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Confessions Of An ISIS Soldier: "The Training Took Place In Turkey"

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Over the past five weeks, Turkey’s role in facilitating the trafficking of illicit Islamic State crude has been exposed for the world to see. Ankara’s move to shoot down a Russian Su-24 near the Syrian border prompted a media blitz from Moscow, which has variously accused the Erdogan government of being complicit in a business that nets Bakr al-Baghdadi between $500 million and $1 billion per year in revenue.

To be sure, those who have followed Islamic State’s meteoric rise are well aware of the fact that Turkey has played a rather decisive role in the group’s recruiting efforts by looking the other way as a steady stream of foreign fighters - emboldened by the ISIS propaganda machine - have streamed into Syria. 

Ankara, like Riyadh and Doha, is keen on seeing the Assad government fall and has been instrumental in the effort (supported by the West) to funnel money and weapons to the various Sunni extremist groups fighting for control of the country. As Nafeez Ahmed put it in a recent piece posted first on Medium, “NATO is harbouring the Islamic State and France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks.” Here are some key excerpts from the article:

A senior Western official familiar with a large cache of intelligence obtained this summer from a major raid on an ISIS safehouse told the Guardian that “direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIS members was now ‘undeniable.’”

 

The same official confirmed that Turkey, a longstanding member of NATO, is not just supporting ISIS, but also other jihadist groups, including Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. “The distinctions they draw [with other opposition groups] are thin indeed,” said the official. “There is no doubt at all that they militarily cooperate with both.”

 

In a rare insight into this brazen state-sponsorship of ISIS, a year ago Newsweek reported the testimony of a former ISIS communications technician, who had travelled to Syria to fight the regime of Bashir al-Assad.

 

The former ISIS fighter told Newsweek that Turkey was allowing ISIS trucks from Raqqa to cross the “border, through Turkey and then back across the border to attack Syrian Kurds in the city of Serekaniye in northern Syria in February.” ISIS militants would freely travel “through Turkey in a convoy of trucks,” and stop “at safehouses along the way.”

 

The former ISIS communication technician also admitted that he would routinely “connect ISIS field captains and commanders from Syria with people in Turkey on innumerable occasions,” adding that “the people they talked to were Turkish officials… ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks.”

As if all of that wasn’t enough, German media now contend that ISIS has an office in Turkey through which it sells slaves obtained fron conquered territory.

Given all of the above, it comes as no surprise that according to an Islamic State soldier captured by the YPG (which Ankara regards with quite a bit of suspicion for the group's ties with the PKK), Turkey serves as the training ground for new ISIS recruits. The following excerpts are from Sputnik Turkey, who spoke to the fighter:

"There were 60 of us, and we trained in a village not far from the airport. We got up in the morning and played sport. Once a week we had target practice, they taught us how to use Kalashnikovs, machine guns and other kinds of weaponry."

 

"The training took place in Turkey because the Daesh command thought that it was safer there than in Syria. It wasn't possible to carry out training in Syria because of airstrikes."

 

"In the media they wrote that we were training in an FSA military camp, but in fact, all 60 of us were members of Daesh. We were Syrian nationals, many of whom in the beginning moved to Turkey to earn some money, and then joined Daesh."

 

"I made contacts with Syrians on the internet, helped them to get to Turkey and begin training. After I undertook the training, for five months I lived together with a relative who was a Daesh commander in Adana. My task was to meet the new recruits arriving from Syria. After training we sent them to Urfa, and from there – to Raqqa. From Raqqa they distributed themselves across different regions of Syria."

 

"Heavy weapons were delivered from Ash-Shaddadi (a town in southern Al-Hasakah Governorate).”

 

"I spent one night there, and the next night December 11 2015 YPG forces attacked our positions, and took both of us captive. In al-Hol the commander was a Frenchman called Abu Yahya."

 

"What I read about Daesh, and what I was faced with in reality were absolutely different things.”

Note that this isn't the first time we've heard Adana mentioned in the same breath as ISIS. As University of Greenwich's George Kiourktsoglou and Dr Alec D Coutroubis wrote in "ISIS Gateway To Global Crude Oil Markets," the militants' supply chain comprises the following localities: Sanliura, Urfa, Hakkari, Siirt, Batman, Osmaniya, Gaziantep, Sirnak, Adana, Kahramarmaras, Adiyaman and Mardin. The string of trading hubs ends up in Adana, home to the major tanker shipping port of Ceyhan." 

