't accept that outcome and demands a heads or tails outcome. The more you refuse the more you skew the odds in your favor if you really wanted a heads or tails outcome.
Just because the left stream media calls them Republicans or right wingers or whatever doesn't make them so. Look at what Congress just did with TPP. Republicans gave the President more power. That is not right wing at all. That PROVES BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT that they are LEFTISTS.
If you're far enough to the right, everything is a leftist.
So a King is left-wing?
the complicated nosological futility of labels, maaaan.
The people you are trying to save are your enemy.
Good fucking luck
it is not a good idea to discuss politics with your barber, especially if he is shaving you with a straight razor!
Franchises.
Lotta dough in rootin poop...
Donald Rumsfeld. Keep your bad actors and henchmen straight !!
And, the last conspiracy theory to fall is..... Report from Iron Mountain.
(Playing in a live theater of war, soon to be near you. Oh, yeah...)
Speaking of henchmen, what kind of loon would want to be a henchman of the State Dept or DoD right about now? One with a death wish for sure.
The lame stream media is nothing but a tool of the government. Anyone who expects the truth out of the alphabet talking heads is a fool. They're no different from Pravda during the Soviet era. You have the outright government media, like MSNBC, ABC, NYT, CBS, NBC and CNN. Then you have the controlled opposition like Fox News. Divide and conquer.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtrmebhqfw
I am Jack's raging bile duct
S.O.P. ISIS is part of the oil price plunge protection team. Why do you think we f'd up Iraq and Syria in the first place?
Exxon loves ISIS. Saudia Arabia loves ISIS. You Tube loves ISIS. What's not to love?
It's all part of Israel & US Wars http://wp.me/p2kmGE-e8
Ignore that man behind the...
"...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..."
So not only are the Pentagon heads treasonous, Israeli-firster fuckheads, but apparently are dumb as a sack of rocks as well. Having been in the service, I pretty much suspected the second part, but now there's proof. Hey, wait... didn't they grow the Taliban/al Qaeda to kill Russians in Afghanistan and lost control of that one too?
Dear Pentagon: Whatever the FUCK you're doing anytime, anywhere, just stop it. You SUCK at it - ALL of it. Go to your meetings. Fondle little boys. Collect medals. And eventually get the hell out and RETIRE to your cushy defense industry lobbying job. Stop trying to DO anything - you're dangerously incompetent and spend my tax dollars like a drunken sailor.
Oh, and supporting terrorists is a federal crime for everyone - you're not exempt from the law like the banksters. Please self-report to Gitmo while you're still on my payroll. You know the drill after that, I'm sure... I'll look for the LOLZ on YouTube.
I agree with you there Paveway. I am also beginning to think that the US strategy is uncoordinated and different organisations have different agendas. Maybe Obama/Kerry have had enough of the failed brainless anti -Russian strategy hence Kerry's visit to Sochi, but the CIA and the pentagon just go on their merry way creating chaos
Nice rant, paveway. I agree 100% aside from the 'spending like a drunken sailor' part. As a former drinker sailor, I am insulted by being compared to the us govt. Once I spent all my money, I went back to the boat, I didn't take out a loan against my children to have more money to spend. Comparing us drunked sailors to these people gives us a bad name....
Yes, that was uncalled for. I was never in the navy, but have observed on many occasions that drunken sailors are generally pretty entertaining while conscious. Now, drunken Pentagon officials? Something tells me I would be compelled to gouge their eyes out with broken beer bottles after - oh, four minutes or so of their annoying presence. And then I would light them on fire. Now THAT would be entertaining!
Yes, Paveway! As you know, not only does the POTUS take an oath, but all military personnel "solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic". Seems like we have some domestic enemies of the Constitution. When will the members of the military stop supporting these enemies?
re: constitution
US Fall From Virtuous Republic to Tragic-Comic Empire Described Perfectly by Roman Historians
Here's to all Drunken Sailors...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_RWtdm81WU
"I'm not profligate, I just have my priorities straight, jack!"
so, what we've been saying all along?
Paveway says "Dear Pentagon: Whatever the FUCK you're doing anytime, anywhere, just stop it. You SUCK at it - ALL of it."
