Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby semper occultus » Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:59 am

...yes thanks Alice...
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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby stefano » Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:49 am

Yes, third'ed - thanks Alice for posting here.

This is a speech by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to the UN Security Council last September which I think is notable mostly for the forum it took place in, and the fact that it took the form of a reply directly to Barack Obama, whom she made eye contact with the whole time. Some hints of the connection of the 1994 Jewish centre bombing and the more recent assassination of Alberto Nisman in there (this was before he died). She makes no explicit accusations but asks the important questions - no one there can possibly have misunderstood her.

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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby Elvis » Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:01 am

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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:46 am

thanks so much Alice ....I knew I'd hear from you about Cockburn...that's exactly why I posted it...wonderful to read your take ...no one word Counterpunch is vile name calling from you....so intelligent... so refreshing... :)
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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby AlicetheKurious » Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:35 pm

stefano wrote:She makes no explicit accusations but asks the important questions - no one there can possibly have misunderstood her.


No, they couldn't. But they did ignore her, and if I'm not mistaken, the live tv feed was cut in the middle of her speech. Still, a lot of people shared the speech on the internet, and she won a lot of people's respect in our neck of the woods.
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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby Elvis » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:11 pm

Maybe one of these elusive, mysterious recruiters will drop their ID in some convenient place... :roll:


http://www.npr.org/2015/02/18/387302748/minneapolis-st-paul-remains-a-focus-of-jihadi-recruiting

For Somalis In Minneapolis, Jihadi Recruiting Is A Recurring Nightmare
February 18, 2015 4:54 PM ET

This week officials are gathering in Washington to discuss how to counter extremist messages, particularly those from the self-proclaimed Islamic State.

ISIS has been luring thousands of Westerners to the battlefields of Syria and Iraq. The number of Americans who have traveled to Syria is still relatively small — in the neighborhood of 150 people — and a thin slice of that group, perhaps as many as two dozen Americans, are thought to have joined ISIS.

In the discussions at the White House this week, one city has focused minds: Minneapolis-St Paul. It had been ground zero for terrorist recruiters in the past, and is fast becoming the center of ISIS' recruitment effort in the United States.

"I know one guy who tweets the community all the time," said Abdirizak Bihi, the director of Somali education at a local advocacy group. "He left with my nephew 2008, and he's still alive. And he's been tweeting about who died in ISIS and where they come from, kind of maybe the new spokesman."


From Americans To Jihadists To Evangelists

Bihi's nephew was a Minneapolis teenager named Burhan Hassan, who joined a handful of young men from the Twin Cities and traveled to Somalia to join a terrorist group there called al-Shabab. Hassan died there several years ago. Between 2006 and 2011, some 27 Somali-Americans from the community disappeared to fight in Somalia.

That's important to what's going on now because officials believe that prior connection to jihad is one reason why ISIS has been so successful at recruiting in Minnesota today.

Since the end of 2013, law enforcement officials say, eleven men and one woman with ties to the Twin Cities have traveled to Syria. Another dozen or so either have tried to travel there before authorities intercepted them, or are believed to be preparing to go. What's more, officials say, the ISIS travelers are young: 15 and 16-year-olds are signing up.

Parents in the community are frightened. They have experienced this before, and there is a sinking feeling among parents that they'll be losing their children again.

"They are more afraid now than ever before because ISIS is something worse than anything we have ever seen," said Bihi.

Officials believe ISIS is taking advantage of the recruiting infrastructure al-Shabab developed almost a decade ago.

Back then, the departures came three or four friends at a time. They would suddenly vanish. Eventually parents would get text messages from their sons saying they had gone to Somalia to fight in the civil war.

Bihi's nephew, Burhan Hassan, left with a handful of other young men on election night 2008. Bihi and Hassan's mother thought he hadn't come home because he was out celebrating the election of America's first black president; instead he was boarding a plane to Africa.

Authorities never captured a mastermind in those al-Shabab cases. Instead, they managed to arrest someone they believed was a midlevel player — a local janitor who had connections to al-Shabab. He was convicted of, among other things, helping recruit the young men and financing their trips.

In the latest recruitment cases, law enforcement officials believe that a page has been torn from al-Shabab's playbook, and that there is someone — or a group of people — on the ground in Minnesota recruiting for ISIS.

Bihi says nothing else makes sense.

