20150908_MI6 “ISIS Rat Line” & the Threat to India

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MI6 ISIS Rat Line & The Threat To India

By Tyler DurdenCreated 09/08/2015 - 19:00

[1]Submitted byTyler Durden [1] on 09/08/2015 19:00 -0400

Originally posted at GreatGameIndia.com,[15]

The prosecution of a Swedish national accused of terrorist activities in Syria has collapsedat the Old Bailey after it became clear Britains security and intelligence agencieswould have been deeply embarrassed had a trial gone ahead, the Guardianreported[16].

Bherlin Gildo was due to stand trial at Londons Old Bailey accused of attending a terrorist

training camp between 2012 and 2013 and possessing information likely to be useful to aterrorist. But the case against him was dropped and he was cleared of the chargesafter a wrangle between lawyers and the British and Swedish security services.

On 1stJune 2015, writesSeumas Milne [17] the trial in London of a Swedish man, BherlinGildo, accused of terrorism in Syria, collapsed after it became clear British intelligence hadbeen arming the same rebel groups the defendant was charged with supporting.

The prosecut ion aband oned the case, apparent ly to avoid embarrassing th e

inte l l igence s ervices. The defence argued that going ahead with the trial would havebeen an affront to justice when there was plenty of evidence the Bri t ish s tate was

i tsel f prov id ing extens ive sup port to the armed Syr ian oppo si t ion. That didnt onlyinclude the non-lethal assistance boasted of by the government (including body armourand military vehicles), but training, logistical support and the secret supply of arms on amassive scale.

Reports were cited thatMI6 had cooperated with the CIA on a rat line[18] of armstransfers from Libyan stockpiles to the Syrian rebels in 2012 after the fall of theGaddafi regime.

Interestingly, a recent ly declassi f iedsecret US inte l l igence report [19], wr it ten inAug ust 2012, unc anni ly predictsand effect ively welcom esthe prosp ect of a

Salaf ist p rincip al i ty in eastern Syria and an al-Qaida-con tro l led Islamic state in

Syria and Iraq.In stark contrast to western claims at the time, the Defense IntelligenceAgency document identifies al-Qaida in Iraq (which became Isis) and fellow Salafists asthe major forces driving the insurgency in Syria and states that western countries, theGulf states and Turkey were supporting the oppositions efforts to take control of easternSyria.

Raising the poss ib i l i ty of establ ishing a declared or u ndeclared Salaf ist

pr incipal i ty,the Pentagon report goes o n [20], th is is exactly what the sup port ing

pow ers to the oppo sit ion want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is

con sidered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran).

However this is only the latest in a string of such cases.
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Psychological WarfareHow MI6 Controls ISIS

For months it was in the news that400 Britons had joined the jihadis in Syria. ForeignSecretary William Hague himself said so. However, the number of these British jihadisismuch larger and it has been revealed that some of them were trained to be Sunnijihadists by a jihad-seeking Saudi mullah in a British mosque under the watchful

eyes of the MI6.

The Independent in June 2014 reported Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood saying at least1,500 Britons, if not more, have joined the terrorist-led jihad in Syria and Iraq [21], rejectingthe 400 figure handed out by Hague, and500 such jihadis referred to by U.K.s anti-terrorchief Sir Peter Fahy[22]. I imagine 1,500 certainly would be the lower end. If you lookacross the whole of the country, theres been a number of people going across, Mahmoodsaid.

What is even more revealing is the report thatsome of these jihadis were trained by aSaudi preacher operating from within a Cardiff mosque.

