By
Wayne Madsen
It
is becoming more and more apparent that the Islamic State for Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL), or «Daesh» as it is known in Arabic, or ISIS – the
Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham — preferred by Israel supporters
because of the uncomforting similarity between «Israel» and «ISIL» – is
part of another Central Intelligence Agency operation to artificially
create a new «strategy of tensions» for the Eurasian and African land
masses.
Yet another example of ISIL’s non-Islamic nature has been
witnessed in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra – the blowing up of the
tomb of Mohammad Bin Ali, a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed’s cousin
Imam Ali, by the brigands and mercenaries of ISIL. ISIL’s true goal is
to eradicate the Arab and pre-Arab history of the Middle East with one
major exception. There have been virtually no reports of important
antiquities sacred to the Zionists having been destroyed by ISIL in
either Syria or Iraq. The major targets for the ISIL demolition teams
have been Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Roman, Assyrian, Persian,
Alawite, Druze, Turkmen, Yazidi, Parthian, Christian, Shi’a, and Sufi
(the other major tomb destroyed in Palmyra was the tomb of Nizar Abu
Bahaa Eddine, a Sufi scholar who lived 500 years ago). ISIL destroyed
the Tomb of Yunus (Jonah) Mosque in Iraq not because it honored the
Jewish patriarch Jonah but because it was a mosque.
The alleged
tomb of the Jewish prophet Daniel destroyed by ISIL in Mosul is but one
of six Daniel tombs located in Iraq, Iran, and Uzbekistan. The Talmud,
the Jewish book from which the Zionists obtain most of their
geo-political inspiration, strictly prohibits any images of faces, but
permits owning images of faces created by non-Jews. Although ISIL and
Talmudists are on the same page on destroying sculptures, tiles, and
paintings depicting people, the Talmud’s exception that allows Jews to
own images created by non-Jews has resulted in a lucrative black market
for antiquities stolen by ISIL and sold through brokers in Tel Aviv,
Amsterdam, and Geneva.
It is becoming clear that ISIL, from the
very beginning, was a construct of the CIA and its pro-Saudi and
pro-Israeli director, John Brennan; Israel’s Mossad, which has ensured
that Israeli targets are exempt from ISIL attack; and Saudi Arabia,
which actually permitted ISIL attacks against two Shi’a mosques, one in
the village of al-Qadeeh and the other in Dammam, in the Eastern
Province, where Shi’as have a majority over Wahhabist Sunnis. In Iraq
and Syria, U.S. and Israeli weapons have been seen by eyewitnesses being
transferred to ISIL and forces of its allies, including the Al Nusra
Front in Syria. Saudi bank cash receipts have been found in abandoned
ISIL headquarters in both Syria and Iraq. The ISIL attacks on the Shi’as
of Saudi Arabia are believed by many to be warnings by the unholy
alliance of Washington, Tel Aviv, and Riyadh against predominantly Shi’a
Iran.
From the terrorist Gladio «stay behind» network of
fascists, which carried out terrorist attacks in Europe in the 1970s and
80s that were blamed on leftist irregulars, to the grand alliance of
terrorists from Angola’s UNITA, the Afghan mujaheddin, the Nicaraguan
contras, Laotian Hmongs who, under American auspices, met in 1985 in
Jamba, Angola, the CIA has historically found that terrorist groups make
advantageous allies. The CIA clandestinely and illegally violated two
U.S. laws, the Clark and Boland Amendments, respectively, to support
Angolan and Nicaraguan terrorists.
ISIL now serves as an important
CIA, Saudi, and Israeli asset against common foes like Iran. ISIL has
made no secret of its desire to bring the death and destruction it has
visited upon Syria and Iraq into the heart of Iran. The destabilization
of Iran by sponsoring terrorist attacks in Iran and against Iranian
targets abroad has long been the modus operandi of the U.S., Israel, and
Saudi Arabia, acting mostly through the anti-Tehran Mojahedin-e-Khalq
(MEK) and Baluchi separatists based in Pakistan. ISIL refers to Iran,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan as «Wilayat Khorasan» or
Korasan State. An ISIL affiliate, known as the Khorasan Group, has been
fighting in Syria and is believed to be made up of central Asian ISIL
recruits and commanders.
It was recently announced that Colonel
Gulmurod Khalimov, the one-time head of the Tajikistan elite
anti-terrorism police force, known as OMON, defected to ISIL and is now
one its top field commanders in Syria. Khalimov, who was trained by U.S.