"I do not believe that a kid gets up in the morning — a normal kid — and decides not to go to school, but decides to open a Google and Google al-Shabab or ISIS, and to self-radicalize," he said. "There has to be someone helping them on the ground. These kids don't know how to make plans to travel, they don't have money, but somehow they are managing to leave anyway. Someone must be helping them."


A Teen Tries To Make The Trip

One morning in May 2014, an 18-year-old Somali-American named Abdullahi Yusuf had his dad drop him off at school, but never made it to class. He waited until the car was out of sight, then walked to a mosque that was just two short blocks up the street.

What Yusuf didn't know was that the FBI was watching him. They had staked out the school because they were convinced that Yusuf intended to board a flight to Turkey that afternoon. They had been tipped off because he had gone to the Minneapolis passport office days earlier and a passport officer got suspicious.

According to the criminal complaint, Yusuf told the passport officer where he was going. The officer asked if Yusuf was traveling with someone, and the question seemed to flummox him.

First he said he was going alone; then he said his mom couldn't afford to go. He changed his story a third time and added that he hoped to join up with a friend he'd just met on Facebook.

"A girl?" the officer asked. No, Yusuf allegedly said, a guy.

Days later, the FBI says, Yusuf opened a bank account and made a series of small deposits totalling $1500. Then he bought a plane ticket to Turkey. It took Abdullahi Yusuf just a couple of weeks to get everything he needed to leave home.

Jean Brandl, one of Yusuf's attorneys, said he was eventually charged with material support. The complaint says he intended to go to Syria and join up with ISIS.


'Of Course It Is Heartbreaking'

One of the wrenching themes to come out of this week's conference on countering violent extremism conference just how difficult recruiting and radicalization is for the families.

I met Abdullahi Yusuf's parents in Brandl's law offices last week. Sidik Yusuf is tall and thin. He's a driver in the Twin Cities. His wife Sarah wears a hijab and twists a tissue while she talks. They seemed shocked at finding themselves in law offices talking about a son who was arrested on terrorism charges. He had never been in trouble before.

"Abdullahi is my son," Sidik Yusuf says. "Now is 18 years and a half almost started 18. He come to this country when he was three years old and finished his education until the 12th grade."

He talked about how good Abdullahi was at math, how he played football on the high school team. How worried he became when his tall, skinny son was tackled.

"He doesn't have much muscles," he explained.

Sidik Yusuf didn't want to talk directly about his son's case, but said his family wasn't the only family dealing with young men stolen by ISIS.

"I think any parent can understand — who have a child or raised a child — knows what's the value of the children," Sidik Yusuf said. "Of course it is heartbreaking. That's the thing anybody can understand."

Six people from the Twin Cities, including Sidik Yusuf's son, have been charged in the ongoing ISIS investigation so far, with more to come: Local officials expect another three to five arrests in the next few weeks.



In the video with this next story, the opening clips include video of the praying-in-different-directions (without comment of course); looks like they're doing it on cue for the camera.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/08/29/islamic-state-minneapolis-recruiting/14794307/

FBI probes Islamic State recruiting in Minneapolis

The FBI's Minneapolis bureau is looking into reports that a second American citizen from the area was killed fighting with the Islamic State as it works to find out whether the group is actively recruiting Muslims in the Twin Cities region.

"That's something we are looking into," Kyle Loven, division counsel for the FBI in Minneapolis, said

[. . .]

The FBI is also urgently trying to determine if there are Islamic State members on the ground in Minneapolis seeking to recruit men to join the militants in Iraq and Syria.

"If there are (recruiters) on the ground here ... we want to hold these people to account," Loven said.

[blah blah blah cont'd at link]



There are similar recruitment stories out of NYC, are there others? Surely they can trace some of the funders, are they even trying?
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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby Elvis » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:31 pm

Breadcrumb?

BBC radio just now interviewed a man who managed to speak by phone with a prisoner of ISIS in Syria; the captive told the man that their ISIS captors spoke to one another in a language he didn't recognize -- but that it was not Arabic, not Kurdish, not English, not Syriac. I'm quite curious what language it was, apparently no audio was recorded.