The DailyMail in June 2104 pointed to Mohammed al-Arifi, who has called for holy war tooverthrow Bashar al-Assads regime,spoke at the Al Manar center in Cardiff, Wales [23].Although banned from entering Switzerland because of his extremist views, al-Arifi hasvisited the U.K. several times. A Sunni Muslim, he has been accused of stirring uptensions with Shia Muslims, reportedly calling it evil and accusing adherents ofkidnapping, cooking and skinning children. A source close to the Yemeni community inCardiff told Mail Online:

These boys were groomed [at Al Manar] to f ight the Shias, f ight these peop le, f ight

those thats w here it started. The teachin g [at Al Manar] h elped the peop le

recrui t ing . If someone tr ied to recrui t me, I wo uldnt go un less Im con vinced. But

once theyre groom ed, al l i t takes is someone to say come and Il l take you.

This reminds us of the teenage jihadist schoolboy from Coventry fighting alongside ISISterrorists in Iraq and Syria dubbedOsama Bin Bieber[24].

Last year German officials in an operation raided two containers passing through HamburgPort and seized 14,000 documents establishing that Osama bin Laden was funded by UKQueens bank Coutts, which is part of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Following the accusations DailyMail in its 23 June 2014 report titledQueen

s bank forcedto deny that Osama Bin Laden had an account there [25]after 14,000 documents seized

from Cayman Islands branch reports that the Queens bank has denied claims inEuropean newspapers that Osama Bin Laden ever held an account with the organisation.

In 2012, Coutts was fined 8.75million for serious and systematic failings whenhandling money from suspected criminals or foreign despots.

ISIS Leader a Psychological Operation

Hamid Dawud Mohamed Khalil al Zawi, most commonly known as Abu Abdullah al-Rashid

al-Baghdadi was the leader of umbrella organizations composed of eight groups and itssuccessor organisation, the Islamic State of IraqISIS. However, in July 2007, the U.S.military reported that al-Baghdadi never actually existed. The detainee identified as Khaled
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al-Mashhadani, a self-proclaimed intermediary to Osama bin Laden, claimed thatal-Baghdadi was a fictional character created to give an Iraqi face to a foreign-run terrorgroup [26], and that statements attributed to al-Baghdadi were actually read by an Iraqiactor.

According to Brigadier General Kevin Bergner, Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi never

existed and was actually a fictional character whose audio-taped declarations wereprovided by an elderly actor named Abu Adullah al-Naima as a form ofpsychological warfare asreported [26] in the New York Times.Brigadier GeneralKevin Bergner [27] currently serves with the National Security Council staff as SpecialAssistant to the President and Senior Director for Iraq. Prior to this assignment, he servedas the Deputy Commanding General for Multi-National Forces in Mosul, Iraq. He alsoserved as the Director for Political-Military Affairs (Middle East) on the The Joint Staff inthe Department of Defense.

What about the ISIS threat to India?

At the Indo-UK Counter Terrorism Joint Working Group meeting held in London onJanuary 15-16 this year theBritish officials warned [28] their Indian counterparts of apossible terror attack by ISIS on Indian soil.

Than on July 28,USA Today revealed [29] the end-of-days as according to the IslamicState (ISIS). The newspaper sourced a 32-page doomsday document to some Pakistanicitizen with connections inside the Pakistani Taliban.

An investigative story published by the USA Today and reported by American MediaInstitute refers to a 32- page Urdu document obtained from a Pakistani citizen withconnections inside the Pakistani Taliban.

The document w arns that preparat ions for an attack in India are und erway and

pred ic ts that an at tack wi l l prov oke an apoca lypt ic conf ronta t ion wi th Amer ica ,thereport said. The document, according to the report, was independently translated intoEnglish by a Harvard scholar and verified by several serving and retired intelligenceofficial.

The document was reviewed by three US intelligence officials, who said they believethe document is authentic based on its unique markings and the fact that language usedto describe leaders, the writing style and religious wording match other documents from

the ISIS, USA Today added.

However, Indias Ministry of Home Affairs termed rubbish the alleged ISISdocument which hinted that the terror group was preparing to attack India toprovoke confrontation with the US. Its rubbish, Joint Secretary, Internal Security-I, MAGanapathy toldreporters said [30].

