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How US Allies Aid Al Qaeda in SyriaAugust 4, 2015

Exclusive: The dirty secret about the Obama administration’s “regime change” strategy in

Syria is that it amounts to a de facto alliance with Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front which is driving

toward a possible victory with direct and indirect aid from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel,

as Daniel Lazare explains.

By Daniel Lazare

When the U.S. and Turkey announced on July 23 that they were joining forces to establish

a “safe zone” in northern Syria, no one could quite figure out what they meant. With the

White House denying that the deal required it to send in troops to seal the zone off or

warplanes to patrol the skies, Bloomberg’s Josh Rogin wrote that the whole thing was

misnomer: “In fact, there is really no ‘zone,’ and there is no plan to keep the area ‘safe.’”

Indeed, Rogin said, three “senior administration officials” had put together a conference

call in order to assure reporters that there were no plans “for a safe zone, a no-fly zone,

an air-exclusionary zone, a humanitarian buffer zone, or any other protected zone of any

kind.” So if that wasn’t the plan, what on earth was it?

President and Mrs. Obama disembark from Air Force

One at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on

Jan. 27, 2015, for a state visit to Saudi Arabia. (Official

White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Now we know. The purpose of the non-zone zone that Turkey and the U.S. may or may

not wish to establish is to give the former a free hand to bomb the Kurds and the latter an

opportunity to engage in joint operations with Al Qaeda.

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The proof? A front-page article in the Aug. 1 New York Times reporting that a U.S.-trained

rebel unit, known as Division 30, which had been sent into Syria to combat ISIS, had

come “under intense attack on Friday from a different hardline Islamist faction … the

Nusra Front, which is affiliated with Al Qaeda.”

This is no big news in itself since the Syrian opposition’s myriad rebel factions, one more

hardline than the next, are constantly battling one another for control of arms, territory,

resources and personnel. But what was new was the fact that the trainees had been

caught off guard.

As The Times’s Anne Bernard and Eric Schmitt reported: “American military trainers … did

not anticipate an assault from the Nusra Front. In fact, officials said on Friday, they

expected the Nusra Front to welcome Division 30 as an ally in its fight against the Islamic

State. ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen like this,’ said one former senior American official.”

In other words, Defense Department officials expected Al Nusra to see Division 30 as

friends and were perplexed when it didn’t. The Americans “had no known plans to fight the

Nusra Front,” the Times went on, adding that, while “allied with Al Qaeda,” Nusra “is seen

by many insurgents in Syria as preferable to the Islamic State, and it sometimes

cooperates with other less radical groups against both the Islamic State and Syrian

government forces.”

According to the London Independent, a “distraught” Division 30 commander whom it

managed to catch up with in Turkey said that he and one of the captured trainees had

actually met with an Al Nusra leader ten days earlier to work out a truce. “They said that if

even one bullet reached them, they would attack us, but we assured them we were there

only to fight Daesh [i.e. ISIS],” he said.

But even though Division 30 had kept its part of the bargain, Al Nusra was now beating

the captured trainees and parading them in the hot afternoon sun with their shirts pulled

over their heads while Al Nusra fighters accused them of “collaborat[ing] with the crusader

coalition.”

So when the New York Times announced that the U.S.-Turkish plan “would create what

officials from both countries are calling an Islamic State-free zone controlled by relatively

moderate Syrian insurgents,” it’s now clear who those “moderates” are: Al Nusra. The

zone would be safe for U.S.-trained forces, which numbered only around 60 fighters prior

to last week’s attack, but it would be mainly safe for the much larger and more powerful

Syrian branch of Al Qaeda.

Teaming Up with Al Qaeda?

The U.S. teaming up with Al Qaeda – how can this be? Although the press doesn’t like to

talk about it, there in fact has hardly been a moment in recent history when the U.S. has

not worked hand in glove with the most dangerous fundamentalist forces.

It goes all the way back to President Dwight Eisenhower who, as Ian Johnson noted in his

excellent book, A Mosque in Munich (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), was always eager

“to stress the ‘holy war’ aspect” in his talks with Muslims leaders according to an internal

White House memo and, when informed that jihad might be directed against Israel, replied

that the Saudis had assured him that it would only be used against the Soviets.

More recently, President Jimmy Carter and National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski

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mujahedeen battling a Soviet-backed government in Kabul. The effort, which eventually –

under President Ronald Reagan – morphed into a $20-billion-plus joint operation by the

Saudis and CIA, no doubt contributed to the collapse of the U.S.S.R., Brzezinski’s top

priority.

But it also destroyed Afghan society, paved the way for the Taliban takeover in 1996, gave

rise to Al Qaeda, and, of course, led directly to the destruction of the World Trade Center

in Lower Manhattan.

The U.S. may have backed off thereafter, although it continued to maintain close relations

with Saudi Arabia, which, according to Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called “twentieth

hijacker,” maintained close ties with Osama bin Laden right up to the eve of 9/11. [See

Consortiumnews.com’s “The Secret Saudi Ties to Terrorism.”]

