Syrian rebel commander says he collaborated with Israel

Much is now being claimed from diverse sources that not only Israel, but US funding as well is behind the sponsorship of the terrorist ISIS. The Times of Israel even has claimants alleging as Syrian rebels they are collaborating with Israel to terrorize Syria.

Sharif as-Safouri, abducted by Al-Nusra Front in July, confesses to receiving antitank weapons in return for protecting the border

By Elhanan Miller August 13, 2014, 3:42 pm

Syrian opposition commander Sharif As-Safouri confesses to collaborating with Israel (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Elhanan Miller  is the Arab affairs 
reporter for The Times of Israel

A Free Syrian Army commander, arrested last month by the Islamist militia Al-Nusra Front, told his captors he collaborated with Israel in return for medical and military support, in a video released this week.

In a video uploaded to YouTube Monday by the Executive Sharia Council in the eastern Daraa Region, an Islamic court established by Al-Nusra in southern Syria, Sharif As-Safouri, the commander of the Free Syrian Army's Al-Haramein Battalion, admitted to having entered Israel five times to meet with Israeli officers who later provided him with Soviet anti-tank weapons and light arms. Safouri was abducted by the al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front in the Quneitra area, near the Israeli border, on July 22.

"The [opposition] factions would receive support and send the injured in [to Israel] on condition that the Israeli fence area is secured. No person was allowed to come near the fence without prior coordination with Israel authorities," Safouri said in the video.

Israel has never admitted to arming moderate Syrian rebels, who have been engaged in battle against the Assad regime and its allies since March 2011. In June, Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, head of Military Intelligence research, told the Herzliya Conference that 80 percent of Syria's oppositionists are Islamists of various shades, indicating that Israel was reluctant to collaborate with them.

Al-Nusra Front activist wave their brigade
flag atop a Syrian air force helicopter, at
Taftanaz air base, captured by the rebels
in Idlib province, northern Syria, January
2013 (photo credit: AP/Edlib News Network
ENN, File)

Thousands of al-Qaeda-linked rebels reached southern Syria over the past month, fleeing the Islamic State which had captured large swaths of land in northern and northeastern Syria. While Al-Nusra and the Free Syrian Army have collaborated in the battlefield against the Assad regime, friction has intensified as the Islamists began to implement their stringent version of Islam in the area, establishing local Sharia courts.

In the edited confession video, in which Safouri seems physically unharmed, he says that at first he met with an Israeli officer named Ashraf at the border and was given an Israeli cellular phone. He later met with another officer named Younis and with the two men's commander, Abu Daoud. In total, Safouri said he entered Israel five times for meetings that took place in Tiberias.

Following the meetings, Israel began providing Safouri and his men with "basic medical support and clothes" as well as weapons, which included 30 Russian [rifles], 10 RPG launchers with 47 rockets, and 48,000 5.56 millimeter bullets.

While opposition websites denied that Safouri was a collaborator, claiming his entries into Israel were for medical purposes alone, regime media celebrated Safouri's confession as proof of the Free Syrian Army's treachery. On August 1, dozens of demonstrators took to the streets of the village of Hayt, Safouri's hometown near Syria's borders with Jordan and Israel, to protest his abduction, condemning Al-Nusra Front for the act.

No Israeli comment was available at time of publication.

Times of Israel

ISIS Uses Ammunition Made in United States - Scandal or Treason?

Still no congressional oversight from a Republican congress!

Friday, October 10, 2014

Ammunition made in U.S. and used by 
ISIS (photos:Conflict Armament Research)

The United States is currently spending upwards of a billion dollars attacking Islamic State forces that are using ammunition made in the USA.

Conflict Armament Research picked up 1,730 empty cartridges—the part of the ammunition that stays behind when a bullet has left the gun—in northern Iraq and Syria from July 22 to August 15. Of those, 323 were identified as coming from U.S. sources, likely captured from Iraqi forces. Much of it was manufactured at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Missouri.

China led the sources with 445 cartridges recovered and the Soviet Union had 338 recovered, one that dated from 1945. The probable source of the Soviet ammunition was the Syrian military, which was supplied for years by the U.S.S.R. The Russian Federation was responsible for 154 of the rounds.

 “The lesson learned here is that the defense and security forces that have been supplied ammunition by external nations really don’t have the capacity to maintain custody of that ammunition,” James Bevan, director of Conflict Armament Research, told The New York Times.

The militants have been adept at capturing or co-opting the military supplies given to Syrian rebels supported by the Obama administration. In other cases, they have claimed ammo previously held by Iraqi and Syrian security forces.

