Furthermore, it has also been recently reported on
the basis of intelligence supplied by an ISIS insider (Al-Arabiya's article and
video on the interrogation of an ISIS/ISIL fighter captured in Syria) that Abu
Faisal, also known as Prince Abdul Rahman al-Faisal, the brother of Prince Saud
al-Faisaland Prince Turki al-Faisal, was the actual “supreme
commander” of ISIS/ISIL. Saudi Arabia is thus in command and in
charge of the ISIS and not its Iragi persona who goes under the name of
al-Baghdadi and who was in US custody in Iraq from 2005 till 2009. (For more
interesting background on the ISIS you are advised to look into the previous
link)
All this means whatever the exact identity of the Saudi Prince was that, in the face of the crisis and possible US strikes (however symbolic) against the ISIS in Iraq (and possibly also in Syria), Saudi Arabia is thus publicly and brazenly declaring that the beast, ISIS/al Qaeda, is its own army, child, Frankenstein monster, or bastard (whichever of these you prefer). In a word, Saudi Arabia has found a way of declaring that the monster, whether it is now an army of some 60,000 (at least) or a new state on the map of the Middle East is, indeed, theirs. This should have been a shot that ought to be talked about around the world as much as Yatsenyuk's declaration of the Kiev Nazi commitment to cleanse all the "subhumans" in Ukraine who don't like and oppose Banderite fascism, the junta, the oligarchs, and NATO expansion.
Saudi Arabia is thereby also putting defiantly the
US, which already knows this parentage and foster care, on notice. By revealing
that much--its own Saudi head of the ISIS/al Qaea of Iraq, Saudi Arabia clearly
and quite openly demands that the US treat its ally and their joint progeny as
a good ally, comrade, and conspirator. In other words, Saudi Arabia found it
necessary to impose strict limits on what the US may want to do against or
about the ISIS in Iraq and calls the public, especially in the Middle East,
which follows al Arabiya and developments in Syria, as its witness!
In other words, through its own media channel, Saudi
Arabia has made it known that attack on the ISIS would be clearly tantamount to
an attack on the Saudi royal family itself. And it seems that Saudi Arabia
decided that the stakes are too high and thus decided that the risk of coming
out is worthy it and had to be taken.
Thus we have what appears as a deliberate strategic
leak, which, of course, Western media treat as taboo--they have more important
Newspeak propaganda to report.
Moreover, one cannot fail to see
that the US never was much concerned about the ISIS. The US has not been ever
much concerned about it. What the US really wants is to topple Maliki and, to
this effect, the US is using the ISIS and its threat to achieve its regime
change in Iraq No. 2. In 2003, there was no al Qaeda, but this did not prevent
the US from falsely asserting that it is so. Now, more than ten years later, al
Qaeda in the form of the ISIS has carved out of Iraq and Syria what is
effectively a protectorate or fundamentalist emirate of Saudi Arabia. The US,
however, wants to use the current crisis to remove no really the ISIS, but
Maliki and with him the current Iraqi government. The fact is that Maliki did
not allow the US to stay in after 2010, and his government is too pro-Iranian
in the eyes of the West.
The claim of the "few thousand
fighters of the ISIS" is part of the ongoing PR campaign observed from the
beginning of the attempted regime change in Syria that was meant and tries to
downplay and conceal the prevalent fundamentalist nature of the faux "freedom
fighters" and "moderate rebels" supported by the West and the
fact that al Qaeda armies form the core and the most and best trained and
equipped forces of the force jointly created by the US, Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Qatar, Kuwait, Turkey, and the rest of NATO in their joint push to install a
new dictatorial "World Order" by means of the most reactionary
militants available. This war machine is massive, it is very well trained,
organized, and equipped, and it controls upwards of 5-10 million people in Syria
and Iraq. Few thousand militants can never control that many.
