{"id":154184,"date":"2015-05-26T16:57:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=154184"},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:57:39","slug":"us-created-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-created-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Created ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From the first sudden, and quite dramatic, appearance of the fanatical Islamic group known as ISIS which was largely unheard of until a year ago, on the world\u2019s stage and which promptly replaced the worn out and tired al Qaeda as the world\u2019s terrorist bogeyman, we suggested that the \u201cstraight to beheading YouTube clip<\/em>\u201d purpose behind the Saudi Arabia-funded Islamic State <\/a>was a simple one: use the Jihadists as the vehicle of choice to achieve a political goal: depose of Syria\u2019s president Assad, who for years has stood in the way of a critical Qatari natural gas pipeline<\/a>, one which could dethrone Russia as Europe\u2019s dominant \u2014 and belligerent \u2014 source of energy, reaching an interim climax with the unsuccessful Mediterranean Sea military build up of 2013, which nearly resulted in quasi-world war.<\/p>\n

The narrative and the plotline were so transparent, even Russia saw right through them. Recall from September of last year<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If the West bombs Islamic State militants in Syria without consulting Damascus, LiveLeak reports<\/a> that the anti-ISIS alliance may use the occasion to launch airstrikes against President Bashar Assad\u2019s forces, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Clearly comprehending that Obama\u2019s new strategy against ISIS in Syria is all about pushing the Qatar pipeline through<\/strong> (as was the impetus behind the 2013 intervention push)<\/a>, Russia is pushing back noting that the it is using ISIS as a pretext for bombing Syrian government force<\/strong>s and warning that \u201csuch a development would lead to a huge escalation of conflict in the Middle East and North Africa<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But it\u2019s one thing to speculate; it\u2019s something entirely different to have hard proof.<\/p>\n

And while speculation was rife that just like the CIA-funded al Qaeda <\/a>had been used as a facade by the US to achieve its own geopolitical and national interests over the past two decades, so ISIS was nothing more than al Qaeda 2.0, there was no actual evidence of just this.<\/p>\n

That may all have changed now when a declassified secret US government document obtained by the public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governmentsdeliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to investigative reporter Nafeez Ahmed in Medium, the \u201cleaked document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, despite anticipating that doing so could lead to the emergence of an \u2018Islamic State\u2019 in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).<\/p>\n

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According to the newly declassified US document, the Pentagon foresaw the likely rise of the \u2018Islamic State\u2019 as a direct consequence of the strategy, but described this outcome as a strategic opportunity to \u201cisolate the Syrian regime.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And not just that: as we reported last week<\/a>, now that ISIS is running around the middle east, cutting people\u2019s heads of in 1080p quality and Hollywood-quality (perhaps literally) video, the US has a credible justification to sell billions worth of modern, sophisticated weapons in the region in order to \u201cmodernize\u201d and \u201creplenish\u201d the weapons of such US allies as Saudi Arabia, Israel and Iraq.<\/p>\n

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From the first sudden, and quite dramatic, appearance of the fanatical Islamic group known as ISIS which was largely unheard of until a year ago, on the world\u2019s stage and which promptly replaced the worn out and tired al Qaeda as the world\u2019s terrorist bogeyman, we suggested that the \u201cstraight to beheading YouTube clip\u201d purpose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}