First published in May 2015, this article reveals not only that the ISIS is a creation of US intelligence, it also confirms that the Caliphate Project was designed in Washington.
See Screenshots Below from the title page as well as excerpts:
“… there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist Principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime …. ” (Washington Blog, see below)
October 26, 2019
Judicial Watch has – for many years – obtained sensitive U.S. government documents through freedom of information requests and lawsuits.
The government just produced documents to Judicial Watch in response to a freedom of information suit which show that the West has long supported ISIS. The documents were written by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency on August 12, 2012 … years before ISIS burst onto the world stage.
Here are screenshots from the documents. We have highlighted the relevant parts in yellow:
Why is this important? It shows that extreme Muslim terrorists – salafists, Muslims Brotherhood, and AQI (i.e. Al Qaeda in Iraq) – have always been the “major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.”
… there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist Principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime ….
In other words, the powers supporting the Syrian opposition – the West, our Gulf allies, and Turkey wantedan Islamic caliphate in order to challenge Syrian president Assad.
But the declassified DIA documents show that the U.S. and the West supported ISIS at its inception … as a way to isolate the Syrian government. And see this.
This is a big deal. A former British Army and Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism intelligence officer and a former MI5 officer confirm that the newly-released documents are a smoking gun.
First published in May 2015, this article reveals not only that the ISIS is a creation of US intelligence, it also confirms that the Caliphate Project was designed in Washington.
See Screenshots Below from the title page as well as excerpts:
“… there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist Principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime …. ” (Washington Blog, see below)
March 13, 2016
Judicial Watch has – for many years – obtained sensitive U.S. government documents through freedom of information requests and lawsuits.
The government just produced documents to Judicial Watch in response to a freedom of information suit which show that the West has long supported ISIS. The documents were written by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency on August 12, 2012 … years before ISIS burst onto the world stage.
Here are screenshots from the documents. We have highlighted the relevant parts in yellow:
Why is this important? It shows that extreme Muslim terrorists – salafists, Muslims Brotherhood, and AQI (i.e. Al Qaeda in Iraq) – have always been the “major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.”
… there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist Principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime ….
In other words, the powers supporting the Syrian opposition – the West, our Gulf allies, and Turkey wantedan Islamic caliphate in order to challenge Syrian president Assad.
But the declassified DIA documents show that the U.S. and the West supported ISIS at its inception … as a way to isolate the Syrian government. And see this.
This is a big deal. A former British Army and Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism intelligence officer and a former MI5 officer confirm that the newly-released documents are a smoking gun.
The speeches delivered during the general discussion at this session of the UN General Assembly confirm the fact that international relations are going through a very complex and contradictory historical stage.
Today, we are witnesses to a collision of two opposing trends. On the one hand, the polycentric principles of the world order are growing stronger and new economic growth centres are taking shape. We can see nations striving to preserve their sovereignty and to choose the development models that are consistent with their ethnic, cultural and religious identity. On the other hand, we see the desire of a number of Western states to retain their self-proclaimed status as “world leaders” and to slow down the irreversible move toward multipolarity that is objectively taking place. To this end, anything goes, up to and including political blackmail, economic pressure and brute force.
Such illegal actions devalue international law, which lies at the foundation of the postwar world order. We hear loud statements not only calling into question the legal force of international treaties, but asserting the priority of self-serving unilateral approaches over resolutions adopted by the UN.
We are witnessing the rise of militant revisionism with regard to the modern international legal system. The basic principles of the Middle East settlement process, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear programme, commitments under the World Trade Organisation, the multilateral climate agreement, and much more are under attack.
Our Western colleagues seek to replace the rule of law in international affairs with some “rules-based order.” These rules, which are made up as political expediency dictates, are a clear case of double standards. Unjustified accusations of interference in the domestic affairs of particular countries are made while simultaneously engaging in an open campaign to undermine and topple democratically elected governments. They seek to draw certain countries into military alliances built to suit their own needs, against the will of the people of those countries, while threatening other states with punishment for exercising freedom of choice in their partners and allies.
The aggressive attacks on international institutions are accompanied by attempts to “privatise” their secretarial structures and grant them the rights of intergovernmental bodies so that they can be manipulated.
The shrinking space for constructive international cooperation, the escalation of confrontation, the rise in general unpredictability, and the significant increase in the risk of spontaneous conflicts – all have an impact on the activities of this world organisation.
The international community has to pay a high price for the selfish ambitions of a narrow group of countries. Collective mechanisms of responding to common security challenges are faltering. Diplomacy, negotiation and compromise are being replaced with dictates and unilateral exterritorial sanctions enacted without the consent of the UN Security Council. Such measures that already affect dozens of countries are not only illegal but also ineffective, as demonstrated by the more than half-century US embargo of Cuba that is denounced by the entire international community.
But history does not teach the same lesson twice. Attempts to pass verdicts without trial or investigation continue unabated. Some of our Western colleagues who want to assign blame are content to rely on assertions in the vein of the notorious “highly likely.” We have already been through this. We remember well how many times false pretexts were used to justify interventions and wars, like in Yugoslavia in 1999, Iraq in 2003 and Libya in 2011.
Now the same methods are being used against Syria. On April 14, it was subjected to missile strikes carried out under an absolutely falsified pretext, several hours before international inspectors were supposed to arrive at the site of the staged incident. Let the terrorists and their patrons be warned that any further provocations involving the use of chemical weapons would be unacceptable.
The conflict in Syria has already lasted for seven years. The failed attempt to use extremists to change the regime from the outside nearly led to the country’s collapse and the emergence of a terrorist caliphate in its place.
Russia’s bold action in response to the request of the Syrian Government, backed diplomatically by the Astana process, helped prevent this destructive scenario. The Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Sochi, initiated by Russia, Iran and Turkey last January, created the conditions for a political settlement in line with UN Security Council Resolution 2254. The intra-Syrian Constitutional Committee is being established in Geneva on precisely this basis. Rebuilding ruined infrastructure to enable millions of refugees to return home as soon as possible is on the agenda. Assistance in resolving these challenges for the benefit of all Syrians, without any double standards, should become a priority for international efforts and the activities of UN agencies.
For all the challenges posed by Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, it would be unacceptable to ignore the protracted Palestinian problem. Its fair resolution is critical to improving the situation in the entire Middle East. I would like to warn politicians against unilateral approaches and attempts to monopolise the peace process. Today, the consolidation of international efforts in the interests of resuming talks on the basis of UN resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative is more in demand than ever before. We are doing everything to facilitate this, including in the format of the Middle East Quartet and in cooperation with the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Mutually acceptable agreements should ensure the peaceful and safe co-existence of the two states – Israel and Palestine.
Here in the UN that was built on the lessons of World War II we are all obliged to think about the future and not repeating the mistakes of the past. This year is the 80th anniversary of the Munich conspiracy that crowned the criminal appeasement of the Third Reich and serves as a sad example of the disastrous consequences that can result from national egotism, disregard for international law and seeking solutions at the expense of others.
Regrettably, today in many countries the anti-Nazi vaccine has not only weakened, there is a growing campaign to rewrite history and whitewash war criminals and their accomplices. We consider sacrilegious the struggle against monuments to the liberators of Europe, which is going on in some countries. We are calling on UN members to support a draft resolution of the UN General Assembly denouncing the glorification of Nazis.
The growth of radical nationalism and neo-Nazism in Ukraine, where criminals who fought under SS banners are glorified as heroes, is one of the main factors of the protracted domestic conflict in Ukraine. The only way to end it is consistent and faithful implementation of the Minsk Package of Measures that was unanimously approved by the UN Security Council. We support the activities of the OSCE mission in Ukraine and are ready to provide UN protection for its members. However, instead of fulfilling the Minsk agreements and engaging in dialogue with Donetsk and Lugansk, Kiev still entertains the illusion of introducing an occupying force in Donbass, with the support from the West, and increasingly threatens its opponents with scenarios based on force. The patrons of the current Ukrainian authorities should compel them to think straight and end the blockade of Donbass and discrimination against national minorities throughout Ukraine.
In Kosovo, the international military presence under UN Security Council mandate is morphing into a US base. Kosovo armed forces are being created, while agreements reached by Belgrade and Pristina with EU mediation are being disregarded. Russia calls on the sides to engage in dialogue in accordance with UNSC Resolution 1244 and will support any solution which is acceptable to Serbia.
In general, we are against turning the Balkans once again into an arena of confrontation or anyone claiming it as a foothold, against forcing the people of the Balkan nations to make a false choice or creating new dividing lines in the region.
An equal and undivided security architecture also needs to be created in other parts of the world, including the Asia Pacific Region. We welcome the positive developments around the Korean Peninsula, which are following the logic of the Russian-Chinese roadmap. It is important to encourage the process with further steps by both sides toward a middle ground and incentivise the practical realisation of important agreements between Pyongyang and Seoul through the Security Council. We will keep working to put in place a multilateral process as soon as possible, so that we can build a durable mechanism of peace and security in Northeast Asia.
Denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula is among the challenges facing the world community in the key area of international security – the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Unfortunately, serious obstacles continue to pile up on that road. Lack of progress in ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and in establishing a WMD-free zone in the Middle East has been compounded by the unilateral US withdrawal from the JCPOA in violation of Resolution 2231, despite the fact that Iran is fully in compliance. We will do everything to preserve the UNSC-approved deal.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is being pushed in an increasingly negative direction as the West attempts to turn its Technical Secretariat into a tool for punishing undesirable governments. This threatens to undermine the independent professional status of that organisation and the universal nature of the CWC, as well as the exclusive prerogative of the UN Security Council.
These and other issues related to non-proliferation were discussed in detail at the September 26 Security Council meeting, convened by the US chair not a moment too soon.
We are convinced that any problems and concerns in international affairs should be addressed through substantive dialogue. If there are questions or criticisms, what is needed is to sit down and talk, produce facts, listen to opposing arguments, and seek to find a balance of interests.
To be continued…
The Essential Saker II: Civilizational Choices and Geopolitics / The Russian challenge to the hegemony of the AngloZionist Empire
This article was first published by Global Research in July 2014
The Al Qaeda legend and the threat of the “Outside Enemy” is sustained through extensive media and government propaganda.
In the post 9/11 era, the terrorist threat from Al Qaeda constitutes the building block of US-NATO military doctrine. It justifies –under a humanitarian mandate– the conduct of “counter-terrorism operations” Worldwide.
Known and documented, Al Qaeda affiliated entities have been used by US-NATO in numerous conflicts as “intelligence assets” since the heyday of the Soviet-Afghan war. In Syria, the Al Nusrah and ISIS rebels are the foot-soldiers of the Western military alliance, which in turn oversees and controls the recruitment and training of paramilitary forces.
While the US State Department is accusing several countries of “harboring terrorists”, America is the Number One“State Sponsor of Terrorism”: The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) –which operates in both Syria and Iraq– is covertly supported and financed by the US and its allies including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Moreover, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham’s Sunni caliphate project coincides with a longstanding US agenda to carve up both Iraq and Syria into separate territories: A Sunni Islamist Caliphate, an Arab Shia Republic, a Republic of Kurdistan, among others.
The US-led Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) constitutes the cornerstone of US military doctrine. “Going after Islamic terrorists” is part and parcel of non-conventional warfare. The underlying objective is to justify the conduct of counter-terrorism operations Worldwide, which enables the US and its allies to intervene in the affairs of sovereign countries.
Many progressive writers, including alternative media, while focusing on recent developments in Iraq, fail to understand the logic behind the “Global War on Terrorism.” The Islamic State of Iraq and Al Cham (ISIS) is often considered as an “independent entity” rather than an instrument of the Western military alliance. Moreover, many committed anti-war activists –who oppose the tenets of the US-NATO military agenda– will nonetheless endorse Washington’s counter-terrorism agenda directed against Al Qaeda:. The Worldwide terrorist threat is considered to be “real”: “We are against the war, but we support the Global War on Terrorism”.
The Caliphate Project and The US National Intelligence Council Report
A new gush of propaganda has been set in motion. The leader of the now defunct Islamic State of Iraq and Al Cham (ISIS) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced on June 29, 2014 the creation of an Islamic State:
Fighters loyal to the group’s proclaimed “Caliph Ibrahim ibn Awwad”, or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as he was known until Sunday’s July 1st announcement, are inspired by the Rashidun caliphate, which succeeded the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century, and is revered by most Muslims.” (Daily Telegraph, June 30, 2014)
In a bitter irony, the caliphate project as an instrument of propaganda has been on the drawing board of US intelligence for more than ten years. In December 2004, under the Bush Administration, the National Intelligence Council (NIC) predicted that in the year 2020 a New Caliphate extending from the Western Mediterranean to Central Asia and South East Asia would emerge, threatening Western democracy and Western values.
The “findings” of the National Intelligence Council were published in a 123 page unclassified report entitled “Mapping the Global Future”.
“A New Caliphate provides an example of how a global movement fueled by radical religious identity politics could constitute a challenge to Western norms and values as the foundation of the global system” (emphasis added)
The NIC 2004 report borders on ridicule; it is devoid of intelligence, let alone historical and geopolitical analysis. Its fake narrative pertaining to the caliphate, nonetheless, bears a canny resemblance to the June 29, 2014 highly publicized PR announcement of the creation of the Caliphate by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The NIC report presents a so-called “fictional scenario of a letter from a fictional grandson of Bin Ladin to a family relative in 2020.” It is on this basis that it makes predictions for the year 2020. Based on an invented bin Laden grandson letter narrative rather than on intelligence and empirical analysis, the US intelligence community concludes that the caliphate constitutes a real danger for the Western World and Western civilization.
From a propaganda standpoint, the objective underlying the Caliphate project –as described by the NIC– is to demonize Muslims with a view to justifying a military crusade:
“The fictional scenario portrayed below provides an example of how a global movement fueled by radical religious identity could emerge.
Under this scenario, a new Caliphate is proclaimed and manages to advance a powerful counter ideology that has widespread appeal.
It is depicted in the form of a hypothetical letter from a fictional grandson of Bin Ladin to a family relative in 2020.
He recounts the struggles of the Caliph in trying to wrest control from traditional regimes and the conflict and confusion which ensue both within the Muslim world and outside between Muslims and the United States, Europe, Russia and China. While the Caliph’s success in mobilizing support varies, places far outside the Muslim core in the Middle East—in Africa and Asia—are convulsed as a result of his appeals.
The scenario ends before the Caliph is able to establish both spiritual and temporal authority over a territory— which historically has been the case for previous Caliphates. At the end of the scenario, we identify lessons to be drawn.”(“Mapping the Global Future”. p. 83)
page 90 of the report
This “authoritative” NIC “Mapping the Global Future” report was not only presented to the White House, the Congress and the Pentagon, it was also dispatched to America’s allies. The “threat emanating from the Muslim World” referred to in the NIC report (including the section on the caliphate project) is firmly entrenched in US-NATO military doctrine.
The NIC document was intended to be read by top officials. Broadly speaking it was part of the “Top official” (TOPOFF) propaganda campaign which targets senior foreign policy and military decision-makers, not to mention scholars, researchers and NGO “activists”. The objective is to ensure that “top officials” continue to believe that Islamic terrorists are threatening the security of the Western World.
The underpinnings of the caliphate scenario is the “Clash of Civilizations”, which provides a justification in the eyes of public opinion for America to intervene Worldwide as part of a global counter- terrorism agenda.
From a geopolitical and geographic standpoint, the caliphate constitutes a broad area in which the US is seeking to extend its economic and strategic influence. In the words of Dick Cheney pertaining to the 2004 NIC’s report:
“They talk about wanting to re-establish what you could refer to as the Seventh Century Caliphate. This was the world as it was organized 1,200, 1,300 years, in effect, when Islam or Islamic people controlled everything from Portugal and Spain in the West;all through the Mediterranean to North Africa; all of North Africa; the Middle East; up into the Balkans; the Central Asian republics; the southern tip of Russia; a good swath of India; and on around to modern day Indonesia. In one sense from Bali and Jakarta on one end, to Madrid on the other.” Dick Cheney (emphasis added)
What Cheney is describing in today’s context is a broad region extending from the Mediterranean to Central Asia and South East Asia in which the US and its allies are directly involved in a variety of military and intelligence operations.
The stated aim of the NIC report was “to prepare the next Bush administration for challenges that lie ahead by projecting current trends that may pose a threat to US interests”.
The NIC intelligence document was based, lest we forget, on “a hypothetical letter from a fictional grandson of Bin Ladin to a [fictional] family relative in [the year] 2020”. “The Lessons Learnt” as outlined in this “authoritative’ NIC intelligence document are as follows:
the caliphate project “constitutes a serious challenge to the international order”.
“The IT revolution is likely to amplify the clash between Western and Muslim worlds…”
The document refers to the appeal of the caliphate to Muslims and concludes that:
“the proclamation of the Caliphate would not lessen the likelihood of terrorism and in fomenting more conflict”. [sic]
The NIC’s analysis suggests that the proclamation of a caliphate will generate a new wave of terrorism emanating from Muslim countries thereby justifying an escalation in America’s Global War on Terrorism (GWOT):
the proclamation of the caliphate … could fuel a new generation of terrorists intent on attacking those opposed to the caliphate, whether inside or outside the Muslim World.” (emphasis added)
What the NIC report fails to mention is that US intelligence in liaison with Britain’s MI6 and Israel’s Mossad are covertly involved in supporting both the terrorists and the caliphate project.
In turn, the media has embarked on a new wave of lies and fabrications, focusing on “a new terrorist threat” emanating not only from the Muslim World, but from “home grown Islamist terrorists” in Europe and North America.
The original source of this article is Global Research
The Syrian Army and its allies have been attempting to capture the Abu Khashbah area in the eastern Damascus desert.
On Wednesday, government troops advanced in the area south of Ar-Ruhba in order to close and encircle the area controlled by US-backed militants south of the al-Seen military airbase.
If government troops liberate the Abu Khashbah area and clear the militant pocket west of it, they will significantly shorten the frontline in southeastern Syria and make another important step in the isolation of US-held garrisons at the border with Iraq.
