{"id":335255,"date":"2017-11-16T13:57:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T12:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-rescue-of-isis-in-raqqa-exposed\/"},"modified":"2017-11-16T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T12:57:31","slug":"us-rescue-of-isis-in-raqqa-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-rescue-of-isis-in-raqqa-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"US rescue of ISIS in Raqqa exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>US rescue of ISIS in Raqqa exposed<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Bill Van Auken<br \/>\n    <br \/>16 November 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>An investigative report by the BBC titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/resources\/idt-sh\/raqqas_dirty_secret\">Raqqa&#8217;s dirty secret<\/a>\u201d has confirmed earlier charges by Iran, Russia and the Syrian government that the Pentagon has colluded with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the evacuation of ISIS fighters from cities and towns under US military siege.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC story, based on interviews with some of those who organized the evacuation along with truck drivers who were brought in to transport the fighters and others who observed it, describes a four-mile-long convoy that included \u201c50 trucks, 13 buses and more than 100 of the Islamic State group\u2019s own vehicles. IS fighters, their faces covered, sat defiantly on top of some of the vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In total, the convoy, which set out on October 12, transported some 4,000 people\u2014ISIS fighters and their families\u2014along with tons of arms, ammunition and explosives. The US military and its proxy ground force, the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces, assured that reporters and cameramen were kept out of Raqqa to prevent images of the long column of trucks, with armed ISIS fighters on top of them from being broadcast around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The story has been largely ignored by the US media. It flies in the face of repeated statements by leading US officials vowing to \u201cannihilate\u201d ISIS to the last man in Iraq and Syria and debunks the greatest \u201cfake news\u201d story of the 21st century\u2014the so-called US war on terror.<\/p>\n<p>In the face of the evidence uncovered by the BBC, the Pentagon has been forced to acknowledge that the evacuation took place, while insisting that it was merely an innocent bystander.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t want anyone to leave,\u201d Col. Ryan Dillon, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, told the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/11\/16\/isis-n16.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 US rescue of ISIS in Raqqa exposed By Bill Van Auken 16 November 2017 An investigative report by the BBC titled \u201cRaqqa&#8217;s dirty secret\u201d has confirmed earlier charges by Iran, Russia and the Syrian government that the Pentagon has colluded with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the evacuation of ISIS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-335255","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\/335255","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\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}