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

Tue, 2015-05-26 13:50

NDPP

US Intelligence Predicted: US Support for Rebels in Syria Would Lead to Fall of Ramadi

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/05/us-intelligence-predicted-us-suppor...

"Three new news items provide that the Obama administration as well as Turkey and other countries, have knowingly created the current situation in Syria and Iraq. They knew that their support of the opposition which from the beginning included Al Qaeda would likely lead to the creation of an Islamic State."

The West and ISIS

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/22/the-west-and-isis/

"...Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, supported by Russia, are currently leading the 'real' struggle against the savagery of IS. Yet each of them is regarded as a threat to regional stability and Western interests and scorned as such."

The Head of the GRU Accuses US and Allies of Creating the Transnational 'Islamist Terrorist Network'

http://thesaker.is/the-head-of-the-gru-accuses-us-and-allies-of-creating...

"The point is that the head of Russian military intelligence is openly declaring that the so-called 'Islamic terrorism' is not an original or indigenous phenomenon, but an instrument in the toolset of western imperialism which is used to subvert countries which dare oppose the worldwide hegemony of the AngloZionist Empire."

Tue, 2015-05-26 13:59

#153

NDPP

What is the Canadian military doing in this conflict? Here's the answer:

ISIS Poses Bigger Threat After Nearly a Year of Coalition Bombing

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/isis/poses-bigger-threat-after-nearly-a-yea...

"Islamist group is now a more immediate risk to more people, larger centres than ever."

Mission accomplished.

Tue, 2015-05-26 19:36

#154

iyraste1313

The extravagant press campain about the fall of Palmyra may be the preparation of public opinion for a true military engagement against Daesh. That would be the meaning of the meeting of the 22 members of the Coalition (and 2 international organisations) in Paris, set for the 2nd June. Until then, the Pentagon will have to decide whether they are going to destroy the Islamic Emirate or displace them and use them for other tasks. Three possible destinations may be under consideration – move the jihadists to Libya, to black Africa, or to the Caucasus.

If they do not act, Iran will not sign, and the war will grind on to its paroxysm, because the fall of Palmyra under the action of the jihadists – fabricated by the West – will have the same consequences as the seizure of the region by Aurelin’s legions. Already, the survival of the « Axis of Resistance » is threatened – meaning the coalition Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon-Palestine. Hezbollah is considering a decree for general mobilisation.

Thierry Meyssan

so is Canada to take part in this imperialist adventurism, will they participate in these meetings?

you just can´t but note the cynicism re our mass media war propagandists

Tue, 2015-05-26 20:09

#155

NDPP

Good questions. And more...

Lack of US Air Support in Ramadi Points to Disguised Darker Aims

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/05/lack-of-us-air-support-in-ramadi-po...

"Why were there so few US air attacks on the IS attackers when they took Ramadi? Why are Islamic State fighters free to travel the roads between Syria and Iraq in mass?"

Wed, 2015-05-27 08:51

#156

NDPP

Russia Warns Against ISIL Influence on CIS Borders

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/05/27/413065/Russia-ISIL-CIS-borders-...

"A Russian security official has warned against the spillover of the ISIL Takfiri group's influence to the borders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

'There was no terrorism in the countries where it (ISIL) is active now until a totally unacceptable outside interference which occurred without UN Security Council permission took place,' Putin added."

Wed, 2015-05-27 13:10

#157

ikosmos

Iranian cartoonists attacks ISIS & its ‘arrogant supporters’ with caricature competition (IMAGES)

It seems the Iranians have noticed that Israel is never targeted by ISIS and has been providing medical and other sorts of aid to the brutal fighters ...

Wed, 2015-05-27 16:50

#158

NDPP

Islamic State's Expansion Turning Into Global Threat Number One

http://tass.ru/en/opinions/797090

"A wide-ranging expansion of the Islamic State (ISIS) that has seized a sizable part of Iraq and Syria is turning into a threat to the entire Middle East and, on top of that, for the whole world since this movement has an international composition, Tass was told..."

Wed, 2015-05-27 19:11

#159

iyraste1313

Author: Gordon Duff Tel Aviv Speaks: “Palmyra Must Be Destroyed”
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/05/25/tel-aviv-speaks-palmyra-must-be-destroyed/

...can much of this be credible?

The Pentagon, or rogue elements controlling it plus Mossad, Turkey, Saudi Arabia in support of ISIS...and with plans soon for meetings of the powers actively fighting ISIS including Russia, possibly BRICS, Iran, Hezbollah, Syria...

