{"id":63267,"date":"2015-09-07T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=63267"},"modified":"2015-09-07T20:55:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T19:55:39","slug":"twenty-six-things-about-the-islamic-state-isil-that-obama-does-not-want-you-to-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/09\/twenty-six-things-about-the-islamic-state-isil-that-obama-does-not-want-you-to-know-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-six Things about the Islamic State (ISIL) that Obama Does Not Want You to Know About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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3 Sep 2015 – Recent developments confirm what is known and documented: Washington is behind the Islamic State (ISIS) and at the same time it is behind the moderate Al Qaeda terrorists, which the Obama administration is supporting as part of America\u2019s campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS).\u00a0And they expect us to believe that they are committed to waging a campaign against terrorists<\/em><\/p>\n

The Islamic State (ISIS) was until 2014 called al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). <\/em><\/p>\n

Al Nusra is an al Qaeda affiliate which has committed countless atrocities in Syria. \u00a0It is now considered by the Obama administration as the \u201cModerate\u00a0Opposition\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

America\u2019s \u201canti-terrorist campaign\u2019 consists in supporting a so-called \u201cmoderate\u201d Al \u00a0Qaeda entity (Al Nusra) \u00a0with a view to going after another al Qaeda entity entitled The Islamic State, formerly designated as Al Qaeda in Iraq. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAl Qaeda is going after Al Qaeda\u201d, and both wings of al Qaeda are supported covertly by US intelligence.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Both ISIS and Al Nusra are protected by the Western military alliance. Both Al Qaeda entities are used to destroy Syria and Iraq. The air campaign allegedly against ISIS does not target ISIS, it targets Syria and Iraq, schools, hospitals, factories, residential areas, government buildings, roads, bridges, etc.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Both Al Qaeda affiliated entities are being used to destroy Iraq and Syria as nation states. <\/em><\/p>\n

The terrorists \u00a0are the foot-soldiers of the Western military alliance. <\/em><\/p>\n

US-NATO-Israel are state sponsors of terrorism, providing training, weapons and money to various terrorist formations.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0endgame\u00a0is \u201cregime change\u201d in Syria and the fragmentation of Iraq. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Michel Chossudovsky, September 03, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US led war\u00a0against \u00a0the Islamic State is a big lie.<\/p>\n

Going after \u201d Islamic terrorists\u201d, carrying out a worldwide pre-emptive war to \u201cProtect the American Homeland\u201d are used to justify a military agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a creation of US intelligence.\u00a0Washington\u2019s \u201cCounter-terrorism Agenda\u201d in Iraq and Syria consists in Supporting the Terrorists.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The incursion of the Islamic State (IS) brigades into Iraq starting in June 2014 was part of a carefully planned military-intelligence operation supported covertly by the US, NATO and Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n

The counter-terrorism mandate is a fiction. America is the Number One\u00a0\u201cState Sponsor of Terrorism\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Islamic State is protected by the US and its allies.<\/em><\/strong> If they had wanted to eliminate the Islamic State brigades, they could have \u201ccarpet\u201d bombed their convoys of Toyota pickup trucks when they crossed the desert from Syria into Iraq in June.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u00a0Syro-Arabian Desert is open territory (see map below).\u00a0With state of the art jet fighter aircraft (F15, F22 Raptor, CF-18) it would have been \u00a0-from a military standpoint- \u00a0a rapid and expedient\u00a0surgical operation \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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In this article, we address 26 concepts <\/em><\/strong>which refute the big lie. \u00a0Portrayed by the media as a humanitarian undertaking, this large scale military operation directed against Syria and Iraq has resulted in countless civilian deaths. <\/em><\/p>\n

It could not have been undertaken without the unbending support of \u00a0the Western media which has upheld Obama\u2019s\u00a0initiative as a counter-terrorism operation. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF AL QAEDA<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The US has supported Al Qaeda and its affiliated organizations for almost half a century<\/strong> since the heyday of the Soviet Afghan war.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. CIA training camps were set up in Pakistan.<\/strong> <\/a>In the ten year period from 1982 to 1992, some 35,000 jihadists from 43 Islamic countries were recruited <\/a>by the CIA to fight in the Afghan jihad.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u201cAdvertisements, paid for from CIA funds, were placed in newspapers and newsletters around the world offering inducements and motivations to join the Jihad.\u201d<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Since the Reagan Administration, Washington has supported the Islamic terror network. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Ronald\u00a0Reagan called the terrorists \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d. The US supplied weapons to the Islamic brigades. \u00a0It was all for \u201ca good cause\u201d: fighting the Soviet Union and regime change, leading to the demise of a secular government in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

