Say what? Now US is accusing Syria of aiding ISIS
Days after it was revealed that the West facilitated the rise of Islamic State in order to isolate the Syrian government, US officials now say Damascus is assisting the terror organization.
This week, the US blame game ratcheted up a huge notch, as the US Embassy in Syria took to Twitter, accusing Syrian government forces loyal to President Bashar Assad of “making airstrikes” in support of the jihadist group, and “aiding extremists against Syrian population.”
Reports indicate that the regime is making air-strikes in support of #ISIL's advance on #Aleppo, aiding extremists against Syrian population
— U.S. Embassy Syria (@USEmbassySyria) June 1, 2015
The message provided no proof other than a vague reference to “reports” to substantiate the bizarre accusation, which could be the next step in the Obama administration’s efforts to enter Damascus and depose Assad through the back door.
ISIS' magic carpet ride into Syria
Following the failure of the Obama administration to attack Syria
in August 2013, it had to be satisfied with the next best thing:
Promote the rise of Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL), a group
of thugs so unspeakably evil and heinous that even Al-Qaeda
members had to turn away in disgust.
Yet for many observers, the timing of Islamic State’s emergence
on Syria’s doorstep was simply too coincidental. Now all those
tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists appear to be exonerated for
their views.
According to formerly classified documents acquired by Judicial Watch, a
conservative watchdog group, it was revealed that as early as
2012, US intelligence not only predicted the rise of ISIS in the
Middle East, but relished its arrival.
The heavily redacted document stated: “The West, Gulf
countries, and Turkey support the opposition… If the situation
unravels 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, which is
considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion.”
This document sheds a light on so many strange and inexplicable
events – like entire truckloads of US military equipment
falling into the hands of ISIS - that only makes sense when it is
understood that the US has been carefully nurturing this
Frankenstein’s monster from its inception.
Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday revealed the list of weapons that fell into the hands of Islamic State after the fall of Mosul last year: 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles, at least 40 M1A1 main battle tanks, 74,000 machine guns, and as many as 52 M198 howitzer mobile gun systems, plus small arms and ammunition.
How can one explain Christmas gift-giving of this magnitude in the middle of Muslim country in the middle of June?
With these latest reports, #Asad is not only avoiding #ISIL lines, but, actively seeking to bolster their positon. #Syria
— U.S. Embassy Syria (@USEmbassySyria) June 1, 2015
Unfortunately, the mystery does not end there. We also must
consider the Pentagon’s blatant refusal for conducting any
significant airstrikes on the jihadists as they advanced across
wide open desert on the major Iraqi city of Ramadi. Where were
the smart bombs, cruise missiles, fighter jets and drone strikes
that we’ve seen employed in Afghanistan and Pakistan and other
theaters? The US military could destroy Islamic State before
lunchtime tomorrow if such a plan was desired. Obviously, it is
not.
“The US did very little to prevent the fall of Ramadi,”
writer and journalist Dan Glazebrook told
RT.“It’s interesting that their key allies supposedly in
the war against ISIS refused to cooperate with the real forces
fighting against ISIS (the Syrian government, the Iranian
government, the Shia militias, and so on). But even when their
own key allies in Iraq against ISIS, the so-called Golden
Division, US-trained Iraqi Special Forces, were calling for help
and support and airstrikes they were not forthcoming, and that
led to the fall of Ramadi.”
US Defense Secretary Ashley Carter reprimanded
the Iraqi Army for not only abandoning Ramadi, but for leaving
behind millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to Islamic State
forces, and despite reportedly outnumbering the jihadists
10-to-1.
“What apparently happened was that the Iraqi forces just
showed no will to fight,” Carter said. “They were not
outnumbered. In fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force,
and yet they failed to fight, they withdrew from the
site.”
But in light of the sensational information regarding the
hidden relationship between Islamic State and the US, it would
seem more logical to say that the Iraqis were simply ordered to
retreat from their positions, only to be later blamed by the
Americans for their “lack of will.”
Indeed, considering that the type of warfare we are talking about
– door-to-door urban fighting, where each side makes gains at an
agonizingly slow pace – nothing else can explain the Iraqi Army’s
immediate flight from combat.
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“Iraqi forces evaporated all of a sudden, which makes
no sense in urban street-by-street fighting,”
observed Forbes contributor Melik Kaylan. “Normally, the
confrontation reaches a critical mass and stays there for weeks
before one side pulls out. In Mosul and Ramadi, ISIS had barely
started attacking before Iraqis withdrew.”
Kaylan quotes a high-ranking Iraqi officer of Kurdish origin:
“It was an extraordinary withdrawal and there was no reason
for it. They pulled out so fast that in most cases they left
their vehicles intact with their weapons and ammunition inside.”
But while the Americans have already had their military adventure
in Iraq, together with the removal of Saddam Hussein, they are in
the position to lecture the Iraqi troops.
However, the story is much more complicated in Syria, where the
Obama administration is attempting to construct some sort of
narrative to justify an attack on the Assad government, which is
what the creation of ISIS comes down to.
Whipping up the Islamic State bogeyman like a sandstorm in the
desert was the first step; accusing Syrian government forces of
assisting this beast of burden was the second. Expect the third
part of this epic tale and tragic farce to play out before the
end of the year.
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The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