But by 2007, as Seymour Hersh argued not at all implausibly in The New Yorker, the

Saudis had succeeded in convincing the Bush administration to concentrate on battling

Shi‘ite forces instead. This meant not only lightening up on Al Qaeda, but cooperating with

increasing militant Sunni groups in order to pursue the fight against Hezbollah and other

such Shi’te forces.

The consequences have grown more and more evident ever since the Arab Spring caught

up with the Assad family dictatorship in February 2011. Washington’s pro-Sunni orientation

required that it ignore reports that the radical-Sunni Muslim Brotherhood was dominating

the protests, which were taking on an ugly and bigoted anti-Shi‘ite and anti-Christian

coloration as the Assads – who are of Shi‘ite origin but otherwise non-sectarian –

struggled to maintain control.

When fighting broke out, the “re-direction,” as Hersh called it, also required that the U.S.

steer money and aid to Sunni rebels and even that it rely on the Muslim Brotherhood,

according to the Times, to determine which groups were deserving and which were not.

In order to rein in the Shi‘ites, the U.S. thus threw its weight behind ultra-Sunni Saudi

Arabia and its program of bloody sectarian warfare. As Vice President Joe Biden put it at

Harvard’s Kennedy School last October, Saudi Arabia and the gulf states “were so

determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did

they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of

military weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad except the people who were

being supplied were Al Nusra and Al Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming

from other parts of the world.”

In August 2012, a Defense Intelligence Agency noted that Al Qaeda, the Muslim

Brotherhood, and assorted Salafists were “the major forces driving the insurgency in

Syria”; that the Western powers, the gulf states, and the Turks were solidly behind the

uprising; that Al Qaeda was seeking to use the revolt to unite all Sunnis in a general

anti-Shi‘ite jihad; that the holy warriors were likely to establish “a declared or undeclared

Salafist principality in eastern Syria,” and that “this is exactly what the supporting powers

want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the

Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran).”

Although the consequences would be disastrous for Syria’s Christian, Druze and Alawite-

Shi‘ite minorities, the U.S. went along and the mainstream press supplied the all-important

cover-up.

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The non-aggression pact that Defense Department thought it had hammered out with Al

Nusra is the latest step in this strategy. While the Obama administration claims to be

battling ISIS, its attitude toward the hyper-brutal group is more ambiguous than it lets

on. The U.S. only raised the alarm when ISIS invaded Iraq in June 2014 and began

threatening the American-backed government in Baghdad.

Before then, the U.S. was content to sit back and watch while ISIS made life miserable for

Assad and the Baathists in Damascus. Turkey claims to oppose ISIS as well even though

it has allowed Daesh to turn its 550-mile border with Syria into “an open highway for

jihadists from around the world.”

After ISIS bombed a left-wing, pro-Kurdish rally in the border town of Suruç, killing 32

people and injuring more than a hundred, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed

to get tough. But instead of ISIS, he got tough with the Kurds, bombing targets in northern

Iraq and southeastern Turkey associated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) even

though the PKK, along with its Syrian branch, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) is one of

the few effective anti-ISIS forces in the field.

As Reuters observed, “Turkey’s assaults on the PKK have so far been much heavier than

its strikes against Islamic State, fueling suspicions that its real agenda is keeping Kurdish

political and territorial ambitions in check.”

Indeed, Erdogan’s agenda may be even more convoluted than that since striking out at

the PKK may serve to undermine the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP),

which, after an impressive 13-percent showing in June’s elections, poses a growing

danger to his rule.

Further, Turkey and other U.S. allies in the region have packaged their attacks on the

most effective anti-ISIS forces as indirect ways to undermine ISIS. Turkey offers the

curious belief that the best way to defeat ISIS is by defeating the Kurds.

Similarly, Saudi Arabia claims the best way to defeat ISIS is by toppling Assad since his

determination to remain in power is supposedly what fuels Sunni anger, which in turn fuels

the growth of ISIS. This rationale holds that even though Assad’s Syrian Arab Army is one

of the few bulwarks against an ISIS victory, defeating Assad is suppose to somehow spell

doom for ISIS.

Another country that claims to want to see ISIS go down in flames is Israel, except that

whenever it intervenes in the Syrian civil war, it ends up bombing Assad’s forces and their

Shi’ite allies, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iranian military advisers.

So, everyone claims to want to defeat ISIS, yet everyone bombs precisely those forces

that are working to stop ISIS. Of course, the most convoluted agenda of all is that of the

U.S. The Obama administration seems to believe that defeating ISIS is the top goal,

except when it says that priority number one is overthrowing Assad.

As the Times blandly puts it with regard to units like Division 30: “The training [of Division

30 to combat ISIS] is often at cross-purposes with a covert C.I.A. training program for

fighters battling Syrian security forces. Toppling Mr. Assad was the original goal of the

Syrian revolt, before the Islamic State sprang from its most extreme Islamist wing.”