I caught the segment in passing as I was puttering around my place, so I looked on the BBC site for more; this seems to be the story, but no mention of the language spoken by the captors:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31601451
Islamic State (IS) has abducted dozens of Assyrian Christians from villages in north-eastern Syria, activists say



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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby psynapz » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:14 pm

Setting the whole atrocity-machine aspect aside just a moment, and with great respect to their victims past and future, it's kind of too bad that they're organized to the point of planned obsolescence, because considering the reaction to Palestine, it would be fucking funny as hell to see IS come up for vote for a seat at the UN in a couple years. The looks on their faces. Oh man.

Back to reality; from the sound of the spending projections, the MIC stands to profit from this aggressive metastases rather immeasurably. USUKIsrael do too. Makes sense they're getting all the help they need to accomplish the goals of these stakeholders of near-limitless resources. Makes sense we'd get stuck with the bill for 16k wholly-ineffective bombing sorties with largely unfalsifiable targets using tremendously-expensive smart-bombs against an enemy our government created, trained and supported on-record (at the least).

I mean, the shit was happening anyway, why not double-down and throw a few human energy waveguides in front of it here and there to meet the needs of the petrodollar economy and the Zionist apartheid while they're at it, right? Atrocities sure love other atrocities.
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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby AlicetheKurious » Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:17 am

I just saw the other (redundant) ISIS thread. I was skimming through it, when I came upon a gem: a link to a 2002 Haaretz article buried in a post by conniption. The article spells out the Israeli message to Europe in a very high-level meeting with NATO and British intelligence, nearly 13 years ago: annihilate Israel's targets (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya and the Palestinian Authority). Neutralize "the Muslim minorities who are multiplying and becoming more powerful in your countries." Naturally, such messages had to convincingly frame Israel's targets as an imminent threat to Americans and Europeans so they would willingly go along with the Zionists' crazy wish-list. The relationship between the US and the rest of NATO had begun to cool with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent reunification of Germany and the rise of the EU. The 9/11 attacks marked the beginning of a strong upsurge in the partners' ardor for each other. This article was written around 9 months before the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. You could say that it recorded the moment the new ISIS was conceived.

The cult of ISIS
A nephew of the late philosopher Isaiah Berlin and the great-grandson of a famous general from Berlin met yesterday in Brussels to discuss the common threats facing Israel, Germany and the 18 other countries that are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

By Amir Oren | Jun. 27, 2002 | 12:00 AM


A nephew of the late philosopher Isaiah Berlin and the great-grandson of a famous general from Berlin met yesterday in Brussels to discuss the common threats facing Israel, Germany and the 18 other countries that are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The great-grandson is Gebhardt von Moltke, Germany's ambassador to NATO and formerly the political deputy - a position reserved for the German representative - of the alliance's secretary-general. The nephew is Efraim Halevy, the head of the Mossad, Israel's espionage agency, or as he is usually introduced in English, the chief of the ISIS (Israel secret intelligence service). SIS is the official name of MI6, the British version of the Mossad; Halevy was born in Britain and came to Israel as a youth.

The event, an intelligence briefing by Halevy and a free conversation with the ambassadors, represented the high point of a prolonged effort led by Harry Kney-Tal, Israel's ambassador to the European Union and NATO. Kney-Tal, a former adviser on Congressional affairs in the Israeli Embassy in Washington and soon to be the head of the intelligence division in the Foreign Ministry - as deputy director-general in charge of the Center for Political Research - is a student of the school of diplomatic activity on Capitol Hill. A foreign diplomat cannot forge ties or extract information and wield influence on the Hill without working the corridors and corralling elected representatives and their aides. The Israeli foreign service used to have about a dozen diplomats of this type at any given moment, but their breed is rapidly becoming extinct. Kney-Tal, along with another graduate of service in Washington, Shimon Stein, currently Israel's ambassador to Germany, is one of the rare few who still exist.

When Kney-Tal arrived in Brussels some five years ago, at the start of his tour of duty, first as ambassador to Belgium and afterward in his present position, Israel already had an ambassador accredited to the European Union who had been serving for about two years: Efraim Halevy. Before that, when he was about 45 years old or a bit more, Halevy liked to say that Mossad personnel should retire at the age of 55; but not long after reaching that age he was appointed deputy head of the Mossad, and finally retired after holding that post for about five years.

