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What Preceded The Islamic State Attacks In France – Some Links (Updated)
This happened last night: At least 120 dead in Paris attacks, Hollande declares emergency
Gunmen and bombers attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium at locations across Paris on Friday, killing at least 120 people in a deadly rampage that a shaken President Francois Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack.
The Islamic State claims responsibility (English version) for the attack.
But who weaponized and financed the Islamic State or prior organizations in Syria and Iraq from which this terror attack grew? Is this cartoon justified?
 Cartoon of the day by Carlos Latuff
Consider:
In 2012 – Hollande admits arming Syrian rebels in breach of embargo – book
The French president has admitted delivering weapons to the Syrian rebels during a period of EU embargo, a new book about to be published in France reveals.
The deliveries took place in 2012, before the embargo was canceled in May 2013, according to François Hollande's last year interview with journalist and writer Xavier Panon. "We began when we were certain they would end up in the right hands. For the lethal weapons it was our services who delivered them," Hollande told the writer, …
Okt 2012 – Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria
WASHINGTON — Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials and Middle Eastern diplomats.
Dec 2012 – France funding Syrian rebels in new push to oust Assad
France has emerged as the most prominent backer of Syria's armed opposition and is now directly funding rebel groups around Aleppo as part of a new push to oust the embattled Assad regime.
Large sums of cash have been delivered by French government proxies across the Turkish border to rebel commanders in the past month, diplomatic sources have confirmed. The money has been used to buy weapons inside Syria and to fund armed operations against loyalist forces.
Aug 2014 – France delivered arms to Syrian rebels, Hollande confirms
President Francois Hollande said on Thursday that France had delivered weapons to rebels battling the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad “a few months ago.”
Nov 2015
Murad Gazdiev @MuradoRT
French APILAS rocket launcher supplied to #syria rebels fall into hands of #ISIS. Pics from #Deraa, Southern #Syria
12:09 PM – 6 Nov 2015
Jun 2014 – 'Thank God for the Saudis': ISIS, Iraq, and the Lessons of Blowback
[T]wo of the most successful factions fighting Assad’s forces are Islamist extremist groups: Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the latter of which is now amassing territory in Iraq and threatening to further destabilize the entire region. And that success is in part due to the support they have received from two Persian Gulf countries: Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Qatar’s military and economic largesse has made its way to Jabhat al-Nusra, to the point that a senior Qatari official told me he can identify al-Nusra commanders by the blocks they control in various Syrian cities. But ISIS is another matter. As one senior Qatari official stated, “ISIS has been a Saudi project.”
France benefited from its support for the U.S.-Wahhabi regime change project in Syria and Iraq by getting huge orders for military equipment from the medieval Wahhabi regimes:
Apr 2015 – France and Qatar seal $7 billion Rafale fighter jet deal
Qatar has agreed to buy 24 Dassault Aviation-built Rafale fighter jets in a 6.3-billion-euro (4.55 billion pounds) deal, the French government said on Thursday, as the Gulf Arab state looks to boost its military firepower in an increasingly unstable region.
June 2015 – Saudi Arabia and France ink $12bln deal
Saudi Arabia and France agreed Wednesday to sign $12 billion of deals, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubair said during a landmark visit by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Paris.
Even after it became obvious for everyone that the regime change project in Syria has led to an expansion of terrorism Hollande was still demanding the end of the Syrian state.
Sept 2015 – François Hollande of France Says Assad Must Go
President François Hollande of France told the United Nations General Assembly on Monday that his country would “shoulder its responsibilities” in global efforts to end the fighting in Syria, but that the conflict could be resolved only if President Bashar al-Assad was removed from power.
Can Hollande now change his tune?
“False flag” may mean different things. For example, by using your agents inside a “genuine terrorist organization” you can steer a group to do what you want. Turkey’s MIT (their equivalent of CIA) was theorized to do that, having some agents in PKK, IS and what not. There can be also a deal on top level, like “you attack my domestic enemies, and we will give you this and that, but also some little shit to show that we fight you, unfortunately some appearances are necessary”.
These types of false flag are quite safe, because for ground level operators everything is genuine. However, in France it is hard to tell who would bother to promote mayhem in that manner, “Resistance” and Russia may gain very marginally, much too little to do it.
