{"id":68198,"date":"2015-12-28T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=68198"},"modified":"2015-12-27T19:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T19:18:36","slug":"when-terrorism-becomes-counter-terrorism-the-state-sponsors-of-terrorism-are-going-after-the-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/12\/when-terrorism-becomes-counter-terrorism-the-state-sponsors-of-terrorism-are-going-after-the-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"When Terrorism Becomes Counter-Terrorism: The State Sponsors of Terrorism Are \u201cGoing After the Terrorists\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US foreign \u00a0policy has nurtured Al Qaeda, a creation of the CIA for more than 35 years, with the support of Pakistan\u2019s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and Saudi Arabia\u2019s \u00a0infamous \u00a0General Intelligence Presidency\u00a0(GIP). \u00a0Lest we forget Osama bin Laden was\u00a0recruited in 1979 by the CIA at the outset of the Soviet- Afghan war. <\/em><\/p>\n

A complex network of Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist organizations overseen by US and allied intelligence\u00a0agencies\u00a0has unfolded, extending across the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, Western China, South and South East Asia.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Rand<\/a>

Rand Corporation Report 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

While mainstream analysis regarding CIA covert \u00a0support of \u201cjihadist\u201d terrorist entities is a taboo, the Western media (quoting expert opinion) will often place the blame on the intelligence agencies of America\u2019s closest allies including Pakistan\u2019s ISI \u00a0and Saudi Arabia\u2019s GIP, i.e. for supporting terrorist entities (in defiance of the US). According to the Rand Corporation:<\/p>\n

\u201cPakistan poses a particular challenge. As America\u2019s relationship with Pakistan deteriorates, how long will the United States be able to pressure a state whose intelligence service [i.e Pakistan’s ISI which is in close liaison with the CIA] has ties with some of al Qaeda\u2019s allies, such as the Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba?\u201d (Set Jones, Resurgence of Al Qaeda, \u00a0Rand Corporation \u00a0Report<\/a>\u00a02012)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Islamic State Caliphate: \u00a0A Project of US Intelligence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Al Qaeda most recent \u201caffiliate\u201d, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)<\/strong>\u00a0based in Raqqa, Northern Syria is not only protected by the US and its allies, it is trained and financed by US-NATO, with the support of Turkey, Israel\u00a0and Washington\u2019s Persian Gulf allies.<\/p>\n

\"mapping<\/a>In a bitter irony, the caliphate project as an instrument of propaganda has been on the drawing board of US intelligence for more than ten years.\u00a0 In December 2004, under the Bush Administration, the National Intelligence Council (NIC) predicted that in the year 2020 a New Caliphate extending from the Mediterranean to Central Asia and South East Asia would emerge, threatening Western democracy and Western values.<\/p>\n

The \u201cfindings\u201d of the National Intelligence Council were published in a 123 page unclassified report entitled\u00a0\u201cMapping the Global Future\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cA New Caliphate provides an example of how a global movement fueled by radical religious identity politics\u00a0could constitute a challenge to Western norms and values as the foundation of the global system\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 (emphasis added)<\/em><\/p>\n

The NIC 2004 report<\/a>\u00a0borders on ridicule; it is devoid of intelligence, let alone historical and geopolitical analysis. It has the features of an internal propaganda construct intended to sensitize \u00a0government officials. Its objective is to provide a justification to America\u2019s \u201cGlobal War on Terrorism\u201d (GWOT).<\/p>\n

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Source: \u201cMapping the Global Future\u201d. NIC 2020 Project<\/p><\/div>\n

Nonetheless, \u00a0it also confirms the contour of a diabolical military-intelligence agenda with new \u201cjihadist\u201d terror brigades (largely integrated by mercenaries) emerging in numerous geographical locations (Eurasia and Africa, See map above). This agenda of creating a new \u201cjihad\u201d was confirmed \u00a0by a Debka File (Israeli \u00a0intelligence and security news) report in August 2011:<\/p>\n

NATO headquarters in Brussels and the Turkish high command<\/em><\/strong> are meanwhile drawing up plans for their first military step in Syria, which is to arm the rebels with weapons\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Also discussed in Brussels and Ankara, our sources report, is\u00a0a campaign to enlist thousands of Muslim volunteers in Middle East countries and the Muslim world<\/strong> to fight alongside the Syrian rebels. The Turkish army would house these volunteers, train them and secure their passage into Syria.\u00a0<\/strong>(DEBKAfile,\u00a0<\/a>NATO to give rebels anti-tank weapons, August 14, 2011, emphasis added)<\/em><\/p>\n

This report (published 4 years ago) confirms what today has become glaringly obvious, namely the central role of the Turkish government and military in liaison with NATO as a \u201cState sponsor of terrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cU Turn\u201d: The State of Sponsors of Terrorism Engage in Counterterrorism. The Role of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan<\/strong><\/p>\n