Sometimes IS forces even choose to fight where they have a chance of resupplying. “When battling against the Syrian Army, ISIS chooses to fight in a specific battle on a specific front only when the investment is appealing: there will be warehouses to capture,” Fouad al-Ghuraibi, commander of the Kafr Owaid’s Martyrs Brigade in northern Syria, told the Times.

-Noel Brinkerhoff, Steve Straehley

To Learn More:
ISIS’ Ammunition Is Shown to Have Origins in U.S. and China (by C. J. Chivers, New York Times)
Jihadist Bullets Are Often Made in the USA (by Mark Thompson, TIME)
Dispatch from the Field: Islamic State Ammunition in Iraq and Syria (Conflict Armament Research) (pdf)
Both Sides Using U.S.-Made Weapons in Iraq War (by Steve Straehley, AllGov)

Suspicions Run Deep in Iraq That CIA and the Islamic State Are United

David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times | Updated: September 21, 2014 08:51 IST

Iraqi Shiite militants demonstrate against US intervention. (Photo: AFP)

Baghdad:  The United States has conducted an escalating campaign of deadly airstrikes against the extremists of the Islamic State for more than a month. But that appears to have done little to tamp down the conspiracy theories still circulating from the streets of Baghdad to the highest levels of Iraqi government that the CIA is secretly behind the same extremists that it is now attacking.

"We know about who made Daesh," said Bahaa al-Araji, a deputy prime minister, using an Arabic shorthand for the Islamic State, on Saturday at a demonstration called by the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to warn against the possible deployment of U.S. ground troops.

Sadr publicly blamed the CIA for creating the Islamic State in a speech last week, and interviews suggested that most of the few thousand people at the demonstration, including dozens of members of parliament, subscribed to the same theory. (Sadr is considered close to Iran, and the theory is popular there as well.)

When an American journalist asked Araji to clarify if he blamed the CIA for the Islamic State, he retreated: "I don't know. I am one of the poor people," he said, speaking fluent English and quickly stepping back toward the open door of a chauffeur-driven SUV. "But we fear very much. Thank you!"

The prevalence of the theory in the streets underscored the deep suspicions of the U.S. military's return to Iraq more than a decade after its invasion, in 2003. The casual endorsement by a senior official, though, was also a pointed reminder that the new Iraqi government may be an awkward partner for the U.S.-led campaign to drive out the extremists.

The Islamic State has conquered many of the predominantly Sunni Muslim provinces in Iraq's northeast, aided by the alienation of many residents to the Shiite-dominated government of the former prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. President Barack Obama has insisted repeatedly that U.S. military action against the Islamic State depended on the installation of a more inclusive government in Baghdad, but he moved ahead before it was complete.

The parliament has not yet confirmed nominees for the crucial posts of interior or defense ministers, in part because of discord between Sunni and Shiite factions, and the Iraqi news media has reported that it may be more than a month before the posts are filled.

The demonstration Saturday was the latest in a series of signals from Shiite leaders or militias, especially those considered close to Iran, warning the United States not to put its soldiers back on the ground. Obama has pledged not to send combat troops, but he seems to have convinced few Iraqis.

"We don't  trust him," said Raad Hatem, 40.

Haidar al-Assadi, 40, agreed.

"The Islamic State is a clear creation of the United States, and the United States is trying to intervene again using the excuse of the Islamic State," he said.

Shiite militias and volunteers, he said, were already answering the call from religious leaders to defend Iraq from the Islamic State without American help.

"This is how we do it," he said, adding that the same forces would keep U.S. troops out. "The main reason Obama is saying he will not invade again is because he knows the Islamic resistance" of the Shiite militias "and he does not want to lose a single soldier."

The leader of the Islamic State, for his part, declared Saturday that he defied the world to stop him.

"The conspiracies of Jews, Christians, Shiites and all the tyrannical regimes in the Muslim countries have been powerless to make the Islamic State deviate from its path," the leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared in an audio recording released over the Internet, using derogatory terms from early Islamic history to refer to Christians and Shiites.

"The entire world saw the powerlessness of America and its allies before a group of believers," he said. "People now realize that victory is from God, and it shall not be aborted by armies and their arsenals."

Many at the rally in Baghdad said they welcomed airstrikes against Baghdadi's Islamic State but not U.S. ground forces, the position that Sadr has taken.

Many of the 30 lawmakers backed by Sadr - out of a parliament of 328 seats - attended the rally.