There is no evidence that ISIS Top Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive, according to US Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend who currently commands the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve. However, Townsend said that he cannot confirm that the top ISIS member is dead. Since June, reports have been circulating that al-Baghadi was killed in a Russian air strike on an ISIS command post in the province of Raqqah in May. Earlier this week, the Al Sumaria TV channel reported, citing its own source in Iraq, that ISIS had released an internal statement confirming the death of al-Baghdadi.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have repelled ISIS counter-attacks in the eastern and western parts of the city of Raqqah.
The SDF found 3 tunnels and 4 VBIEDs abandoned by ISIS members and destroyed at least 3 vehicles.
Intense fighting continued in Old Raqqah as the SDF attempted to develop momentum in the area. However, US-backed fighters have not been able to break ISIS defense lines.
The SDF faces especially fierce resistance by ISIS in the Diriyah area.
US-led coalition airpower destroyed a part of the Abbasi Historic Wall in the Old Raqqa area, according to local sources. The site was a part of the ISIS defense.
The US-backed Jaysh Maghawir Al-Thawra militant group operating in southeastern Syria has refused to work alongside another US-backed faction – the SDF, according to pro-militant sources. Jaysh Maghawir Al-Thawra has allegedly denied that it intends to redeploy to the Shadadi area in the northern Syrian province of Hasaka and to participate alongside the SDF in the expected US-backed advance on Deir Ezzor.
Earlier this month, reports appeared that the US is going to build a military garrison at Shadadi with the aim to use it as a foothold for the anti-ISIS operation in the province of Deir Ezzor.
Hopeful onlookers should recall how Bin Laden’s death was followed by the expansion of terrorism, not its defeat.
July 11, 2017 (Tony Cartalucci – LD) – Reports have once again emerged that the supposed leader of the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed – possibly in a recent Russian airstrike in Syria.
News confirming the death of Baghdadi, would appear to have significant implications regarding the terrorist organization and its now global-spanning operations stretching from North Africa, across the Middle East and Central Asia, and even reaching into Southeast Asia as ISIS-linked militants continue to occupy a city in the south of the Philippines.
However, beyond the possibility of undermining the US rationale for maintaining a significant and growing military presence across regions of the planet inflicted with ISIS operations, Baghdadi’s death would have little to no impact at all on these actual operations.
ISIS is a State-Sponsored Militant Proxy – Not an Independent Organization
ISIS is first and foremost a proxy military organization, created by and for the state sponsors that fuel it politically, financially, and militarily. As revealed in a 2012 US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document (PDF), these include the United States itself, its European partners, NATO-member Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Jordan, as well as Israel.
The summation of ISIS’ fighting capacity stems from a torrent of cash, weapons, supplies, and military protection provided to the group, particularly in the establishment of safe havens within Turkey, Jordan, and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights where Syria and its allies are unable to strike.
Image: US presence in Syria is large and growing. It will only “pull the plug” on ISIS if it plans on replacing it with something more permanent. ISIS itself has many other “safe houses” worldwide to preserve itself in, courtesy of US foreign policy.
Within Syria itself, virtual safe havens have been likewise established by US and Turkish occupations, preventing Syria and its allies – including Russia and Iran – from fully rooting the organization from within Syria’s borders. On numerous occasions, Syrian forces have even come under direct US military attack while engaging ISIS militants.
Furthermore, as the US footprint in Syria expands, its need for ISIS as a pretext to build the necessary infrastructure to encircle and pressure Damascus with wanes. Replacing ISIS with something more permanent – such as US occupied “safe zones” Syrian forces and its allies cannot attack – appears to already be underway. “Pulling the plug” on ISIS in Syria would be of paramount political convenience, allowing ISIS fighters to redeploy to other “safe houses” US foreign policy has afforded them – particularly Libya and Afghanistan.
The death of a single figurehead – under these geopolitical conditions – would have virtually no impact on the organization. Only identifying, exposing, and disrupting the state-sponsorship of ISIS would impact its activities on the ground in any of the now numerous countries it is operating.
Bin Laden’s “Death” Followed by Al Qaeda’s Renascence
In many ways, the death of Al Qaeda’s supposed leader – Osama Bin Laden – was nothing more than America’s way of closing the book of “Al Qaeda the villain” and opening another where the villainous nature of Al Qaeda could be portrayed as somewhat more ambiguous – with its activities, agenda, and motives running parallel to that of Washington and its allies – and at times – cooperating with the West.
While many believed the death of Bin Laden would be followed by the fall of Al Qaeda, today the terrorist organization has standing armies in Syria, Libya, and Iraq, with the entire northern Syrian city of Idlib under its control and sections of Libya ruled by warlords tied to the terrorist organization, thrust into power by NATO’s 2011 overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi.
There is also Al Qaeda’s lingering presence even in Afghanistan itself where the US is preparing to enter its seventeenth year of occupation allegedly aimed at preventing the Central Asian state from once again becoming a safe haven for terrorism – despite clearly being one at the moment.
ISIS Will Effortlessly Survive Baghdadi’s “Death”
The elimination of these figureheads – whether it is Baghdadi or his predecessor Bin Laden – serves only to manipulate the narratives behind which geopolitical agendas unfold. The agendas themselves, along with the wealth and power driving them, require a much more robust and practical approach to challenge, obstruct, or defeat altogether.
The process of identifying the sources of wealth and power, as well as practical alternatives that can challenge and eventually replace them upon the geopolitical gameboard are the only means of truly defeating the sort of proxy terrorism Al Qaeda and ISIS represent. Before this takes place, more immediate, but costly and uncertain military operations like those currently underway by various nations around the globe including in Syria seek to isolate and eliminate proxy terrorism within their specific borders.
Such military campaigns are not only costly, but ultimately unsustainable if the root cause of proxy terrorism and the state sponsors perpetuating and exploiting it are not ultimately dealt with. As long as the true source of ISIS’ power remains intact in Washington, London, Brussels, Ankara, Riyadh, and Doha, ISIS itself will effortlessly survive Baghdadi’s otherwise insignificant passing.
The elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard verified the death of Daesh mastermind Abu Bakr al-Bagdhadi “through multiple channels,” a representative said Thursday.
Ali Shirazi, a top Iranian cleric, told Asr-e Iran News Agency there is “no doubt” Baghdadi is deceased. Irib, Iranian media outlet, has posted photos of Baghdadi’s dead body. The man’s face resembles Baghdadi extremely closely.
Sputnik has learned that the photo is from 2015 and is actually a fake.
Reports have circulated for weeks that a Russian sortie may have eliminated al-Baghdadi during an airstrike on a suburb south of Raqqa, Syria.
“It is highly likely that Daesh leader al-Baghdadi was eliminated as a result of a Russian Aerospace Forces strike on the terrorists’ command post in the southern suburb of the city of Raqqa in late May this year,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov told Sputnik last week.Counterterrorism sources have noticed increased conflict within the ranks of Daesh over its top leadership spot, which analysts interpret as a signal that al-Baghdadi has been killed, Russian lawmaker Alexei Pushkov told Sputnik on June 29. “If he were alive, then as a demonstration of power and as a means of increasing war morale, a refutation would have already been announced,” Pushkov added.
On June 11, US officials told Voice of America they could not confirm that al-Baghdadi was killed in the strike. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation on June 29.
According to Islamabad-based analyst Nauman Sadiq,
“It is not in Washington’s interests right now to confirm the deaths of the Islamic State’s top leaders even if it has received credible reports of their deaths because the US troops and affiliated local militias have mounted offensives against the Islamic State’s strongholds of Mosul and Raqqa which have caused colossal loss of human lives.”
Al-Baghdadi gained worldwide notoriety for declaring a new caliphate in the Middle East in 2014. The al-Nuri mosque in Mosul, Iraq, where he proclaimed the caliphate, was liberated by Iraqi security forces on June 29, according to the Independent.”It’s now undeniable that reduced external support for the ‘rebels‘ was a critical turning point for really crushing ISIS,” said Max Abrahms, a political science professor at Northeastern University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
TEHRAN (FNA)- The ISIL chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has set an ultimatum on foreign militants in the Iraqi city of Mosul to either carry out suicide attacks against Iraqi security forces or return to their home countries, a source told local media on Monday.
The source told Al-Sumaria News that the ISIL leader also gave the militants the promise of going to heaven and being rewarded with 72 virgins, however the ISIL leader seems desperate to talk them into conducting suicide attacks, as they are, otherwise, destined to be executed with the ISIL group being known to harshly kill militants who try to leave the terrorist outfit.
However, it can also be assumed that convincing the terrorists to return to their home countries is for conducting terror attacks or initiating their own insurgencies, he said.
The take-it-or-leave-it offer to ISIL’s foreign militants comes as other reports said earlier that the terror outfit ringleader has demoted the group’s commanders in Eastern Mosul due to dramatic losses to Iraqi government forces over the past two weeks.
A source said Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi withdrew the “emir” designation from all leaders of the militant group in the Eastern part of the city due to “delinquency and escaping” at battlefields in face of advancing Iraqi government troops.
“Baghdad has proscribed the occupation of any leading position by emirs in the Eastern section, and to instead deploy them to the frontlines as regular fighters as a sort of punishment,” said the source, who asked not to be identified.