Contrary to your assessment that the Pentagon boys have failed to achieve what they wanted, it is entirely likely that the Pentagon has achieved exactly what was wanted - the wars in the Middle East go on and on, the War on Terror goes on and on, Al Qaeda/ISIS/ISIL/Al Nusrah/Islamic State goes on and on, the slickly-produced videos of gruesome beheadings go on and on - and the MIC gets to produce arms for the combatants, McCain gets to hobnob with the terrorists, and Congressional hawks get to extend the Patriot Act and introduce even more measures for the US government to spy upon its own people, the US military budget keeps its funding from Congress, and the MSM has ample fear porn to play. An impressive score for TPTB, it seems.
Yepper. There is zero interest in identifying the true nature of Islam and acting on the simple fact that Muslims do not belong in the West except at the end of a leash (the wrong end). We import them by the tens of thousands, promote the salafist/moderate Muslim cause at home, and militarily do the bidding of Saudi Arabia. Whatever the flock "we" are doing anywhere in the world for damn sure it's got nothing to do with protecting the interests of American citizens or our nation.
No military on our southern border? Why, I do believe I know why. Yes, I do.
@Paveway and ZH regulars.
Nothing much to add to your lucid posts except perhaps that I've been trying to highlight our own former foreign secretary William Hague, another long time "Friend of Israel" member, as a blatant criminal who has been openly funding terrorists with tax payers' money no less since the Summer of 2013.
A LOT of civil servants and politicians need to be in prison right now. But when the inmates are running the asylum, I am not sure just which authority or even how they will ever be brought to justice for their murderous, treasonous acts against us and the rest of humanity.
"...I am not sure just which authority or even how they will ever be brought to justice for their murderous, treasonous acts against us and the rest of humanity..."
That's why God invented wood-chippers.
Buried in sand up to their necks, whence we may all form a line and use them as one might an outhouse that is due to be razed.
Prison? ... you jest.
Nothing would please me more than hearing that the ISIS had nailed those bastards.
In 2013(?) a 'moderate Syria rebel' was interviewed and reported that his groups were recieiving training at the Jordanian intelligence headquarters in Amman. Sometime later a British Chinook military helicopter crash landed in a mined area within the Israeli occupied West Bank. The British ministry of defense stated that the helicopter on a routine flight from Amman to Cyprus.
Conclusions:
The British were making regular military flights from Cyprus to Amman.
The Israelis gave permission for foreign military aircraft to pass through their airspace.
The British military were probably directly involved in training 'moderate Syrian rebels'.
The British, Israeli and Jordanian governments were fully aware of what was going on.
Read the "Shock Doctrine." The pentagram intentionally fucks shit up so their corporate buddies can get no-bid contracts to go in and (pretend to) clean up the mess while the generals and congress-critters get nice kickbacks. Its all one big ponzi scheme to put public money into private pockets.
Naomi Klein is awesome. Here she talks about the book;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg
Or Smedley Butler, for that matter.
Add to that the carbon tax/CO2 scam and the chem/haarp eco terror programs. There are other scams and these pigs will never get enough.
Does that include IS as in Isis the Egyptian godess of fertility RA as in Egyptian god of the sun and anciant hebrew EL for the title GOD? MILESTONES
simply a distraction. evidence;trade pacts that fuck plebs and keeps the power firmly with oligarch/political/mic base. nukes are an out of control situation, which these sociopathic fucks do not want. they have much moar to lose. and russia and china are all on board behind the scenes. the skirmishes are all part of game of ultimate control of 7.2 billion by less than a 1000. notice how all wars are limited in scope and don't escalate. the real war is economic, but the spoils of the resources are plentifull enough as long as the fiat game continues. only question i ask "has merica overstepped its scope of manipulating the world and sharing the spoils with the club members"?...
Yessss. 95% of the "chaos" and "accidental" and "unforseen" blowback from "mistakes" is intentional. We are all being played, maneuvered, mindfucked, and harvested by a dark intelligence. Does the system collapse from the systemic fraud and sociopathy that weigh on it? Or does the computer modeling account for this, too, with the bulk of humanity being turned into Soylent Green snack bars, one way or another?
usa and israel
hey hey hey fella
come on cowboy hold your horse is
israel
come on
isra hell does not have a dog in this fight.
they just want piece
is
oded yinon mappa mundi pieces you goy bitches
You are this board's William Faulkner. Your stream-of-consciousness utterances pack a truckload of emotive meaning that strike me as holy writ in my gut.
correction anti-semite nazis caanot blame american for anything without blaming the jews.
oh yea, israel.
fuck off nazi scum. american leadership is shit deep in decades of war. bush brothers are not jews. they owned a nazi union bank and nazis continue to run american policy.