Sadr's supporters opposed al-Maliki, the former prime minister, and many at the rally were quick to criticize the former government for mistakes like failing to build a more dependable army.

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"We had a good army, so where is this army now?" asked Waleed al-Hasnawi, 35. "Maliki gave them everything but they just left the battlefield."

But few if any blamed al-Maliki for alienating Sunnis, as U.S. officials assert, by permitting sectarian abuses under the Shiite-dominated security forces.

Omar al-Jabouri, 31, a Sunni Muslim from a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad who attended the rally and said he volunteers with a Shiite brigade, argued that al-Maliki had alienated most Iraqis, regardless of their sect.

"He did not just exclude and marginalize the Sunni people; he ignored the Shiite people, too," Jabouri said. "He gave special help to his family, his friends, people close to him. He did not really help the Shiite people, as many people think."

But the Islamic State was a different story, Jabouri said. "It is obvious to everyone that the Islamic State is a creation of the United States and Israel."

© 2014, The New York Times News Service

Story First Published: September 21, 2014 08:16 IST

Beliefs About Foreign Policy

A remarkable insight, one uncluttered by political or personal bias. Refreshing.Yes, America's foreign policies have fallen under foreign influences which are dangerous to Americans' independence and security.

Posted on June 6, 2014 by John Chuckman
 

Something troubling is quietly underway in the Western world, that portion of the world’s governments that style themselves as liberal democracies and free societies. 

Through a number of avenues, people’s assumptions about the role of government are being undermined as their governments evolve towards a pattern established in the United States. No, I do not mean in building a neo-Roman marble repository of sacred founding writ and adopting three wrangling branches of government with empty slogans about freedom and justice for all. I do mean in the way governments, however elected and organized, regard their responsibilities towards their citizens and the world community.

Of course, the United States in many matters often prods, cajoles, or threatens other states to follow where it leads, such as with votes at the U. N. or whether a country should send at least token forces for one of America’s colonial wars to lend appearances of international effort. Despite America’s poor economy and declining relative future prospects, it still has many resources for pushing others, much like the profligate grandson of a magnate whose once great family fortune is in decline but still large. 

Still, a good deal of what is happening results from new forces which only reinforce America’s imperial tendencies.

People in the West often elect governments that turn around to do things voters did not want done, and they realize they being lied to by their governments and corporate press, but they pretty much feel helpless to remedy the situation. London saw the largest peace march in history just before Tony Blair secretly threw in his lot with the criminals who hit Iraq with the equivalent in deaths and destruction of a thermonuclear bomb on a large city. Special interests increasingly dominate the interests of government because they increasingly pay its campaign costs and extend other important favors. Citizens in many places feel the meaning of casting a ballot has been diminished as they watch their governments ignore extreme injustice, hear their governments make demands and threats over matters which do not warrant threats, see themselves become ensnared in wars and violence they never wanted, and generally feel their governments are concerned with matters of little concern to them. That, if it needs to be said, is not what democracy is about. And where do we see governments making reforms to remedy the situation threatening democracy? Almost nowhere.

It might at first seem an odd thing to write—considering the influence Israel exerts in the Western world (what other country of 7 million is in the press virtually each day?) and all the favorable press it receives (every major newspaper and broadcaster having several writers or commentators who see their duty as influencing public opinion on Israel’s behalf, and The New York Times submits all stories about Israel to Israeli censors before publishing)—but Israel is an inherently unstable state. No matter how much money is poured into it for arms and force-fed economic development, it cannot be otherwise. Its population is hostile to the people with whom it is surrounded and intermixed, living something of a fantasy which shares in equal parts ancient myths and superstitions and white-picket-fence notions of community with no neighbors who do not resemble each other. Its founding stories also have a fairy tale quality, heroic with a mythical division of good and evil, always ignoring the violence and brutality which cannot be forgotten so easily by its victims, and the manipulation of imperial powers which defrauded others as surely as any phony mining stock promotion. Its official views and the very language in which they are expressed are artificial constructs which do not accurately describe what they name, words like “militant” or “terrorist” or “existential.” Its official policy towards neighbors and the people it displaced has been one of unrelenting hostility. Its leaders in business and government almost all securely hold dual passports, hedging their bets. Its average citizens face a hard time in an economy shaped, not for opportunity and economic freedom, but for war and the policing of millions of captives and unwelcome residents. None of this is indefinitely sustainable, and modern Israel is a highly artificial construct, one neither suited to its regional environment nor amenable to all the powerful trends shaping the modern world: 

globalization, free movement of peoples, multiculturalism in immigration, and genuine democratic principles, not the oxymoron of democracy for one group only.