Iraqi government forces, backed by a aircraft and advisers from a US-led military coalition, launched two weeks ago the second phase of a major campaign that started in October to retake Mosul from ISIL militants. Since then, reports have been recurrent about divisions, infighting and accusations of treason among the group’s leaderships.
Iraqi military and police commanders have said recently they became in control over 90 percent of the eastern region of Mosul, and hope to move onwards to the West, where ISIL still maintains outstanding strongholds, and where Baghdadi is widely believed to shelter.
Earlier this week, Iraqi troops have retaken the Mosul University campus, the most remarkable ISIL stronghold in Eastern Mosul.
ISIL group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is losing the ability to keep control of his troops as the battle for Mosul rages on, a US military official said Thursday.
ISIL earlier released an audio message purportedly of Baghdadi, in which he urged his ‘jihadi’ followers not retreat as Iraqi security forces continue their push toward Mosul.
Colonel John Dorrian, a spokesman for the US-led coalition attacking ISIL in Iraq and Syria, said the military had not officially verified the authenticity of the recording but noted it was “clearly” an effort for ISIL to communicate with fighters.
“One of the interesting things that we have seen in the English translation of this is that Baghdadi is saying, ‘Don’t fight amongst yourselves,’” Dorrian told reporters.
“This is the type of thing that a leader who is losing command and control and ability to keep everybody on the same page says. We don’t believe it is going to work.”
Rumors have abounded about the Iraqi ‘jihadist’ leader’s health and movements but his whereabouts are unclear.
The leader of the Takfiri ISIL group broke a nearly year-long silence as Iraqi forces closed in on Mosul Thursday, urging his militants to hold their ground.
It was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s first statement since Iraqi forces launched a massive operation on October 17 to retake Mosul, where the ISIL chief declared the group’s “caliphate” two years ago.
“Do not retreat,” Baghdadi said in a purported message released by an ISIL-affiliated outlet. “Holding your ground with honor is a thousand times easier than retreating in shame.”
The “caliphate” has been shrinking steadily since last year and Iraqi forces earlier this week reached the outskirts of Mosul, the terrorists’ last major stronghold in Iraq.
If authentic, the recording entitled “This is what God and his messenger has promised us”, would be Baghdadi’s first since December 2015 and a rare sign of life.
Rumors have swirled about the Takfiri leader’s health and movements but his whereabouts are unclear.
In his latest message, which is undated but makes reference to events that are at most a few weeks old, Baghdadi also calls for attacks against Saudi Arabia — a favorite target — and Turkey.
Ankara has troops stationed at a base just outside Mosul and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s escalating rhetoric has raised fears of a unilateral Turkish intervention in Iraq.
Baghdadi also said that his followers who could not travel to Syria or Iraq should aim for Libya and urged all ISIL insurgents to remain ‘united in adversity’.
Reports of a purge in Mosul suggest ISIS intends to defend the city in which Hillary Clinton may be denied her ‘October Surprise’.
Whilst the ‘Great Battle of Aleppo’ in Syria grinds towards the inevitable government victory, attention is shifting the ‘Great Battle of Mosul’ in Iraq, which is about to begin.
As Joe Lauria has previously written for The Duran, the time of the attack on Mosul seems to have been largely dictated by the US electoral calendar, with the liberation of Mosul timed to help Hillary Clinton’s prospects of winning the election in November.
This begs the question of whether there will be a battle of Mosul at all.When Joe Lauria wrote his piece for The Duran on 1st October 2016 all the indications were that there wouldn’t be, and that ISIS was preparing to leave the city.
That may still be what is going on to happen.However there are reports of infighting within ISIS, with what appear to be well-sourced reports of the brutal execution of 58 ISIS leaders who were preparing to surrender the city.
If there are some within the ISIS leadership who are resisting proposals to surrender Mosul, it is not difficult to see why.
Mosul with its 2 million people is not only by far the biggest city under ISIS control.It is also one of the great historic cities of the Arab and Muslim world.It was its capture in 2014 that made it possible for ISIS to declare its Caliphate.Loss of Mosul would be a tremendous psychological blow, and would call into question not just the viability of the Caliphate but ISIS’s right to declare it in the first place.
One ISIS leader who would almost certainly oppose the surrender of the city is ISIS’s titular leader, the man known internationally as Ibrahim Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, but who now claims to be “the Caliph Ibrahim”.
Given the pretensions of this title and the way it is bound up with the seizure of Mosul, it is difficult to see how Al-Baghdadi’s prestige or his authority could survive if the city were lost.Quite possibly his very life would be at risk as he faced the anger and disillusion of his followers.
It would not therefore be surprising if Al-Baghdadi not only opposes the surrender of Mosul, but has acted ruthlessly against those who have suggested it. That would explain the reports of the purge.
The fact that there has been a purge in Mosul suggests that for the moment it is Al-Baghdadi’s views which are prevailing.It also shows that despite ISIS’s multiplying defeats and problems, and Al-Baghdadi’s reported absence in far away Raqqah, his authority is still accepted in Mosul by the ISIS fighters there.
If this is correct then the plan for the unopposed recapture of Mosul has at least for the moment gone awry.However in such a complex situation nothing is ever certain, and it cannot be definitely said that it will not happen. The fact that a purge has taken place in Mosul shows that the idea of surrendering Mosul is in the air, forcing Al-Baghdadi to take violent measures in order to scotch it.It is not impossible that as ISIS’s position in the city becomes hopeless the idea may be revived again.
Assuming Al-Baghdadi’s authority continues to prevail and the city is defended, what are the prospects for its liberation?
There is uncertainty about the precise number of ISIS fighters in the city, with most guesses putting the number between 4,000 to 10,000. Regardless they are clearly heavily outnumbered by the 40,000 or so Iraqi and allied troops assembling to retake the city.
The ISIS fighters do not seem to have the heavy weapons and the unending stream of supplies the Jihadis in Aleppo were getting before they got trapped. Though no more than an impression, the ISIS fighters also do not seem to have the discipline and toughness of the Jabhat Al-Nusra fighters who have been fighting the Syrian army in Aleppo and western Syria continuously for the last 5 years.
Against that the military force being assembled to retake Mosul has a ramshackle look.
The Iraqi army lacks the battle experience of the Syrian Arab Army, having been hurriedly cobbled together since its ignominious collapse in 2014. Reports say it remains beset with problems of indiscipline, corruption and low morale. There must be a question mark over its fitness to take on ISIS following the debacle it suffered in the same area just two years ago.
As is the case with the Syrian army in Aleppo, the Iraqi army is backed by a variety of militias including various Shia militias, a locally recruited Sunni militia (whose reliability is open to doubt) and the Kurdish militia known as the Peshmerga.
Probably the most effective of these militias is the Kurdish militia, which because of factional differences has however been ordered by the Iraqi government to play no part in the fighting inside the city.
Of the other militias, some of the Shia militias have a reputation as tough and determined fighters.However none of these militias can compare with Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militia fighting alongside the Syrian army in Aleppo, which fought the Israeli army to a standstill in Lebanon in 2006.
Lastly, there are said to be some French Special Forces with the Iraqi troops near Mosul, just as there are Russian Special Forces with the Syrian troops in Aleppo.These French troops are of course the best trained and equipped troops in the whole theatre.However as with the Russian Special Forces in Aleppo their numbers must be few.
If the quality of the forces on either side in the battle for Mosul probably does not match that of the forces fighting in Aleppo, the geography of the two battles is also completely different.
The Jihadi fighters never succeeded in capturing the greater part of Aleppo, which always remained under the control of the Syrian government.By contrast ISIS has managed to capture the whole of Mosul, and it controls it still.
Not only is the area and the number of people that ISIS controls in Mosul far greater than that controlled by the Jihadis in Aleppo, but Mosul is not encircled as eastern Aleppo is, and unlike the Jihadis in eastern Aleppo, ISIS is not trapped.
Taken together all this suggests that if the ISIS fighters in Mosul put up a determined fight, then though the eventual liberation of Mosul is hardly in doubt, it may take longer than the 3 weeks left between now and the US election.
In that case Hillary Clinton will be denied her ‘October Surprise’.
اخفضوا أصواتكم قليلا وأوقفوا النقاش والجدل .. وأصيخوا السمع .. لأنكم ستسمعون آهات عبد العزيز آل سعود من أعماق قبره وهو يتحسر على الملك العضود الذي يضيع وينهار بسبب ملك الحزم وابنه .. فالأندلس الوهابية محاصرة .. لأن ماتمر به المملكة الوهابية الرهيبة جدير بالتوقف .. حتى أن الموتى يسمعون نحيب الملك وينتظرون على ابواب السماء أن يصل خبر نهاية المملكة الضالة .. ومحور الشر ..
يبدو من الصعب على العقل ان يصدق أن هذا الخادم الأمين للغرب والذي خدم الغرب وكل مشاريعه كالكلب الوفي يتعرض اليوم للنكران والاذلال .. وقد صدر قانون جاستا الذي تم اقراره ويعتبر عمليا حكما بالاعدام البطيء على المملكة الوهابية المريضة .. فاما أن تدفع المملكة كل مالديها من مال ومدخرات وتبيع أساور السعوديات وأقراطهن للايفاء بطلبات المحاكم الاميريكية وتبيع آخر قطرة من النفط الذي في باطن الأرض قبل أن يستخرج .. والا فان عليها أن تتعرض لمصير القياصرة وملوك القرون الوسطى .. الرهيب .. حيث تسقط الرؤوس في سلال المقاصل ..