(However, the actual history of ISIS is that it emerged from the Sunni resistance to the

U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, originally calling itself “Al Qaeda in Iraq” before

joining the war against Assad and taking the name “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” or

simply the “Islamic State.”)


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Tags: Al-Qaeda Barack Obama Daniel Lazare Islamic State Israel Saudi Arabia

Syria Turkey

What’s the Priority?

Based on recent developments, one might ask: is toppling Assad yesterday’s top goal

superseded by today’s top goal of defeating ISIS – or is it the other way

around? Meanwhile, the U.S. policy is to bomb ISIS whenever possible except when it is

engaged in battle with Syrian government forces, at which point the U.S. policy is to hold

off.

Explained the Times’s Anne Bernard: “In Syria, a new awkwardness arises. Any airstrikes

against Islamic State militants in and around Palmyra would probably benefit the forces of

President Bashar al-Assad. So far, United States-led airstrikes in Syria have largely

focused on areas far outside government control, to avoid the perception of aiding a

leader whose ouster President Obama has called for.”

In other words, the U.S. bombs ISIS except when it might help the most potent force

fighting ISIS. Washington is also at war with Al Nusra – sometimes. In early July, for

instance, a U.S. air strike killed seven Al Nusra members in Idlib Province in northern

Syria. But America’s neocons disapprove of such strikes because they may indirectly

benefit Assad’s forces.

Neocons were gleeful when a Nusra-led coalition swept through Idlib in April with support

from the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army, while the administration remained conspicuously

silent about the large numbers of U.S.-made TOW missiles – almost certainly supplied by

the Saudis – that provided Al Nusra with a critical edge. [See Consortiumnews.com’s

“Climbing into Bed with Al-Qaeda.”]

So the U.S. opposes Al Nusra except when it supports it. Indeed, just about every player

in the Middle East is busy playing both sides of the fence, which is why ISIS and Al Qaeda

are doing so well.

As Karl Sharro, a Lebanese architect turned political satirist, noted: “Obama is an astute

strategist. His plan centers on supporting Kurdish factions as he also supports Turkey

which is now attacking the Kurds while also supporting Saudi Arabia in its war in Yemen

which upsets Iran whom U.S. forces are collaborating with in fighting ISIS in Iraq as he

simultaneously yields to pressure from allies to weaken Assad in Syria which complicates

things further with Iran which he pacifies by signing the nuclear deal upsetting America’s

traditional friend Israel whose anger is absorbed with shipments of advanced weapons

escalating the arms race in the region.”

Exactly. It would all be quite funny if the consequences – 220,000 deaths in Syria, millions

more displaced, plus widespread destruction in Yemen where nightly Saudi air raids are

now in their sixth month – weren’t so tragic.

Daniel Lazare is the author of several books including The Frozen Republic: How

the Constitution Is Paralyzing Democracy (Harcourt Brace).


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27 comments for “How US Allies Aid Al Qaeda in Syria”

AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 11:13 am

While Ankara would have the world believe that its hands are clean,

and that it is the innocent victim of international terrorism, the reality is

that Turkey has done everything to foster and promote the growth of

ISIS from the very beginning. As such, it is the Turkish government who

must shoulder much of the blame for the Suruç bombing.

Since at least 2012, Turkey has been the principal conduit for weapons

flowing into Syria. In June of that year, the NY Times confirmed that the

CIA was smuggling weapons to anti-Assad forces from the Turkish side

of the border using agents of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, long-time

assets of US intelligence. Also in 2012, Reuters revealed that Turkey

had “set up a secret base with allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar to direct

vital military and communications aid to Syria’s rebels from a city near

the border… ‘It’s the Turks who are militarily controlling it. Turkey is the

main coordinator/facilitator. Think of a triangle, with Turkey at the top

and Saudi Arabia and Qatar at the bottom,’ said a Doha-based source.”

It is now also documented fact that Turkish intelligence (MIT) has been

an active player in the ongoing campaign to arm and resupply the terror

groups such as the al Nusra Front and others. The evidence of this fact

was made public by the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet which published

video footage along with transcripts from wiretaps confirming what

many eyewitnesses have stated: Turkish security forces have been

directly involved in shelling and support operations for Nusra front and

other jihadi groups in and around Kassab, Syria, among other sites.

Many of the very same terrorists who have been armed and supported

by the Turkish government are today being held up as enemies of

Turkey, and rationalization of the need for Turkish military intervention.

So, with the inescapable understanding that Turkey’s government is the

primary supporter and sponsor of terrorist groups in Syria, the

justification for war becomes flimsy at best. But, if it’s not about fighting

terror, then what exactly is Ankara’s objective? What does it hope to

gain?