No doubt the on the grounds leadership of ISIS will not be stopped as they are verging on Damascas and Baghdad...

this is beginning to seem we are approaching world war through ISIS as proxy....

Is Canada serious about fighting ISIS?

Who exactly in the Pentagon may be offering complicit support, by blocking any serious interference in their advances, while they continue be be supported with arms and training......

Will Russia intervene to stop the fall of Damascas? And as they believe ISIS is a proxy of the Pentagon?

Thu, 2015-05-28 04:02

#160

NDPP

US Funding ISIS and Promoting Civil War For Hegemony and Profit

http://off-guardian.org/2015/05/03/us-funding-isis-and-promoting-civil-w...

"...ISIL today continues at a more diabolical extreme - originally funded and armed by the very US-led forces now dropping bombs on it in Syria. Israel even gives ISIL terrorists hospital service on the Syrian border after Mossad and the CIA trained them as a largely ex-Saddam jihad army. All of this seems quite insanely contradictory. But all promotes civil wars and they render peoples helpless against foreign money control.

If one wonders how a desert-crawling line of Japanese open-back trucks gifted by the US, filled with countless irregular fighters in plain view could ever have made it overnight to the point where Western military and political leaders are saying 'the war against ISIL may be interminable,' one begins to see through the game.

ISIL is a construction financed and trained by covert US and oil king allies that ruins every place it enters, like Syria once the regime begins to win the civil war. Al Nusra/Al Qaeda was not enough. ISIL is a step up in the US-led control of the Middle East by terror, chaos and social devastation.."

Mon, 2015-06-01 13:16

#161

NDPP

USA Creaed ISIS

https://youtu.be/PFB4c0OVEtM

"Independent German journalist Ken Jebsen talks about declassified documents, which confirm that the IS was created by the US government and its intellgence services."

Mon, 2015-06-01 21:26

#162

NDPP

'US is Using ISIS Like An Attack Dog' (and podcast)

http://rt.com/op-edge/263993-us-weapons-isis-mosul/

"The so-called Islamic State is the kind of group the US wanted for years - but couldn't get - to put pressure on the Syrian government. At the same time, it didn't stop the IS advance in Iraq and in Syria, political analyst Jeremy Salt told RT.

'I think this is a long-term strategy - and Israel is partner to this - is to break up the central lands of the Middle East into mini ethno religious mini-states. It suits Israel's purpose and it would suit America's purposes.'

Sun, 2015-06-07 09:59

#163

NDPP

And the Winner of the Jihad World Cup Is... - by Pepe Escobar

http://rt.com/op-edge/265474-isis-syria-iraq-rebels/

"The US-assembled coalition of the willing that-supposedly - is fighting ISIS/ISIL/DAESH across 'Syraq' met in Paris this week. In theory they'd examine what to do next after the loss of Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria.

The coalition, also barely mentioned Syria. There is absolutely no ideological/religious difference between Jabhat al Nusra, al-Qaeda's branch in Syria - and ISIS/ISIL/DAESH. And yet Qatar and Turkey are totally in bed with al-Nusra, while suggesting they are opposing the fake Caliphate.

The fiction remains that the coalition is supporting remaining 'moderate rebels' of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). There are no 'moderate' rebels left; they all migrated to al Nusra or ISIS/ISIL/DAESH because that's where the [money and] action is - from tons of weapons to actual military prowess on the ground.

It gets nastier when we know that Doha - via al Jazeera Arabic - now poses as an official sponsor of al-Nusra; inviting their leaders on air. Their 'mission' in Syria remains regime change; exactly what Doha, Ankara, Riyadh, Tel Aviv [Ottawa] and - for that matter - Washington want.

The bottom line: chaos will contine to prevail. ISIS/ISIL/DAESH will keep advancing in Syria, immune to Pentagon firepower..."

Mon, 2015-06-08 13:41

#164

NDPP

Interview with ISIS: RT Talks to Detained Fighters in Iraq

https://youtu.be/lZS6Y9DxtIk

"The Americans have destroyed us and also other countries, and so if I have the opportunity to fight them I will do so..."

Tue, 2015-06-09 02:28

#165

NorthReport

What ISIS Really Wants

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths.

It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse.

Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wan...

Fri, 2015-06-12 07:39

#166

NDPP

Turkish Intelligence Agency Giving ISIL Safe Passage into Syria

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/06/12/415486/Turkey-Syria-ISIL-Nation...

"Newly surfaced video footage has corroborated widespread assertions that the Turkish government's intelligence agency has been ensuring ISIL terrorists safe passage into Syria.