كان البعض ممن يقرأ عن نية الاميركيين التخلي عن آل سعود يرى في الأمر خرافة لأن المنطق يقول بأنه لايوجد صياد يتخلى عن كلبه الا اذا مرض الكلب .. أو وجد الصياد كلبا افضل .. أو أن الصياد قرر ترك البراري لأنه سيتحول الى صياد للحيتان في المحيطات .. عندئذ يضع الصياد الطلقة التي خصصها للطرائد في رأس الكلب الذي خدمه وركض وسعى في سبيله قرنا كاملا هو وجميع أفراد العائلة .. والصياد الاميركي وضع رصاصة الجاستا في البندقية ووضعها على رأس الكلب .. الذي سيموت ..
السعوديون في ورطة كبيرة تشبه زلزالا يهز عظام عبد العزيز آل سعود .. ومانسمعه من السعوديين من تذمر بسبب سياسات التقشف التي وصلت الى حد افلاس البعثات الدراسية في الخارج وايقافها واغلاق كل النشاطات الخارجية والمدارس السعودية حتى ذات الكلفات الصغيرة .. كل هذا يبعث على الذهول .. فهذه المملكة التي كان المال فيها نهرا لاينضب قد نضب مالها .. وأصابها التعب الاقتصادي والانهاك وأفلست قطاعات كثيرة منها .. وتبين لنا أن هذا الملك (أبو العواصف وابو الحزم والعزم) هو أغبى ملك عرفته العائلة الرهيبة .. بل أن البعض يعتقد أن الروس ثأروا منه بسيفه ..
فعندما دمر هذا الملك وعائلته سعر النفط مثل المجنون الذي يحرق زرعه واشجاره كي تصل النار الى زرع عدوه واشجاره تركه الروس يمضي خلف غواية حرب اليمن التي تصور فيها ان احجام الروس عن استعمال الفيتو هو اذن للأمريكيين بابتلاع اليمن ولكن الوقائع اليوم تكاد تقول انه تم الايقاع به واستدراجه مع الامريكيين الى فخ العسل اليمني .. فالملك وابنه دفعا كل مالدى المملكة من مال في أكبر ثلاثة حروب خاسرة هي حرب اليمن وحرب سورية .. وحرب النفط ..
النفط السعودي لم يعد ذا قيمة كبيرة بعد الوصول الى عصر النفط الصخري الأقل كلفة بل ان حرب الأسعار ضد روسيا وايران تبين أنها ليست ورقة ضغط بعد اليوم لعدم اعتماد اقتصادات الدول الصناعية على ايرادات النفط كما هي بلدان النفط الرعوية .. ولكن نتائج الحرب السورية هي التي جعلت الأميريكيين يميلون لانهاء مرحلة آل سعود لأن “القاعدة” – وهي منتج سعودي – قد نفذت آخر مهمة موكلة لها وقد احترقت أوراقها في سورية ولم يعد بالامكان الاستفادة من هذا الجيش السري الذي يحركه السعوديون .. والدمية الارهابية الوهابية لن يكون لها حظ في الحروب القادمة بعد أن تنبهت لها روسيا والصين وقررتا اعلان الحرب عليها في سورية ..
ربما سيحار العقل في سبب قرار الأميريكيين في هذا التوقيت الحساس بالذات في القضاء على المملكة الوهابية التي خدمتهم كالكلب الوفي .. الآراء تكاد لاتدرك التفسير لأن المنطق يرى أن أميريكا لن تجد بلدا في تاريخها يخدمها كما فعلت السعودية .. البعض يفسر ذلك بأن النموذج الوهابي صار قديما جدا وانتهت صلاحيته وصار من العبث الاستمرار بالتغاضي عنه وغض البصر عن نظام عتيق جدا لم يعد له شبيه على الأرض حتى في أدغال أفريقيا .. فهو يقطع الرؤوس ويحتقر المرأة ولاتستوي شعارات الغرب مع صداقة هذا النوع القروسطي من الحكم .. ومع هذا فليس الاميريكي هو من يخجل من هذا العار والعلاقة مع نظام فاسد متخلف .. فما يكون السبب اذا؟؟
التفسير الذي يعاد تدويره وانتاجه منذ فترة ويتردد كثيرا هو أن الاميركيين طبعا لن يتخلوا عن آل سعود قبل أن يكون المشروع البديل جاهزا لمتابعة المهمة المنوطة اليوم بالعائلة التي انتهى زمنها .. وقد نضج البديل .. فيبدو من خلال المختبر الكبير الذي تم على أرض الربيع العربي أن الاسلام يبحث عن خليفة وخلافة وهي حلم عاطفي يتجذر في وجدان المسلمين .. حيث اجتذبت الخلافة العثمانية عبر العثمانيين الجدد نصف المسلمين فيما اجتذبت فكرة الخلافة البغدادية عبر داعش نصفهم الآخر .. وقد انتهى مشروع الخلافة العثمانية في جرابلس لأنه محصور بين قوتي معاديتين تاريخيا هما روسيا وايران اللتان منعتا أهم خطة لانطلاقه بحرمانه من سورية .. أما مشروع خلافة البغدادي فليس واقعيا وليس له امل لأنه مضغوط بين فكي كماشة تسحقه وهناك رفض واسع له في جواره المباشر .. وليس من السهل الاستمرار بدعمه ..
ومن هنا صارت فكرة اقامة خلافة للمسلمين في مكة والمدينة لامتصاص الشعور الاسلامي وتكثيفه هي المشروع الأهم لأنها بعيدة عن أي حصار او ضغط أو دول قوية تناصبها العداء .. وغاية هذه المشاريع الاسلامية الضخمة ليست الا تحقيق الاعتراف الاسلامي بالتنازل شرعا عن فلسطين والمسجد الأقصى كما حاول الاخوان المسلمون أن يفعلوه في مصر أيام مرسي .. فقد تبين في الربيع العربي وفي زمن محمود عباس وجنرالات أوسلو ان شرعية اسرائيل وملكيتها للأقصى لم تعد تنقصها الا الشرعية الاسلامية فقط حيث تسابق الاسلاميون للتحالف معها علنا .. ولكن الشرعية الاسلامية الأقوى ليست في استانبول ولا قم ولا في الموصل ولا في القاهرة حيث انهارت خلافة الاخوان .. بل في مكة والمدينة .. ولايحتاج مشروع التنازل عن الاقصى الا أن تتخلى أهم شرعية مقدسة للمسلمين في مكة والمدينة عنه وتفصل بالاجتهاد الصادر عن ظلال النبوة في مكة والمدينة بين المسجد الحرام والمسجد الأقصى مما يرفع عن أي مسلم ذريعة التفريط بالاسلام .. وهذه شرعية لايملكها نظام الحكم الوهابي لأنه ملكي وراثي وذو سمعة سيئة ولامصداقية له بين جمهور المسلمين مهما تمت مجاملته ونفاقه .. والمطلوب نظام خلافة شرعي يملك قلوب المسلمين كما أظهر مختبر الربيع العربي على فئران التجارب الثورية الاسلامية .. نظام يملك الحق الالهي عبر نظام الخلافة التي ستكون بمثابة استمرار معنوي للخلافة الراشدية لأول مرة منذ القرن السابع الميلادي ..
وربما يفسر ذلك الهرولة السعودية لتسول الرحمة من تل ابيب والاندفاع في مشروع التطبيع وقيادة الأمة نحو التطبيع عبر ماتمثله السعودية من ثقل ديني ومالي .. ويبدو في توالي تصريحات اللوبيات السعودية في سورية من اسلام علوش الى محمد علوش الى الرغبة في انهاء العداء مع اسرائيل التي تضمد جراح المسلمين أنها تصريحات بمثابة وثائق ورسائل سعودية لاسرائيل .. ووصل الامر بالسعوديين انهم صاروا يزايدون في محبة اسرائيل بالافراط في كراهية الشيعة والتحريض على ايران وسورية وحزب الله واستعمال المعارضين السوريين في تأجيج الكراهية الدينية وتحويلها الى بلد أصيل لازاحة صورة اسرائيل كاستعمار استيطاني يخلع السكان الاصليين ويشردهم مقابل بلد دخيل يقوم بعملية التشريد والتطهير العرقي وهو ايران .. كما فعل رياض نعسان آغا في تصريحاته الاخيرة للشرق الأوسط التي تفوّق فيها على أفيخاي ادرعي في الترويج لمذبحة السنة في سورية وقتل الملايين منهم لملء الفراغ بموجات استيطانية شيعية مهاجرة من ايران .. وهو تصريح أملته السعودية عليه كرسالة لاسرائيل تستعرض فيها قوتها في احلال ايران كدولة تستوطن أرض المسلمين وليست اسرائيل .. وصار حب اسرائيل علنا في ضوء النهار وكشف المستور منذ عقود عن العلاقة المحرمة بين آل سعود وآل صهيون .. ودفع بأنور عشقي لقص الشريط الحريري لفتح السفارة السعودية في القدس قبل غيره ..