Halevy was not among the knights of the order of Oslo, but when he was given Brussels by Yitzhak Rabin, as a token of appreciation for his state service, he enjoyed the heightened involvement of the European Union in the Middle East. At the time, the secretary-general of NATO, Willy Claes, a Belgian, instituted a dialogue between the North Atlantic alliance and the countries of the Mediterranean on subjects of mutual interest to both sides, notably the growing threat posed by fanatic Islam. Following Claes's resignation (after he was implicated in a corruption scandal), the tradition was continued by his successor, Javier Solana, who is currently in charge of security and foreign affairs in the European Union.

The ties Halevy formed in his diplomatic service proved extremely useful when he suddenly found himself back in his old stomping ground, the Mossad, this time as head of the agency. Former colleagues from his Brussels days were now directors of government offices and heads of intelligence services.

This week Halevy traveled in the opposite direction again - from the Mossad to NATO - to brief the meeting of the North Atlantic Council, which consists of the ambassadors of the alliance's 19 member-states and is chaired by the secretary-general of NATO, Britain's Lord George Robertson. A former deputy defense secretary in the British government, Robertson is an affable politician who likes to pat strangers on the shoulder as though he were looking for votes in his local riding. He was accompanied by the senior staff of the NATO Secretariat: everyone was curious. It was an important audience and the questions that were asked reflected the subjects that are worrying their superiors, and the cables they will dispatch to their governments will help hammer home Israeli messages that are both catchy and authoritative.

Kney-Tal fielded a line-up of heavyweights for the occasion, including Brigadier General Eival Giladi, head of the strategic division in the General Staff Planning Branch. Giladi, armed with the Israel Defense Forces' situation appraisal and the lessons gleaned from Operation Defensive Shield, knows that contrary to the tradition in Israel, in the international community those in uniform are supporting actors in contrast to the civilians - cabinet ministers or officials - who are cast in the starring roles.

The lead actor, Halevy, was received with the esteem reserved for heads of secret services who are fully conversant with the current policy of the leaders of the government in their capitals but do not have a political label; the "Mossad" label, though, turned out to be a valuable commodity even these days.

Halevy could not have chosen more convenient timing. Since last September 11, NATO has rallied to the aid of the Americans in their war against terrorism. In the light of the presence of millions of Muslims on the continent and the proximity of fragile countries on the other side of the Mediterranean, Halevy had the rapt attention of the leaders of Europe and of their intelligence chiefs. Against the background of President George Bush's speech this week outlining U.S. Middle East policy, which adopted emphases voiced by Halevy and by Israel's chief of staff-designate, Major General Moshe Ya'alon, during recent visits to Washington, the lecture delivered by the head of the Mossad came across not as an independent stance being taken by Israel but as a draft for a joint U.S.-Israeli policy, or at least Pentagon-IDF-Mossad approach. More than an achievement for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon - Bush went along with him for much of the way but departed from his policy long before the final station - it was a victory for a line that is identified, in shades of a similar albeit not identical cast - with Ya'alon, Halevy and others at the top of the Israeli intelligence and defense-security pyramid.

In his briefing to NATO on Wednesday, Halevy chose to emphasize the positive side of the unity of the goal between Israel, the Arab regimes and the member-states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: All of them are targets of terrorism and all of them should have the common goal of eradicating terrorism. Terrorism and weapons of mass destruction - Iraqi, Iranian, Syrian, Libyan - in the form of missiles that have, or will have, a range enabling them to strike Europe and America. If you don't provide assistance now - assistance in the intelligence realm as well as political, legal and military help - to put a stop to the trend of suicide bombing attacks, Halevy asserted, if you don't join in a bitter war against the organizations and their sponsor states, and against the "authorities" (meaning the Palestinian Authority), you will face a tidal wave of lethal terrorism with your backs to the Muslim minorities who are multiplying and becoming more powerful in your countries. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/fe ... is-1.41131
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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:47 am

Black Agenda Report

The U.S. Empire and ISIS: A Tale of Two Death Cults

Submitted by Glen Ford on Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:17

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

As U.S. imperialism loses its capacity to compete outside the military sphere, its foreign policy options shrink, accordingly. “Since the U.S. is superior to the rest of the world ONLY in military terms, Washington finds its ultimate advantage in turning the whole world into a battlefield.” Permanent War follows the same logic as a death cult. In fact, one created the other – literally.
The U.S. Empire and ISIS: A Tale of Two Death Cults


“Obama is a flame-thrower, a fire-spitter, a pyromaniac on a mission to incinerate humanity’s capacity to resist – a vision shared by the jihadist death cults.”

