{"id":272637,"date":"2016-10-12T23:46:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T23:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=272637"},"modified":"2016-10-18T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:16:40","slug":"military-blogger-alleges-u-s-now-aids-isis-oust-assad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/military-blogger-alleges-u-s-now-aids-isis-oust-assad\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Blogger Alleges U.S. Now Aids ISIS to Oust Assad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\">Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF<\/a>) &#8211; A highly informed anonymous military blogger, who goes by the name of \u201cbernhard\u201d and blogs at his widely followed \u201cMoon of Alabama\u201d website, is alleging, in a post October 12th (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2016\/10\/the-salafist-principality-isis-paid-off-to-leave-mosul-and-to-take-deir-ezzor.html\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe \u2019Salafist Principality\u2019 \u2014 ISIS Paid Off To Leave Mosul And To Take Deir Ezzor?\u201d<\/span><\/a>), that the Obama Administration has negotiated with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, and with Saudi Prince Salman (who is the decision-maker in Saudi military matters), to provide safe passage into the large Syrian city of Deir Es Zor, for the ISIS jihadists who have been occupying the city of Mosul in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On September 17th, U.S. and UK jets had bombed the compound of Syrian government troops who were fighting to oust jihadists from that City, and 62 Syrian soldiers were killed, and over a hundred were injured, in that U.S.-led bombing attack. Subsequently, Syria brought more troops to that location and retook control there, but if and when the ISIS jihadists from Mosul take control there, the forces of Bashar al-Assad will be beaten not by U.S. bombs, this time, but by ISIS jihadists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBernhard\u201d cites a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nizarnayouf\/status\/786242090464227328\"><span class=\"s2\">tweet<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on the morning of October 12th from the celebrated Syrian historian and journalist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nizar_Nayyouf\"><span class=\"s2\">Nizar Nayouf<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0reporting (\u201cberhard&#8221; calls it a \u2018rumor\u2019 because Nayouf relies upon \u2019Sources in London&#8217;): \u201cBreaking news: Sources in #London say: #US&amp;#Saudi_Arabia concluded an agreement to let #ISIS leave #Mosul secretly &amp; safely to #Syria.\u201d However, Nayouf was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nizar_Nayyouf\"><span class=\"s2\">democracy-activist whom the Assad regime imprisoned in 1991 and released on the date of Pope John Paul II\u2019s visit to Syria on 6 May 2001<\/span><\/a>;\u00a0so, any prejudices that Nayouf might have would be against not for Assad, and for not against the forces (such as Obama and the Sauds) who are trying to overthrow Assad. Only time can tell whether or not ISIS from Mosul will show up in Deir Es Zor, but Nayouf is reporting that that\u2019s the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Theyre-Not-Even-Close-Democratic\/dp\/1880026090\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1339027537&amp;sr=8-9\"><span class=\"s4\"><i>They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>,<\/i> and of<\/span><span class=\"s5\"> <i>\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B007Q1H4EG\"><span class=\"s6\"><i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Zuesse (RINF) &#8211; A highly informed anonymous military blogger, who goes by the name of \u201cbernhard\u201d and blogs at his widely followed \u201cMoon of Alabama\u201d website, is alleging, in a post October 12th (\u201cThe \u2019Salafist Principality\u2019 \u2014 ISIS Paid Off To Leave Mosul And To Take Deir Ezzor?\u201d), that the Obama Administration has negotiated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":272603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,461,18],"tags":[115,30,1036,96,535,907,59,1017,524,754,92,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-272637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-editorials","9":"category-latest-news","10":"tag-barack-obama","11":"tag-big-brother","12":"tag-breaking-news","13":"tag-cover-up","14":"tag-global-news","15":"tag-isis","16":"tag-military","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-syria","20":"tag-terrorism","21":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}