الاسرائيليون يلعبون مع السعوديين لعبة في غاية الدهاء لابتزازهم وامتصاص جزء من الرشوة التي ستقدمها السعودية لقوى الضغط وكذلك لاستعمالهم كمقدمة لتنازل الخلافة الاسلامية عن القدس .. فقد أبلغوا البغال السعودية أن مجساتهم اليهودية في اميريكا علمت أن هناك نية اميريكية للدفع بموضوع هجمات سبتمبر وأن اسرائيل هي الوحيدة القادرة على المساعدة عبر لوبياتها .. واكتشفت البغال السعودية أنها لم تتمكن من اقامة لوبيات سعودية في اي مكان في العالم الا في مدينة دوما حيث اللوبيات من آل علوش والبويضاني .. وفي الرستن حيث اللوبي عبدالرزاق طلاس .. وفي وزراة الثقافة السورية حيث اللوبي رياض نعسان آغا وطبعا لاننسى لوبي آل الحريري في لبنان أعظم لوبيات السعودية !! .. ولكن ليس هناك لوبي واحد في اميريكا صنعه آل سعود الذين كانوا منشغلين بصناعة لوبيات كرتونية في أرياف دمشق وحلب ..
حسابات بيدر البغال السعوديين لم تطابق البيدر الاميركي الذين أنهوا دراسة الجدوى السياسية والاقتصادية من انهاء عصر آل سعود الذين يجب أن تحل الخلافة مكانهم لانهاء موضوع الارضي المقدسة .. فيما دخل الاميريكيون عصرا جديدا من الحسابات الاقتصادية من البوابة السورية التي صنعها التحالف الروسي السوري حيث سيكون هناك كبل طاقة واقتصاد هائل يتمدد بين المتوسط وقلب وأقصى أطراف آسيا والصين حيث مستقبل القرن الحادي والعشرين .. وسيتزاحم العالم على هذه البوابة وتكون السعودية دولة من دول الأطراف الرخوة التي لاقيمة لها .. ولذلك تقرر الاستيلاء على كل محتوياتها وممتلكاتها وامتصاص دمائها حتى آخر قطرة .. فالمستقبل لم يعد في الخليج (المحتل) بل سيحدث انزياح في كابلات اقتصاد العالم وخطوط طاقته نحو الشمال ..
وعندما كان دور آل سعود هو تقاسم وظيفة الحراسة على الدولة اليهودية الناشئة مع الهاشميين فان السعودية قامت بواجبها على أكمل وجه مع العائلة الهاشمية .. فالأولى صادرت كلمة الجهاد في فلسطين وحولتها الى كل العالم الا فلسطين .. والثانية كانت معطف اسرائيل الشرقي الذي وقى أكبر حدودها من الاختراق .. ولكن اسرائيل اليوم قويت وصار في مقدورها الاستغناء عن المتاريس العربية والاسلامية ولاتحتاج حماية من أحد بعد تفجير المحيط بالصراعات بل ماتبحث عنه اسرائيل هو أنها تحتاج بعد الحصول على توقيع الفلسطينيين بالتنازل عن فلسطين عبر اتفاقات أوسلو ..تحتاج الى توقيع مرجعية اسلامية كبرى لها هيبة الخلافة الرشدية وظلها المقدس لملكيتها جبل الهيكل الذي لن يبقي لايران الحق في الادعاء انها تمثل المسلمين وسيظهر اعتراضها على المشروع كأنه تحد للمشروعية المقدسة للخلافة الراشدة بوجهها السني التي بعثت من جديد ..
التحريض على آل سعود في كل مكان في اميريكا ووسائل الاعلام .. ودخلت هوليوود على الخط والصحف اليومية .. واليوم الكونغرس .. وهذا من أجل امتصاص كل ممتلكات ومدخرات المملكة .. والاستيلاء عليها .. وبعد ذلك الاطاحة بنظام المملكة لاقامة الخلافة التي حضرتها واشنطن التي ستمسك بها قلوب المسلمين ..
منذ قرن تماما كان هناك رجل مريض على الفراش يحتضر .. وكان الورثة ينتظرونه أمام باب حجرته أن يلفظ أنفاسه الأخيرة .. وعندما طال الاحتضار تقدم الورثة وخنقوه في سريره .. ذلك الرجل المريض كان اسمه السلطنة العثمانية..
واليوم وبعد مرور قرن كامل .. في نفس غرفة الشرق الأوسط يبدو هناك ازدحام أمام باب غرفة مخلوق خرافي يحتضر .. ويبدو الورثة في عجلة من أمرهم .. واذا تأخر الاحتضار سيدفع المتعجلون منهم الباب ويعيدون مشهد خنق الرجل الذي مات منذ مئة سنة .. أو سيطلق راعي البقر رصاصة في رأسه وينهي هذا الفصل الأسود من تاريخ الشرق .. انها المملكة الوهابية الرهيبة .. تترنح أخيرا ..
يكاد منظر الجولاني وهو يخلع قناعه أشبه بالمهزلة السوداء .. فهو يريدنا أن نصدق ان القناع الذي كان يضعه والعلاقات مع القاعدة هي التي جعلته سيئا وقاسي القلب ودمويا ..
ولكنه اليوم استيقظ من التنويم المغناطيسي الذي مارسه عليه ايمن الظواهري فاستهجن مافعله فيما هو منوّم مغناطيسيا بلا وعي وقد وسوس له بالشر شيطان القاعدة .. وصار أبو محمد الجولاني طيبا ويحمل على كتفه كيسا مملوءا بالهدايا والحلوى والشوكولاتة والبسكويت وربطات العنق والمناديل التي تكفكف بها الثكالى واليتامى دموعهن بعد أن فتك جيش النصرة بأبنائهن وأزواجهن .. بعد أن كان ملأه في الماضي فتاوى عنيفة وقلوبا منهوشة وانتحاريين ورؤوسا ومتفجرات وسبايا وجهاد نكاح .. هكذا بكل بساطة قدمته قطر والسعودية وقالت الجزيرة: اسمحوا لنا أن نقدم لكم بابا نويل الجولاني .. الذي سيعيد لكم الرؤوس والقلوب وسيمسح الدماء عن الأرصفة والجدران .. ويمسح الدموع عن الخدود .. ويقيم الجدران المنهارة والمآذن المقطوعة الأعناق ..
الجزيرة والاعلام الغربي شيطن المقاوم الأول السيد حسن نصرالله وقدم لنا بالمقابل المعتدل (أبو محمد الجولاني) كقائد لجيش فتح الشام بعد أن استقالت النصرة من القاعدة .. واذا نجحت تجربة الجولاني في تعديل صورته وتعديل مذاقه ومذاق متفجراته وتعديل مذاق الدم الذي يقدمه لنا .. وتعديل مذاق القلوب والرؤوس المقطوعة فربما يجلس في المرة القادمة وهو يرتدي ربطة عنق زرقاء مشتقة من اللون الإسلامي .. ويتبعه أبو بكر البغدادي على نفس الطاولة وبربطة عنق حمراء ..
الجزيرة والعربية مع تركيا والدول الغربية تعمل على تعديل مذاقات القتلة وصور المجرمين .. حتى أن نتنياهو الذي لحم أكتافه من لحوم الشباب الفلسطينيين الذين قتلهم صار يقدم معتدلا .. وتهرول اليه الشخصيات الرسمية السعودية لمصافحته في تل أبيب .. ودعوته الى الرياض .. ولزيارة بيت أهله في خيبر ..
المجرم (أبو محمد الجولاني) .. ربطات العنق لاتليق بالقتلة والمجرمين مثلك .. بل حبال المشانق
Well, Aleppo is now under the complete control of the Syrian Army. The city, which was spared so much suffering in the beginning, remains a bastion of pro-government sympathies. It was targeted by the terrorist groups because the Aleppans refused to demonstrate any support for the cause of decimating the nation or drowning it in a miasma of sectarianism. The army has overtaken 2 square miles of industrial sectors inside the Layramoon suburb after the Turks had stripped it of all its wealth and mechanical attributes appropriate for a city of muscle. That is all about to change.
Why? The Turks are rethinking. Erdoghan has fired Hakan Fidan, his formerly all-powerful chief of the Turkish Gestapo, the MIT. The falling apart took place just after Erdoghan had his last conversation with Vladimir Putin during which time, it has been said, the Russian chief told Erdogan that he would not ever consider restoring normal ties until the Turkish villain closed his borders to terrorists. Erdoghan, amazingly, has appeared to agree. In the meantime, opposition parties inside Turkey have begun to make contact with the Syrian government. What was a curious aberration in Turk thinking – the idea that they could help Saudi Arabia by engineering the ouster of the Syrian government – has given way to a more pragmatic desire to go back to the days of wine and roses, when Ankara wanted to be friends with everybody in the neighborhood.
What happened instead, was they got exactly what they deserved:
miserable relations with Iran and Russia.
a newly energized Kurdish militia bent on establishing an independent state abutting a Turkey which seems more and more to be breaking at the seams.
a war south of the border which effectively nullified trade, ruining families and drying up towns while bringing in hundreds of thousands of refugees who, for the most part, refused to serve in the terrorist militias championed by the now-disgraced Hakan Fidan.
miserable relations with Europe as Erdoghan began a slow descent into a Hell of his own making by reversing decades of modernistic change in his country, and all this for a type of Islam guaranteed to run the entire Islamic World into some frozen moment in the Dark Ages.
a fine mess of terrorism when the same monsters they created turned on their Creator, a la Frankenstein, and soon, Istanbul and Ankara were made targets just as Syrian cities were savaged by the diseased vultures unleashed on them by the Saudi Arabian plutocrats playing boon friends to Erdoghan and his family of organized criminals.