The center-left Turkish daily, Cumhuriyet, integrated the videos in a Thursday report implicating the National Intelligence Organization (MIT)in assisting the notorious Takfiri group."

Sat, 2015-06-13 22:41

#167

NDPP

CrossTalk: 'Obama's Failure (and vid)

http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/266647-islamic-state-obama-jihadist/

"The Islamic State continues to thrive and establish itself as a power base in the Middle East. Though it must be pointed out that its strength today is only the result of the West's habit of playing around with jihadist groups who later turn on their masters.

Is this intentional chaos or policy recklessness? CrossTalking with Ramzy Baroud, Danny Makki and Mohammed Ghanen."

Sun, 2015-06-28 15:29

#168

NDPP

The Pentagon's New Boogeyman

http://off-guardian.org/2015/06/28/the-pentagons-new-boogeymen-the-rise-...

"The rise of ISIS and the decline of Al Qaeda..."

Mon, 2015-06-29 00:50

#169

NDPP

Wahhabism: Religious Deviance and Fountainhead of Radicalism and Extremism - by Catherine Shakdam

http://rt.com/op-edge/270280-wahhabism-terrorism-isis-islam/

"Muslims are caught in the eye of a ferocious storm as Islamic State spreads across 3 continents. This terror we have labeled as Islamic terrorism could not be further remote from Islam.

Wahhabism is merely the misguided expression of one man's political ambitions - Mohammed Abdel Wahhab, a bigot who was recruited by the British Empire to erode the fabric of Islam and crack the armor of the then - Ottoman Empire by breeding sectarianism and dissent.

It is Abdel Wahhab's alliance to the House of Saud that ultimately unleashed this now seemingly unstoppable evil we know today..."

*An excellent explanation of the British imperial origins of weaponized Wahhabism and its present iteration including Islamic State (IS).*

Fri, 2015-07-03 04:52

#170

NDPP

Chris Hedges on America's Fight Against ISIS (and vid)

http://rt.com/bulletin-board/270859-rt-america-june30/

@ 3:34

"...Chris Hedges says that America's continued use of military power and violence has done more harm than good in the battle against the Islamic State. He also gives his opinion on what has been behind ISIS's continual growth to RT's Alexey Yaroshevsky, following the group's first year of control in the region."

Thu, 2015-07-09 23:40

#171

NDPP

When It Comes to 'Islamic State' The West Just Doesn't Get It

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42338.htm

"Atrocity of part of IS strategy, a deliberate, planned policy which was first outlined ten years ago in a Salifi-jihadi 'treatise' entitled 'The Management of Savagery'..."

Thu, 2015-07-23 06:33

#172

Doug Woodard

Might the Islamic State be viable?

http://nyti.ms/1Vomrvz

Mon, 2015-07-27 02:34

#173

NDPP

George Galloway's Comment: 'How Is ISIL Funded?'

http://www.presstv.com/Video/2015/07/24/421646/ISIL-Saudi-Arabia-Turkey-...

George Galloway and his listeners explore the question and related matters.

Sat, 2015-08-01 17:29

#174

NDPP

US Air Force Providing Air Transit For ISIL Leaders in Iraq

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940505001396

"A US chopper landed in areas under the control of the ISIL terrorist group in Western Iraq and flew away to an unknown destination with several ISIL commanders on board minutes later, Iraqi intelligence sources disclosed on Monday..."

Sun, 2015-08-02 12:09

#175

iyraste1313

veteranstoday.com Gordon Duff

Who is Lying About the War?

This is a must read! A clear exposition of the contradictions of Canada´s political system in support of ISIS!

Fri, 2015-08-07 22:16

#176

Paladin1

We would probably see more outrage if they were lions.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/ISIS-executes-19-wo...

Quote:
The ISIS militant group has executed 19 women in its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul for refusing to have sex with fighters, a Kurdish official has claimed.

Said Mimousini, a spokesperson for the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), said that ISIS's treatment of women and dealings with money were proving to be increasingly divisive within the organisation's own ranks.

Fri, 2015-08-07 22:21

#177

Basement Dweller

I thought they preferred goats.

Wed, 2015-08-12 12:02

#178

NDPP

Taliban Condemns 'Irresponsible Ignorant' ISIS For Graphic Execution Of Afghan Prisoners

http://www.rt.com/news/312256-taliban-isis-condemns-killing/

"The Taliban strongly condemned a graphic Islamic State video showing the murder of Afghan prisoners. The captives are blown up with explosives. 'Al Qaeda was terrorism version 1. ISIS is version 6', Afghan President Ghani told RT."

