Who is the Islamic State? (aka ISIS, aka ISIL)

The Grand Saudi Reversal (and vid) -  by Thierry Meyssan

http://www.voltairenet.org/article185132.html

"While for the past 35 years Saudi Arabia has supported all the jihadist movements to the most extremist, Riyadh seems suddenly to have changed policy.

Threatened in its very existence by a possible attack from the Islamic Emirate, Saudi Arabia gave the signal for the destruction of the organization.

But contrary to appearances, the EIS remains supported by Turkey and Israel who sell their looted oil..."

US Not Serious in Fighting ISIL Takfiris: Analyst (and vid)

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/09/08/378056/us-not-serious-in-fighti...

"A political analyst has cast doubt on Washington's sincerity in its anti-ISIL efforts, says the US is not after eradicating such Takfiri groups in a bid to pursue its own objectives in the region, said Ibrahim Mousawi, stressing that the White House seeks to derive benefit from the extremist terrorists 'rather than eradicating the problem from its roots.'

ISIL took control of large swathes of Syria before sending its members into neighboring Iraq in June and seizing large parts of land there."

 

US Seeks To Turn ISIL on Russia: Analyst (and vid)

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/09/08/378103/us-seeking-to-turn-isil-...

"The United States is a 'desperate' and 'crumbling' imperial power that is using terrorist groups like ISIL to break up its foreign adversaries, with Russia being the next potential target, an analyst in Maine says.

The US government and its allies like Saudi Arabia funded and trained ISIL for many years, said Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network aginst Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.

The US and its regional allies are using the vicious terrorist organization to target nations like Iraq, Syria, Russia and Iran, Gagnon told Press TV during a phone interview on Monday..."

 

George Galloway's Comment: UK Reacts Amid ISIL Threat (and vid)

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/09/05/377756/uk-reacts-amid-isil-threat/

"British PM David Cameron has vowed that the ISIL terrorist group will 'be squeezed out of existence' as the militants threaten to kill a British hostage..."

The Caliphate's Anti-Imperial/Imperial Dualism

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2014/09/the-caliphates-anti-imperialimperia...

"ISIS, the group now claiming a Caliphate, might have had roots in some sectarian scheme the CIA and US Special Forces were running in Iraq. But it has now far exceeded that realm.

There is not that much difference between the unaltered Wahhabi ideology ISIS espouses and the puritanical beliefs of the first white conquerors in North America. The anti-imperial/imperial duality is only one commonality. Indeed I believe that there are quite a lot of parallels between both movements."

Barack Obama, the Islamic State and America's Never-Ending War in the Middle East  -  by Hillary Leverett

http://goingtotehran.com/barack-obama-the-islamic-state-and-americas-nev...

"...Obama's pledge to boost America's 'support to forces fighting these terrorists on the ground,' will put the US in the surreal position of combating the threat to US interests posed by jihadi fighters by funding, arming and training...jihadi fighters."

Come soon to a Canadian country near you?

Australia plans ban on foreign ‘hate preachers’

http://www.salon.com/2014/10/08/australia_plans_ban_on_foreign_hate_prea...

ISIS Imitators Discussed Attacks on U.S. Targets in Canada

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-imitators-discussed-at...

291 Days of 'Islamic Justice': Shell Shocked Syrian Town Freed After Savage Massacre  -  by Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb051014.htm

"Last week's battle for Adra al Omalia was a significant turning point. The town is now liberated but the story of what tool place here over the past 291 days is presently emerging, and it is a horrifying one..."

ISIS militants march on despite airstrikes, international outrage

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/13/world/meast/isis-developments/index.html?h...

ISIS: The street gang on steroids

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/opinion/densley-isis-gangs/?cid=ob_article...

“Terrorist” sword seized in Australian police raids is plastic

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/13/raid-o13.html

The entire affair underscores the advanced decay of every institution of bourgeois democracy. The government, the parliamentary opposition, the judiciary, the police and the media all participated in an operation, which could have been taken from a military handbook on psy-ops, to instil fear in the Australian population and to justify war and stepped-up state repression.