If indeed the doc ument was a fraud it raises serious quest ion s given th e MI6 & CIA

l inks to ISIS; consid ering that the doomsday threat and the attack plan bo th

emanated from the same so urce that is al leged to have created the threat in the f irst

place. However, no explanation was provided by the Home Ministry as to why they chose

to term itrubbish

nor an explanation sought from the western governments, intelligence

agencies or the media for publishing such a sensitive and false report that took the entireglobal media in a whirl.
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On the other hand last month, Indias Home Ministry announced it was working on anational anti-ISIS strategy [31]. Many intelligence inputs followed after the publication ofthose reports and arrests made all across India. Reportedly, the appeal of ISIS radicalismhad ramped up in ten Indian states.

Last month aBritish doctor was arrested in Jammu & Kashmir for planting IEDs

[32].Police said Baba who is a physiotherapist has lived in London since 2006. Hereturned to the valley three months ago.

Why is it that from Al Qaeda to ISIS to terrorists in J&K, all links end up in Britain?More importantly, why such leads are not pursued by Indian Intelligence Agencies?Surprisingly enough even the intelligence inputs we so actively act upon are also providedby the same countries. How could we formulate a strategy to orient our security agenciesto counter a threat that we choose to ignore or do not even attempt to understand?

As is the case with any of the terrorist group many of these groups are controllednot only by the states that sponsor terrorism but by the nations that sponsor the

states that sponsor terrorism too.So though all evidence eventually leads to NorthWestern frontier of India, we do not attempt to learn about who instigates these groups,their actions, their mode of acting and the previous track record that should guide us indoing what we as third neutral sovereign country should do. We totally ignored this angleand even the most rudimentary of forensic investigation in our approach to theMumbaiTrain Blasts (a sequel to Spanish Train Bombings and the beginning of the 26/11 MumbaiAttacks) [33]. We hope we do a beginning in this new direction.

By the later years of the Reagan regime, a preferred nomenclature suited to U.S. interestsbecame standardized for the Third World. In the case of nations to be rolled back (e.g.,Nicaragua), governments were called terrorist and the insurgents were labeled democratic.In the case of countries to be supported against communist insurgencies (e.g., ElSalvador and the Philippines), the governments were called democratic and the insurgentswere labeled terrorists.

from the book Rollback by Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould

One recent phenomenon emerging since dissolution of soviet era is, if there is morethan one geo-political player involved in any target nation say Nigeria or Indonesiaor India; then the turf war between the geo-political players is spilling in to thetarget countries.Just like in case of East India Companies whenever their parent

countries (England, France, Holland etc) went to war in Europe, their representatives inAfrican and Indian colonies also went to war. So whenever one geo-political player feelstheir turf is violated in any target countries then they do not hesitate to eliminate the othersor their supporters in the target countries.

Depending on the theatre of concern these sabotage operations are called by variousnames and many governments in order to prevent them do various preventive actions.Unfortunately in India there is no comprehensive study of terrorism keeping the aboveperspective. Our excessive determination and focus on Islamic or Jihad terrorism thoughsuits our emotional need it only comprises of less than one fourth of terrorist actsperpetuated on the soil of India since more than three decades. Subversion, sabotage,

assassinations, abductions, facility bombings, symbolic target bombings though done byall terrorist groups we are confined and concerned only about Jihadi terrorism which ismaking our response to over all terrorism and its prevalence in India ineffective.
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Seumas Milnewrites [17] th is western h ab i t of p lay ing wi th j ihad i groups, which thencom e back to b ite them, goes back at least to the 1980s war against the Soviet

Union in Afgh anistan, which fo stered the orig inal al-Qaida under CIA tute lage.Infact,its not just a western habit and it dates far back than 1980s since before World War Iwhere the roots to using modern fundamentalism as a tool of warfare lay.

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[16] http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/01/trial-swedish-man-accused-terrorism-offences-collapse-bherlin-gildo

[17] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq

[18] http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line

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