At the top of Erdogan’s agenda is using ISIS as a pretext for effecting

the regime change in Syria that he has failed to bring about for these

past four years. Despite providing weapons and cash, training sites and

political cover, Turkey’s terror proxies have been roundly defeated by

the Syrian Arab Army, Hezbollah, and allied forces. As such, Erdogan

now needs to provide the overwhelming military superiority required to

get the job done. This means air support and a “No Fly Zone” along the

Turkey-Syria border, one which ostensibly will allow Turkey to fight

ISIS, but in actuality is a means of securing territory for the terrorists

who otherwise have been unable to do so. It is a de facto military

intervention into Syria. Perhaps not even de facto, but outright


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declaration of war – a clear war crime.

Secondly, the alleged war on ISIS is a politically expedient cover for

Erdogan to wage a full-scale war on the Kurds, and the PKK

specifically. Within hours of announcing the new phase of the war,

Turkish forces were bombing Kurdish targets in Syriaand Iraq,

effectively declaring war on both countries, in blatant violation of

international law, to whatever extent such a thing still exists. Indeed,

Erdogan made his position quite clear when he stated, “It is not

possible for us to continue the peace process with those who threaten

our national unity and brotherhood.” Essentially, Erdogan has declared

war on all Kurds of the region.

Perhaps most important, and almost never discussed in the West, is

the simple fact that Turkey is perpetuating an outright myth in their

supposed strategy to create “Islamic State-free zones” along the

border; Turkey plans to work with “moderate opposition” and “Free

Syrian Army” in this endeavor. However, the fact remains that there is

really no such thing as the “moderates,” and those terrorists that had at

one time been labeled such have all either gone home, fled the country,

gone over to the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, or are now fighting

under the ISIS banner. And so, by stating such a plan, Erdogan is

unwittingly admitting what this author has already reported numerous

times – Turkey acts as military muscle for ISIS and al Qaeda in Syria

and now Iraq.

The Fake War on ISIS: US and Turkey Escalate in Syria

By Eric Draitser

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-fake-war-on-isis-us-

and-turkey.html

david t. krallAugust 4, 2015 at 12:19 pm

Great & excellent points…I tip my hat to you !!! BUT I would think

there is no way Turkey doing this without CIA AND NATO

orchestration via “wink and nod”… out of or due to their

(pre-)approval and “pressure: to some degree.on Turkey to begin

with….Turkey is part of NATO nas has been for a very long time

and being a part of NATO naturally involves a strong US

intelligence presence..so at the very least “some meeting of the

minds” took place recently….

So much duplicity and double dealing… so much double-talk and

double-speak… and “news-speak” (tv double.talk or “reverse

talk”) from US media outlets about the real and true

aganda…..US gov./intell/defense sectors are lying their pants-off

about what is happening and what the true goal and end game is:

Assad and control of Syria…


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I suspect that the “reason” (or “reasons”) still resonates deep and

wide and will for along time within US corridors of power, is that

the US “lost” the ‘war” in SE Asia and also why it was unable to

unseat Castro…was that either , on one hand the US public was

“told” too much and on the other hand not cleaver and too loud

with its “secret war” against Castro…now they have the best of

both…cleaver sheer duplicity and deception regarding the true

agenda, of who and what is the real, true instrument of the US

and what the true end-game and result is…all controlled and fitted

within a large covert operation.within the eve more rigidly

controlled “box”–called and labeled “the war on terror…..and

spoon-fed to US media outlets and supposed US congressional

“over-see’ers” in the US Senate and House of Reps…

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AbbybwoodAugust 4, 2015 at 1:28 pm

Here is your “wink and nod”.

Apparently Obama has decided to declare war on Syria by

using U.S. air power (and Turkey’s bases) to target any

entity fighting the rebels in Syria. Which means the Syrian

military and the Assad government (and ostensibly Syria’s

allies Russia and Iran).

Talk about a slippery slope leading to WW III!:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42541.htm

But all we will be hearing about on the MSM will be the

wildfires in California, what outbursts to expect from The

Donald at the big “debate” this Thursday night, Hillary’s

email fiasco and how another surfer fought off a great white.


YES ! I noticed that as well !!! You are so right…Do

these ultra/mega-pro-war nuts and their chicken hawk

allies in the US House and US Senate really believe

that BOTH RUSSIA –AND– CHINA will sit idly by and

watch this oh-so-slow, deceptive US military build-up

become active and directed towards Syria and possibly

“trip-wire” a larger war with Iran?…Right on Russia’s

door-step???…These guys are insane and incredibly

and dangerously short-sited…Just like the nuts who

tried to talk JFK into bombing and invading Cuba time


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and time again, ESPECIALLY DURING THE CUBAN

MISSILE CRISES….It’s the same exact thing all over

again…just a “new” or current “theater of

priority”…Cuba then,,,Syria now…Criminal exiled

gangs.&.thugs…trained, funded. sponsored terrorist

then…ISIS now…same exact thing….

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yuri_nahlAugust 5, 2015 at 6:21 pm

You forgot to mention the on-going “under-inflated

football scandal”, and the “growing size of the most

admired buttocks trend” dominating popular media.