It is the many desperate efforts to work against these hard realities, almost like someone screaming against a storm, which have unleashed the forces now at work on the Western world. Israel, as just one example, against the best judgment of many statesmen, was permitted and even assisted to become a nuclear power. The thinking being that only with such weapons can Israel feel secure and be ready to defend Jews abroad from a new Gotterdammerung. The truth is, as is the case with all nuclear weapons, Israel’s arsenal is virtually unusable, except, that is, as a powerful tool for blackmail. Israel has blackmailed the United States several times, the latest instance being over Iran’s nuclear program, a program which every reliable intelligence source agrees is not aimed at producing weapons. More than one Israeli source has suggested that low-yield nuclear weapons are the best way of destroying Iran’s technology, buried deeply underground, a suggestive whisper in American ears to do what Israel wants, or else.

Analysis suggests that what Israel truly wants is the suppression of Iran as a burgeoning regional power so that Israel can continue to perform the powerful and lucrative role as the United States’ surrogate in Western Asia, along with its always-held-quiet, numerous dealings with that other great bastion of democracy and human rights, Saudi Arabia. Finish reading>>

Understanding Israel’s corrosive influence on Western democracy

By John Chuckman
Posted on June 6, 2014 by John Chuckman

Something troubling is quietly underway in the Western world, that portion of the world’s governments that style themselves as liberal democracies and free societies. Through a number of avenues, people’s assumptions about the role of government are being undermined as their governments evolve towards a pattern established in the United States. No, I do not mean in building a neo-Roman marble repository of sacred founding writ and adopting three wrangling branches of government with empty slogans about freedom and justice for all. I do mean in the way governments, however elected and organized, regard their responsibilities towards their citizens and the world community.
Of course, the United States in many matters often prods, cajoles, or threatens other states to follow where it leads, such as with votes at the U. N. or whether a country should send at least token forces for one of America’s colonial wars to lend appearances of international effort. Despite America’s poor economy and declining relative future prospects, it still has many resources for pushing others, much like the profligate grandson of a magnate whose once great family fortune is in decline but still large. Still, a good deal of what is happening results from new forces which only reinforce America’s imperial tendencies.
People in the West often elect governments that turn around to do things voters did not want done, and they realize they being lied to by their governments and corporate press, but they pretty much feel helpless to remedy the situation. London saw the largest peace march in history just before Tony Blair secretly threw in his lot with the criminals who hit Iraq with the equivalent in deaths and destruction of a thermonuclear bomb on a large city. Special interests increasingly dominate the interests of government because they increasingly pay its campaign costs and extend other important favors. Citizens in many places feel the meaning of casting a ballot has been diminished as they watch their governments ignore extreme injustice, hear their governments make demands and threats over matters which do not warrant threats, see themselves become ensnared in wars and violence they never wanted, and generally feel their governments are concerned with matters of little concern to them. That, if it needs to be said, is not what democracy is about. And where do we see governments making reforms to remedy the situation threatening democracy? Almost nowhere.
It might at first seem an odd thing to write—considering the influence Israel exerts in the Western world (what other country of 7 million is in the press virtually each day?) and all the favorable press it receives (every major newspaper and broadcaster having several writers or commentators who see their duty as influencing public opinion on Israel’s behalf, and The New York Times submits all stories about Israel to Israeli censors before publishing)—but Israel is an inherently unstable state. No matter how much money is poured into it for arms and force-fed economic development, it cannot be otherwise. Its population is hostile to the people with whom it is surrounded and intermixed, living something of a fantasy which shares in equal parts ancient myths and superstitions and white-picket-fence notions of community with no neighbors who do not resemble each other. Its founding stories also have a fairy tale quality, heroic with a mythical division of good and evil, always ignoring the violence and brutality which cannot be forgotten so easily by its victims, and the manipulation of imperial powers which defrauded others as surely as any phony mining stock promotion. Its official views and the very language in which they are expressed are artificial constructs which do not accurately describe what they name, words like “militant” or “terrorist” or “existential.” Its official policy towards neighbors and the people it displaced has been one of unrelenting hostility. Its leaders in business and government almost all securely hold dual passports, hedging their bets. Its average citizens face a hard time in an economy shaped, not for opportunity and economic freedom, but for war and the policing of millions of captives and unwelcome residents. None of this is indefinitely sustainable, and modern Israel is a highly artificial construct, one neither suited to its regional environment nor amenable to all the powerful trends shaping the modern world: globalization, free movement of peoples, multiculturalism in immigration, and genuine democratic principles, not the oxymoron of democracy for one group only.
It is the many desperate efforts to work against these hard realities, almost like someone screaming against a storm, which have unleashed the forces now at work on the Western world. Israel, as just one example, against the best judgment of many statesmen, was permitted and even assisted to become a nuclear power. The thinking being that only with such weapons can Israel feel secure and be ready to defend Jews abroad from a new Gotterdammerung. The truth is, as is the case with all nuclear weapons, Israel’s arsenal is virtually unusable, except, that is, as a powerful tool for blackmail. Israel has blackmailed the United States several times, the latest instance being over Iran’s nuclear program, a program which every reliable intelligence source agrees is not aimed at producing weapons. More than one Israeli source has suggested that low-yield nuclear weapons are the best way of destroying Iran’s technology, buried deeply underground, a suggestive whisper in American ears to do what Israel wants, or else.
Analysis suggests that what Israel truly wants is the suppression of Iran as a burgeoning regional power so that Israel can continue to perform the powerful and lucrative role as the United States’ surrogate in Western Asia, along with its always-held-quiet, numerous dealings with that other great bastion of democracy and human rights, Saudi Arabia.