UK terror investigation: Three more arrested

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/13/world/europe/uk-terror-arrests/index.html?...

A Caliph In A Wilderness of Mirrors  -  by Pepe Escobar

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-151014.html

'I'm aiming at you, lover. Cause killing you is killing myself...'

The Lady From Shanghai, dir. Orson Welles, 1947

Why You Can Hardly Believe A Word of What You Read About ISIS  -  by William Blum

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/17/why-you-cant-believe-nary-a-word-...

"You can't believe a word [Canada,] the United States or its mainstream media say about the current conflict involving the Islamic State (ISIS)..."

America's Chechen Proxy Fighters: The Big Picture Everone Has Missed  -  by Henry Kamens

http://journal-neo.org/2014/10/19/america-s-chechen-proxy-fighters-the-b...

"The media is awash with expert commentary on the various world trouble spots. Many of the reports you see make similar claims about the presence of ethnic Chechens amongst the various fighting forces in Iraq, Syria, Kenya, Ukraine and other war-torn states that the US has vested interests in.

On July 22, Cristina Maza, writing in the Balkanist, stated that 'according to Murad Batal al-Shishani, a London-based expert on Islamic groups and a specialist on Islamic movements in Chechnya, the majority of the Chechen fighters in Syria right now are from the Pankisi Gorge.' [Georgia]

The Chechens being recruited in the Pankisi Gorge did not end up there by accident, they were inserted by the CIA and funded and trained in terrorist warfare by the CIA in order to destabilize other countries the US was interested in. One of the Chechens who appeared in Pankisi Gorge at that time was Imran Akhmadov. He is one of the leaders of ISIL.

He had in fact been provided with a fake Georgian passport, in the name Kavtarashvili, and shipped to Turkey by the US Embassy when people started enquiring about him. The snipers in Maidan Square, who shot at everyone indiscriminately and were also described as Chechens, were similarly removed from the scene and sent to Syria, on fake Georgian passports when it was reported that they were neither protesters nor Ukrainian security services personnel.

All we are seeing now is part of a long lasting, co-ordinated programme of state-sponsored terrorism conducted by the guardians of freedom and democracy, using people it labels as terrorists who it has armed and trained to do all these things. Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, all the conflicts we are seeing are part of the same programme..."

 

Paladin1 wrote:

I wonder if this is ISIS related.

"You" wonder, do you?

I guess that's what Harper wants you to wonder, having planted a question by one of his MPs this afternoon:

Quote:

En réponse à une question plantée de l'un de ses députés, le premier ministre Stephen Harper a déclaré que les informations entourant cet accident étaient «troublantes» et que le gouvernement suivait la situation de près.

[url=http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/421580/militaires-...

Anyway, I think the insinuation that the two Canadian Forces personnel are somehow linked to ISIS is offensive. We should be supporting our troops, especially in wartime, not undermining them.

 

Harpo is already using the term a 'terrorist attack'

Thge other day he was cryptic warning about ebola 'hitting our shores' and now 'terror' has.

The fear mongering that he hopes will win him another election.

Paladin1 wrote:

alan smithee wrote:

Harpo is already using the term a 'terrorist attack'

 

 

That seems really quick considering the apparent lack of details in this story.

LOL! But not too quick to speculate about ISIS, eh? Who needs details? We're at fucking war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Unionist wrote:

Paladin1 wrote:

alan smithee wrote:

Harpo is already using the term a 'terrorist attack'

 

 

That seems really quick considering the apparent lack of details in this story.

LOL! But not too quick to speculate about ISIS, eh? Who needs details? We're at fucking war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

You're starting to heat up, maybe time for one of those famous showers :)

Well I was wrong it wasn't ISIS related, just a standard jihad.

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2014/10/20/homme-tue-par-des-policiers-...

 

Acknoledged Meg, no pissing conests in the shower or out :)

laine lowe wrote:

Our media, governments and police are stupid twits - especially if they expect us to swallow this bullshit.