Special Operations, Blackwater, and CIA officers during a number of
official visits to the United States, has vowed to return to the
Tajikistan to «slaughter» Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov, recruit
Tajiks working in Russia to launch terrorist attacks inside Russia
itself and Tajiks in Tajikistan to attack Russian military troops
stationed in Tajikistan (which makes Khalimov an ally of NATO top
military commander General Philip Breedlove and U.S. Defense Secretary
Ashton Carter, who want to increase military pressure on Russia to Cold
War levels). ISIL guerrillas, mostly Chechens, fresh from combat in
Syria and Iraq, have been discovered fighting for Ihor Kolomoisky’s
Israeli- and neo-Nazi-led mercenary battalions against the pro-Russian
forces of Donetsk and Lugansk in Eastern Ukraine.
ISIL has,
conveniently for the West, attacked Taliban forces in Afghanistan. The
Taliban declared ISIL’s self-declared caliphate as illegitimate, and its
caliph leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who may be an artificial product
of the CIA’s and Mossad’s psychological warfare units, to be a fraud.
The Taliban became alarmed as some of its members broke ranks with the
jihadist movement and joined ISIL in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Moreover,
ISIL declared the Taliban to be «kafirs», or unbelievers of Islam. In
April, Al-Baghadi declared the Taliban’s Mullah Omar to be «a fool and
illiterate warlord.» It is no coincidence that ISIL’s rhetoric about the
enigmatic Taliban leader matches nicely with that issued forth by the
U.S. military psy-ops units in Afghanistan at the height of the U.S.
military intervention in that country. In mid-June, ISIL released a
video tape showing its forces decapitating a Taliban prisoner in
Afghanistan.
ISIL has, also, in concert with increasing U.S.
military pressure on China and North Korea, declared jihad or holy war
on the two Asian nations. In May, a North Korean couple, who worked as
doctors at the local hospital in Zallah, Libya, were taken captive by
ISIL in Libya. No word has been received on the fate of the North Korean
husband and wife medical duo. In January, ISIL computer hackers, known
as the «Cyber Caliphate», claimed credit for altering the Facebook page
of Air Koryo, North Korea’s state-owned airline. ISIL’s black and white
flag was pasted on the Facebook page with a statement calling North
Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un «a crying pig.» The ISIL hackers also had a
warning for both North Korea and China: «North Korea, the communist thug
nation, and the Chinese communist thugs will pay a price for their
collaboration with the enemies of the mujahideen».
ISIL propaganda
rhetoric about China and North Korea also coincide with pronouncements
emanating from the U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii about the military
threats posed by Beijing and Pyongyang. North Korea has responded to the
ISIL threats by providing the Type 73 machine gun, manufactured by the
First Machine Industry Bureau of North Korea to Iraqi government and
Kurdish forces fighting against ISIL in Iraq. North Korean military
advisers are also believed to be assisting Syrian government and
Lebanese Hezbollah forces battling ISIL in Syria. South Korea, which
never misses an opportunity to confront North Korea militarily,
permitted a South Korean citizen, known only by the very common Korean
name «Kim», to join ISIL ranks in Syria in February. It is more likely
that «Kim» is a South Korean intelligence agent who is responsible for
coordinating ISIL attacks on North Korean assets in the region,
including the North Korean medical couple in Libya.
Venezuela’s
president Nicolas Maduro, who the CIA is busy trying to overthrow,
called ISIL a «Frankenstein, a monster nursed by the West itself» in a
speech to the United Nations General Assembly in 2014. Not
coincidentally, as President Barack Obama declared that Venezuela posed a
«national security threat» to the United States in March, there were
reports of nascent ISIL activity in Venezuela. The U.S. Army War
College, including Professor Robert Bunker, began issuing statements
that increased ISIL activity in Venezuela would be good for U.S.
national security because ISIL is the natural enemy of Hezbollah, which
the U.S. neocons are claiming has gained a strategic toehold in
Venezuela. The links between ISIL and the West in Latin America have not
been lost on the Western Hemisphere’s sage senior statesman, former
Cuban president Fidel Castro. In September 2014, Castro accused Israel’s
Mossad, in league with Senator McCain, of helping to create ISIL.
The
ultimate perpetrators of ISIL’s ravaging of the Middle East are not to
be found in the deserts of the Middle East and the mountains of
Afghanistan but in the seventh floor director’s suite at CIA
headquarters in Langley. In 1985, the same year the CIA sponsored the
summit of right-wing terrorist groups in Jamba, Angola, the CIA tried to
kill Lebanon’s Shi’a Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allah with a
car bomb in Beirut. The CIA missed the ayatollah but killed 80 innocent
people and wounded 256. Today, the CIA allows ISIL to get its fingers
dirty in carrying out such terrorist attacks from Iraq and Syria to
Yemen and Libya. ISIL cannot be brought to its knees without dealing
harshly with Mr. Brennan and his top advisers.
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