- See more at: http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/13227#sthash.qUXHQegy.dpuf

The ISIS Attack of the Five Monarchies by Rannie Amiri

An intriguing article to be sure. We have one criticism: waging resistance to ISIS with other Arab states as surrogate warriors is not the creation of Obama as Rannie Amiri presents. First of all, Obama does not have the intelligent quotient to broker such a coalition, but most of all Obama has not been the policy creator of our Republic-wrecking domestic agencies. Yes, Obama IS the Implementer and Plantation Overseer…the Enforcer, if you will for those who recruited and groomed him. That is crucial as the next Republican administration will be of the same mold: policy implementation to benefit others, but more impoverishment for the American people.

Attack of the Five Monarchies by Rannie Amiri

An Alliance of Dictators and Despots

by Rannie Amiri, October 01, 2014

It is the irony of ironies. A cadre of repressive monarchies is chosen to liberate the captive peoples of Iraq and Syria from the tyranny of ISIS.

Combating a group known for its violent sectarianism, the five Arab allies ordered by the United States to participate in the bombing campaign against ISIS are themselves the region’s worst sectarian agitators. Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are now at the vanguard of efforts to dismantle an organization that is essentially of their own creation.

After the downfall of Saddam Hussein, it was King Abdullah II of Jordan who raised the sectarian specter, warning of the emergence of a "Shiite crescent" in the Middle East, sending panic throughout the monarchies of the Gulf and beyond. It was a rallying cry; a call to arms which heralded operations to destabilize Iraq, and in less than ten years time, Syria.

Bahrain has been a true standout in its brutal crackdown against pro-democracy activists and reformers who hope to see the unchecked powers of the al-Khalifa royal family restrained. For its part, the regime has hidden nothing. Their brazen oppression is very much out in the open for its Western allies to witness: torture, show trials, arbitrary detentions, revocation of citizenship, deportations and media blackouts. All are daily occurrences and come in the backdrop of longstanding socioeconomic and political disenfranchisement. Two of the country’s most prominent human rights defenders are Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, the (imprisoned) co-founder of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and Nabeel Rajab, its current president. Rajab succinctly contextualizes Bahrain’s political crisis:

"The ruling family is Sunni. The ruling family is repressive. It’s true that the majority of protesters are Shia, because the majority of the population is Shia, but we are not against the family’s religion – we are against their policies, attitude and behavior. The ruling family tries to present it as a Shia-Sunni issue, but we are not against the Sunni people.

I come from a mixed family and our revolt is against the ruling family that wants to keep all the power. We are struggling to share this power. Seventy percent of our government is from one family, we have had the same prime minister for more than 40 years. This system can’t continue. It is time for democracy, justice and human rights. We are a civilized, educated nation. But unfortunately we happen to be ruled by a tribe."

Saudi Arabia and Qatar must be mentioned in tandem. The two rival families – al-Saud and al-Thani respectively – have long vied for power and influence in the Middle East. Initially it was through the dueling television stations Al Arabiya and Al-Jazeera. It has since become far more sinister: by funding competing, armed extremist groups. Qatar has effectively abandoned the Muslim Brotherhood as its proxy of choice, opting instead for the de facto al-Qaeda stand-in, Jabhat al-Nusra or the Nusra Front, one of the main "opposition" factions operating in Syria. Its main competitor of course is ISIS, the brainchild of Saudi Arabia. Patrick Cockburn, writing in The Independent, nicely details how Saudi Arabia was complicit in helping ISIS take over northern Iraq. Other journalists have drawn similar conclusions.

