ISIS: The 'Enemy' The US Created, Armed, & Funded
Submitted by Robert Fantina via TheAntiMedia.org,
Out of nowhere, it seems, Daesh, also commonly referred to as ISIL or ISIS, spontaneously formed, a group that perverts aspects of Islam for its own violent ends, and threatens, we are told, all that the civilized world holds dear.
The “war on terror,” governments inform their citizens, has a new front. And that front is Daesh.
Let us not be too hasty. Things are not always what they appear. Daesh is well-financed, and that money must be coming from somewhere other than a ragtag band of malcontents. Daesh soldiers have advanced weaponry and sophisticated communications methods. They have tanks and Humvees. None of these can be obtained without significant funding. Though the source is quite illusive, there is some evidence that will lead to a trail.
First, we must look at Daesh’s origins, and even that is not easily discernible. Writing for The Guardian in August 2014, Ali Khedery suggests:
“Principally, Isis is the product of a genocide that continued unabated as the world stood back and watched. It is the illegitimate child born of pure hate and pure fear – the result of 200,000 murdered Syrians and of millions more displaced and divorced from their hopes and dreams. Isis’s rise is also a reminder of how Bashar al-Assad’s Machiavellian embrace of al-Qaida would come back to haunt him.
Facing Assad’s army and intelligence services, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Iraq’s Shia Islamist militias and their grand patron, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Syria’s initially peaceful protesters quickly became disenchanted, disillusioned and disenfranchised – and then radicalised and violently militant.”
It is interesting that Mr. Khedery says that Assad’s “embrace of al-Qaida” came back to haunt him. It brings to mind a parallel situation in the United States. (Actually, there are many, but we will look at only one.)
Examining the theories of the origins of Daesh
In the early 1960s, when the U.S.-supported leadership of Iraq was becoming just a bit too big for its britches — at least in the United States’ view — in wanting to challenge Israel as a major player in the Middle East, the U.S. decided that its leader, Abdel Karim Kassem, had to go. Selecting a virulent anti-communist party to throw its support to, the U.S. worked closely with a young man named Saddam Hussein. We all know how well that ultimately worked out. The source of much, but not all, of the unrest in the Middle East today can be traced back to that U.S. decision.
Other theories on the formation of Daesh are also worth considering. Yasmina Haifi, a senior employee of the Dutch Justice Ministry’s National Cyber Security Center, asserted that Daesh was created by Zionists seeking to give Islam a bad reputation. “ISIS has nothing to do with Islam. It’s part of a plan by Zionists who are deliberately trying to blacken Islam’s name,” she wrote on Twitter in August 2014.
And finally, it has been more than suggested that Daesh “is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and to counter Iran’s growing influence in the region,” as Garikai Chengu, a research scholar at Harvard University, put it in September 2014.
Yet if the United States’ role wasn’t that blatant, it certainly existed, according to Seumas Milne, a columnist and associate editor at The Guardian. He argued in a June opinion piece:
“[T]he U.S. and its allies weren’t only supporting and arming an opposition they knew to be dominated by extreme sectarian groups; they were prepared to countenance the creation of some sort of ‘Islamic state’ – despite the ‘grave danger’ to Iraq’s unity – as a Sunni buffer to weaken Syria.”
No matter how one looks at it, there are many possible causes that spawned Daesh. As we look at its funding sources, it may all become clearer.
Funding and materiel, courtesy of Uncle Sam and his friends
In Daesh’s role as opposing Syria (just one of its many roles) the terrorist outfit is believed to have received funding from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, as part of their opposition to the Assad regime.
But it also generates its own income, having taken control of local businesses, taxing others, and selling oil. Among its customers, incredibly, is Syria. Since Daesh controls much of the oil-production infrastructure in the country, Syria has little choice but to purchase oil from the very group that seeks to overthrow its government.
Reports also indicate that Israel is a main buyer of Daesh oil. The sale is not direct; oil is smuggled by Kurdish and Turkish smugglers, and then Turkish and Israeli negotiators determine the price. As a result of these oil sales, Daesh has annual revenues estimated at $500 million, according to data compiled by the U.S. Treasury.
In November of this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Daesh is being financed by at least 40 countries — including G20 members. With such widespread financing, it will be difficult to defeat Deash.
The U.S., in its misguided and destructive foreign policy toward the Middle East (its misguided and destructive foreign policies toward the rest of the world are topics for a separate discussion), also provided Daesh with a vast arsenal.