And now in an unusual about turn, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has configured a coalition of 34 mainly Muslim countries \u201cto go after the Islamic state\u201d. \u00a0In a bitter irony, the key protagonists of this counterterrorism initiative endorsed by the \u201cinternational community\u201d are Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, i.e. countries which have relentlessly supported \u201cIslamic terrorism\u201d from the very outset in close liaison with Washington. In the words of Hillary Clinton in her declassified Emails: \u201cdonors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Counter terrorism by the state sponsors of terrorism? A \u00a0New Normal? The propaganda campaign appears to have reached an impasse. According to the official statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [34] countries here mentioned have decided on the formation of a military alliance led by Saudi Arabia to fight terrorism, with a joint operations centre based in Riyadh to co-ordinate and support military operations,\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Arab<\/a>

Arab News December 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

This \u201cmilitary alliance\u201d will work in liaison with Obama\u2019s counter-terrorism bombing campaign involving a coalition of some 20 countries initiated against the Islamic State in August-September 2014. The evidence, however, confirms that the bombing raids have avoided targeting the ISIL, which is integrated by mercenaries including special forces, who are in permanent liaison with US-NATO.<\/p>\n

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Screen shot, Daily Mail<\/p><\/div>\n

KSA Defense Minister Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, confirmed (December 14, 2015) that the campaign \u201cwould co-ordinate efforts to fight terrorism\u201d specifically in Iraq and Syria in coordination \u00a0\u201dwith major powers and international organisations\u201d, i.e NATO, the US, the EU.<\/p>\n

In an unusual twist, the State sponsors of terrorism are now indulging in counterterrorism. The Islamic State in the Arabian peninsula<\/strong>, namely the House of Saud which is predicated on the tenets of Wahhabism is going after the Islamic State (ISIL) in Northern Syria.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Known and documented, Saudi Arabia has played a key strategic role in promoting and financing terrorism on behalf of Washington. Moreover, Saudi weapons purchases from the US and Canada are also being used to equip and arm various \u201copposition\u201d rebel groups in Syria including the ISIL and Al Nusrah.<\/p>\n

It is worth noting: recruited by America\u2019s ally,\u00a0a large number of ISIS mercenaries are convicted criminals<\/strong>\u00a0released\u00a0<\/a>from Saudi prisons on condition they join the ISIL.\u00a0Saudi death row inmates were recruited to join the terror brigades.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(January 23, 2013)<\/p>\n

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Screen Shot<\/p><\/div>\n

Britain, France and the US have welcomed the Saudi initiative. John Kerry says it is constructive. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon unequivocally praised \u00a0Saudi Arabia \u201cfor its constructive efforts and leadership\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a\u00a0theater of the absurd<\/strong>.\u00a0It\u2019s like asking Al Capone to lead a coalition of Chicago criminal syndicates to go after organized crime. In this case, the criminal syndicate based in Riyadh is acting on behalf of its Western sponsors.<\/p>\n

And the media applauds in chorus without acknowledging several of their own reports which confirm that Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, Qatar, Jordan, et al. \u00a0have been involved in recruiting, training and financing Islamic terrorists. The practice of beheading civilians by ISIS operative in Syria emanates from Saudi Arabia. \u00a0In the words of an earlier Daily Telegraph report (April 2014):<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe should not be blind to the fact that there is a project out there to destroy [Syria’s] \u00a0rich, pluralist, and unbelievably intricate culture and replace it with a monochrome version of Wahhabi Islam\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

What the mainstream media invariably fails to mention is that Saudi Arabia is a \u201cgo-between\u201d and that Wahhabi Islam is being used and applied by Washington. In turn, the public is led to believe that this is a bona fide war of religion and that Muslims are waging war against Western civilization.<\/p>\n

This \u201cversion of Wahhabism\u201d has nothing to with Islam, it\u2019s \u201cMade in America\u201d, its a diabolical tool of US foreign policy, which consists in applying and manipulating the ideology of Wahhabism as a means of recruiting and indoctrinating terrorists to wage a \u201cjihad\u201d on behalf of Uncle Sam. \u00a0US-NATO\u2019s war without borders goes unnoticed; World public opinion is led to believe that Islam is waging a war against the West and that US-NATO are acting in \u201cself-defense\u201d against an elusive outside enemy based in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Politicians, journalists \u00a0and intelligence analysts are lying to themselves. Everybody knows that Saudi Arabia and Turkey are behind the terrorists and we also know that the US is behind Saudi Arabia and Turkey.<\/p>\n

The US is the main architect of this terrorist undertaking which consists in sponsoring terrorists with a view to destabilizing and destroying sovereign countries in defiance of international law.<\/p>\n

In 2013, the European Parliament published a detailed report<\/a>\u00a0(excerpt below) confirming the role of Saudi Arabia in spreading Wahhabi-Salafist ideology to terror groups in a large number of countries. The report, however, failed to acknowledge that these actions were conducted as part of a US foreign policy and intelligence agenda. (Excerpt (screenshot), p. 7 below)<\/p>\n

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Screenshot, p. 7 of European Parliament Report<\/p><\/div>\n

________________________________________<\/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

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