Opinion polling shows that most Iraqi Sunnis are secular-minded. The real ISIS is brutal and fundamentalist though no more than a few thousand in number. Where the Sunnis have rallied to that ISIS or to one of the groups claiming to be ISIS, it is because of severe discontents with their situation after the fall of the Baath Party in 2003 with the American invasion. There estimated to be some 75 small Sunni groups spreading fear by claiming to be ISIS. Some are undercover operatives from all any any of normally allied or enemy countries spreading confusion and seizing territory for, infiltrating and making allies with sundry groups, preparing for greater intrigue as the chaos develops. According to Juan Cole “The populace of Mosul, including town quarters and clan groups (‘tribes’) on the city’s outskirts, appear to have risen up in conjunction with the ISIS advance, as Patrick Cockburn argues. It was a pluralist urban rebellion, with nationalists of a socialist bent (former Baathists and communists) joining in. In some instances locals were suppressed by the fundamentalist guerrillas and there already have been instances of local Sunnis helping the Iraqi army reassert itself in Salahuddin Province and then celebrating the departure of ISIS.” Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait, even with their infiltrators on the ground, are watching the plans they had made to bring Iraq and Syria into their orbit fall to dust amidst the smoke and mirrors conjured up by agents from countries competing for intrigue: Syria, Turkey, Iran, NATO, Israel. How could ISIS be actually funded and trained by this incongruous collection of super-strategists. Add Russian agents to the mix and you almost could forgive the Saudis for feeling betrayed by the very plan they conjured up in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThere are more inconguities: Al-Doori was adopted by a team of American and British spooks in Turkey who were introduced to him to Erdoghan. How many deals with the devil can you make to “free Iraq from oppression”? Is ISIS a Salafist organisation? How do they cope with a Naqashbandi co-leader? Juan Cole also points out that “The Sunni radicals are not a conventional army. There are no lines for the US to bomb, few convoys or other obvious targets. To the extent that their advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk.” Add Iranian Revolutionary Guards to the mix of infiltrators calling themselves ISIS and you could almost forgive the Americans and Israelis for feeling betrayed by the very plan they conjured up with the Saudis in the first place. An Iraqi Insurgent coalition of nearly 80 Sunni Arab tribes known as the Military Council of the Tribes of Iraq has set up a facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/.../%D8%A7%D9.../457868097652422...
Al-Douri is one of the main commanders claimed to be responsible for the successful take over of North Iraq and the city of Mosul in June 2014 by rebel groups (even though Al-Douri is believed to be suffering from leukemia and is said to undergo blood transfusions every six months.) [http://www.nytimes.com/.../12/world/middleeast/iraq.html...]
ReplyDeleteAl-Douri is reportedly the head of the Iraqi rebel group Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order as well as theSupreme Command for Jihad and Liberation based on his longstanding positions of leadership in the Naqshbandi sect in Iraq
The Naqshbandi Army along with other groups lead by former Ba'ath officers are reported to have assumed an increasingly large role in the governance and administration of occupied cities. Militants were reported to have appointed fellow Ba'ath generals Azhar al-Obeidi and Ahmed Abdul Rashid as the governors of Mosul and Tikrit. [https://en.wikipedia.org/.../2014_Northern_Iraq_offensive...]
Brig. Gen. Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed al-Muwali is the leader of al-Awda; another underground Ba'athist movement in Iraq. Following the 2003 War in Iraq he emerged as one of the leading figures among the Iraqi Insurgency and a major rival to Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri. [http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1...] A strange thing happened on On 23 August 2009 when the Iraqi government aired a taped conversation linking two members of the Syria-based Iraqi Baathist movement, Sattam Farhan and Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed, with the 19 August 2009 Baghdad bombings which claimed more than 100 lives. The Syrian foreign ministry denied Syrian involvement in the attack. On 25 August Iraq summoned its ambassador to return from Syria, the Syrian government issued a similar order to its ambassador within hours in retaliation. Responsibility for the attack was later claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq, an Al-Qaeda umbrella group. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8220329.stm]
On 6 December 2004 a captured insurgent, Moyayad Yaseen Ahmad, the leader of Jeish Muhammad, claimed that Ahmed al-Muwali had been elected Secretary of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party at a conference held by a group of Ba'athist fugitives in Al-Hasakah, Syria. This led to to the creation of two separate wings of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party. [http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1...] In August 2013 Ahmed successfully recruited support in Syria from former Iraqi Ba'athists, particularly among the poorer Sunni Arab segment of the refugee population, due in part to Ahmed's ability to offer cash incentives and Syrian residency permits due to his closeness to the Syrian government.
The claim of the "few thousand fighters of the ISIS" is part of the ongoing PR campaign observed from the beginning of the attempted regime change in Syria that was meant and tries to downplay and conceal the prevalent fundamentalist nature of the faux "freedom fighters" and "moderate rebels" supported by the West and the fact that al Qaeda armies form the core and the most and best trained and equipped forces of the force jointly created by the US, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Qatar, Kuwait, Turkey, and the rest of NATO in its push to install a new dictatorial "World Order" by means of the most reactionary militants available. This war machine is massive, it is very well trained, organized, and equipped, and it controls upwards of 5-10 million people in Syria and Iraq. Few thousand militants can never control that many.
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