I wish you were right, laine. I don't think they're stupid at all. History shows that bloodcurdling panic-mongering can lead people to do horrible things, against their neighbours, against themselves - overnight - especially when there's no profound tradition and movement of opposition. A few horror stories about Indigenous warriors, or Muslim radicals, or Japanese, or Ukrainians, or Jews, ... or about Saddam or Gaddafi or Taliban or ISIS... and anything goes. You know the history in Canada and abroad as well as I do.

Harper planted a question in the House just so as to sow the "terrorism" seed, so as to: 1) retroactively justify his plunging Canada into a criminal act of aggression and war; and 2) prepare the terrain for more repressive legislation. I wish we could rely entirely on people's intelligence to oppose what he's doing.

 

Unionist wrote:

laine lowe wrote:

Our media, governments and police are stupid twits - especially if they expect us to swallow this bullshit.

I wish you were right, laine. I don't think they're stupid at all. History shows that bloodcurdling panic-mongering can lead people to do horrible things, against their neighbours, against themselves - overnight - especially when there's no profound tradition and movement of opposition. A few horror stories about Indigenous warriors, or Muslim radicals, or Japanese, or Ukrainians, or Jews, ... or about Saddam or Gaddafi or Taliban or ISIS... and anything goes. You know the history in Canada and abroad as well as I do.

Harper planted a question in the House just so as to sow the "terrorism" seed, so as to: 1) retroactively justify his plunging Canada into a criminal act of aggression and war; and 2) prepare the terrain for more repressive legislation. I wish we could rely entirely on people's intelligence to oppose what he's doing.

 

Reducing this to "a few horror stories" is wrong. "Religious" extremism almost always targets women specifically. A simple beheading isn't enough. Women need to be stripped naked, raped, tortured and then beheaded. Or shot. Or have acid thrown at their faces. Atrocities committed in the name of religion have nothing to do with either culture of spiritual befief. It's about power, and what threatens power.

I agree, some people can be relatively easy to manipulate into committing atrocities. When I put quotes around "religious" I meant to convey that it has little or nothing to do with religion but everything to do with power.

What I see going on with "anti-terrorist" legislation is the manufacturing of consent for the invasion of other countries and the oppression of citizens. Lone individuals aren't terrorists - terrorism is highly organized, hierarchical, patriarchal. To so loosely apply the term "terrorism" to such a wide range of activities (as the Harper government is doing in a way that hasn't been as extreme since the McCarthy era) ensures the word loses its meaning. The word "terrorism" is just another tool in the government arsenal for control of its electorate.

'Women and Children Dumped in a Well': ISIS Massacres 322 Sunni Tribesmen in West Iraq

http://rt.com/news/201719-islamic-state-tribe-massacre/

"The number of people killed by Islamic State from AL Bu Nimr tribe is 322. The bodies of 50 women and children have also been discovered dumped in a well,' the country's Human Rights Ministry said on Sunday. Ga'oud said he had asked the Iraqi central government on numerous occasions to provide his tribe with arms and men but received nothing.

The news comes after around 200 members of the AL Bu Nimr tribe were slaughtered on Thursday..."

 

A History Lesson: What ISIS Learned From Irgun  -  by William Cook

http://mwcnews.net/focus/editorial/47537-isis-learned-from-irgun.html

"Today, the reality that created the state of Israel from the intellectual loins of fanatics offers us an opportunity to understand a critical political issue confronting the nations of the mid-East and indeed the nations that comprise the United Nations.

The existence of ISIS appears on the surface to be a new phenomenon; it is not.

ISIS in Syria borders the Israeli state; the Islamic state as envisaged by ISIS incudes areas designated for Eretz Israel. A battle of beliefs looms in the mid-East with both sides committed to their respective god given lands, both driven by fanatical beliefs in the righteousness of their cause, both determined to prevent the other from succeeding..."

Did Wikileaks predict ISIL/ISIS?

The whistle-blower site docs reveal US State Dept. warnings about the group.

 http://youtu.be/996P9Ap_UV8?list=PLZd3QRtSy5LMOoJCxzddeR1UesZCFVNC1