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Published time: June 24, 2014 10:22
[image: Iraqi Kurdish forces take position near Taza
Khormato as they fight jihadist militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) positioned five kilometers away in Bashir, 20 kms south of
Kirkuk (AFP Photo / Karim Sahib)] Iraqi Kurdish forces take position near Taza
Khormato as they fight jihadist militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) positioned five kilometers away in Bashir, 20 kms south of
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* For days now,
since their dramatic June 10 taking of Mosul, Western mainstream media have
been filled with horror stories of the military conquests in Iraq of the
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, with the curious acronym ISIS.*
ISIS, as in the
ancient Egyptian cult of the goddess of fertility and magic. The media picture
being presented adds up less and less.
Details leaking out suggest that ISIS and the major
military *‘surge’* in Iraq - and less so in neighboring Syria *- is being
shaped and controlled out of Langley, Virginia, and other CIA and Pentagon
outposts* *as the next stage in spreading chaos in the world’s second-largest
oil state, Iraq, as well as weakening the recent Syrian stabilization efforts*.
Strange facts
*The very details of the ISIS military success in the key
Iraqi oil center, Mosul, are suspect.* According to well-informed Iraqi
journalists, ISIS overran the strategic Mosul region, site of some of the
world’s most prolific oilfields, *with barely a shot fired in resistance.*
According to one report <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/world/middleeast/iraq.html?_r=1>,
residents of Tikrit reported remarkable displays of
*“soldiers handing over their weapons and uniforms peacefully to militants who
ordinarily would have been expected to kill government soldiers on the spot.”*
*We are told that ISIS masked psychopaths captured “arms and ammunition from
the fleeing security forces” - arms and ammunition supplied by the American
government.* The offensive coincides with a successful campaign by ISIS in
eastern Syria. According to Iraqi journalists, Sunni tribal chiefs in the
region had been convinced to side with ISIS against the Shiite Al-Maliki
government in Baghdad. They were promised a better deal under ISIS Sunni Sharia
than with Baghdad anti-Sunni rule.
According to the New York Times, the mastermind behind
the ISIS military success is former Baath Party head and Saddam Hussein
successor, General Ibrahim al-Douri. Douri is reportedly the head of the Iraqi
rebel group Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order as well as the Supreme
Command for Jihad and Liberation based on his longstanding positions of
leadership in the Naqshbandi sect in Iraq.
In 2009, US *‘Iraqi surge’* General David Petraeus, at
the time heading the US Central Command, claimed to reporters that Douri was in
Syria. Iraqi parliamentarians claimed he was in Qatar.* The curious fact is
that despite being on the US most wanted list since 2003, Douri has
miraculously managed to avoid capture and now to **return*
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/world/middleeast/iraq.html?_r=1>*
with a vengeance to retake huge parts of Sunni Iraq.* Luck or well-placed
friends in Washington?
*The financial backing for ISIS jihadists reportedly also
comes from three of the closest US allies in the Sunni world—Kuwait, Qatar and
Saudi Arabia.* US passports?
*Key members of ISIS it now emerges were trained by US
CIA and Special Forces command at a secret camp in Jordan in 2012*, according
to informed Jordanian officials. The US, Turkish and Jordanian intelligence
were running a training base for the Syrian rebels in the Jordanian town of
Safawi in the country’s northern desert region, conveniently near the borders
to both Syria and Iraq. Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the two Gulf monarchies most
involved in funding the war against Syria’s Assad, financed <http://republicbroadcasting.org/blowback-u-s-trained-isis-at-secret-jordan-base/>
the Jordan ISIS training.
Advertised publicly as training of *‘non-extremist’*
Muslim jihadists to wage war against the Syrian Bashar Assad regime, the secret
US training camps in Jordan and elsewhere have trained <http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/10/us-syria-crisis-rebels-usa-idUSBRE9290FI20130310>
perhaps several thousand Muslim fighters in techniques of
irregular warfare, sabotage and general terror. The claims by Washington that
they took special care not to train *‘Salafist’* or jihadist extremists, is a
joke. How do you test if a recruit is not a jihadist? Is there a special jihad
DNA that the CIA doctors have discovered?
[image: Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL) parading with an Iraqi army vehicle in the northern city of Baiji
in the in Salaheddin province. (AFP Photo / HO / Youtube)] Militants from the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) parading with an Iraqi army vehicle
in the northern city of Baiji in the in Salaheddin province. (AFP Photo / HO /
Youtube) Jordanian government officials
are revealing the details, in fear that the same ISIS terrorists that today are
slashing heads of *‘infidels’* alongside the roadways of Mosul by the dozens,
or hundreds if we believe their own propaganda, might turn their swords towards
Jordan’s King Abdullah soon, to extend their budding Caliphate empire.