ISIS is a takfiri group branding anyone not conforming to their regressive ideology as worthy of execution, particularly Shia Muslims, Alawites, Christians and Yazidis. Members of ISIS’ own (purported) sect – Sunni Muslims – are given a reprieve of sorts but have equally suffered under their rule. In Saudi Arabia, the official Wahabi creed is only one step removed from the takfiri worldview. It comes as no surprise to learn that its Shia citizens are the victims of pervasive, institutionalized discrimination. Some clerics in the Kingdom have even gone so far as to brand them non-Muslims (which opens up a whole set of permissive practices), a view likewise held by ISIS.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has worked in concert with Saudi Arabia in opposing certain political parties, namely the Muslim Brotherhood. Along with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the UAE was the only other country to officially recognize Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Notorious for cracking down on all forms of dissent, the UAE also has a habit of deporting Lebanese Shia expatriates from the country, presuming a connection to Hezbollah based on sect alone.

"America is proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these nations on behalf of our common security," Obama said. "The strength of this coalition makes it clear to the world that this isn’t America’s fight alone. Above all, the people and governments of the Middle East are rejecting ISIL …"

Obama naively equates the Arab people with their governments. The people of the Middle East reject not only ISIS, but these five monarchies and all their machinations and schemes as well. 

Including them in any coalition to fight the very sectarian, destructive monster they directly or indirectly helped create is yet another reason why the military campaign against ISIS is destined for failure.

Rannie Amiri is an independent commentator on Middle East affairs.

Source antiwar

Caught: Faked ISIS war footage

Faked war footage from Iraq/ISIS 

Make believe air strikes

More videos like this

A Hollywood production

The story is ISIS shot this video and made it available to the "news media" (i.e. Ministry of Loony Propaganda)

It purportedly shows Allied Forces (the good guys) bombing an artillery piece of ISIS (the bad guys.)

The problem is there seems to be an awful lot of cooperation between the good guys and the bad guys in this video.

For example:

1. The first segment shows lots of bad guys milling around the target, but then with a quick cut they're all gone - except for one guy in the foreground.

2. This one combatant (actor) seems to know something is about to happen well before it happens and covers his ears.

3. The "missile" appears to fall straight from the sky and hit the target, the artillery piece, perfectly and "luckily" the guy covering his ears and the cameraman (and crew) are far enough away to be uninjured.

Do you see the total ludicrousness of this scenario?

Some basic questions:

How did the bad guys know to leave the scene before the explosion?

Why was the video edited the way it was?

How did the one guy who remained - far away - know to cover his ears well in advance of the "strike"?

Who says the artillery piece wasn't blown up by a charge placed on it?

Who says that "missile" wasn't added later in post-production?

Sloppy, careless BS because they think no one is looking and/or has the sense to call nonsense what it is.

Iraqis Believe Islamic State was Created by the CIA

By: Rachel Blevins Sep 22, 2014 via Ben Swann

It was over a month ago that the United States began launching airstrikes in Iraq to combat militants associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Despite efforts from the U.S. to destroy ISIS, rumors are running rampant in Iraq that ISIS was a creation of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

According to the New York Times, conspiracy theories are circulating from “the streets of Baghdad to the highest levels of Iraqi government that the CIA is secretly behind the same extremists that it is now attacking.”
 
On Saturday, a demonstration in Iraq was called for by the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr to warn against the possible invasion by American ground troops. Sadr had blamed the CIA for creating ISIS in a prior speech, and continued with the same theory.
 
The deputy prime minister, Bahaa al-Araji, who was present at the demonstration, referred to ISIS using the Arabic shorthand, “Daesh.”
 
“We know about who made Daesh,” said Araji. However, when asked if he blamed the CIA for the creation of the Islamic State, the New York Times reported that Araji responded, “I don’t know. I am one of the poor people. But we fear very much.”
 
Others in attendance at Saturday’s demonstration were also not convinced that President Obama would resist sending ground troops into Iraq. “We don’t trust him,” said Raad Hatem.
 
“The Islamic State is a clear creation of the United States,” said Haidar al-Assadi, another man present at the rally. “The United States is trying to intervene again using the excuse of the Islamic State.”
 