Thu, 2015-08-13 17:05

#179

Paladin1

ISIS believes it's not rape if you pray before and after.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/isis-enshrines-a-theology-of-rape/ar...

Quote:

QADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted.

He bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her.

When it was over, he knelt to pray again, bookending the rape with acts of religious devotion.

“I kept telling him it hurts — please stop,” said the girl, whose body is so small an adult could circle her waist with two hands. “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God,” she said in an interview alongside her family in a refugee camp here, to which she escaped after 11 months of captivity.

Sat, 2015-08-15 14:12

#180

Brachina

Paladin1 wrote:

ISIS believes it's not rape if you pray before and after.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/isis-enshrines-a-theology-of-rape/ar...

Quote:

QADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted.

He bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her.

When it was over, he knelt to pray again, bookending the rape with acts of religious devotion.

“I kept telling him it hurts — please stop,” said the girl, whose body is so small an adult could circle her waist with two hands. “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God,” she said in an interview alongside her family in a refugee camp here, to which she escaped after 11 months of captivity.

After reading that I want to puke, and I have a high threshold for the disgusting and disturbing.

Sat, 2015-08-15 16:49

#181

NDPP

ISIS Leader Reportedly Raped American Hostage

http://www.rt.com/usa/312501-isis-leader-raped-american-hostage/

"The leader of the Islamic State extremist group, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, raped an American hostage multiple times before she died earlier this year, according to a new report by ABC News.."

Brit Grandad Who Sold Off Possessions to Join Anti-ISIS Group, Speaks to RT (and vid)

http://www.rt.com/news/312520-isis-islamic-foreigners-british/

"Jim Atherton, 53, a van driver for the past 20 years with two grandchildren, has no formal military training. He decided to fight ISIS after seeing media reports of the group's atrocities."

Sat, 2015-08-15 17:04

#182

alan smithee alan smithee's picture

Our brave heroes at work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVckcpGzipQ

Sun, 2015-08-16 13:36

#183

Paladin1

alan smithee wrote:

Our brave heroes at work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVckcpGzipQ

Please continue ignoring 11 year olds being raped today and post more 11 year old videos of US soldiers shooting people (with no context I'll add, some comments point out it's from the battle of Fallujah where civilians were ordered evacuated weeks prior ).

Discussing how to help these men women and children being brutalized isn't as important as bashing the US.

Sun, 2015-08-16 19:14

#184

alan smithee alan smithee's picture

Move to the States and vote for Trump.already.

Er.excuse me,judging by your posts you're probably a Ted Cruz fan.

Sun, 2015-08-16 19:21

#185

Paladin1

Quote:
On June 26, the same day that the Supreme Court of the United States released its landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, ISIS released a video of four different men being thrown from a building in Dir Zour, Syria, to be stoned by an awaiting crowd

http://www.ibtimes.com/isis-throws-gay-men-roof-syria-releases-photos-re...

alan smithee wrote:

Er.excuse me,judging by your posts you're probably a Ted Cruz fan.

I don't get it? I had to google the name. Ted Cruz the Cuban-American who was born in Canada and a senator from Texas. If it's a jab I'm sorry but it's over my head.

Sun, 2015-08-16 19:37

#186

Paladin1

Alan (or anyone for that matter) let me poise a straight forward question.

As a caveat yes horrible things are going on all over the world including in our back yard.

This questions pretains soley to ISIS and the situation in Iraq and Syria.

1. Should we as a country involve ourselves with what is happening in Iraq and Syria or should we ignore it?

2. If you believe we should be involved then what should we do to help the people being raped and tortured right now?

Sun, 2015-08-16 22:59

#187

Unionist

Time to ally with Hamas and Hezbollah to destroy the Islamic State:

[url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hamas-hezbollah-denounce-isis-reject-own-bl..., Hezbollah denounce ISIS, reject own blacklisting by Canada[/url]

Sun, 2015-08-16 23:29

#188

NDPP

Hezbollah's Gen-Sec Hasan Nasrallah on US and IS: (40:00)

"Believe me, the real American project in the region is partition. Partioning Syria, partitioning Iraq, even partitioning Saudi Arabia. This is America's interest and the interest of Israel. Today America is using ISIL for the sake of dividing the region. Whether ISIL knows this or not. They want to use ISIL in Syria, just as they are using ISIL in Iraq.