Follow the money. Who is to benefit if Assad falls ? That is right, when all Arab countries are destroyed and the Arabs disintegrated into small contantly infighting groups, Israel will be safe at last. In fact why dont you just kill them all. They are subhuman anyway.
People around here don't know how to follow the money, or Pepe Escobar's bass ackwards theory wouldn't be repeated like groupthink dogma by a bunch of under achieving ZH keyboard commandos.
Israel will be destroyed before the Muslims (they're not even all Arabs or Persians) stop fighting each other.
Most Americans are also subhuman, should we build FEMA camps and kill a few hundred million of them to make this world a better place too?
Nobody around here can follow the money. We do not have that level of access. You have to be in the club to have any real sense of what is what. All we have is the "news", indepenedent outfits, and our own eyes to see the symptoms.
Then they should use their eyes (and brains) moar...
Pepe Escobar and Tyler are wrong.
Others have documented the chronological sequece of Syrian escalation and the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline deal.
I have documented the suspension of disbelief by both of the sheeple and the professional technocrats in the energy industry (more explicitely here and here, with the caveat of the admitted typo in the latter- scroll down in the posts for clarification).
(...and I've been saying the same thing, albeit more esoterically, here since at least 2012.)
exactly.
The Qatari pipeline story is an obvious fraud for various reasons, Israel's Leviathan field not needing the competition, and Zionist/Jewish ownership of the American Deep State and media another...
And the immediate 'kinetics' was due to the threat of Iran selling gas to Europe via Iraq and Syria. A prospect, one would think, the Russians would not love, either... but it would have meant cheaper gas for Ukraine and the EU... but for Anglo-Zionist opposition.
Ashkenazi?
Israel is a Nazi state, you stupid cunt.
Death to Fascists - regardless of their ancestry.
So like Kerry said the Arabs would pay for the U.S. attack on Syria.
I'm sure the Jews were thrown in there because, well like- come on, the Jews don't even go camping, because like the IDL will save them!
Somehow the Jews are being thrown in there to create some tangent with the hatemongers who are already addicted to their meth.
I care no more. Just stop robbing me of my money through taxes for this oblivious pointless bruhah. If I could afford it, I would be driving an solar powered electric car by now. I've had it with black gold.
CIA-Mossad tools and idiocracy fools.
Oy Vey... The only way to rectify this terror is to allocate a brazillion dollars to Israel...
~ that won't work either ~
A 'brazillion' dollars dropped on a country that small would probably kill them all.
The Washington degenerates are indirectly behind the murder of all the people that ISIS has murdered.
Yes, Ted, that was the joke.
Well then, if you paid taxes and or if you vote, you me and every other glorious citizen of the USSA is in on this. When the fuckers cross the border and start fucking shit up, I'm not gonna feel bad for anyone, not even myself!
Well, probably because this is exactly what a lot of us have been saying for a long time.
"raise disturbing questions"
Really?!! No Kidding!!
It that all it does? "Raises disturbing questions?"
Hello?
next thing you know we'll find out the gold price is manipulated and the presidential elections are fixed.
Well that explains why Israel hasn't shown any concern over ISIS, with all the territorial connections they appear to have established, yet are going apeshit over Iran?
But has there ever been an Islamic extremist group --- to date --- which the USA/CIA hasn't financed/armed?
Just as when then DIA analyst, Julie Sirrs, returned from Pakistan and Afghanistan, after a fact-finding mission, including interviewing Mr. Massoud, the now-deceased leader of the Northern Alliance, and presented evidence of the financing and arming of the Taliban by Unocal and the CIA, with a warning of an impending terrorist attack on US soil (09/11/01, that is), and she was forced out of the DIA (her security clearance was immediately pulled by Gen. Patrick Hughes, who went on to help create the DHS).
This country is sooo effed up on all moral levels! But, as ever, it is all about the money . . .
It's state the obvious day!