Apparently then, ISIS commanders are living in and recruiting from the very same place where Islamic State oil is shipped to global markets. So we now have still more evidence of Erdogan's role in harboring "the terrorists" (as the Russian MoD calls them) but once again we seriously doubt anyone in NATO cares. After all, it's not like this is a secret and we're quite sure Washington is well aware of what the West's favorite autocrat is up to in Ankara. The question, of course, is why no one seems interested in putting a stop to it.

 

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Sat, 12/26/2015 - 18:55 | 6965897 MrNosey
Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:13 | 6965927 nope-1004
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'This Little Thing Called the Internet ... Makes It Much Harder to Govern'

John Kerry - 2013

 

Truth is coming out, slowly.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:13 | 6965931 greenskeeper carl
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this is unpossible. You cant seriously be implying that our government has been lying to us, can you?

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:15 | 6965936 NidStyles
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How much you guys want to bet the trainers spoke Yiddish or Hebrew in private?

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:22 | 6965947 greenskeeper carl
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I have no doubt they either speak that or american accented english.

 

I don't often have nice things to say about rand paul, but he nailed it a couple debates ago when asked how he would deal with ISIS - "first off, I think we should stop arming them". Our alleged "ally" turkey is responsible for their training and weapons, and most of their revenue with the oil trade. All it would take to "stop" ISIS would be for NATO member turkey to stop supporting them. Im sure you could throw in the saudis with this as well. Without those safe spots to train, and without that money, they would be finished in short order. Every single presidential candidate has to know this, which means the whole time they are up there on that stage they are lying about it. They know how easy this would be, and yet allegedly serious candidates are actually talking about nuking them. I wish one of them would explain to me how starting another expensive and totally unneccessary war is constitutional, conservative, or fiscally responsible, which is what they all claim to be

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:31 | 6965966 COSMOS
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Wouldn't surprise me if all terrorists go to Arab Spring Camp in Turkey.  You know its nice to sit by the barbecue and roast some folks.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:55 | 6966008 NidStyles
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The Israeli firsters don't care about our Consitution, they say it's evil and racist to attack it. It's likely most of them aren't even European. 

 

They are the same people behind this #BLM bullshit that is causing all the trouble in our airporst, train stations and everywhere else they bug those losers to. The push for illegal immigrant, the push for the whole "refugee" invasion.

 

There is a book you should pick up to understand the agenda. 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0759672229?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_...

It's worth it's cost, and his other titles cover it more depth.  

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 20:38 | 6966116 Infinite QE
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The whole German movement against degenerate art makes so much sense if you look at it with open eyes. All the rubbish out of madison avenue or hollyweird is downright demonic.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 03:22 | 6966636 Otrader
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Prior to Israelis turning the west vs the Arabs, there were no threats to the US from the Arab world.  Without the zionist flase flags and corrupt politicians being bought out by the Rothchilds/IMF/World Bank and their agents, we'd be engaged in billion dollar trade deals with the oil rich states instead of continuous war.  The current strategy only benefits the zionist money changers at the top. 

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 14:12 | 6967278 LibertarianMenace
Sun, 12/27/2015 - 14:18 | 6967291 LibertarianMenace
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It shares all the characteristics of an infestation. Where are the parasitic WASPs when you need 'em?

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 06:05 | 6966689 williambanzai7
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Swapping campfire stories about the 72 virgins

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 20:39 | 6966119 Demdere
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And every Presidential candidate is complicit in covering up the 9/11 FF, hiding 9/11 Truth.

We cannot allow this to go on, that is the danger to America, that they cover it up and the wars continue and the Israeli-Neocons continue their false flag operations.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 22:10 | 6966293 V for ...
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True.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 03:12 | 6966630 Otrader
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It is proven beyond the slightest shadow of doubt that Israeli agents had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and together with scientific forensic proof of controlled demolitions of WTC1, 2 and 7. The very first people arrested on suspicion of involvement in the 9/11 attacks turned out to be five Israeli Jews: Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg (Sivan's brother), Oded Ellner, Yaron Shmuel and Omer Marmari. Their white Urban Moving Systems van was stopped and they were arrested within hours of the attacks, on the afternoon of 9/11/01. Sivan Kurzberg, Ellner and Shmuel had been observed by several eyewitnesses at the rear parking lot of the Doric apartment complex in Union City, New Jersey. They were seen atop the van with cameras, high-fiving, smiling, joking with cries of joy and mockery, hugging each other, and taking photographs and video of the Twin Towers within a few minutes of the first plane impact.