And now, Saudi Arabia, a pariah state decried by hundreds of millions for its reckless support for nihilistic cannibals. There is no secret here and the cat’s out of the bag – they can’t deny their ties to the very killers who committed the most heinous acts in modern history and all that for a diseased version of religion usually left to cults of death and monkey worship. The Saudis are broke, financially and morally. It is only a matter of a short time before one rises up and begins the holy war to liberate Arabia from the stench of Wahhabism. Their war in Yemen, which even the traditionally war-mongering American “military—industrial complex” warned against, has drained them and batted into their thick skulls what we all knew already: you have no army and nobody will die for the House of Saud. They now know this. And it’s too late baby, it’s too late.
In he meantime, the Syrian opposition is beginning to look more like the cheerleaders at a prison softball game. Nobody seems to care. And soon, even the Qataris will stop housing them in 5-star hotels. If they’re lucky, they might get some new identities and die pitifully in a town on the western Australian coast, unwept and welter to the parching wind, without the mead of some melodious tear. The opposition is dead. It has accomplished nothing but the destruction of the country. They deserve nothing less than a noose or a stake to speed them into the bowels of Hell.
I am very optimistic that the war is about to end. ISIS is already planning its own demise as our sources tell us that members of that group of freaks are being told that the Caliphate will not outlast King Salman. The Caliph is dead. We told you so. And they can’t hide it much longer. We reported it and it is true. They also got a taste of nuclear weapons and God doesn’t seem to be on their side any longer.
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NEWS AND COMMENT:
The Tiger sends this hilarious slip by Kerry denouncing Jaysh Al-Islam and Ahraar Al-Shaam as subgroups of ISIS and Alqaeda:
A plague upon the world, a terrorist group who hates humanity. Many are the words describing the Daesh phenomenon which has been unleashed upon humanity. The terrorist group who allegedly originated out of Iraq as a result of the US- led invasion in 2003 has now become a worldwide known phenomenon which few people have never heard of. Their atrocities are reported daily, and mainstream media have several times reported about this death cult’s genocidal campaigns in the Middle East, ranging from ethnic cleansing to attempts to wipe out the region’s culture and history. The highlighted targets have been Christians and the Yezidis of Iraq.
What the mainstream media however rarely mentions is their campaign against their true enemy, the Shia community of Iraq and Syria. This three-part article series will analyse and explain the motivational drive behind this terrorist group and its funders, and why they attack other Muslims who they deem to be “infidels”.
The practice of excommunication where one Muslim declares another one to be a “Kafir” or infidel, is called Takfir, a practice which is almost as old as Islam itself. One who practices this excommunication is called a Takfiri.
The first part of this article series will focus on the history of the concept and where it once originated from. The second part will focus on the imperial European powers and their relationship with Takfiris in the 18th century. The last part will focus on the modern Takfirism and its aims in the region amid the Syrian and Iraqi wars.
The historical background and the concept of Takfir
The Daesh terrorists are known by the Shia community mainly as Takfiris because they deem the entire Shia community and all other branches of Islam to be infidels who deserve death. There is a very wide range of ideas surrounding what could justify declaring someone to be an infidel (Kafir). Some Muslims consider this to be a prerogative of divine revelation, while others consider it to be the prerogative of the state (Caliphate) which represents the Muslim community as a whole. There is no consensus among the Muslim community as to what actually constitutes sufficient justification for declaring Takfir, as such, there are disputes among different scholars surrounding this topic.
In order to truly understand what the concept of Takfir means, and how it has formed the Islamic community, we need to go back in time to the early days of Islam, and study the predecessors of the Daesh terror group, a group known as the Khawarij.
The Khawarij
The Khawarij (the outsiders) were notorious Takfiris who appeared in the first century of Islam during what is today known as the First Fitna, the first Islamic civil war caused by disunity regarding the leadership after the death of Prophet Muhammad. The First Fitna, 656–661, followed the assassination of Uthman (Osman), the third Caliph of Islam, continued during the caliphate of Ali, and was ended by Muawiyah’s assumption of the caliphate. This civil war is often referred to as the end of the Islamic unity, also known as the Ummah.
Divisions began to grow as disagreement began to rise considering the capital of the newly established Islamic Caliphate. This was a result of a deep rooted rivalry between Syria, formerly under the rule of the Byzantine Empire and Iraq, part of the Persian Sassanid Empire. Ali was convinced to move his capital to Kufa, in Iraq.
Later Muawiyah I, the governor of Levant and the cousin of Uthman, refused Ali’s demands for allegiance. Ali opened negotiations hoping to regain his allegiance, but Muawiyah insisted on
Levant autonomy under his rule. Muawiyah began mobilising his Levantine supporters and refusing to pay homage to Ali on the pretext that his contingent had not participated in Ali’s election.
Ali then moved his armies north and the two armies encamped themselves at Siffin for more than one hundred days, most of the time being spent in negotiations. Although Ali exchanged several letters with Muawiyah, he was unable to dismiss the latter, nor persuade him to pledge allegiance.
When Muawiyah’s forces met with Ali’s forces in the battle of Siffin in 657 A.D, Muawiyah’s forces were on the brink of defeat. Muawiyah wanted to put the dispute aside and called for the two sides to arbitration according to the Quran.
The two armies finally agreed to settle the matter of who should be Caliph by arbitration. The refusal of the largest bloc (the Kufans) in Ali’s army to fight anymore was the decisive factor in his acceptance of the arbitration. Ali’s army suffered from mutiny led by the Kufans. The question as to whether the arbiter would represent Ali or the Kufans (Qurra) caused a further split in Ali’s army. Ali presented his representative for arbitration, the mutineers on their part, presented Abu Musa Ashaari, against Ali’s wishes while Muawiyah presented his representative Amr ibn Al-As.
Seven months later the two arbitrators met at Adhruh about 10 miles north west of Maan in Jordan in February 658. Amr ibn Al-As convinced Abu Musa Ashaari that both Ali and Muawiyah should step down and a new caliph be elected. Ali and his supporters were stunned by the decision which had lowered the caliph to the status of the rebellious Muawiyah. Ali had been betrayed. Rallying under the slogan “arbitration belongs to God alone”, the Qurra had turned on both Ali and Muawiyah.
Ali refused to accept the verdict of him stepping down and for an election to be held and found himself technically in breach of his pledge to abide by the arbitration. This put Ali in a weak position even amongst his own supporters. The most vociferous opponents of Ali in his camp were the very same people who had forced Ali to appoint their arbitrator. Feeling that Ali could no longer look after their interests. Also fearing that if there was peace, they could be arrested for the murder of Uthman they broke away from Ali’s force.
So the Qurra then became known as the Khawarij (the outsiders, referring to those who left Ali’s side). It is important to note that the Khawarij were not simply dissatisfied with a particular man or family or economics, rather their dissatisfaction was with the whole social structure which was represented by both Uthman and Ali. Before, they had freedom in the affairs of the tribe. Now they were in the “super-tribe” of Islam and could not behave as they had behaved previously. They wanted to go back to their old tribal structure where they could glory and boast about their tribe. Thus, it can be argued that the Khawarij were more motivated by their own selfish reasons to rebel, rather than of ideological reasons.
The fact that he was Muhammad’s nephew only confirmed them in their militancy of their perceived egalitarianism; that the true aristocracy was one of piety and not blood. This view fundamentally goes against the Shia view of the leadership being bound to the bloodline of the Prophet.
In time, the Khawarij began to develop twisted views. Early reports would speak of Khawarijs going out with their swords into markets and randomly stab people while shouting” no judgement except God’s”. In 659 Ali’s forces finally moved against the Khawarij and they finally met in the Battle of Nahrawan. Although Ali won the battle, the constant conflict had begun to affect his standing.
Ali won a pyrrhic victory but could not crush this group. Two years later, on the 19th of Ramadan 661 Ali was assassinated by the Khawarij while praying in the Great Mosque of Kufa. Legend has it that Khawarij Abd-Al-Rahmad ibn Muljam attacked him with a poison coated sword that struck Ali’s head. When Ali was killed, Muawiyah was the one who had the largest army in the Muslim Empire, thus he could easily ascend to the throne and so began the rise of the Ummayad Caliphate.
The Ummayad caliphate, although strong, could never assume the same authority over its vast territory as the first Caliphate could. In Iran, the caliphate was several times challenged, which lead to forced mass-conversion of Zoroastrians in Iran. As the empire grew, the number of qualified Arab workers was too small to keep up with the rapid expansion of the empire. Therefore, Muawiya allowed many of the local government workers in conquered provinces to keep their jobs under the new Umayyad government. Thus, much of the local government’s work was recorded in Greek, Coptic and Persian. This rapid expansion has also been argued to be one of the main reason for the decline of the Ummayad Caliphate.