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AbeAugust 4, 2015 at 12:14 pm

The world’s largest public television broadcaster is ARD

(Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der

Bundesrepublik Deutschland) in Germany. The ARD investigative news

magazine as Monitor reaches millions of viewers every week.

For several years, German viewers have seen how Turkey arms and

sends militants into Syria.

Monitor has reported extensively on links between the Turkish

government and militants in Syria. During a notable September 2013

Monitor broadcast, ARD journalists filmed a militant base on the

Turkish border.

Monitor interviewed an American (WATCH minutes 00:52 – 01:35)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ad0_1411956585

The guy “from California” with the sunglasses and preposterous “What

America hates, I love” remarks looks more like a US or Israeli military

adviser than a “jihadi” volunteer.


Awesome…especially that last line…this you know is what I have

suspected and researched.. To me Turkey is now the intell

“gateway” regarding the real and true covert recruitment program

of and for ISIS assets and “recruits”…in this “war” against

Syria…that’s where the so-called “vetting” is taking place..what


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lies and BS..!!! .John McCain and Lindsey Graham are fools or

liars… or more likely a combination of both…

That tip about the German media outlets looks like a real good

source to add to my interests and other outlets…thank you… .

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AbbybwoodAugust 4, 2015 at 1:38 pm

Basically, the United States is going to be the Islamic State’s

private Air Force.

Now I am beginning to get why Congress refuses to

“debate” the “war” against IS.

Because they all know full well it is a war FOR IS!

Seriously! How much more obvious can it get? We are

fighting all the entities in the region who are making gains

against IS!!

And if you want to understand the twisted relationship the

U.S. has with Turkey, watch the Sybil Edmonds

documentary on YouTube, “Kill the Messenger”.

There is a huge reason they gagged her for life with State

Secrets Privilege.


Man…so true!!! it’s like some shell game..some

neighborhood corner “game” with marked, cards, or

loaded dice, or 3 card monty……I learned how to

decipher, within reason what is said on CNN,

MSNBC…think of it, in terms of what is NOT being said

or not elaborated on and couple that with what is being

left out , or ignored and also attribute some sort

additional “parallel” “news-speak” (a 1984 term? or is it

Animal Farm? or Brave New World?) which is really

some type of “double talk” or “reverse” talk…. You ( not

“YOU” !) already know this!) but the all of rest of YOU

really need to listen to what is being said, how it is said

and why and what is NOT being said.or ignored..that is

the key to understanding and recognizing BS…e.g.

people in occupied countries did use, since time

immemoriam, their “their eye”- the intuitive one, along

with their cognitive skills to decipher and decode reality


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from lies and BS…and believe that what we are being

told about ISIS would make the lies and

unaccountability regarding our prior operations and

programs against Cuba AND in SE Asia pale by

comparison….a large shell and con game…

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Al Qaeda/ISIS function as US/NATO ground forces in

Syria/Iraq/regime change du jour.

Of course, there are the occasional building demolition,

occasional major building demolition, and not-too-many

grunts in body bags to keep up appearances.

But no military officers or officials are being subjected to

impertinent hearings before the US Congress, British

Parliament, Deutscher Bundestag, Parlement français or

North Atlantic Council.

Works like a charm.

Brand Al Qaeda™ — Fighting Global Jihad™ for Western

Imperialism since 1989

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Kim DixonAugust 4, 2015 at 1:47 pm

Yesterday, Obama authorized Neocon airstrikes to help I̶s̶l̶a̶m̶i̶c̶ ̶r̶a̶d̶i̶c̶a̶l̶s̶

rebels take over Syria.

After which, the the Neocons will demand war against the Islamic

radicals running Syria. The “rebels” will by then be a threat to the

“Homeland”, you see.

If we still had an opposition Party and actual reportage in America,

none of this madness would be possible.

Zachary SmithAugust 4, 2015 at 10:08 pm

If we still had an opposition Party and actual reportage in

America, none of this madness would be possible.

Ain’t that the truth!


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What we actually have are Neocons of two flavors – (R) and (D).

Israel owns them all – lock, stock, and barrel.

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AnonymousAugust 4, 2015 at 1:52 pm

Turkey and U.S. can make all the double deals they want but the fact is

there is a ground war going on and it is a matter of life and death for the

alawites, Druze, Christians, Shia, that live in Syria and support Assad

as their protector.

No where in this strategy do I hear anything about these people and

their fate. They know Who their enemies are and so this war will go on

and on.

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NATO Member Busted Massively Supporting ISIS … Now Declares

War Against ISIS, But Instead Bombs Its Political Rival (Which Is the

Most Effective Force FIGHTING ISIS)

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/07/nato-member-busted-

massively-supporting-isis-now-declares-war-against-isis-but-

has-ulterior-motives.html

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The Daily Express tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom reports

that British SAS soldiers, “dressed in black and flying ISIS flags,” have

attacked Syrian targets on the pretext of combating ISIS “in order to set

the conditions for a potentially larger, future engagement”.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/595439/SAS-ISIS-fighter-Jihadis


The British SAS teams, part of a force known as the Coalition

Joint Special Operations Task Force, are under American

command.