Marc Perelman of New York's Jewish weekly The Forward reported on March 15, 2002 that the FBI had concluded that at least two of the Israelis were agents working for the Mossad, and their employer Urban Moving Systems Incorporated was a suspected intelligence front. On September 14, 2001, Urban's owner Dominick Suter fled the U.S. for Israel. Perelman also tells on video of how he was able to confirm that, according to the FBI, two of the five Israelis were "Mossad agents". Christopher Ketcham says the transcripts of the Carl Cameron report were later removed from the Fox News website following pressure from Abe Foxman of the ADL, and replaced with the rather Orwellian message: "This story no longer exists".

When arrested, the Israelis - dubbed the "High-Fivers" by the FBI - were found to have airline tickets with immediate travel dates for destinations world-wide, and tie-ins to 9/11. Dual US-Israeli citizen Michael Chertoff, who co-authored the USA Patriot Act" and headed the Justice Department's Criminal Division in the aftermath of 9/11, is a prime suspect for pulling strings to get the Israelis released and sent home.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 23:53 | 6966432 TheReplacement
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RP gets it.  I've spoken with him, however briefly, about Benghazi and the need to talk about what the CIA was doing there, not Clinton.  He told me what he thinks and nothing in the article above disagrees.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 10:54 | 6966892 ltsgt1
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Trump is the only one with a solution. He would negotiate and make nice with Putin, get rid of all the witnesses or the upper echelon of ISIS.

Come to think of it, perhaps he should keep the witnesses alive in order to put Barack and Hillary in jail for war crimes.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 20:15 | 6966052 scrappy
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It makes it easier to govern if one wishes to do the right thing.

The 20th century model sucks, so now they just lie.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 18:56 | 6965898 km4
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Turkish president 'talks man out of jumping off bridge' in Istanbul http://gu.com/p/4fcav/stw

He was an ISIS commander ;-) Actually was a bullshit staged fake event 

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:11 | 6965924 HowdyDoody
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After the camera crew left, Erdogan's henchmen beat up the jumper and threw him off the bridge. </joking>

 

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 02:51 | 6966604 Itch
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He took him back to the palace and ate him. GRRRRR.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 18:59 | 6965899 Cognitive Dissonance
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I am speechless. Whocouldanode?

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:01 | 6965903 alexcojones
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Training took place in Turkey,

And Guns & Money supplied by Saudis, USA, Israel, City of London, Langley. EU supplied all the diseffected Muslims?

Am I missing anyone?

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:11 | 6965926 HowdyDoody
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Qatar

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 20:29 | 6966083 Chupacabra-322
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Bingo & Ba Zing!!!

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 20:38 | 6966117 847328_3527
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I feel so ... so ... schlonged when I read stuff like this.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 21:00 | 6966167 I-am-not-one-of-them
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France

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 21:18 | 6966203 flapdoodle
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France is irrelevant.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:07 | 6965915 logicalman
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Government is the problem.

Positions of power attract psychopaths like shit attracts flies.

At least flies have an excuse, they are not capable of rational thought. (are humans?)

 

 

 

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:14 | 6965930 Killdo
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psychopaths are attracted to any framework where lies and fraud are freely enforced (and it all springs from the original totalitarianism - religion)

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 22:11 | 6966294 V for ...
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Psychopaths are attracted to nazionism mostly.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 00:16 | 6966462 Ace006
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History is replete with examples of Quaker, Amish, and Buddhist totalitarianism.

Good point.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:08 | 6965916 Normalcy Bias
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I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:09 | 6965920 km4
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Kurds march in Germany against 'Turkish state terror' http://dw.com/p/1HU6D?tw via @dwnews

Nearly 15,000 Kurds have marched on the streets of Dusseldorf to protest ongoing Turkish military operations and curfews in Kurdish towns. The Turkish government says they are rooting out Kurdish terrorists.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:32 | 6965971 Magnum
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Soon enough the various Muslim tribes will be fighting themselves in German communities.  Michigan and Minnesota along with Malmo and Yala.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 13:18 | 6967179 BarkingCat
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Maybe if 15,000 Kurds were fighting the Turks in their homeland they could have their own free homeland.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:17 | 6965939 kill switch
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Vic Nuland is behind this one!! We only use the best...