Last year, the Department of Defense, bragging about advances against this new “enemy” in Iraq, issued a press release: “The three strikes destroyed three ISIL armed vehicles, and ISIL vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft artillery gun, an ISIL checkpoint and an IED emplacement.” Commenting on that statement in Alternet, Alex Kane wrote:
“What went unmentioned by the Pentagon is that those armed vehicles and artillery guns they bombed were likely paid for with American tax dollars. The arms ISIS possesses are another grim form of blowback from the American invasion of the country (Iraq) in 2003. It’s similar to how U.S. intervention in Libya, which overthrew the dictator Muammar Gaddafi but also destabilized the country, let to a flood of arms to militants in Mali, where France and the U.S. waged war in 2013.”
The U.S. left untold amounts of weaponry in Iraq, and as that country descended into civil war following the United States’ odd salvation of it, that weaponry was free for the taking.
So even if, as suggested above, the U.S. didn’t give birth to Daesh, it has certainly nourished it.
A merry-go-round that never stops spinning
It is interesting to note that U.S. taxpayers are spending $615,482 every hour to fight a “war” in which the “enemy” is being well-financed by countries with whom the U.S. has full diplomatic relations. Does this not make it appear that “victory” over this enemy is not the goal? With many countries financing and supplying Daesh, might the world’s largest supplier of weaponry, the U.S., not be too interested in losing such a lucrative market? It’s worth noting that the United States’ “foreign military sales rose to a record high of $46.6 billion for fiscal 2015.” With such a healthy cash cow, would the country’s power-brokers really want to end war? Why kill the goose that is laying such pretty golden eggs?
As the U.S. and its hapless allies continue this “war on terror,” an ill-defined and nebulous “enemy” if ever there was one, Syria and Yemen seem to be bearing the brunt of the violence. As in every modern war at least since World War I, innocent men, women and children are the most frequent victims, suffering unspeakably and dying horrible deaths. And, somehow, the world’s most powerful military machine, owned and operated by the U.S., is unable to defeat Daesh. It must, therefore, continue to arm its allies, which are arming Daesh. So the U.S. provides funding to countries to fight Deash; some of those countries transfer money and armaments to Daesh, who the U.S. is bombing. And it seems that this deadly merry-go-round will continue its endless spinning.
And why shouldn’t it? The U.S. can, with ever-decreasing credibility, pretend to stand as a beacon of freedom and liberty, arming revolutionaries and destabilizing governments that displease it, while arming allies of the country in revolution, which in turn assist that country. So this “war on terror” never ends, and neither do the abundant profits from war-making.
And when possession of the moral high ground is just an illusion, when rhetoric spewed from the mouths of hypocritical politicians to get the citizenry to wrap themselves in the flag and shed a tear for apple pie, motherhood and Old Glory, and when the almighty dollar is always the bottom line, nothing is going to change.
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Quit thinking the American people will wake up. They have been conditioned since birth that the USA is the greatest country on the planet and without the USA the whole world would descend into war when the opposite is true. I've read plenty of history, written by the winners of course, and lots of current events but it took me almost 60 years to wake up. Whether you watch Leave It to Beaver, war movies, play video games, read the paper or books, the message is the same, the US is only a force for good. When news of the My Lai Massacre broke it was poo pooed as a one off, and those unarmed villagers were asking for it, but history has shown that it was one of a great many with another one happening the same day. Lt Calley served something like 3 months and Nixon himself made sure he was pardoned. Even your video games have you representing the USA killing off the bad guys and saving the world. If you follow world events you know that to get the real story you have to bypass US media as much of their reporting is bought and sold by the USA and other governments looking for favorable impressions of their hell holes. As was revealed recently by a German journalist most of the journalists in Europe are paid to write what the CIA tells them. So who is the average person going to believe, you or what they have been conditioned to their whole lives. Especially when the bought and paid for US and major foreign media will not back up your narrative. Freeman Dyson one of the USA's greatest scientists, and an Obama supporter, claims that man made climate change is bullshit. Unlike other scientists of lesser stature they can't use the usual attacks to discredit him or his work, like he's in the pay of the oil companies, so they claim at 93 years old he's past it and has gone senile and we must feel sorry for him being duped. What the media doesn't tell you is his friends and associates claim he is as sharp as ever and is in no way senile.