America is not serious about fighting ISIL. America wants to take advantage of ISIL in order to redraw the borders in the region once again. In order to topple governments, in order to topple regimes, and in order to draw new maps. America and America's allies and tools in the region are using terrorists to impose their conditions. This is what is taking place. We must all be vigilant to these American tricks.."

https://www.shiatv.net/video/1286147779

Tue, 2015-08-18 00:51

#189

NDPP

'It's A Real Massacre, But the World is Silent'

https://youtu.be/9OIfeVY0Ri0

"Up to 200 people killed by ISIS in Libya's Sirte."

Wed, 2015-08-19 08:01

#190

NDPP

Arab League Urges Military Support For Libya in Fight Against Daesh (ISIL)

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/08/19/425401/Arab-League-Libya-Daesh-...

Daesh Beheads Top Archaeologist in Syria's Palmyra

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/08/19/425392/Daesh-beheading-archaeol...

Who's To Blame For ISIS?

https://youtu.be/-8EIoMWsrZA

"US Presidential candidates blame each other for ISIS emergence."

Wed, 2015-08-19 08:18

#191

NDPP

Yazidi Female Fighters Brigade Take Revenge on ISIS

http://en.alalam.ir/news/1730275

"Sun Girls' Brigade says 'They rape our people, but we kill them."

Tue, 2015-08-25 01:33

#192

NDPP

'I Would Rather Sacrifice My Life': Yazidi Women Fight ISIS (and vid)

http://www.rt.com/news/313275-yazidi-women-fight-isis/

"For IS militants, being killed by a woman means going to hell. When IS militants hear female voices they get very scared."

Tue, 2015-08-25 12:17

#193

NDPP

Harrowing Images Show ISIS 'Demolishing' Syria's Ancient Palmyra Temple (Photos)

http://www.rt.com/news/313373-isis-destroy-palmyra-temple/

"Islamic State militants have released photos showing what appears to be the destruction of the ancient Baal Shanin temple in Syria's Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site recently captured and vandalized by the jihadists.

The Baal Shamin temple, which used to be the best preserved building at Palmyra, was blown up on Sunday, according to officials. The temple, dedicated to a Semitic deity was built nearly 2,000 years ago and further enlarged by Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD..."

Thu, 2015-08-27 14:28

#194

NDPP

Canadian Businessman Rescues Christian, Yazidi Sex Slaves Captured by ISIS (and vid)

http://www.rt.com/news/313602-canadian-saves-isis-slaves/

"Canadian businessman Steve Maman, jumped into action by launching the Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq (CYCI) an organization aimed at returning victims to their loved ones. Maman's organization, which operates on crowdsourced funding and money from the Montreal Jewish community, has managed to successfully save women and girls from a life of sex slavery..."

Thu, 2015-08-27 14:46

#195

NDPP

The Buried Canadian State Connection to ISIS

https://youtu.be/IlDDpt65Tuo

"Revisits a March 2015 scandal which exposed the direct connection between the pro-Zionist Harper regime and ISIS and how the mainstream media refused to follow up on it."

Sat, 2015-09-05 09:27

#196

Paladin1

Sat, 2015-09-05 17:44

#197

Mr. Magoo

I think that would be a bit gratuitous even WITH a comment.

Sat, 2015-09-05 18:38

#198

NDPP

Petraeus Wants to Use Al Qaeda To Fight ISIS (and vid)

http://www.rt.com/shows/big-picture/314334-fight-isis-us-republican/

"General Petraeus' plan to arm Al Qaeda to fight Islamic State with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson."

Sat, 2015-09-05 19:41

#199

Mr. Magoo

I'm confident that ISIS/ISIL only wants a mutual ceasefire, and a lasting peace.

Sat, 2015-09-05 21:01

#200

Paladin1

Mr. Magoo wrote:

I think that would be a bit gratuitous even WITH a comment.

I find it interesting how Canada (and other countries) are outraged because of this picture and protesting in the streets. Yet young girls, children, are being gang raped and traded like hockey cards and other children are being shot or having their heads cut off and put on spikes and people seemed more inclined to ignore it. "Not our fight".

I wonder whats so special about this picture.

Sat, 2015-09-05 21:15

#201

Mr. Magoo

If your point is that ISIS/ISIL are a big factor in all of this, I would agree. If your point were that ISIS/ISIL are a bigger factor than a few Canadian troops and one outdated and outgunned airplane, I'd also agree. But in terms of what's at stake, I'm not sure we need to see that picture to get it. We will, or we won't.

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

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