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:27 | 6965960 debtor of last ...
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The Turnkey Terrorist.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:29 | 6965963 Magnum
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If Turkey is the Vietnam war's Cambodia, and USA (the instigator) is about to get the boot, watch Assad survive & stay in power while the Turks endure a few years of anguish from a Pol Pot equivalent.  

Then Syria emerges as a regional powerhouse of it's own right while the Turkish population sees two generations of poverty so severe it's people are malnourished & growth stunted. 

Thanks to Putin this war looks to be winding down, let's be hopeful. Turks may pay a dear price, and it could be decades before Eddroggan & co face a tribunal.

The only question is, how long before the US starts a new war, and where will it be?

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 20:01 | 6966019 V for ...
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Bullshit.

The training took place in Israel. That is a fact.

al-Baghdadi, Rita Katz  whose tax exempt videos  plays in DC are nazionists. Filth.

Get ready.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 21:13 | 6966193 WTFUD
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You know toooooo much, comrade!

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 03:07 | 6966626 Otrader
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The information is out there, but you have to search and search and search.  The information that are shoved down our throat at restaurants, gyms, grocery stores, libraries, etc. are what they want you to see.  Stay awake.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 19:59 | 6966021 Dan'l
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What else could we expect from a NATO country, meaning Turkey, than to train ISIS, Mr. Oblammy?

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 20:09 | 6966039 V for ...
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Turkey's hierarchy are Donmeh jews, and selling stolen oil which profits Israel most; that lowly freak pet fiefdom of the City of London.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 20:34 | 6966101 God
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GOD has a question: Why is there such a high rate of turnover in precrime?

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 20:34 | 6966102 Pumpkin
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Oh, <Shock Face> :0, Satan worshipers lie. Their Father is a liar and murderer. It's what they fucking do.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 20:40 | 6966121 Schroedingers Cat
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The French should be VERY pissed off that Turkey is in NATO.  If this isn't betrayal, nothing is.

 

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 21:45 | 6966246 V for ...
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The French serve only themselves, as they declare in their foreign policy statements. The French serve their own interests. They have no international friends. They only have self.

F'em. Let them have their nazionist leaders, and bow down to international intrigue.

French arts are beautiful. French politics is ugly.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 00:10 | 6966455 TheReplacement
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If only all countries actually acted strictly according to their own (the people of the country not the personal interests of the leadership) interests then no doubt the world would be still dangerous but much less violent.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 03:05 | 6966624 Otrader
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Decades of brainwashing via various media outlets over several decades will be hard to undo.   This shit show will last for a while longer.  Try talking to family and friends, you'll see what I mean. 

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 00:47 | 6966509 Bazza McKenzie
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I'm sure there is no new information here for the French government.

It's the French people who should be very pissed off at their dishonest and treacherous government.  (Not picking on France, the same can be said of most western governments, which are run by very venal and dishonest people.)

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 21:41 | 6966241 WTFUD
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Erdogan has committed blatant war crimes and yet is comfortable. This means he has the support of the NeoCons.

WW111 has begun and the European Union's division is the only reason a full scale conflict hasn't materialised as yet.

Call their bluff Russia and wipe out DAESH targets inside Iraq including the Turkish Garrison. Make this statement of intent and the uneasy coalition will fold.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 21:53 | 6966252 V for ...
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Tis done, and ongoing.

Plan A. Plan B. Viking or Christian. Whatever it takes to defeat the nazionist, new Bolsheviks, new feudalists.

'Lo, There do I see my Father, and
Lo, there do I see my Mother, and
Lo, There do I see my Brothers and my Sisters and
Lo, There do I see my people back to the begining, and
Lo they do call to me, and
bid me take my place among them in the halls of Valhalla,
Where the brave will live forever."

The Viking prayer, for northern warriors, our kith and kin to be saved.

Dated around 100 through 110 A.D.

Keep the Constitution of the USA, and keep the guns in private hands. Defy the nazionists.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 21:56 | 6966270 V for ...
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Americans are very naive, easily manipulated by the old world.

Hubris and money madness blinds modern Americans,imo.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 22:04 | 6966277 V for ...
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"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, great writer, Nobel winner who retired to New England, a refuge for good northerners.

Those same dark powers now ruin the USA, the Middle East and everywhere they get their hands upon .gov

Defy the nasty little bitch, nazionists.