      \"Ronald<\/a>

      Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Mujahideen Commanders at the White House in 1985 (Reagan Archives)<\/p><\/div>\n

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      1. Jihadist textbooks \u00a0were \u00a0published by the University of Nebraska<\/strong>. \u201c. \u201cThe United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren<\/a> with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings\u201d<\/li>\n
      2. Osama bin Laden, America\u2019s bogyman and founder of Al Qaeda<\/strong> was recruited by the CIA in 1979<\/a> at the very outset of the US sponsored jihadist war against Afghanistan . He was 22 years old and was trained in a CIA sponsored guerilla training camp.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Al Qaeda was not behind the 9\/11 Attacks.\u00a0<\/strong>September 11, 2001 provided a justification for waging a war against Afghanistan on the grounds that Afghanistan was a state sponsor of terrorism, supportive of Al Qaeda. The 9\/11 attacks were instrumental in the formulation of the \u201cGlobal War on Terrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n

        THE ISLAMIC STATE (ISIL)<\/strong><\/p>\n

          \n
        1. The Islamic State (ISIL)\u00a0was originally an Al Qaeda affiliated entity created by US intelligence<\/strong>with the support of Britain\u2019s MI6, Israel\u2019s Mossad, Pakistan\u2019s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Saudi Arabia\u2019s General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), Ri\u2019\u0101sat Al-Istikhb\u0101r\u0101t Al-\u2019\u0100mah ( \u0631\u0626\u0627\u0633\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0633\u062a\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0629\u200e).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          1. The ISIL brigades were involved in the US-NATO supported insurgency in Syria directed against the government of Bashar al Assad.<\/li>\n
          2. \u00a0NATO and the Turkish High Command were responsible for the recruitment of ISIL and Al Nusrah mercenaries<\/strong> from the outset of the Syrian insurgency in March 2011. According to Israeli intelligence sources, this initiative consisted in:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            \u201ca campaign to enlist thousands of Muslim volunteers in Middle East countries and the Muslim world to fight alongside the Syrian rebels. The Turkish army would house these volunteers, train them and secure their passage into Syria.<\/strong>\u00a0(DEBKAfile, NATO to give rebels anti-tank weapons, August 14, 2011.)<\/p>\n

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            9.There are Western Special Forces and Western intelligence operatives within the ranks of the ISIL.<\/strong> British Special Forces and MI6 have been involved in training jihadist rebels in Syria.<\/p>\n

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            1. Western military specialists on contract to the Pentagon have trained the terrorists in the use of chemical weapons.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              \u201cThe United States and some European allies\u00a0are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria,\u00a0a senior U.S. official and several senior diplomats told CNN Sunday. (\u00a0CNN Report,\u00a0<\/a>December 9, 2012)<\/p>\n

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              1. 1<\/strong> The ISIL\u2019s practice of beheadings is part of the US sponsored terrorist training programs<\/strong> implemented in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                \"ISIS-CIA-cooperation-150x150\"<\/a>Recruited by America\u2019s ally,a large number of ISIL mercenaries are convicted criminals<\/strong> released from Saudi prisons on condition they join the ISIL<\/a>. Saudi death row inmates were recruited to join the terror brigades.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

                  \n
                1. Israel \u00a0has supported \u00a0the ISIL and Al Nusrah brigades out of the Golan Heights.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  Jihadist fighters have met Israeli IDF officers as well as Prime Minister Netanyahu<\/strong>. The IDF top brass tacitly acknowledges that \u201cglobal jihad elements inside Syria\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0[ISIL and Al Nusrah] are supported by Israel. See\u00a0\u00a0image below:<\/p>\n

                  \"\u201cIsraeli<\/a>

                  \u201cIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Moshe Ya\u2019alon next to a wounded mercenary, Israeli military field hospital at the occupied Golan Heights\u2019 border with Syria, 18 February 2014\u2033<\/p><\/div>\n

                  SYRIA AND IRAQ<\/strong><\/p>\n

                  14 The ISIL are the foot soldiers \u00a0of the Western military alliance.\u00a0Their unspoken mandate is to wreck havoc and destruction in Syria and Iraq, acting on behalf of their US sponsors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                    \n
                  1. US Senator John McCain\u00a0has met up with jihadist terrorist leaders<\/strong> in Syria. (see picture right)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    \"john<\/a>16 \u00a0The Islamic State (IS) militia, which is currently the alleged target of\u00a0 a US-NATO bombing campaign under a \u201ccounter-terrorism\u201d mandate, continues to be supported covertly by the US. \u00a0Washington\u00a0and its allies continue to provide military aid to the Islamic State.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                      \n
                    1. US and allied bombings are not targeting the ISIL<\/strong>, they are bombing the economic infrastructure of Iraq and Syria including factories and oil refineries.<\/li>\n
                    2. The IS caliphate project is part of a longstanding US foreign policy agenda<\/strong> to carve up Iraq and Syria into separate territories: A Sunni Islamist Caliphate, an Arab Shia Republic, a Republic of Kurdistan.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                      THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM (GWOT)<\/strong><\/p>\n