Assadi claimed that Shiite militias and volunteers were already answering the call from religious leaders to defend Iraq from the Islamic State without help from the United States, and that they would use the same forces to keep American troops out.
 
“The main reason Obama is saying he will not invade again is because he knows the Islamic resistance,” said Assadi, referring to the Shiite militia,  “and he does not want to lose a single soldier.”
 
International Business Times explained the Iraqis’ willingness to believe such theories by using the words of a Lebanese man, Amer Murad, who said, “As history has taught us, it is usually the benefactors who are the instigators.”
 
“Most people here believe the US and Saudi are one, and when it comes strictly down to oil money, the ultimate benefactor from the whole [ISIS] debacle is Saudi [or] the US,” Murad said.

Rachel Blevins

Rachel Blevins is a student in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. She aspires to break the left/right paradigm in media and politics by pursuing truth and questioning authority as she establishes her Journalism career.

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Unanswered Questions About Middle East Terrorism - video

 
The John Birch Society

JBS CEO Art Thompson's weekly news video update for September 15 - 21, 2014.

In this week's analysis behind the news video, JBS CEO Art Thompson discusses a series of questions about ISIS and other Middle East terrorists: Who funds them? Who arms them? who buys their oil? Who trains them? Why can't we hack into the terrorists' accounts? What's the role of Russia, China, and the United States? Are Russia, China, and the U.S. working together? Why is al-Qaeda still growing? and Why should we build a communist-influenced Kurdish nation? 

The Covert Origins of ISIS *vid*

Evidence exposing who put ISIS in power, and how it was done.  28.Aug.2014 | SCG

The Islamic militant group ISIS, formerly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and recently rebranded as the so called Islamic State, is the stuff of nightmares. They are ruthless, fanatical, killers, on a mission, and that mission is to wipe out anyone and everyone, from any religion or belief system and to impose Shari'ah law. The mass executions, beheadings and even crucifixions that they are committing as they work towards this goal are flaunted like badges of pride, video taped and uploaded for the whole world to see. This is the new face of evil.

Would it interest you to know who helped these psychopaths rise to power? Would it interest you to know who armed them, funded them and trained them? Would it interest you to know why?
 
This story makes more sense if we start in the middle, so we'll begin with the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
The Libyan revolution was Obama's first major foreign intervention. It was portrayed as an extension of the Arab Spring, and NATO involvement was framed in humanitarian terms.
 
The fact that the CIA was actively working to help the Libyan rebels topple Gaddafi was no secret, nor were the airstrikes that Obama ordered against the Libyan government. 

However, little was said about the identity or the ideological leanings of these Libyan rebels. Not surprising, considering the fact that the leader of the Libyan rebels later admitted that his fighters included Al-Qaeda linked jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq.
 
These jihadist militants from Iraq were part of what national security analysts commonly referred to as Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Remember Al-Qaeda in Iraq was ISIS before it was rebranded.
 
With the assistance of U.S. and NATO intelligence and air support, the Libyan rebels captured Gaddafi and summarily executed him in the street, all the while enthusiastically chanting "Allah Akbar". For many of those who had bought the official line about how these rebels were freedom fighters aiming to establish a liberal democracy in Libya, this was the beginning of the end of their illusions.

 
the highest standard of living of any country in Africa. This according to the U.N.'s Human Development Index rankings for 2010. However in the years following the coup, the country descended into chaos, with extremism and violence running rampant. Libya is now widely regarded as failed state (of course those who were naive enough to buy into the propaganda leading up to the war get defensive when this is said).
 
Now after Gaddafi was overthrown, the Libyan armories were looted, and massive quantities of weapons were sent by the Libyan rebels to Syria. The weapons, which included anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles were smuggled into Syria through Turkey, a NATO ally. The times of London reported on the arrival of the shipment on September 14th, 2012. 

(Secondary confirmation in this NYT article) This was just three days after Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed by the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi. Chris Stevens had served as the U.S. government's liaison to the Libyan rebels since April of 2011.
 
While a great deal media attention has focused on the fact that the State Department did not provide adequate security at the consulate, and was slow to send assistance when the attack started, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh released an article in April of 2014 which exposed a classified agreement between the CIA, Turkey and the Syrian rebels to create what was referred to as a "rat line". The "rat line" was covert network used to channel weapons and ammunition from Libya, through southern turkey and across the Syrian border. Funding was provided by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
 
With Stevens dead any direct U.S. involvement in that arms shipment was buried, and Washington would continue to claim that they had not sent heavy weaponry into Syria.
 