The soldiers operate mini-drones, scouting the way ahead for


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targets, assigning and operating in so-called ‘kill-boxes’ – areas of

territory in which no coalition airstrikes will take place during the

soldiers’ time there.

The process of essentially outsourcing UK troops by placing them

under foreign authority came under the spotlight recently after it

was revealed UK fast jet pilots are carrying out combat operations

in Syria despite a 2013 parliamentary vote banning military action

in Syria.

In July it emerged that Royal Navy pilots embedded with US and

Canadian forces had been involved in missions flown from aircraft

carriers in the Gulf.


Britain was the main ally of the United States during the invasion and

occupation of Iraq.

On 19 September 2005, two undercover British SAS soldiers in Iraq

were caught wearing Arab clothing, carrying weapons and driving an

explosives laden Iraqi car.

Throughout Iraq, police and civilians had been targeted and killed by

“terrorists”.

The two British soldiers opened fire on Iraqi police officers after having

been stopped at a roadblock. Two Iraqi officers were shot, at least one

of whom died.

The two British soldiers were arrested and taken to the Al Jameat

police station in Basra.

British tanks encircled the jail where the men (whose photographs have

been widely circulated but whose names have not been made public)

were being held. A crowd gathered and began throwing stones and

petrol bombs at the tanks, setting at least one ablaze. Three British

soldiers were injured and, according to some reports, two

demonstrators were killed.

After nightfall, the British Army returned and stormed the police station

with overwhelming force.

According to the governor of Basra province, Mohammed al-Waili, the

British Army used “more than ten tanks backed by helicopters” to carry

out the raid.

Demolishing the walls of the police station, the British Army freed the

two SAS men.

Governor al-Waili denounced the event as “barbaric, savage and

irresponsible”.


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MarkAugust 4, 2015 at 7:27 pm

Many thanks to Mr. Lazare and all the commenters here who take the

time to post pertinent information. And while this is a considerable

amount of information, it’s just a small window into what are volumes of

existing evidence that with the USA as Israel’s proxy, together they are

the most successful war criminals since possibly Midieval times.

Because this is a Global war I wonder when the US of Israel, or the

press, will actually and legitimately explain that “this is” WWIII they are

waging…

MortimerAugust 4, 2015 at 9:55 pm

Sorry, Mark, this is not a “global war” vis-a-vis World Wars 1 and

2.

This is a Targeted war of aggression against Arabs/Moslems in

order to lay claim to a specific World Area.

You must read the Cliff Notes of S.P. Huntington’s “The Clash of

Civilizations” in order to realize the Planned Structure of this

Operation. BTW, Samuel P. Huntington is a very prodigious,

insightful seer of US policy & procedure. I have, in other writings,

declared him an American Political Alchemist in how he either

Foresees events or Declares them into being…

For example, in a 1981 book, “American Politics, the Promise of

Disharmony” Huntington foresaw that “between 2010 and 2030 –

The weakening of government in an effort to reform it could lead

eventually to strong demands for the replacement of the

weakened and ineffective institutions, (i.e. the Obama presidency)

by more Authoritarian Structures more effectively designed to

meet historical needs. Given the perversity of reform, moralistic

extremism in the pursuit of liberal democracy could generate a

strong tide toward AUTHORITARIAN EFFICIENCY”.

This is a quiet prediction, written in 1981, of right wing/oligarchical

control between 2010 and 2030, in America. That’s why our fiscal

policies are now under “sequestration” which in other words is

right wing directed AUSTERITY. Reagan’s Mantra (“Gov is the

Problem, not the Solution”) will, supposedly lead us into economic

salvation. Close your dumb eyes to the Fact that Reagan’s

“leadership” , i.e. tax cuts & cheap labor off-shoring was the First

Step into a weakened American social structure. What an

ass-hole of a “leader”, Worshiped by his right wing bigots, he


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really is.

If Huntington is correct, a crazy Republican will be our next

president. (God forbid!)

Before Our Eyes, under the control of a Brzezinski controlled US

President and the watchful eyes of the Trilateral Commission, and

other Controllers, with Brzezinski’s fierce desire to own and

control the World Island, which is confirmed by his book, “A

Blueprint for World Dictatorship” the land mass known as Eurasia.

It’s a Big Boys throw down as to Who will Own and Control the

New Silk Road. (Marco Polo’s European land road to Oriental

riches).

Huntington first garnered academic and political attention with his

published piece against egalitarianism titled “The Crisis of

Democracy” (excerpts can still be found on Google). The man and

his writing’s render a strong portrait of dedication to and embrace

of “American Exceptionalism” and primacy. His collective works

bear deep & thoughtful scrutiny as pertains to Clausewitz’s

remark that “All politics is war”.