Plagued by continued Khawarij uprisings both in Iran and Iraq, the Khawarij outlived the declining Ummayad Caliphate as continued uprisings during the Abbasid Caliphate were still a problem.
Perhaps the greatest challenge to the authority of the caliphate occurred between 866 and 896 when the Khawarij rebelled in the districts of Mosul in the Al-Jazira province (Mesopotamia). This rebellion lasted for thirty years despite several attempts to quell it. It was not until the Caliph Al-Muatadid launched major campaigns to restore the Caliphate’s authority that the rebellion finally was defeated.
In the next part of this article series, we will examine the second wave of Takfirism, originating in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula during the 18th century.
Maj. Gen. ‘Ali Mamlook, smiling into his telephone as news pours in of Al-Baghdaadi’s death at the hands of the Syrian Air Force. Gen. Mamlook heads the president’s National Security Council. He just recently denied meeting the chief of French intelligence or the president handing to a British delegation the names of ISIS terrorists from the U.K.
AL-RAQQA: All the news is confirmed. If you include the families of the rats who infested Al-Raqqa, then, over 5,000 have just left the city heading for Al-Mawsil in northern Iraq. And it gets even better.
The Head of ISIS’s Treasury, a Saudi ape (nyuk) by the name of Haatim Al-‘Utaybihas just flown the coop for destinations unknown with 100% of all the monies, gold and payroll accumulated by the terrorist gang. Our reports insist he is leaving Syria for Saudi Arabia where he plans to spend his ill-gotten gains on his favorite charity. The news of the Caliph of Cockadoodledoo’s death on Sunday, left many terrorists with a sour stomach – so sour, many, in fact started to depart the place warning the lower echelons to “remain steadfast” for the sake of the Paradise which awaits them. Evidently, that line is not as convincing as it was 2 years ago. Whole convoys of trucks carrying stolen furniture, collectibles, mattresses and suitcases are seen leaving the western side of the city. Some of the caravans were pounced upon by the air force and much damage is reported in a scene reminiscent of April 1975 Saigon.
“Gangsters Out” rendering of a rat leaving with the family jewels and all of the ISIS payroll money.
SAA rangers have established solid revetments only 3 kms from the Tabqa Airbase as the ISIS defenders are seen packing up and trying to leave across the river using row boats and rafts. The SAA is also only 5 kms from the Town of Tabqa.
News of Al-Baghdaadi’s death and the promise of no remuneration has taken the wind out of the terrorists’ sails with numerous communications being intercepted and analyzed showing a completely demoralized enemy, incapable of mounting even a semblance of a defense or damaging airbase infrastructure. SAA sharpshooters are all over the base’s perimeter and the rats fear roving on the open surface of the runways. (Good news: It has been confirmed that the rodents have not discovered entries into the underground storage facilities of the base and have no expertise to do so).
SyrPer predicts that the SAA will assault the base tomorrow and find almost no defenders.
Today, the SAA reported killing 18 ISIS terrorists and wounding scores. All enemy combatants were foreign, many from Saudi Arabia and Chechnya.
With the PKK advancing on Manbij under an American umbrella, the news in Al-Raqqa is not being greeted with much appetite. The poor population anxiously awaits the arrival of their saviors in the shape of the Syrian Arab Army. Don’t expect the prostitute American media to show you the throngs greeting their liberators. (Note: The Kurds are not cooperating with the U.S. on Al-Raqqa. It is clear the Kurds are aware that the largely Syrian Arab population would prefer ISIS to them. The U.S. is apparently unhappy with this turn of events. They had visions of Obama landing in Tabqa under a sign that read: “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”. Yawn.)
“WE ARE COMING! THIS IS THE INEVITABLE FATE OF THOSE WHO BORE WEAPONS IN THE FACE OF THE ARMY AND THE PEOPLE” (The General Staff of the Army and Armed Forces). This warning was spread all throughout Al-Raqqa by SAAF helicopters. (Photo courtesy of the Ba’ath Party)
“THE LAST FIFTEEN MINUTES! YOU, THE ONE BEARING ARMS. THE MOMENT OF TRUTH HAS ARRIVED. THE WORLD IS CHANGING QUICKLY. THE ARMY IS COMING. THINK ABOUT YOURSELF. WAITING IS HEMMING IN YOUR LIFE. DON’T HESITATE. HURRY AND THROW DOWN YOUR ARMS TO PRESERVE YOUR LIFE AND YOUR FUTURE.” (The General Staff of the Army and Armed Forces).
ALEX RASPUTIN SENDS THIS EXCLUSIVE VIDEO OF ISIS FIGHTERS DOING WHAT IS NECESSARY TO LEAVE THE CITY BEFORE THE SAA ARRIVES:
A riot of reports flowing in about the death of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdaadi in a surgical strike by the Russian/Syrian Air Forces. Do not believe the Western Press which will try to take credit for the assassination. Early reports indicate he was killed while nursing his wounds in Al-Raqqa after being wounded for the umpteenth time. This spells the end of ISIS. Expect mass defections and desertions.
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But how did it manage to do this? What led to the rise of the brutal organization? And who is to be blamed in the court of international politics?
In an attempt to find some answers to these paradoxical questions, the Frontline broadcasted a video entitled “The Secret History of ‘ISIS'”.
Once you watch the documentary, you feel heavy loaded with the scenes of masked men and terrorists practicing various kinds of terrorism. But what mostly takes your attention is that the film contains a large amount of information and meetings with more than 20 US figures.
This included former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, former War Minister Chuck Hagel, former US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, and CIA agents, journalists and experts.
Despite all that, the documentary took a little piece of international concern and coverage.
The promo of the film on the American PBS network site wondered: “Did the United States miss the opportunity to prevent the rise of Daesh?”
The answer comes in a 54 minutes film in an attempt to analyze the role of the United States in the emergence of terrorist organizations in the Middle East.
It is the inside story of the extremists who became the leaders of Daesh, the many missed warning signs and the US failures to stop the terror group’s brutal rise.
The documentary, from veteran filmmaker Michael Kirk, is a deep look at how a petty criminal-turned-extremist firebrand, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, capitalized on the American invasion to develop what would become the Daesh playbook – fomenting sectarian violence among Muslims, stepping in to take advantage of power vacuums, and broadcasting brutality far and wide on the Internet – and how his eventual successor, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, followed Zarqawi’s method and created a self-proclaimed caliphate founded on deadly violence and fear.
As the film details, it was inside a US prison in Iraq that Baghdadi made the transition from religious scholar and soccer player to terrorist leader. These prisons housed Iraqis swept up by US forces during the early days of the invasion, and would come to be known as “jihadi universities.”
And below are some of the focal points:
– How Zarqawi went from thug to Daesh founder
– How US Secretary of state’s speech in the UN was a great intelligence failure
– How US jails in Iraq turned to Universities of terrorism
– How the US missed the chance to prevent the rise of Daesh
On Tuesday, CIA and Mossad agents exploded at least five bombs in Brussels– two at Brussels Airport, and 3 separate bombs at Metro Stations downtown (watch below). This came days after Paris Friday the 13th False Flag patsy Salah Abdeslam, 26, a French Muslim got arrested in Brussels on Friday.
The western press has reported that 31 people died and 250 injured as result of the bombing. No arrest has been made, but search for some Muslim pasty is in progress.
Crypto-Jew Murdoch’s CNN has claimed that ISIS took responsibility of the attack. CNN could be right as ISIS is headed by Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who was born to a French Jewish couple and received military training from Israeli Mossad.
On April 22, Jewish propaganda website Politico claimed that according to an ‘anonymous Belgium official’ Salah Abdeslam, was “supposed to have taken part in the bomb attacks that hit Belgium capital on Tuesday.” In other words, Belgium security agency failed to stop Tuesday terrorist attacks while it had the “mastermind” in its custody!
There are nearly 600,000 Muslims among Belgium’s total population of 11.2 million. But that’s to many Muslims for the Organized Jewry that has turned it into a nation of paranoid.
In 2012, a Belgian lawmaker Filip DeWinter claimed that Belgium soon would turned into an Islamic State.
In December 2011, Mossad paid a visit to Belgium city of Liege, killing three people and injuring another 75. The lone gunman identified by police as Nordine Amrani killed himself before arrest. The Zionist press turned Nordine Amrani into: Nordine = Nur deen, a Muslim name – Amrani = Imran, the father of prophet Moses in Holy Qur’an.
In December 2011, Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center had demanded that John Kerry fire his Jewish ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, for blaming Israel for fuelling anti-Semitism in Europe and the Muslim world.
Belgium has a history of accusing young Muslims of terrorism. For example, on November 14, 2014, Assim Abbasi, 22, son of a Pakistani diplomat was accused of planning to attack the Jewish staff at Israeli embassy in Brussels with a cricketbat.
Like the United States, Belgium is controlled by the local Jewish Lobby not in politics alone, but media, internal security agencies, and the government in Brussels. Country’s two former prime minister, Yves Leterme and Guy Verhofstadt, were blind supporters of the Zionist entity. Every year a large numbers of Belgian Jews go to Israel to volunteer in Israeli army under the Sar-El (the national project for volunteers for Israel) sponsored program. Israeli instructors train Belgian security officials in mob-control and counter-terrorism.