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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O/T, but an amateur/hood tried to knock off Nigel:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/03/ukip-furious-after-details-of...
Washington confirms that US anti-tank TOW missiles were supplied to "moderate" terrorists in Syria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOaRPt7grPQ
Amnesty publishes report on ISIS weapons seized from Iraqi military stocks, mostly provided by US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTHJDV5Q3JY
The most advanced air defence system in the world, the S-400, arrived in Latakia, Syria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3q-IauBRYo
Escalation in Syria may lead to WW3 in 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uODxeO4ViMg
Monday's moderate terrorists + US anti-tank TOW missile = Friday's radical terrorists.
Hard to radical without weapons, I guess.
"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."
Great read with some minor exception(s). First off the history of Saddam Hussein's courtship with the United States while true is very different than what the U.S., Israel and the the U.K. conceived after 9/11... After WWII the Anglo-American "covet-nant" was busy creating secular "free states" in their own image which meant religious tolerance (which they already had for hundreds if not thousands of years without our help) was in vogue propped up as it was. They wanted to be just like us and we were all too happy to accomodate that yearning as long as they did what they were told!.. Afghanistan in the 60's before Zbignew gave the Russians there Vietnam is a fine example.
But like all experiments in the West that don't work fast enough when the Empire starts losing money because of it's own core of internal corruption that requires more accomodations to be made by it's vassal(s) especially ones like Saddam Hussein's Iraqw which was poised as early as 1999 to sell his oil in Euros instead of USD ANYTHING to preserve the money at all costs supersedes the geo-political facade narratives of the past.
9/11 was the hurry up moment that provided Al Qaeda/ISIS/ISIL/Al Nusra Daesh even if it meant the American government would be the owner operator and funding partner LLC for the rapes, torture and murder that would one day produce all the ugly "children" that you are now seeing running around Germany, Austria and Sweden turned loose on their own!
Who's fault that ALL "IS" !!!
And if you will it to stop.. You only need to visit your own capital each and evey one of us with 6 feet of rope and a gallon of petrol!
P.S.
When you are ready to flambe your lawmaker(s) for what you are allowing them to do to you ironically in your name, be sure to at least thank them for keeping the price of oil so low that made the festive holiday of insurrection both possible and less expensive for killing them!
The article fails to cover how Libyan arms were transferred from Libya through Behghazi, Jordan and Turkey to allow Suni jihadist/terrorist to murder Shias and Christains in Syria complements of the US ambasador to Libya under US Sec of. State HClinton.
Putin and Israel and influencial Zionists thrown in for flavour:http://thesaker.is/putin-and-israel-a-complex-and-multi-layered-relation...
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/01/03/face-it-iraqi-kurds-are-isis/
Above is an fresh entry on VT by gordon duff (identified elsewhere as narcissistic spook aka bob foote) identifying the kurds as isis collaborator's rather than kurd enemies.
What say you ZHer's, where is the truth here because I do not have a clue?
ISIS was created by progressives.
Pass the Vodka...Spock
Is McCain and Lindsay a progressive? I think they are, your thoughts? I know Hillary is!!! Here is hillary in her own words...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75x6nb5NqYM
Musta been during the planning stage of IsIs.
Beam me up!
Another useless ZH article where there is not one single mention of King Obama even though ISIS was created and funded under his administration using taxpayer money.
I was talking to an old guy who lives in my street and trying to convince him about the US involvement with ISIS, he was looking at me with such incredulity, and asking sarcastically "jeesh you really think they would do that", i said in desperation "Yeah if you sell your fucking soul, it's the money man, wake up". Now he is running around telling everyone I am an unstable psychopath!! Such is the core belief in the west, they think that because ISIS cuts off heads that the US wouldn't go near them, totally overlooking the fact that the mujaheddin decapitated all around them. Fuck me sideways.
The FBI lists no deaths for Sandy Hook that year of the "massacre" yet try telling the same people that didn't happen!
Shaddup...
You are saying that the some government scheme fabricated all this.
1) Fake victims.
2) Fake parents of victims.
3) Fake grandparents of these kids.
4) Fake neighbors for all these families.
5) Fake Kindergarten through grade school records for all the students to include thousands of time based photos of these kids growing from babies to the age they were all killed.
6) Fake teachers over the years for all these kids.
7) Fake birth certificates and medical records for the lengths of these kids lives.
8) Fake police officers.
9) Fake State and Federal Police officers.
10) Fake ambulance drivers, nurses and emergency room doctors.
We could go on and on and on...
You really need to think about what fucking stupid thing you're going to say next. There's a saying. "Let me tell you about the law of holes: If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Any country who would install Obola, McCain and others is total shit, totally corrupt and will do any evil for a dollar.
The sheep are easily manipulated and brainwashed by Hollywood and TV.
Yea but there is also a differing opinion. Think Russia. The Russians have been "building" efforts all over the Middle East for decades to bloody the West anyway necessary. Who has been active there? Al Qaeda. Taliban and of course ISIS.
Don't believe this? Then WHY doesn't Putin bomb ISIS. Do NOT even for a second suggest he does because the entire fucking world knows thats complete bullshit.
Read this book if you want REAL perspective.
Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism. Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
How the Soviet bloc planted 4,000 agents of influence in the Islamic world, armed with hundreds of thousands of copies of the most infamous anti-Semitic book in history, to fan the flames of ancient Arab resentments against the U.S. and Israel and sow the seeds of anti-Semitism that would later bloom in the form of violence and terror toward Jews and Christians.
http://www.amazon.com/Disinformation-Strategies-Undermining-Attacking-Pr...
Good article, but doesn't get to the historical roots of it: Yinon, Negroponte, etc. This provides the missing background.
Well. who woulda thought the U.S. would do anything like that? _JOHNLGALT.
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