*Former US State Department official Andrew Doran
**wrote*
<http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27844749>*
in the conservative National Review* *magazine that some ISIS warriors also
hold US passports.* Now, of course that doesn’t demonstrate and support by the
Obama Administration. Hmm...
Iranian journalist Sabah Zanganeh notes
<http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27844749>,
"ISIS did not have the power to occupy and conquer Mosul by itself. What
has happened is the result of security-intelligence collaborations of some
regional countries with some extremist groups inside the Iraqi
government."
Iraq’s Chechen commander
The next bizarre part of the ISIS puzzle involves the
Jihadist credited with being the *‘military mastermind’* of the recent ISIS
victories, Tarkhan Batirashvili. If his name doesn’t sound very Arabic, it’s
because it’s not. Tarkhan Batrashvili is a Russian - actually an ethnic Chechen
from near the Chechen border to Georgia. But to give himself a more Arabic
flair, he also goes by the name Emir (what else?) Umar al Shishani. The problem
is he doesn’t look <http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mosul-siege-islamic-militants-parade-captured-us-supplied-humvees-syria-1452138>
at all Arabic. No dark swarthy black beard: rather a long
red beard, a kind of Chechen Barbarossa.
*According to a November, 2013 **report*
in The Wall Street Journal, Emir Umar or Batrashvili as
you prefer, has made the wars in Syria and Iraq “into a geopolitical struggle
between the US and Russia.”* That has been the objective of leading
neo-conservatives in the CIA, Pentagon and State Department all along. The CIA
transported hundreds of Mujahideen Saudis and other foreign veterans of the
1980s Afghan war against the Soviets in Afghanistan into Chechnya to disrupt
the struggling Russia in the early 1990s, particularly to sabotage the Russian
oil pipeline running directly from Baku on the Caspian Sea into Russia. James
Baker III and his friends in Anglo-American Big Oil had other plans. It was
called the BTC pipeline, owned by a BP-US oil consortium and running through
Tbilisi into NATO-member Turkey, free of Russian territory.
Batrashvili is not renowned for taking care. Last year he
was forced to apologize when he ordered his men to behead a wounded *‘enemy’*
soldier who turned out to be an allied rebel commander. More than 8,000 foreign
Jihadist mercenaries <http://http//online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303309504579181962177007316>
are reportedly in ISIS including at least 1,000 Chechens
as well as Jihadists Saudi, Kuwait, Egypt and reportedly Chinese Uyghur from
Xinjiang Province.
*Jeffrey Silverman, Georgia Bureau Chief for the US-based
Veterans Today
(VT) website, told me that Batrashvili “is a product of a
joint program of the US through a front NGO called Jvari, which was set up by
US Intelligence and the Georgian National Security Council, dating back to the
early days of the Pankisi Gorge.”* Jvari is the name as well of a famous
Georgian Orthodox monastery of the 6th century. According to Silverman, David
J. Smith—head of something in Tbilisi called the Georgian Foundation for Strategic
and International Studies, as well as the Potomac Institute in Washington where
he is listed as Director of the Potomac Institute Cyber Centerr—played a role
in setting up the Jvari NGO.
Silverman maintains that Jvari in Rustavi, near the
capital, Tbilisi, gathered together Afghan Mujahideen war veterans, Chechens,
Georgians and sundry Arab Jihadists. They were sent to the infamous Pankisi
Gorge region, a kind-of no-man’s lawless area, for later deployment, including
Iraq and Syria.
Batrashvili and other Georgian and Chechen
Russian-speaking Jihadists, Silverman notes, are *typically smuggled, with the
assistance of Georgia’s Counterintelligence Department and the approval of the
US embassy,* across the Georgia border to Turkey at the Vale crossing point,
near Georgia’s Akhaltsikhe and the Turkish village of Türkgözü on the Turkish
side of the Georgian border. From there it’s very little problem getting them
through Turkey to either Mosul in Iraq or northeast Syria.
Silverman *believes that events in Northern Iraq relate
to “wanting to have a Kurdish Republic separate from the Central government and
this is all part of the New Great Game. It will serve US interests in both
Turkey and Iraq, not to mention Syria.”* Very revealing is the fact that almost
two weeks after the dramatic fall of Mosul and the *‘capture’* by ISIS forces
of the huge weapons and military vehicle resources provided by the US to the
Iraqi army. Washington has done virtually nothing but make a few silly speeches
about their *‘concern’* and dispatch 275 US special forces to allegedly protect
US personnel in Iraq.
Whatever the final details that emerge, what is clear in
the days since the fall of Mosul is that some of the world’s largest oilfields
in Iraq are suddenly held by Jihadists and *no longer by an Iraqi government
determined to increase the oil export significantly.* More on this aspect in an
upcoming article.
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