Consider the opening narrative of this article where Assad of Syria embraced Al Qaeda and it's his fault over 200,000 people have died. The source of the "information" is Ali Khedery. His bio includes being special assistant to 5 US Ambassadors to Iraq. He was also a senior advisor to 3 heads of the US Central Command. I'm sure his opinion is totally unbiased, not. You can bet anything he writes will be printed or quoted in US media but nothing positive about Assad will be. What doesn't help the education of US citizens is many conspiracies touted are so outrageous and won't hold up to scrutiny that no one will believe anything outside of the mainstream media. It wouldn't be much of a surprise if the government itself floats these wacko theories to muddy the waters so when the truth hits no one would believe it.
Like in Hitlers Germany the government is reaching into the schools to indoctrinate the youth. The biggest item is man made global warming where only the governments side, which is mostly junk science and propaganda, is presented. The kids are then encouraged into activism to keep the planet from being destroyed. Grade school kids being used to sue the government for immediate action to combat the deniers and save the planet. Then there are colleges where political correctness is encouraged and kids marching and making demands to end free speech and to only allow "correct" opinions and speech. More affirmative action too. Go against the grain and your brilliant paper gets a failing grade and your professor tells you to get with the program, or else.
To get any truth out or change beliefs is a herculean task as you are a few versus the government machine and it's willfull supporters in the media and academia who believe it's OK to lie and cheat for what they consider the greater good. These people are so caught up in their sense of superiority that it never would occur to them that they are saps and being used.
I understand all you write.......
I've been working in the lowlands of South Carolina for the last few months after the floods which are still happening with the latest rains of the last few days.
I'm hoping there is a way through without a full blown revolution against the government.
If you ride through the back roads, through the lowland swamps of S.C. and think back to the revolution and what the 'Swampfox' and his men went through....you want something else for your children who are of age to go through it !!!!
It appears TRUMP is the best hope.
VOTE TRUMP...... one more chance is my big hope before revolution is a must.
@ not dead yet
Assad of Syria embraced al Qaida and Ali Khedery
GOOD DIGGING
Iraq - Syrian connection to that axis of evil via "CHALABI"s false WMD information. Remember Tenet and the 'Slam Dunk' WMDs with Powell & Co.. All fucking liars doing what their told to do by the Dictator and Chief 'FUCK-UP' CHENEY/BUSH/RUMSFELD axis of REAL EVIL!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/09/chalabi.us/index.html?_s=PM:POLITICS
again,
Thankyou for your comment
Ps. keep em comin NDY
The American public is easily and has been totally brainwashed by TV and Hollywood.
The USA has supported the mass murder of Christians and other innocents in Iraq and Syria for resources, control and as stooges for AIPAC.
I have relatives who know I do not watch TV or Hollywood's shit and they said that I must watch Homeland. I told them that I would rather deal in reality. I am sure Homeland is some State Dept scripted crap.
This garage like that old Jack Bauer show and other Spec Ops deep state TV and Hollywiood thrillers are all designed to create a smoke screen for the evil in the US govt and the whole Govt and shadow govt is totally corrupt. The USA and "allies" created, fund, back and are ISIS.
NO,WAY!.. really!
There is a call to arms tonight at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ in Oregon. About 150 armed patriots prepared to fight the plutocracy. I wish them luck. I am sure we will see an article on ZH within the hour.
Idiots. You do not directly or openly confront an adversary that has you vastly outgunned.
It is a political statement. I doubt anybody thinks they are going to fight/shoot their way out once surrounded by the Feds. They understand their adversary and are provoking a political reaction and not a military reaction.
Reno
Paging Janet Reno. Standoff situation, crackers and coots.
Do you copy?
Over
Ms Lynch could have the opportunity to makeJanet Reno look passive by comparison....
And getting their names on a watch list in the process. Dumb. Keep your fucking heads down people. If it comes down to a straight fight we're going to get our asses handed to us.
The numbers say otherwise...
Kent State?
Their goal is to do what? I don't understand.
From the one and ONLY real main stream media channel that reports and tells the truth. This is the world's number one place to go for real news of the day.
https://www.rt.com/usa/327762-armed-bundy-militia-oregon-ranchers/
RT has a piece.
https://www.rt.com/usa/327762-armed-bundy-militia-oregon-ranchers/
Armed militia, incl. Bundy bros, occupy forest reserve HQ in Oregon, call ‘US patriots’ to arms
MNWR, if you wish, you can contact me at: MyName at hush mail dot me.
