{"id":9334,"date":"2014-06-14T13:17:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T13:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2014-06-14T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T13:22:28","slug":"americas-covert-re-invasion-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/americas-covert-re-invasion-of-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heavily armed, well funded, and organized as a professional, standing army, the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept southward into Iraq<\/a> from Turkey and northeastern Syria, taking the cities of Mosul and Tikrit, and now threaten the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad itself. The United States was sure to prop up two unfounded narratives \u2013 the first being that US intelligence agencies, despite assets in Iraq and above it in the form of surveillance drones, failed to give warning of the invasion, and that ISIS is some sort of self-sustaining terror organization carving out a \u201cstate\u201d by \u201crobbing banks\u201d and collecting \u201cdonations\u201d on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal in its report, \u201cIraqi Drama Catches U.S. Off Guard<\/a>,\u201d stated:<\/p>\n

The quickly unfolding drama prompted a White House meeting Wednesday of top policy makers and military leaders who were caught off guard by the swift collapse of Iraqi security forces, officials acknowledged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In another WSJ post, \u201cU.S. Secretly Flying Drones Over Iraq<\/a>,\u201d it claimed:<\/p>\n

A senior U.S. official said the intelligence collected under the small [secret US drone] program was shared with Iraqi forces, but added: \u201cIt\u2019s not like it did any good.\u201d The rapid territorial gains by the Islamist forces loyal to Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, an al Qaeda offshoot, caught the U.S. by surprise, the officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Image: ISIS has convoys of brand new matching Toyota\u2019s the same vehicles seen among admittedly NATO-armed terrorists operating everywhere from Libya to Syria, and now Iraq. It is a synthetic, state- sponsored regional mercenary expeditionary force.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite drone flights collecting intelligence, and a 3-year ongoing CIA program (here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>) all along the Turkish-Syrian border to \u201cmonitor\u201d and \u201carm\u201d \u201cmoderate\u201d militants fighting the Syrian government, the US claims it was caught \u201cby surprise.\u201d If drones and CIA operatives operating in ISIS territory weren\u2019t enough to detect the impending invasion, perhaps the CIA should have just picked up a newspaper.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the Lebanon Daily Start in March 2014 reported that ISIS openly withdrew its forces from Latakia and Idlib provinces in western Syria, and redeployed them in Syria\u2019s east \u2013 along the Syrian-Iraqi border. The article titled, \u201cAl-Qaeda splinter group in Syria leaves two provinces: activists<\/a>,\u201d stated explicitly that:<\/p>\n

On Friday, ISIS \u2013 which alienated many rebels by seizing territory and killing rival commanders \u2013 finished withdrawing from the Idlib and Latakia provinces and moved its forces toward the eastern Raqqa province and the eastern outskirts of the northern city of Aleppo, activists said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The question remains, if a Lebanese newspaper knew ISIS was on the move eastward, why didn\u2019t the CIA? The obvious answer is the CIA did know, and is simply feigning ignorance at the expense of their reputation to bait its enemies into suspecting the agency of \u00a0incompetency rather than complicity in the horrific terroristic swath ISIS is now carving through northern Iraq.
\nDescribed extensively in the full New Eastern Outlook Journal (NEO) report, \u201cNATO\u2019s Terror Hordes in Iraq a Pretext for Syria Invasion<\/a>,\u201d the United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, have funded and armed terrorists operating in Syria for the past 3 years to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars \u2013 coincidentally the same amount that ISIS would require to gain primacy among militant groups fighting in Syria and to mobilize forces capable of crossing into Iraq and overwhelming Baghdad\u2019s national defenses.<\/p>\n

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\"Image:<\/a>
Image: The most prominent routes into Syria for foreign fighters is depicted, with the inset graph describing the most widely used routes by foreign fighters on their way to Iraq, as determined by West Point\u2019s 2007 Combating Terrorism Center report \u201cAl-Qa\u2019ida\u2019s Foreign Fighters in Iraq\u201d (page 20). These same networks were then used to invade and attempt to overthrow the Syrian government itself in 2011, with the addition of a more prominent role for Turkey, and today in 2014, to re-invade Iraq once again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The NEO report<\/a> includes links to the US Army\u2019s West Point Countering Terrorism Center reports, \u201cBombers, Bank Accounts and Bleedout: al-Qa\u2019ida\u2019s Road In and Out of Iraq<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cAl-Qa\u2019ida\u2019s Foreign Fighters in Iraq<\/a>,\u201d which detail extensively the terror network used to flood Iraq with foreign terrorists, weapons, and cash to fuel an artificial \u201csectarian war\u201d during the US occupation, and then turned over to flood Syria with terrorists<\/a> in the West\u2019s bid to overthrow the government in Damascus.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s ISIS Doing in Iraq?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The NEO report<\/a> would also post Seymour Hersh\u2019s 2007 article, \u201cThe Redirection<\/a>,\u201d documenting over the course of 9 pages US, Saudi, and Israeli intentions to create and deploy sectarian extremists region-wide to confront Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hersh would note that these \u201csectarian extremists\u201d were either tied to Al Qaeda, or Al Qaeda itself. The ISIS army moving toward Baghdad is the final manifestation of this conspiracy, a standing army operating with impunity, threatening to topple the Syrian government, purge pro-Iranian forces in Iraq, and even threatening Iran itself by building a bridge from Al Qaeda\u2019s NATO safe havens in Turkey, across northern Iraq, and up to Iran\u2019s borders directly. Labeled \u201cterrorists\u201d by the West, grants the West plausible deniability in its creation, deployment, and across the broad spectrum of atrocities it is now carrying out.<\/p>\n

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\"Image:
Image: ISIS\u2019s alleged territory spans across both Iraqi and Syrian territory. If it is able to establish a NATO-backed buffer zone, it will be able to launch attacks with impunity into Syria, Iraq, and Iran \u2013 in a region-wide sectarian war the West has been engineering for years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It is a defacto re-invasion of Iraq by Western interests \u2013 but this time without Western forces directly participating \u2013 rather a proxy force the West is desperately attempting to disavow any knowledge of or any connection to. However, no other explanation can account for the size and prowess of ISIS beyond state sponsorship. And since ISIS is the clear benefactor of state sponsorship, the question is, which states are sponsoring it? With Iraq, Syria, and Iran along with Lebanese-based Hezbollah locked in armed struggle with ISIS and other Al Qaeda franchises across the region, the only blocs left are NATO and the GCC (Saudi Arabia and Qatar in particular).<\/p>\n

With the West declaring ISIS fully villainous in an attempt to intervene more directly in northern Iraq and eastern Syria, creating a long desired \u201cbuffer zone\u201d within which to harbor, arm, and fund an even larger terrorist expeditionary force, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and others are offered an opportunity to preempt Western involvement and to crush the ISIS \u2013 cornering and eliminating NATO-GCC\u2019s expeditionary force while scoring geopolitical points of vanquishing Washington\u2019s latest \u201cvillain.\u201d Joint Iraq-Iranian operations in the north and south of ISIS\u2019s locations, and just along Turkey\u2019s borders could envelop and trap ISIS to then be whittled down and destroyed \u2013 just as Syria has been doing to NATO\u2019s proxy terrorist forces within its own borders.<\/p>\n

Whatever the regional outcome may be, the fact is the West has re-invaded Iraq, with a force as brutal, if not worse than the \u201cshock and awe\u201d doctrine of 2003. Iraq faces another difficult occupation if it cannot summon a response from within, and among its allies abroad, to counter and crush this threat with utmost expediency.<\/p>\n

Source: Global Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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