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CIA Anti-Syria Program Finances Wahhabi Headchoppers
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The picture of the man above is cut from a one that accompanies a NYT piece about the CIA support for the Syrian "rebels". The caption says the man is "A rebel leader, Sheikh Tawfiq Shahabuddin, right, on Monday in Reyhanli, Turkey."
The type of beard (no mustache) and the cloth clearly identify the man as a Salafi/Wahhabi who believes that everyone should live like in the times of Mohammed.
As Ben Hubbard, one of the more reliable NYT journalists, writes:
In a secret office near the Syrian border here, intelligence agents from the United States and its allies are laying the groundwork for what they hope will become an effective force of Syrian rebels to serve as ground troops in the international battle against the extremist Islamic State.
The office, the Military Operations Command, has slowed funding to Islamist groups, paid salaries to thousands of “vetted” rebels and given them ammunition to boost their battlefield mettle.
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most of the support from governments who back the rebels is now channeled through the Military Operations Command. […] the military command has built direct ties with rebel leaders it deems moderate and active inside Syria.
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It is now paying monthly salaries of at least $100 to about 10,000 fighters in northern Syria, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a covert program.
Now here comes the guy in the picture, very likely taken in the CIA run "secret office" Ben Hubbard visited:
“The international position has to be to fight all kinds of terrorism, both ISIS and the regime,” said Sheikh Tawfiq Shahabuddin, the head of the Nureddin Zengi Movement. “You can’t treat only one part of the disease.”
This Salafi nutjob is paid by the CIA. That he is no "moderate" is not only obvious from his outer appearance but also from the name he has chosen for his movement, Nureddin Zengi:
Nūr ad-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿImād ad-Dīn Zangī (February 1118 – 15 May 1174), also known as Nur al-Din (from Arabic: نور الدين, "Light of the Faith") or Nur ed-Din, was a member of the Turkic Zengid dynasty which ruled the Syrian province of the Seljuk Empire. He reigned from 1146 to 1174.
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In 1146, Nur ad-Din massacred the entire Christian population of [Edessa] and destroyed its fortifications,[1] in punishment for assisting Joscelin in this attempt. Although according to Thomas Asbridge, the women and children of Edessa were enslaved. He secured his hold on Antioch after crushing Raymond of Poitiers at the Battle of Inab in 1149, even presenting to the caliph, Raymond's severed head and arms.
That, dear U.S. taxpayer, is the cause the CIA finances with your money.
This is on topic, I think, because it speaks to ISIS as a media creation which I largely consider them to be. I suspect they swept over the Iraqi armies on their reputation as head choppers and heart eaters (which they surely are) than their military prowess. We’ve seen over and over US Generals and US Senators describe them – in the media – in laughably hyperbolic terms. We hear about their prowess on social media – US owned and operated forums which seem to be able to crack down well enough on copyright infringement, but fail miserably when it comes to dealing with Jihadis spreading hatred. We seen the constant drumbeat every day into our heads: ISIS, ISIS, ISIS. The NYTimes spills so much ink on such a small army which controls such a small, hopeless area? Why?
So we should be able to look back and see similar examples – though I suspect that what is happening with ISIS is even more controlled, and has an even more specific purpose that boosting general war fever amongst the US population.
Here are a few important passages from Douglas Valentine’s The Phoenix Program which show the effect CIA black ops had during Vietnam. One important event was a propaganda campaign aimed at Catholics in North Vietnam, the goal of which was to produce a massive refugee flow so as to build up Diem’s support-base in the south. Over a million eventually fled due to the tales – all of which were produced in a CIA office, and none of which were true.
The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine (pg. 14):
In Saigon, Lansdale managed several programs which were designed to ensure Diem’s internal security and which later evolved and were incorporated into Phoenix. The process began in July 1954, when, posing as an assistant Air Force attaché to the U.S. Embassy, Lansdale got the job of resettling nearly one million Catholic refugees from North Vietnam. As chief of the CIA’s Saigon Military Mission, Lansdale used the exodus to mount operations against North Vietnam. To this end he hired the Filipino-staffed Freedom Company to train two paramilitary teams, which, posing as refugee relief organizations supplied by the CIA-owned airline, Civil Air Transport, activated stay-behind nets, sabotaged power plants, and spread false rumors of a Communist bloodbath. In this last regard, a missionary named Tom Dooley concocted lurid tales of Vietminh soldiers’ disemboweling pregnant Catholic women, castrating priests, and sticking bamboo slivers in the ears of children so they could not hear the Word of God. Dooley’s tall tales of terror galvanized American support for Diem but were uncovered in 1979 during a Vatican sainthood investigation.
