{"id":385371,"date":"2018-11-17T01:33:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-state-department-claims-daesh-was-created\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T01:33:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:33:52","slug":"us-state-department-claims-daesh-was-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-state-department-claims-daesh-was-created\/","title":{"rendered":"US State Department Claims Daesh Was Created"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Damascus and its allies have repeatedly accused Washington of waging a phony war on the jihadists, and of providing various forms of covert support for terrorists operating on Syrian territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Syrian government is directly responsible for\u00a0creating Daesh (ISIS)*, US special representative for\u00a0Syria engagement James Jeffrey has alleged.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Syrian regime produced ISIS,\u201d the diplomat\u00a0said<\/a>, speaking at\u00a0a press briefing on\u00a0Wednesday. \u201cThe elements of\u00a0ISIS in\u00a0the hundreds, probably, saw an opportunity in\u00a0the total breakdown of\u00a0civil society and of\u00a0the upsurge of\u00a0violence as\u00a0the population rose up\u00a0against the Assad regime, and the Assad regime, rather than\u00a0try to\u00a0negotiate or try to\u00a0find any kind of\u00a0solution, unleashed massive violence against\u00a0its own population.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat created a space for\u00a0ISIS to\u00a0recruit people; to\u00a0protect people to\u00a0some degree, ironic as\u00a0it sounds, from\u00a0the depredations of\u00a0the Assad regime; and very soon, ISIS had an army of\u00a035,000 troops and had seized big chunks of\u00a0both Iraq and Syria,\u201d Jeffrey said.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Later in\u00a0the press conference, Jeffrey appeared to\u00a0contradict himself, recalling that al-Qaeda in\u00a0Iraq, the direct precursor to\u00a0Daesh, was actually started in\u00a0Iraq.
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\u201cISIS\u2019s predecessor under\u00a0the same leader, [Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi, al-Qaeda in\u00a0Iraq, was almost completely defeated when I was in\u00a0Iraq\u2026But it was able to\u00a0regenerate itself because there was no long-term strategy in\u00a0either Syria or Iraq, but\u00a0particularly in\u00a0Iraq at\u00a0the time, because that\u2019s where we were focused on, to\u00a0ensure the enduring defeat of\u00a0these elements,\u201d the diplomat said.<\/p>\n

Daesh\u2019s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Damascus and its allies have repeatedly accused Washington of waging a phony war on the jihadists, and of providing various forms of covert support for terrorists operating on Syrian territory. The Syrian government is directly responsible for\u00a0creating Daesh (ISIS)*, US special representative for\u00a0Syria engagement James Jeffrey has alleged. \u201cThe Syrian regime produced ISIS,\u201d the diplomat\u00a0said, […]<\/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-385371","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\/385371","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=385371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}