President Obama is a master of military supply and demand. His operatives and allies supply jihadists with enough weapons, financing and, in the case of Libya, a Euro-American air force, to plunge vast tracts of Africa and Asia into bloody chaos, thus creating a demand for intervention by the planet’s only “indispensable” nation: the United States. It’s a diabolical formula for fomenting hell on earth, driven by a simple logic: Since the U.S. is superior to the rest of the world ONLY in military terms, Washington finds its ultimate advantage in turning the whole world into a battlefield. U.S. imperialism in terminal decay sees no salvation except through global war.
Of necessity, Obama is a flame-thrower, a fire-spitter, a pyromaniac on a mission to incinerate humanity’s capacity to resist – a vision shared by the jihadist death cults America has incubated for the past four decades.
ISIS, the Islamic State, begat by Al Qaida, which was begat by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the U.S. in Afghanistan, now declares sovereignty over portions of Libya, having occupied much of Syria and Iraq and planted the black flag in southern Yemen and the suburbs of Paris, where its token presence is enough to drive millions of Europeans into a decrepit Crusader palsy. A subcontinent of thieves who have plundered the planet for half a millennia vow to send the dark Others back to “their own countries” – as if Europe had not stolen these African and Asian homelands long ago. In the end, however, what Europe will send is more weapons to the jihadists, mimicking Uncle Sam.
“Boko Haram has proven quite useful to the consolidation of U.S. military dominance in West Africa.”

This week, as happens every year, France, Britain, Italy and other piratical European states join the U.S. Africa Command’s military Flintlock exercise, designed to deepen African militaries’ dependence on western weaponry, training and finance. Chad, a client state of both Washington and Paris, is the nominal host of the exercise – as if any of the African participants could actually say No to an imperial proposal. The Flintlock maneuvers have converged with a regional military offensive against Boko Haram, the northern Nigerian jihadists that have gained so much ground since the U.S. and NATO turned Libya over to the tender mercies of Arab jihadists, in 2011. Libyan weapons flooded south across the Sahara desert, bringing instability to the vast Sahel region – which is like honey to the Pentagon bee. The U.S. military has announced that it will “share communications equipment and intelligence” with the five nations preparing to battle Boko Haram around oil-rich Lake Chad – imperial double-speak for putting the Americans in charge of the command-and-control mechanisms of the armies of Chad, Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Benin. Boko Haram has proven quite useful to the consolidation of U.S. military dominance in West Africa.
Meanwhile, the jihadist rampage has come full circle in Libya, where both ISIS and Al Qaida have multiple strongholds. Jihadist “ultras” are most deeply entrenched in Derna, a port city east of Benghazi that accounted for the most jihadists killed or captured in Iraq during the American occupation. When U.S. and NATO finally destroyed Muammar Gaddafi’s forces after seven months of bombing, hundreds of jihadists were sent to Syria, hoping to repeat the process against President Bashar al-Assad. Many have since returned to Libya, bringing the black flag of the Islamic State with them.
“Libyan weapons flooded south across the Sahara desert, bringing instability to the vast Sahel region – which is like honey to the Pentagon bee.”

Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a supporter of one of three rump “governments” in Libya, bombed ISIS targets in Derna after the decapitation of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian migrant workers. The atrocity, combined with a declaration of allegiance to ISIS by some Islamic rebels on Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, prompted el-Sisi to call for the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS to put Libya on its bombing list – an invitation from the world’s most populous Arab nation for the U.S. to extend the scope of its military operations to Egypt’s western border.
Jihad is truly a blessing for U.S. imperial objectives – but there is nothing coincidental about it. The U.S. installed jihadists in power in Libya, leading directly to the destabilization of vast lands to the South, which in turn facilitated the U.S. Africa Command’s mission to militarily dominate the continent. The U.S.-led jihadist proxy war against secular Syria was the incubator for ISIS, providing the U.S. with a new portal into Iraq, an excuse to operate openly in Syria, and now a possible chance to re-enter Libya cloaked as a savior from the jihadist hordes that the U.S. armed, financed and empowered only four years ago.
ISIS has been such a boon to U.S. war-fomenting strategy, Obama has been emboldened to demand that Congress give him three years of virtually unlimited, renewable powers to reboot the War on Terror. Like George Bush before him, Obama refuses to put geographic limits on the scope of his crusade against ISIS and its “associates.” The world is his live-fire chessboard, he can call the pieces by whatever name he wants, and make up the rules along the way. Every move is calculated to lead to greater militarization of relations among nations and peoples, because the military is America’s strongest suit – in fact, its only suit.
The truth is, the rulers of the United States are as much a death cult as the Islamic State, although U.S. imperialism is infinitely more dangerous. Let us do our best to send them both to their respective Paradises.
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They could still get him out of office.
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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby Nordic » Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:12 pm