A passage from The CIA and the Vietnam Debacle by Ngo Vinh Long taken from The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine (pg. 50) indicating how simple it is – the CIA having only to commit some greusome act or forge some papers and then leak it to the press – to control the narrative:
The first objective of a covert action it to create plausible denial…the CIA did this by composing and planting distorted articles in foreign and domestic newspapers… This disinformation campaign led predisposed Americans to believe that the GVN was a legitimately elected representative government, a precondition that was a prerequisite for the massive aid programs that supported the CIA’s massive covert operation programs…
not until he was released from prison after the war did Tran Ngoc Chau reveal that “a systematic campaign of vilification by use of forged documents was carried out during the mid-1950s to justify Diem’s refusal to negotiate with Hanoi in preparation for the unheld unifying elections of 1956.” According to Chau, the forging was done by U.S. and British intelligence agencies, which helped gather “authentic” documents that permitted plausible foundations to be laid for the forgeries….
[CIA operative John Paul Vann] specialized, among other things, in black propaganda, which involved him in murder, forgery, and outright deception of the American Press in order to discredit the [National Liberation Front/Viet Cong] in particular and the opposition to American intervention in general.
This happens again and again.
We have the 1965 murders of some Indonesian generals, with false tales of castration and beheading, which sparked the systematic murder of more than 800,000 Indonesian Communists. All under the CIA’s watchful eye.
The Chilean coup was apparently sparked by the discovery of a document detailing a “leftist plot to start a reign of terror” – again a forgery.
It goes on and on. Valentine does a great job of describing much of this.
The CIA are masters of using the media, which is why when we see an organization such as ISIS that seems to take so much power from its image in the media, we must be especially cautious and suspect. After all, if it benefitted the CIA to make no mention of ISIS – to make them disappear from the media landscape – who doesn’t suspect that the American mainstream media would sheepishly play ball with the government and block off this torrent of stories?
Something stinks…
Posted by: guest77 | Sep 20 2014 3:55 utc | 49
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I don’t think the West hates its history, only the history that doesn’t fit into the Neo- Liberal 3rd-Way trope of Triumphal Exceptionalism, Consumerism and Corporate Catholicism.
I’m old enough to remember Old America. I’ve sat with Civil War survivors (well, OK, they were 10 during the Civil War), and lived and worked in old farming towns, lumberjack towns and old fishing towns, where you trapped fur in the winter to get meat on the table and pay for seed in the springtime. Those were hard times, but they were good times. There was a lot of authentic happiness and merriment, if you’ve been to a real hoe-down or barter-fair. There were rosey cheeks and buttery scones and lots of hot coffee and real Christmas’.
I learned at my grandfather’s knee. I could build a house or repair a car before I was 21. I learned farming, fishing, logging, construction, mechanics, all the Old Ways to survive.
I’ve built a boat, repaired a combine, designed a PV cell enhancer, and stood at the ends of the earth, where it curves over the horizon and down into the endlessly undulating sea.
America is OWNED now. The Chosen are the Owners. They Own US. To control US, they control our HISTORY. It’s an old playbook mastered centuries ago, and perfected by Josef Goebbels. The Old Timers have died off and soon, I will die off too. My children have no interest in or recollection of my stories of the Old Ways. They joke, ‘And you used to be an astronaut too, huh, Dad?’ They think it’s a joke, because their HISTORY is OWNED by Corporate, and there is no intention or desire by the Owners that Americans be self-sufficient anymore.
You can see that in the statistics. 50% of Americans are on some form of welfare now, and I would guess from my time teaching, or trying to teach, that 90% of Americans couldn’t mend their own clothes, build their own furniture, repair a hand-me-down. It’s all DISPOSABLES.
Americans are DISPOSABLE as well. 92,000,000 of them are jobless and/or homeless now, more per capita than the Great Depression, and not one word in the media as the Corporate-driven markets surge to an all-time high. Nobody knows how to stop the Engine of Consumption. We desperately collect cans and bottles, wash them, sort them, bag them, turn them in to the Authorities,…and they go to landfill anyway. We desperately set aside monies for hard times, but the Fed Bank then loots it away with QEn for junk ‘Quantitative Easing’ bonds.
America is, for all intents and purposes, running around with its hair on fire and monkeys flying out of its butt. It will run, and run, until it’s a towering faggot of flames, then collapse into a sizzling lump of Crisco, a grease stain on New Roman roads of the future.
Nothing will grow there. People will avoid it. In time, it will be lost amid the brambles. Future archeologists will find Apple 6’s and think of them as elaborate serving trays used by a Master Race to entertain themselves while slaves fought and killed and ate each other.
Which is, essentially, an accurate algorithm for America today.
Posted by: ChipNikh | Sep 20 2014 11:46 utc | 62
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