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MarkAugust 5, 2015 at 2:12 pm

Mortimer, thanks for that perspective, I’ll look deeper into it

when I get a chance.

Where in the world has the US not engaged in political,

economic, or direct military or by proxy warfare?

This is a neocon war against the entire world as anyone

paying attention can see — call it what you like — waging

war across the globe is a WORLD WAR!

Not too long ago, G. W. Bush declared a “Global War on

Terrorism” and as we know the US and Israel both consider

anyone that doesn’t bend to their will and interests as a

“terrorist” — great excuse to invade and slaughter in the

name of war!

Also as we know, the US and Israel like to support genuine

terrorists whenever it suits their purposes — manufacturing

their own reason to wage war along with or against their own

mercenaries if desired — being the backstabbers they are.

Tell me, who has committed more war crimes on the

magnitude of The US of Israel since WWII? And who has

committed more since 9/11 2001?

Tell me how this is not a Global “World War”.


Kill The Messenger (French: Une Femme à Abattre) is a 2006 French

documentary film about Sibel Edmonds. An English version of the film

was produced in 2007 by SBS Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn10itGL5iM

Edmonds was fired from her position as a language specialist at the

FBI’s Washington Field Office in March 2002. She had accused a

colleague of covering up illicit activity involving Turkish nationals,

alleged serious security breaches and cover-ups and that intelligence

had been deliberately suppressed, endangering national security.

The documentary presents a terrifying picture of Turkish networks’

activities in global nuclear black-market, narcotics and illegal arms

trafficking activities in the United States, and examines the

extraordinary efforts of officials within the US Government to insure that

the secrecy surrounding Edmonds’ case be maintained at any cost —

from Edmonds’ termination from the FBI, to invoking the State Secrets

Privilege, to gagging the US Congress.


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The film explores the abuses behind the State Secrets Privilege as

invoked in FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds’ case as well as

highlighting the travails and persecution of US national security

whistleblowers.

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FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds discusses her 2014 report, “Turkish

PM Erdogan: The Speedy Transformation of an Imperial Puppet.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAiAFqXPwZ8

As Edmonds points out, “the U.S. Empire spent over a decade

marketing and promoting its favorite puppet in the Middle East — the

AKP Party & Erdogan, as the model for the Islamic World, Islamic

Democracy, People’s Choice, Great Leader” before censuring Erdoğan.

Edmonds notes Erdoğan’s rift with CIA over his disruption of Imam

Fethullah Gülen’s Turkish networks.

According to Edmonds, “the State Department and the CIA pressured

the FBI prior and post 9/11 to close and cover-up those investigations

pertaining to Turkey and Al Qadi, because exposing those operations

would have resulted in exposure of covert CIA-NATO operations in

Central Asia and the Caucasus during the period between 1996 and

2002.”

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This is how USA-Installed puppets go from democratic presidents

to despots & terrorists when their time comes

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/01/18/turkish-pm-erdogan-

the-speedy-transformation-of-an-imperial-puppet/


The US is upset at the YPG [Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Gel —

People’s Protection Units] for their loyalty to democratic principles and

civilization-state sovereignty, as they have thus far refused to turn

against the Syrian government and unite with their Iraqi brethren in

forming ‘Greater Kurdistan’. This threw a wrench into the US’

geopolitical cogs, which is why it’s not at all opposed to Turkey’s


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punishing attacks against them. Plus, since the YPG has proven itself

to be an effective anti-ISIL actor, the more that its capabilities are

degraded by the Turkish military, the more powerful ISIL can become,

which circularly invites an even more pronounced American-Turkish

intervention in ostensibly wiping the terrorist group out. All of this is just

a smokescreen for the real objective, however, which has always been

regime change in Syria. The fact that Turkey granted the US

permission to finally use the strategic Incirlik air base for its anti-Syrian

operations as well as Obama’s authorization for the Pentagon to attack

the Syrian Arab Army under certain circumstances confirms that this is

undoubtedly the case, although it’s uncertain exactly how far both sides

will go in actualizing this grand objective.

Tick Tock

The timing for all of this (Turkey’s dual offensives, the Incirlik decision,

and Obama’s new anti-Syrian aggression) was specifically coordinated

so as to be rolled out almost immediately after the Iranian nuclear

agreement was concluded. The US didn’t want to risk upsetting Iran

and scaring it away from signing, ergo why such decisions were

pushed back until after the ink was dry. Now that Iran has committed

itself to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, there’s a little over a

six month window until it can receive the billions of dollars of frozen

funds that were withheld from it due to the UNSC sanctions. The

impending financial windfall will allow Iran to more robustly assist Syria

and its other regional allies in strengthening their defenses against

unipolar aggression, which is why the US knows that it only has a set

amount of time to act in fulfilling its regional designs. It’s for this reason

that the US is heating up its War on Syria at the same time that Saudi

Arabia has intensified its War on Yemen.