                        \n
                      1. \u201cThe Global War on Terrorism\u201d (GWOT) is presented as a \u201cClash of Civilizations\u201d, a war between competing values and religions, when in reality it is an outright war of conquest, guided by strategic and economic objectives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                        20 U.S. sponsored Al Qaeda terror brigades (covertly supported by Western intelligence) have been deployed in Mali, Niger, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Somalia and Yemen.<\/p>\n

                        These various affiliated Al Qaeda entities in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa \u00a0and Asia are CIA sponsored \u201cintelligence assets\u201d.\u00a0They are used by Washington to wreck havoc, \u00a0create internal conflicts and destabilize sovereign countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                        21 Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al Shabab in Somalia,\u00a0the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)\u00a0<\/a>(supported by NATO in 2011), \u00a0Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)<\/a>, \u00a0Jemaah Islamiah (JI)<\/a>\u00a0in Indonesia, \u00a0among other Al Qaeda affiliated groups are supported covertly by Western intelligence.<\/p>\n

                          \n
                        1. The US is also supporting Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist organizations in the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region of China<\/strong>. The underlying objective is to trigger political instability in Western China.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                          Chinese jihadists are reported to have received \u201cterrorist training\u201d from the Islamic State<\/a> \u201cin order to conduct attacks in China\u201d. The declared objective of these Chinese-based jihadist entities (which serves the interests of the US) \u00a0is to establish a Islamic caliphate extending into Western China. \u00a0(Michel Chossudovsky, America\u2019s War on Terrorism, Global Research, Montreal, 2005, Chapter 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

                          HOMEGROWN TERRORISTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

                          23 The Terrorists R Us:<\/strong> \u00a0While the US is the unspoken architect of the Islamic State, \u00a0Obama\u2019s holy mandate is to protect America against ISIL attacks.<\/p>\n

                          24 The homegrown terrorist threat is a fabrication.<\/strong>\u00a0 It is promoted by Western governments and the media with a view to repealing civil liberties and installing a police state. The terror attacks by alleged jihadists and terror warnings are invariably staged events. They are used to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.<\/p>\n

                          In turn, the\u00a0arrests, trials and sentences of \u201cIslamic terrorists\u201d sustain the legitimacy of America\u2019s Homeland Security State and law enforcement apparatus, which has become increasingly militarized.<\/p>\n

                          The ultimate objective is to instill in the minds of millions of Americans that the enemy is real\u00a0and the U.S. Administration will protect\u00a0the lives of its citizens.<\/p>\n

                            \n
                          1. \u00a0The \u201ccounter-terrorism\u201d campaign against the Islamic State has contributed to the demonization of Muslims,<\/strong> who in the eyes of Western public opinion are increasingly \u00a0associated with the jihadists.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                            26 \u00a0Anybody who dares to question the validity of the \u201cGlobal War on Terrorism\u201d is branded a terrorist<\/strong> and subjected to the anti-terrorist laws.<\/p>\n

                            The ultimate objective of the \u201cGlobal War on Terrorism\u201d is to subdue the citizens, totally depoliticize social life in America, prevent people from thinking and conceptualizing, from analyzing facts and challenging the legitimacy of the inquisitorial social order which rules America.<\/p>\n

                            The Obama Administration has imposed a diabolical consensus with the support of its allies, not to mention the complicit role of the United Nations Security Council.\u00a0 The Western media has embraced the consensus; it has described the Islamic State as an independent entity, an outside enemy which threatens the Western World.<\/p>\n

                            The Big Lie has become the Truth.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

                            _____________________________<\/p>\n

                            This article was first published in November 2014. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

                            Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal and Editor of the globalresearch.ca website. He is the author of <\/em>The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003) and <\/em>America\u2019s \u201cWar on Terrorism\u201d(2005). His most recent book is entitled <\/em>Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011).<\/em><\/p>\n

                            Copyright \u00a9 Prof Michel Chossudovsky<\/a>, Global Research, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

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                            The US led war against the Islamic State is a big lie. Going after\u201dIslamic terrorists\u201d is used to justify a military agenda. The Islamic State is a creation of US intelligence. Washington\u2019s \u201cCounter-terrorism Agenda\u201d in Iraq & Syria consists in supporting the Terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east-north-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}