To me, a larger picture is the predominant wrong narrative of “root causes”. Immigrants suffering from crappy jobs, prejudice and unemployment are in some periods attracted to terrorist organizations, but not most of the time. For example, there was a period when “terrorist” were totally secular anarchists. Nevertheless, most of individuals who abandon a struggle for gainful lawful employment and make a living, family etc. join some gangs, neighborhood toughs or more mafia-style. Other may join some cults, and so on. One aspect that changes things are wars. War, if you think about it, is an insane behavior, and alters the thinking of participants, even vicarious participants. Secondly, many participants become good at killing, “those who live to tell the tale”. And the longer a war last, the more deranged the participants.
Sometimes you may ask: why do they do this shit? Do they have to, say, exterminate a wedding with precision weapons, or a food market with barrel bombs and so on. Perhaps they do not have to, but they are deranged by war. Enemy population is by definition not innocent (no innocent enemies, no way!), so when more valuable targets are harder to trace, why not go after enemies that are easy to see and kill, be it a market, a wedding or a whole fucking city (in WWII). And then there is derangement of vicarious participants, some of whom we cited; not as uncouth as literally writing that Ruskies and Hez got what they asked for by having a passenger plane blown up and bombs in a residential “Hezbollah stronghold”, but almost explicitly writing so.
And the hallmark of the insane is the denial. I found that it is next to impossible to convince someone that incineration of whole cities is a bad thing. We are talking about educated folks who vicariously participated in WWII by reading books or watching movies. And currently Muslim immigrants in Europe are vicarious participants in bloody wars, and some are actual former participants. While in countries like Afghanistan, Syria and Libya basically everybody has traumatic stress disorder (not post traumatic, since the shit is ongoing). So the question is if “The West” is an innocent victim here?
To the degree that The West foments wars and concomitant insanity, not really. And wars were, and are, fomented in too many ways to list in a short post, but the chief ways is to bomb directly, assist bombing campaigns, provide weapons, money, training, and encouraging “our partner countries in the region” to do it, including proving rebels with weapons that by agreement, cannot be distributed without a permission. Which, alas, creates an unhealthy mental environment that can reach back home.
Posted by: Piotr Berman | Nov 14 2015 17:00 utc | 92
French bombings? Target: Syria
The French bombings, whether a false flag or not, couldn’t have been done by poor, recently arrived, disenfranchised refugees. That is idiotic thinking driven by visceral bigotry. An operation of this kind needs a large logistic and support network, security houses, transportation, weapons stashing, documents counterfeiting, target acquisition, surveillance, rehearsals on site, encrypted communications, high levels of compartmentalization and more than basic knowledge of clandestine operations.
This was not a rag-tag guerrilla launching a media coup. Urban guerrilla operations are far more complicated and dangerous than countryside, rural ambushes/attacks. The possibilities of a mistake ruining the operation are higher, given the more populated environment, chance encounters, suspicious neighbors, and large concentration of the security apparatus. An attack of this kind has to be carried away by a well-trained, highly disciplined military organization, and in this particular case, it could have been either helped by a foreign intel organization, or by a domestic one, either actively or by laissez-faire, laissez-passer. After the attack on stupid Charlie Hebdo, one would have expected the French to elevate their security levels, and be able to nip in the bud yesterday’s attacks.
As it is his usual, b offered us a well supported bird-view of the attack and its political background, setting the tone for an amazingly rich comment section, with a few exceptions. Thank you b, and everyone else who has contributed to the debunking of the lies and deceit behind the latest French comedy, with Hollande as the main clown. No clandestine military operative worth its name will carry a passport to an operation where he/she is expected to die, unless they have been offered a fly to Beirut via Air France in case of survival, in lieu of the 72 virgins. Declaring the attack as an “act of war” calls in NATO’s dogs, with Dr. Strangelove and his Norwegian Spitz Stoltenberg, who never stopped barking at the Russian bear, ready to go in support of the “Charles de Gaulle” Syrian General Mohammed Issa promised to blow into bits if it nears the Syrian coast. I truly hope he is serious.
Now we can only wait for the French comedy and the MSM circus to quiet down, to see what will be the fall out of the French 9/11. Hollande is one of the few French presidents I could call an idiot, usually, right or left, they are very smart. Hollande is the exception. He might decide to make the reaction to this attack the mark of his presidency, and with that, he could dig further down the hole, or make some corrections to his shortsighted policy vis-à-vis Syria.
Let us wait and see.
Posted by: Lone Wolf | Nov 14 2015 17:38 utc | 96
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