It was at this time that jihadist fighters from Libya began flooding into Syria as well. And not just low level militants. Many were experienced commanders who had fought in multiple theaters.
 
The U.S. and its allies were now fully focused on taking down Assad's government in Syria. As in Libya this regime change was to be framed in terms of human rights, and now overt support began to supplement the backdoor channels. The growing jihadist presence was swept under the rug and covered up.
 
However as the rebels gained strength, the reports of war crimes and atrocities that they were committing began to create a bit of a public relations problem for Washington. It then became standard policy to insist that U.S. support was only being given to what they referred to as "moderate" rebel forces.
 
This distinction, however, had no basis in reality.

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Our interpretation of this event  is no more knowledgeable than yours.

August 3, 2014
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the Caliph at the head of the militia who are named themselves EIIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) since renamed EI (Islamic State).

In addition to the atrocities committed by these veritable armies of the devil, new information comes to bring more clarity to the situation.

 
We offer below three translations that want to assert that the Caliph Al-Baghdadi is an integral Mossad agent and would be born of a father and Jewish mother

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Urgent and very serious: social networks important information from Iran was able to reveal the true identity of the head of the Islamic State (Daesh) rotate.
The real name of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is "Simon Elliott" father and Jewish mother.
 
The so-called "Eliott" was recruited by Israel's Mossad for one year during which he was trained in espionage and in the field to conduct a destructive strategy of Arab and Islamic societies.

This information was attributed to Edward Snowden and published by newspapers and other Web sites: the head of the "Islamic State" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has cooperated with the United States Secret Service, British and Israelis to create an organization capable of attracting terrorist extremists around the world in one place.
 
Source: Radio ajyal.com

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Another source corroborates this statement, the site Egy-press :
With photo support, an Iranian bomb media discovers the true identity of the Emir DAASH Zionist.

The secret Iranian intelligence discovered the true and full identity of the Emir Daach, which is known under the name Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi; His real name is Elliot Shimon. His role Mossad secret agent in the Zionist espionage. His alias Ibrahim ibn Awad ibn Ibrahim Al Al Badri Arradoui Hoseini.
 
The plan: enter the military and civilian heart of the countries that are declared as a threat to Israel in order to destroy them to facilitate later, the takeover of the Zionist state on the whole area of the Middle East in order to establish Greater Israel.

Here the boundaries of the Zionist project, the "Greater Israel" or "Eretz Israel" to her friends.

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Page of a Yemeni website also relays the information:
I remember this flash important information, very serious and very dangerous:

Iranian media sources was able to detect and prove the identity of the head of the Islamic State (Daash).

The important issue is that the real name of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is "Simon Elliott" born of a father and Jewish mother.  
The so-called Caliph "Eliot" was recruited into the Israeli Mossad in a year in which he fought and monitoring of numerous military exercises and spent a lot of tests on the same field in order to conduct a devastating effect on the lives and Arab and Islamic thought.

Snowden leaks have confirmed its role as a secret agent published by many newspapers and websites. The leader of the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant", Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was in cooperation with the CIA and British intelligence services in order to create a terrorist organization that attracts extremists world to coordinate in one place.

Map of Greater Israel, also on the Israeli currency, the shekel.

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Editor's Note of Croah

These details confirm the first that came out a few days earlier, confirming that the Caliph Rolex is the messenger of Israel, to create chaos in neighboring countries the Zionist entity. Please note that EIIL announced there few days ago, will now get to take "barbaric Jews" , a reference to Zionists besiege Gaza.

Practice! Having devastated the area of ​​Israel, it will now allow the Americans and Israelis to point the finger as bloodthirsty terrorists to shoot at faster to defend the Zionist state, while the same let them proliferate and operate with impunity for over two months now. They prepare a project probably for the famous Arab Spring with the destabilization of Iraq, Sudan, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Mali (among others). Clever!
 
Listen and listen again Bernard-Henri Levy on these so-called Arab Spring:
 

After gathering the most fanatical of the world in one place, a veritable army of the devil is formed, filled with bloodthirsty murderers without mercy for their victims, which they kill with a vengeance and in cold blood n ' hesitating to film their atrocities and relay them on social networks. We'll spare you the vision for their actions which barbarism is unimaginable. To reach this level of inhumanity, we must be completely drugged and enlisted, conditioning blood and horror.

Then the EIIL controlled by Zionists?
 
All this starts, feeling very very good for Israel!

via Croah.fr