Would love to find a second, corroborating source for this.

http://www.hangthebankers.com/iraqi-arm ... s-to-isis/

Iraqi army downs 2 UK planes delivering weapons to ISIS


Iraq‘s army has shot down two British planes as they were carrying weapons for the ISIS terrorists in Al-Anbar province, a senior lawmaker disclosed on Monday.
“The Iraqi Parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee has access to the photos of both planes that are British and have crashed while they were carrying weapons for the ISIS,” Head of the committee Hakem al-Zameli said, according to a Monday report of the Arabic-language information center of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.

He said the Iraqi parliament has asked London for explanations in this regard.

The senior Iraqi legislator further unveiled that the government in Baghdad is receiving daily reports from people and security forces in al-Anbar province on numerous flights by the US-led coalition planes that airdrop weapons and supplies for ISIS in terrorist-held areas.

The Iraqi lawmaker further noted the cause of such western aids to the terrorist group, and explained that the US prefers a chaotic situation in Anbar Province which is near the cities of Karbala and Baghdad as it does not want the ISIS crisis to come to an end.

Weapon drop from plane

Earlier today, a senior Iraqi provincial official lashed out at the western countries and their regional allies for supporting Takfiri terrorists in Iraq, revealing that US and Israeli-made weapons have been discovered from the areas purged of ISIS terrorists.

“We have discovered weapons made in the US, European countries and Israel from the areas liberated from ISIS’s control in Al-Baqdadi region,” the Al-Ahad news website quoted Head of Al-Anbar Provincial Council Khalaf Tarmouz as saying.

He noted that the weapons made by the European countries and Israel were discovered from the terrorists in the Eastern parts of the city of Ramadi.

Al-Zameli had also disclosed in January that the anti-ISIS coalition’s planes have dropped weapons and foodstuff for the ISIS in Salahuddin, Al-Anbar and Diyala provinces.

Al-Zameli underlined that the coalition is the main cause of ISIS’s survival in Iraq.

“There are proofs and evidence for the US-led coalition’s military aid to ISIS terrorists through air(dropped cargoes),” he told FNA in January.

He noted that the members of his committee have already proved that the US planes have dropped advanced weaponry, including anti-aircraft weapons, for the ISIS, and that it has set up an investigation committee to probe into the matter.

“The US drops weapons for the ISIS on the excuse of not knowing about the whereabouts of the ISIS positions and it is trying to distort the reality with its allegations.

He noted that the committee had collected the data and the evidence provided by eyewitnesses, including Iraqi army officers and the popular forces, and said, “These documents are given to the investigation committee … and the necessary measures will be taken to protect the Iraqi airspace.”

Also in January, another senior Iraqi legislator reiterated that the US-led coalition is the main cause of ISIS’s survival in Iraq.

“The international coalition is only an excuse for protecting the ISIS and helping the terrorist group with equipment and weapons,” Jome Divan, who is member of the al-Sadr bloc in the Iraqi parliament, said.

He said the coalition’s support for the ISIS is now evident to everyone, and continued, “The coalition has not targeted ISIS’s main positions in Iraq.”

In late December, Iraqi Parliamentary Security and Defense Commission MP disclosed that a US plane supplied the ISIS terrorist organization with arms and ammunition in Salahuddin province.

ISIS US weapons air drop

MP Majid al-Gharawi stated that the available information pointed out that US planes are supplying ISIS organization, not only in Salahuddin province, but also other provinces, Iraq TradeLink reported.

He added that the US and the international coalition are “not serious in fighting against the ISIS organization, because they have the technological power to determine the presence of ISIS gunmen and destroy them in one month”.