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 22:55 | 6966356 Wahooo
Sat, 12/26/2015 - 22:28 | 6966327 harrybrown
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www.tgsnt.tv  for the hard facts in a brilliant documentary (The Greatest Story Never Told) that exposes how the zionists started WWW1, WW2, Terrorism, ALL banking collapses & infiltrated to varing degrees all governments world wide.

Best documentary ive ever watched... I recommend

Also this is a great watch as to who's doing it all, again in the process of being banned world wide, its just a matter of time
www.communismbythebackdoor.tv

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 22:49 | 6966352 Duc888
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Well, hate to piss in the punch bowl here...... but in all actuality the training for ISIS starts here......

Specifically with the young ones...

 

 

 

After 14 years of War on Terror the West is great at fomenting barbarism and creating failed states.

For the last several years, people around the world have asked, "Where did ISIS come from?" Explanations vary, but largely focus on geopolitical (U.S. hegemony), religious (Sunni-Shia), ideological (Wahhabism) or ecological (climate refugees) origins. Many commentators and even former military officials correctly suggest that the war in Iraq is primarily responsible for unleashing the forces we now know as ISIS, ISIL, Daesh, etc. Here, hopefully I can add some useful reflections and anecdotes.

Mesopotamian Nightmares

When I was stationed in Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 2003-2005, I didn't know what the repercussions of the war would be, but I knew there would be a reckoning. That retribution, otherwise known as blowback, is currently being experienced around the world (Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, France, Tunisia, California, and so on), with no end in sight.

Back then, I routinely saw and participated in obscenities. Of course, the wickedness of the war was never properly recognized in the West. Without question, antiwar organizations attempted to articulate the horrors of the war in Iraq, but the mainstream media, academia and political-corporate forces in the West never allowed for a serious examination of the greatest war crime of the 21st century.

As we patrolled the vast region of Iraq's Al-Anbar Province, throwing MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) trash out of our vehicles, I never contemplated how we would be remembered in history books; I simply wanted to make some extra room in my HUMVEE. Years later, sitting in a Western Civilization history course at university, listening to my professor talk about the cradle of civilization, I thought of MRE garbage on the floor of the Mesopotamian desert.

Examining recent events in Syria and Iraq, I can't help but think of the small kids my fellow marines would pelt with Skittles from those MRE packages. Candies weren't the only objects thrown at the children: water bottles filled with urine, rocks, debris, and various other items were thrown as well. I often wonder how many members of ISIS and various other terrorist organizations recall such events?

Moreover, I think about the hundreds of prisoners we took captive and tortured in makeshift detention facilities staffed by teenagers from Tennessee, New York and Oregon. I never had the misfortune of working in the detention facility, but I remember the stories. I vividly remember the marines telling me about punching, slapping, kicking, elbowing, kneeing and head-butting Iraqis. I remember the tales of sexual torture: forcing Iraqi men to perform sexual acts on each other while marines held knives against their testicles, sometimes sodomizing them with batons.

However, before those abominations could take place, those of us in infantry units had the pleasure of rounding up Iraqis during night raids, zip-tying their hands, black-bagging their heads and throwing them in the back of HUMVEEs and trucks while their wives and kids collapsed to their knees and wailed. Sometimes, we would pick them up during the day. Most of the time they wouldn't resist. Some of them would hold hands while marines would butt-stroke the prisoners in the face. Once they arrived at the detention facility, they would be held for days, weeks, and even months at a time. Their families were never notified. And when they were released, we would drive them from the FOB (Forward Operating Base) to the middle of the desert and release them several miles from their homes.

After we cut their zip-ties and took the black bags off their heads, several of our more deranged marines would fire rounds from their AR-15s into their air or ground, scaring the recently released captives. Always for laughs. Most Iraqis would run, still crying from their long ordeal at the detention facility, hoping some level of freedom awaited them on the outside. Who knows how long they survived. After all, no one cared. We do know of one former U.S. prisoner who survived: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.

Amazingly, the ability to dehumanize the Iraqi people reached a crescendo after the bullets and explosions concluded, as many marines spent their spare time taking pictures of the dead, often mutilating their corpses for fun or poking their bloated bodies with sticks for some cheap laughs. Because iPhones weren't available at the time, several marines came to Iraq with digital cameras. Those cameras contain an untold history of the war in Iraq, a history the West hopes the world forgets. That history and those cameras also contain footage of wanton massacres and numerous other war crimes, realities the Iraqis don't have the pleasure of forgetting.

