{"id":93860,"date":"2017-06-19T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=93860"},"modified":"2017-06-14T18:57:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T17:57:18","slug":"dirty-open-secret-us-created-and-supports-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/06\/dirty-open-secret-us-created-and-supports-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Open Secret: US Created and Supports ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>It\u2019s one of the dirtiest of dirty open secrets.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf\" >documents<\/a> prove it \u2013 obtained by Judicial Watch through an FOIA lawsuit.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>They show ISIS, al-Qaeda and like-minded terrorist groups are the \u201cmajor forces\u201d used as US foot soldiers in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_93861\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Isis-financ\u00e9-par-les-USA.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93861\" class=\"wp-image-93861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Isis-financ\u00e9-par-les-USA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Isis-financ\u00e9-par-les-USA.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Isis-financ\u00e9-par-les-USA-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Featured image: credits to the owner<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>13 Jun 2017 &#8211; <\/em>The myth of so-called \u201cmoderate rebels\u201d was long ago discredited. Yet claiming they exist persists.<\/p>\n<p>The DIA documents show America, NATO, Saudi Arabia and other regional rogue states support an Islamic caliphate to challenge, topple and replace <strong>Bashar al-Assad<\/strong> with an imperial puppet.<\/p>\n<p>Longstanding US\/Israeli plans call for redrawing the Middle East map by color revolutions and wars, replacing independent governments with pro-Western puppet regimes, balkanizing Iraq, Syria, Iran and other regional countries for easier control, looting their resources, and exploiting their people.<\/p>\n<p>In a January 2016 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iranreview.org\/content\/Documents\/How-We-Know-ISIS-Was-MADE-IN-THE-USA-.htm\" >Iran Review<\/a> article, <strong>James Fetzer<\/strong> discussed evidence of ISIS\u2019 creation by America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In February 2015, Iraq\u2019s military \u201cdowned 2 UK cargo planes carrying weapons for ISIL,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In March 2015, \u201cIraqi popular forces\u2026shot down a US helicopter carrying weapons for ISIL in Al-Anbar province\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photographic evidence proved it.<\/p>\n<p>In response to an April 2015 Syrian request to designate ISIL (ISIS) a terrorist organization, \u201cthe US, Britain, France and Jordan refused\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_93862\" style=\"width: 551px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ISIS-sporting-US-Army-tattoo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93862\" class=\"wp-image-93862 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ISIS-sporting-US-Army-tattoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ISIS-sporting-US-Army-tattoo.jpg 541w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ISIS-sporting-US-Army-tattoo-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-93862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Source: Iran Review)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPhotographs\u2026showing ISIS members sporting \u2018US Army\u2019 tattoos\u201d went unreported by Western media scoundrels.<\/p>\n<p>A 2012 DIA document states the West will facilitate the rise of ISIS \u201cto isolate the Syrian regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former CIA contractor <strong>Steven Kelly<\/strong> said Washington<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201ccreated ISIL for the sake of Israel,\u201d along with assuring \u201cnever-ending war in the Middle East\u201d to make the Jewish state the dominant regional power and provide a \u201cconstant flow of orders for weapons from the military-industrial complex at home\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ISIS fighters are recruited from scores of countries, including Western ones.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2015, Russian lower house State Duma International Affairs Committee chairman <strong>Alexi Pushkov<\/strong> explained America is<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cnot bombing ISIS at all\u2026Obama is lying to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In November 2015, <strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong> said dozens of countries are supporting ISIS, including America and other Western ones.<\/p>\n<p>Fetzer:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThere are many other sources that confirm that ISIS was created by the US and is being supported by Western powers to promote their own political agenda, where nothing coming from the administration of Barack Obama is worthy of belief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cSince the nullification of the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 (which precluded the techniques of propaganda and disinformation within the United States) by the NDAA 2013, there are no trustworthy (mainstream) news sources in the US\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, \u201cISIS is commonly called <strong>\u2018John McCain<\/strong>\u2019s Army\u2019\u2026(one of) the earliest advocates of (regional) military action\u201d on the phony pretext of combating ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.farsnews.com\/newstext.aspx?nn=13960321001279\" >Fars News<\/a> quoted Iranian armed forces deputy chief of staff <strong>General Mostafa Izadi<\/strong> saying:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWe possess documents and information showing the direct supports by the US imperialism for this highly disgusting stream (ISIS) in the region which has destroyed the Islamic countries and created a wave of massacres and clashes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington uses ISIS and like-minded groups as instruments for regional \u201cproxy war\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.farsnews.com\/newstext.aspx?nn=13960319000672\" >Fars News<\/a> quoted Iran\u2019s parliament Speaker <strong>Ali Larijani<\/strong>, saying<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c(t)he United States has aligned itself with the ISIL in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra (ISIS in Syria) and like-minded groups are US creations.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re used as foot soldiers to advance its imperium \u2013 responsible for aiding Washington rape and destroy one country after another.<\/p>\n<p>Most Americans are unaware of Washington\u2019s diabolical agenda in the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa and elsewhere in their name \u2013 a bipartisan conspiracy against world peace, stability and security no matter the human cost.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Stephen Lendman<\/em><em> lives in Chicago. He can be reached at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net\">lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net<\/a>.\u00a0His new book as editor and contributor is titled <\/em>Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III<em>. <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\" ><em>http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/em><\/a>. <em>Visit his blog site at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sjlendman.blogspot.com\" >sjlendman.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright \u00a9 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/stephen-lendman\" >Stephen Lendman<\/a>, Global Research, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/dirty-open-secret-us-created-and-supports-isis\/5594486\" >Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one of the dirtiest of dirty open secrets.<br \/>\n\u2022\tUS Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) documents prove it \u2013 obtained by Judicial Watch through an FOIA lawsuit.<br \/>\n\u2022\tThey show ISIS, al-Qaeda and like-minded terrorist groups are the \u201cmajor forces\u201d used as US foot soldiers in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93860","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=93860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}