Gharawi added that “the US is trying to expand the time of the war against the ISIS to get guarantees from the Iraqi government to have its bases in Mosul and Anbar provinces.”

Salahuddin security commission also disclosed that “unknown planes threw arms and ammunition to the ISIS gunmen Southeast of Tikrit city”.

Also in Late December, a senior Iraqi lawmaker raised doubts about the seriousness of the anti-ISIS coalition led by the US, and said that the terrorist group still received aids dropped by unidentified aircraft.

“The international coalition is not serious about air strikes on ISIS terrorists and is even seeking to take out the popular (voluntary) forces from the battlefield against the Takfiris so that the problem with ISIS remains unsolved in the near future,” Nahlah al-Hababi told FNA.

“The ISIS terrorists are still receiving aids from unidentified fighter jets in Iraq and Syria,” she added.

Hababi said that the coalition’s precise airstrikes are launched only in those areas where the Kurdish Pishmarga forces are present, while military strikes in other regions are not so much precise.

In late December, the US-led coalition dropped aids to the Takfiri militants in an area North of Baghdad.

Field sources in Iraq told al-Manar that the international coalition airplanes dropped aids to the terrorist militants in Balad, an area which lies in Salahuddin province North of Baghdad.

In October, a high-ranking Iranian commander also slammed the US for providing aid supplies to ISIS, adding that the US claims that the weapons were mistakenly airdropped to ISIS were untrue.

“The US and the so-called anti-ISIS coalition claim that they have launched a campaign against this terrorist and criminal group – while supplying them with weapons, food and medicine in Jalawla region (a town in Diyala Governorate, Iraq). This explicitly displays the falsity of the coalition’s and the US’ claims,” Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri said.

The US claimed that it had airdropped weapons and medical aid to Kurdish fighters confronting the ISIS in Kobani, near the Turkish border in Northern Syria.

The US Defense Department said that it had airdropped 28 bundles of weapons and supplies, but one of them did not make it into the hands of the Kurdish fighters.

Video footage later showed that some of the weapons that the US airdropped were taken by ISIS militants.

The Iranian commander insisted that the US had the necessary intelligence about ISIS’s deployment in the region and that their claims to have mistakenly airdropped weapons to them are as unlikely as they are untrue.



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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby semper occultus » Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:32 pm

The men who smuggle the loot that funds IS

By Simon Cox
BBC, Lebanon

The trade in antiquities is one of Islamic State's main sources of funding, along with oil and kidnapping. For this reason the UN Security Council last week banned all trade in artefacts from Syria, accusing IS militants of looting cultural heritage to strengthen its ability "to organise and carry out terrorist attacks".

The BBC has been investigating the trade, and the routes from Syria through Turkey and Lebanon to Europe.

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The Smuggler

It has taken many calls and a lot of coaxing to get a man we are calling "Mohammed" to meet us. He is originally from Damascus but now plies his trade in the Bekaa valley on the border between Syria and Lebanon. He's 21 but looks much younger in his T-shirt, skinny jeans and black suede shoes. As we sit in an apartment in central Beirut I have to lean forward to hear the softly spoken young man describe how he began smuggling looted antiquities from Syria. "There's three friends in Aleppo we deal with, these people move from Aleppo all the way to the border here and pay a taxi driver to sneak it in." He specialised in smaller items which would be easier to move on - but he says even that has become too risky. "We tried our best to get the items which had most value, earrings, rings, small statues, stone heads," he says.

He made a good profit but bigger players with better connections "sold pieces worth $500,000, some for $1m", he says. When I ask who's making the money and controlling the trade in Syria his gentle voice takes on a flinty tone: "IS are the main people doing it. They are the ones in control of this business, they stole from the museums especially in Aleppo," he says. "I know for a fact these militants had connections overseas and they talked ahead of time and they shipped overseas using their connections abroad." Mohammed is still involved in cross-border trade, but no longer in antiquities. "Anyone caught with it gets severe punishment," he says. "They accuse you of being IS."

contd....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31485439


Isis burns thousands of rare books and manuscripts from Mosul's libraries

ROSE TROUP BUCHANAN HEATHER SAUL Wednesday 25 February 2015

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 68408.html

Isis militants have reportedly ransacked Mosul library, burning over a hundred thousand rare manuscripts and documents spanning centuries of human learning.