Unfortunately, I could recall countless horrific anecdotes from my time in Iraq. Innocent people were not only routinely rounded-up, tortured and imprisoned, they were also incinerated by the hundreds of thousands, some studies suggest by the millions.

Only the Iraqis understand the pure evil that's been waged on their nation. They remember the West's role in the eight year war between Iraq and Iran; they remember Clinton's sanctions in the 1990s, policies which resulted in the deaths of well over 500,000 people, largely women and children. Then, 2003 came and the West finished the job. Today, Iraq is an utterly devastated nation. The people are poisoned and maimed, and the natural environment is toxic from bombs laced with depleted uranium. After fourteen years of the War on Terror, one thing is clear: the West is great at fomenting barbarism and creating failed states.

Living with Ghosts

The warm and glassy eyes of young Iraqi children perpetually haunt me, as they should. The faces of those I've killed, or at least those whose bodies were close enough to examine, will never escape my thoughts. My nightmares and daily reflections remind me of where ISIS comes from and why, exactly, they hate us. That hate, understandable yet regrettable, will be directed at the West for years and decades to come. How could it be otherwise?

Again, the scale of destruction the West has inflicted in the Middle East is absolutely unimaginable to the vast majority of people living in the developed world. This point can never be overstated as Westerners consistently and naively ask, "Why do they hate us?"

In the end, wars, revolutions and counterrevolutions take place and subsequent generations live with the results: civilizations, societies, cultures, nations and individuals survive or perish. That's how history works. In the future, how the West deals with terrorism will largely depend on whether or not the West continues their terroristic behavior. The obvious way to prevent future ISIS-style organizations from forming is to oppose Western militarism in all its dreadful forms: CIA coups, proxy wars, drone strikes, counterinsurgency campaigns, economic warfare, etc.

Meanwhile, those of us who directly participated in the genocidal military campaign in Iraq will live with the ghosts of war.

 

 

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/I-Helped-Create-ISIS-20151218-0...

Sat, 12/26/2015 - 23:17 | 6966380 RafterManFMJ
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I'd like to thank you for your service - Booberanus Amurikis

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 02:02 | 6966568 V for ...
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It has been my unpleasant task to tell 'heroes' of the nazionist District of Criminals and certain soldiers that they are just plain wrong.

I say the same at airports if one of their stupid types yell. It is time to speak up, and tell the Congressional MIC and their boy/girl toys  to shut the fuck up.

They do not protect me, secure me. They do not make peace. They make war, using my money. Truth be told.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 00:29 | 6966485 TheReplacement
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Marines in Iraq used AR-15s?  Who knew?

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 11:54 | 6967012 Duc888
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"Marines in Iraq used AR-15s?  Who knew?"

 

From the bottom of the link, here's his email, you can ask him...

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Sun, 12/27/2015 - 00:45 | 6966508 Ace006
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Bullshit or this guy was one motivated, dedicated war criminal.

Bombs laced with DU.  Surrrrre.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 10:44 | 6966882 lakecity55
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This sounds like the fuckery in that movie "Burn After Reading."

The Alciaduh has lost any semblance of control over these mutts to Erdogan and his thugs.

Great Foreign Policy, Hitlery. Dumped it all on Lurch, who can't find his ass with both hands.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 11:06 | 6966911 atmasko
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Source is sputnik? :D ha ha ha 

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 13:32 | 6967210 Coletrane
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lol

an inconvenient truth

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 23:51 | 6969089 onmail1
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<--- and Turkey is Nato & Nato is America

West is destroying the world for money

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euroPeons were cannibals in ancient times they ate neanderthals to extinction

euroPeons then became pirates , looting & burning ships

euroPeons started slavery of people, treated humans as animals

euroPeons attacked (peace loving) spiritually advanced civilizations killed monks & ascetics & burnt libraries in asia (by turkish)

euroPeons then became colonialists , racists , treated people as servants

...and millions died in their colonies , columbus & his ppl butchered humnity for the greed of gold; ast India co. of British looted treasuries from eastern nations

euroPeons started drug trade (opium wars)

euroPeons then started another form of piracy - swiss banks & britsh caymen islands 

keeping stolen money by corrupt & became rich

Now euroPeons(& americans) want oil & gas monopoly

destroying country after country (Iraq, Libya, Syria etc) millions dead, injured, homeless; europeons are butchering heads of state openly(Gaddafi)

You euroPeons & americans  are working against human rights ( Julian Assange & Snowden)

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You euroPeons(& americans) are a disease to planet earth

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