"What difference does it make!?" that weapons were being shipped from Benghazi to Turkey and then into Syria?
"My good friend Chris." had to die to try and cover my ass dammit!
I think we all know now Hillary.
& on that note, francis_sawyer was banned from ZH... 'What difference does it make'?
American arms killed Ambassador Stevens?
The Truth killed Francis Sawyer?
ZH: Pull it!
How's the weather in Pyongyang?
I here those helicoptor tours in old Soviet helos, are all the bomb?
Fill me in on what happened to Francis...I was gone for a few months at one point...they still frown on growing green gold in illinois.
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Hillary Clinton - grandmother of ISIS caliphate
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/09/01/hillary-clinton-grandmo...
America is being destroyed faster than ISIS is. Of course that is the real plan anyway, all in the name of protecting our freedom, prosperity and security. I don't even know America anymore......
the bankers fund all this type of stuff. our government does jack wjthout being told to by a banker. just like all the rest of um
The bankers all have private islands; they don't give a damn what shit happens.
This guys witness of NATO war plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD-VRDklIPc
part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjAkyK9RlNA
This is all leading up to a full Alien disclosure that will rock the entire fabric of the world as we know it……
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2016/01/top-secret-alien-ph...
Lots of wind sculpted rock on Mars. No aliens. But that cave octopus looks cool and the alien ghost in the rovers camera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSG0-9UAADc
http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/spirit_n001.html
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"Surprisingly, the Moon is a moderately bright gamma-ray source. The only part of the electromagnetic spectrum where the Moon is brighter than the Sun is gamma rays. The surface of the Moon is baldly exposed to cosmic rays and solar flares. When cosmic rays hit the ground, they produce a dangerous spray of secondary particles right at your feet, and trigger little nuclear reactions that release yet more radiation in the form of neutrons. The lunar surface itself is radioactive!"
-Dr Robert Naeye PhD, NASA GLAST Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope, Solar System: Sun, Moon, and Earth, 23 August 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFAZoVGxqY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nt8dJ6rMZI
Ladies & gentlemen of the world, it is my utmost privilege to announce to you that these little green men actually do exist, for they are part of the eternal past and venture from all regions of our galaxy to find homage in our earth's center. governments of the world have been very good at concealing these little visitors and preparing the public with loving movies and pleasent melodies - controlled media as to cushion the arrival of our little friends.
You see, throughout history many people have claimed to see strange lights in the sky. Well, the truth of the matter is that these light, and beings, will only reveal themselves to those who are pure of heart, for these enlightened aliens leave permanent imprinted information on the psyche of those chosen human only to be revealed to our deteriorating planet at the point in which our civilization shall enter the new age of 'light without heat.'
And low, it did cometh to pass that thine little green men didst landeth in the Crimea.
(or are they different green men- the one's who smoke Russian cigarettes and seem not to worry the locals one bit)
steve vai -- little green men
ya but down arrows are easier than googling the text to get the joke
Haha!
Of course the us created isis!
The 'merican sheeple are too busy worshipping a dead jew zombie to care.
http://youtu.be/E9ubCPIHrPQ
Well the zombie created by "Saint" Paul and his self centered, distorted blathering. The real Jesus was probably a very decent guy.
Who would be astounded to learn that he was reborn as a Christian.... ;-)
Woops...der it is....whoops...der it is...
And still...do you think it will stop?
All that corruption and criminality in govt politics that profit from this evil?
Oh justice...paging justice....are you on the planet any where?
MA AT!
I wondered who was fucking with my O/S.
I downloaded this picture off of some dipshit MSM site!
Obama Buckshot --- It's clean now.
that seems to be happening more often these days
Agreed
Any story of the creation of (pick one: Daesh/ISIS/whatever it's called today) is, at best, highly incomplete without featuring Hillary Clinton as a central figure.
Had to fix the title: US Created Obama created and funded....
You mean O-bomb-yah?
Mujahideen
The Taliban
Al CIA duh
Muslim Brotherhood
Al Nasura
ISIS
Do we see a trend here?
You forgot the Pope.
Some good weapons were made during the crusades.
Yeah, the Arabs didn't chop heads off until we got there and showed 'em how....on poles and all. Who says we can't civilize them?
Chronological order would help... then one could more easily follow the same individuals that as they move from company A to company B (which are all subsidiaries of company Z).. Company Z however, not only predates In-Q-Tel but it's actually older then the CIA itself.