Initial reports said approximately 8,000 books were destroyed by the extremist group.

However, AL RAI’s chief international correspondent Elijah J. Magnier told The Independent that a Mosul library official believes as many as 112, 709 manuscripts and books, some of which were registered on a UNESCO rarities list, are among those lost.

Mosul Public Library’s director Ghanim al-Ta’an said Isis militants then demolished the building using explosive devices.

“People tried to prevent the terrorist group elements from burning the library, but failed,” a local source told IraqiNews.com.

Other reports indicated that Isis militants later broke into the library and constructed a huge pyre of scientific and cultural texts as university students watched in horror.

Among the documents believed lost are a collection of Iraqi newspapers from the beginning of the 20 century, maps, books and collections from the Ottoman period.

Mosul resident Rayan al-Hadidi said a mood of sorrow and anger had overtaken the capital. "I cry today over our situation," the activist and a blogger told The Fiscal Times. Today the library's official website was down.

A University of Mosul history professor told the Associated Press extremists began destroying the library – established in 1921 and symbolic of the birth of modern Iraq – earlier this month.

He claimed Isis members had inflicted particularly severe damage to the Sunni Muslim library, the library of the 265-year-old Latin Church and Monastery of the Dominican Fathers and the Mosul Museum Library.

Reports also indicate the militants may have not destroyed all the books, with some Mosul residents telling local news outlets they had seen trucks with Syrian licence plates loaded with documents driving off in the middle of the night.

A local report cited by AP claims that residents saw approximately 2,000 books – including children’s tales, poetry, philosophy, sports, health, culture and science – loaded onto six pick-up trucks.


In 2003, during the second US invasion, Mosul library was destroyed. Many of the precious volumes disappeared, but the efforts of locals – who saved many precious manuscripts by hiding them in their homes – and the money of wealthy families, who bought back the stolen books, saved the library.
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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby 82_28 » Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:43 pm

Reports also indicate the militants may have not destroyed all the books, with some Mosul residents telling local news outlets they had seen trucks with Syrian licence plates loaded with documents driving off in the middle of the night.


Who has time for license plates when you don't need them obviously?
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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby AlicetheKurious » Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:03 pm

seemslikeadream » Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:47 pm wrote:
Black Agenda Report

The U.S. Empire and ISIS: A Tale of Two Death Cults

Submitted by Glen Ford on Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:17

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford


That was such a good article. But this part really spoiled it for me:

Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a supporter of one of three rump “governments” in Libya, bombed ISIS targets in Derna after the decapitation of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian migrant workers. The atrocity, combined with a declaration of allegiance to ISIS by some Islamic rebels on Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, prompted el-Sisi to call for the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS to put Libya on its bombing list – an invitation from the world’s most populous Arab nation for the U.S. to extend the scope of its military operations to Egypt’s western border.


Et tu, Black Agenda Report? First, we have a very popular, democratically elected president whose powers are strictly limited by our constitution, not a "dictator". Second, there is only ONE legitimate, elected government in Libya, not "three rump 'governments'", and that is the only one that Egypt recognizes, because we actually respect the will of the Libyan people.

Third, our Foreign Minister called for the US-led coalition to end the US-led arms embargo against the Libyan army which is fighting ISIS pretty much on its own, albeit with some logistics support from the Egyptian army. At a special session of the UN Security Council, the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri pointed out how odd it was that Libya's national army, who is fighting ISIS, is being prevented from purchasing the weapons and equipment it needs to fight effectively, while ISIS enjoys limitless access to (US- and Western-made) weapons.

The Egyptian government's proposal that the US bomb ISIS targets in Libya was made ironically, in order to expose the US' hypocrisy. And right on cue, the Obama administration gave us a lecture about how violence is not the answer... That sent a stronger message about what's really going on than anything Egypt could have said.
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Re: Your Take On The ISIS Phenomenon

Postby slimmouse » Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:16 pm

What a goldmine this thread has suddenly become.... Thanks for this nugget Alice

The Egyptian government's proposal that the US bomb ISIS targets in Libya was made ironically, in order to expose the US' hypocrisy. And right on cue, the Obama administration gave us a lecture about how violence is not the answer... That sent a stronger message about what's really going on than anything Egypt could have said.


How long can this farce continue?
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