[…] Russia used its recent inroads with Saudi Arabia to broker a

meeting between the Syrian Chief of Home Security and the Saudi

Defense Minister. Obviously, the Saudis are wising up to the fact that

their Wahhabist plans in Syria have backfired and that there are more

pressing ‘security’ considerations for them to attend to, such as their

War on Yemen, which is why they’re now probing for a way out of the

fiasco that they themselves helped created. The clock is ticking, and

the US and Turkey know that they need to act fast in Syria before a

Russian-Saudi/Syrian-Saudi deal locks them out of the battlefield and

Iran’s forthcoming financial assistance helps Syria sweep out the rest of

the regime change remnants.

The Truth Behind Turkey’s Dual Offensive against Iraq and Syria

By Andrew Korybko

http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20150803/1025350334.html



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In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the country of Oceania has been in a

war against Eurasia for years.

Oceania suddenly switches sides, naming Eastasia as its enemy and

making its mortal enemy, Eurasia, its new ally.

The government uses propaganda to convince people that, “We’ve

always been at war with Eastasia”. The dumbed-down public doesn’t

even notice that they’ve switches sides, and blindly rallies around

Eurasia as its perennial friend and ally.

The same thing is happening in real life with Al Qaeda.

Western governments and mainstream media have admitted that Al

Qaeda is fighting against the secular Syrian government, and that the

West is supporting the Syrian opposition … which is helping Al Qaeda.

Similarly, the opposition which overthrew Libya’s Gadaffi was mainly Al

Qaeda … and they now appear to be in control of Libya (and are

instrumental in fighting in Syria.)

The U.S. also funds terrorist groups within Iran.

The “War On Terror” Has Changed, and Not One In 1,000 Americans

Has Noticed

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/07/weve-always-been-at-

war-with-eastasia-allies-with-al-qaeda.html


Of course, it should be pointed out that there is no such thing as a

moderate rebel fighting inside Syria nor has there ever been such a

fighting force operating there. The entirety of the “opposition” is made

up of terrorists, jihadists, and mercenaries, all funded, supported,

trained, and armed by NATO and the GCC.

With that in mind, any confrontation that takes place would find the

United States in a flagrant act of direct aggression against a sovereign

country, even greater than those acts already perpetrated by the U.S. in

Syria.

This new policy is yet even more evidence that the US and NATO goal

is to destroy the secular government of Bashar al-Assad as well as the

entire nation of Syria. While this has been the goal of the U.S. since the

beginning of the Syrian crisis, recent weeks have seen a steady

increase in provocations and policies designed to bait a Syrian

response and create a situation in which U.S. bombing and direct

military assaults on the Syrian government could be presented as

somehow justified.

It is only a matter of time before Assad’s steadfast repulsion of ISIS and


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al-Qaeda fighters is used as a justification for American airstrikes on

the Syrian government.

Unfortunately, all signs are pointing to the possibility that Syria is about

to enter the second phase of destabilization, a phase that Libya knows

all too well.

U.S. Agrees To Act As Terrorist Bodyguard; Open To Attacking Assad

Forces

By Brandon Turbeville

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/08/us-agrees-to-act-as-terrorist-

bodyguard.html


The Situation in Southern and Western Syria

Damascus is increasingly having difficulties to assert sovereignty over

the region along the Lebanese border, the Golan Heights and at its

border to Jordan. Israel has, by supporting Jabhat Al-Nusrah and

associated brigades via the Golan Heights and the Sheeba farm area

achieved two major objectives. It has weakened Damascus, but it has

also weakened Hezbollah and Hezbollah’s capacity to resist against

Israel. Israel has, by implication, weakened Teheran’s sphere of

influence. Long-term Israeli policy aims at the permanent annexation of

the Golan Heights and the Sheeba Farm area. Weakening Damascus

and Hezbollah was one of the main stumbling stones Israel is about to

have overcome. Considering the strength of the Israeli military, it will

have no problems with dislodging Al-Nusrah and others from the Golan

once that becomes opportune. This move would ultimately further

weaken Damascus and Hezbollah.

Syria has long been Moscow’s primary ally in the Middle East. The

naval base in Tartous was Moscow’s sole Mediterranean naval base.

Russian policy and strategy had, however, to adjust to the

developments in Ukraine and Syria. Moscow was, in other words,

confronted with the problem how to secure its export of gas to Europe

via Ukraine while searching for alternatives. It is here that Turkey is

playing a key role. Even though it is possible to compartmentalize

energy policy and geopolitics, this option is inherently risky. The more

secure option is to combine the two. Developments in Russian –

Turkish relations suggest that Turkey and Russia may be approaching

a consensus with regards to both gas pipelines, the Kurdish question

as well as the question about at least parts of Kurdish – Syrian territory.

Moscow has redirected its naval presence by agreement with Cyprus

as well as by attempting to gain leverage via developing and

repositioning Russian – Egyptian relations. Also this ultimately

suggests that Moscow is thinking in terms of – the inevitable –


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