November 19, 2014

US-Armed Syrian Opposition “Surrenders” to Al Qaeda?

Al Qaeda affiliates are suddenly now Islamic State (ISIS) affiliates, and entire groups of militants the US has been arming, funding, and training are “surrendering” to Al Qaeda, bringing along with them a large number of US weapons. Is this a failure of US foreign policy? Or is this simply a rhetorical means to explain away what appears to be an immense army of extremists the US is once again building up to direct at one of its enemies, just as it did in Afghanistan in the 1980s?
In late September, just in time to aid the US in its fumbling justification for bombing Syria, terrorists allegedly beheaded a French tourist kidnapped in the North African nation of Algeria. The timing, as with previous ISIS executions, was impeccable, lending maximum propaganda value, not to the terrorist organization, but to the United States which has utilized each grisly murder as a means for direct and continued military intervention on both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi border.
ISIS is clearly a conglomeration of existing terrorist organizations apparently from as far as North Africa to the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia and everything in between. In addition to AQIM, Al Nusra and many other extremist factions either allied with or fighting alongside what the US calls the Syrian opposition, are also affiliated with and fighting in support of ISIS. This is basically what Al Qaeda was, before what can only be described as a marketing gimmick “ISIS” was coined.           ***Read full article here***

*Obama admits that his public ISIS strategy is wrong, Bashar al-Assad must be deposed
*ISIS is America’s Dream Rebel Army
*ISIS: the Useful Enemy
*U.S. Destroying Syria’s Oil Infrastructure Under Guise of Fighting ISIS
*Meanwhile, Whatever Happened to Al Qaeda??
*'Terrorism a tool at the hands of imperialism'
*There is no evidence that Muslims committed the crime of 9/11

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