The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq. Towards the Creation of a US Sponsored Islamist Caliphate
Global Research, June 14, 2014
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The Western media in chorus have described the unfolding conflict in Iraq
as a “civil war” opposing the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham
against the Armed forces of the Al-Maliki government.
(Also referred to as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS))
The conflict is casually described as “sectarian warfare” between Radical
Sunni and Shia without addressing “who is behind the various factions”.
What is at stake is a carefully staged US military-intelligence
agenda.
Known and documented, Al Qaeda affiliated entities have been used by US-NATO
in numerous conflicts as “intelligence assets” since the heyday of the
Soviet-Afghan war. In Syria, the Al Nusrah and ISIS rebels are the foot-soldiers
of the Western military alliance, which oversees and controls the recruitment
and training of paramilitary forces.
The Al
Qaeda affiliated Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) re-emerged in April 2013 with a
different name and acronym, commonly referred to as the Islamic State of Iraq
and Syria (ISIS). The formation of a terrorist entity encompassing both Iraq and
Syria was part of a US intelligence agenda. It responded to geopolitical
objectives. It also coincided with the advances of Syrian government forces
against the US sponsored insurgency in Syria and the failures of both the Free
Syrian Army (FSA) and its various “opposition” terror brigades.
The decision was taken by Washington to channel its support (covertly) in
favor of a terrorist entity which operates in both Syria and Iraq and which has
logistical bases in both countries. The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham’s
Sunni caliphate project coincides with a longstanding US agenda to carve up both
Iraq and Syria into three separate territories: A Sunni Islamist Caliphate, an
Arab Shia Republic, and a Republic of Kurdistan.
Whereas the (US proxy) government in Baghdad purchases advanced weapons
systems from the US including F16 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin, the Islamic
State of Iraq and al-Sham –which is fighting Iraqi government forces– is
supported covertly by Western intelligence. The objective is to engineer a civil
war in Iraq, in which both sides are controlled indirectly by US-NATO.
The scenario is to arm and equip them, on both sides, finance them with
advanced weapons systems and then “let them fight”.
US-NATO is involved in the recruitment, training and financing of ISIS death
squads operating in both Iraq and Syria. ISIS operates through indirect channels
in liaison with Western intelligence. In turn, corroborated by reports on
Syria’s insurgency, Western special forces and mercenaries integrate the ranks
of ISIS.
US-NATO support to ISIS is channeled covertly through America’s staunchest
allies: Qatar and Saudi Arabia. According to London’s Daily Express
“They had money and arms supplied by Qatar and Saudi
Arabia.”
“through allies such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the West [has] supported militant rebel groups which have since mutated into ISIS and other al‑Qaeda connected militias. ( Daily Telegraph, June 12, 2014)
While the media acknowledges that the government of Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki has accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of supporting ISIS, it invariably
fails to mention that both Doha and Riyadh are acting on behalf and in close
liaison with Washington.
Under the banner of a civil war, an undercover war of aggression is being
fought which essentially contributes to further destroying an entire country,
its institutions, its economy. The undercover operation is part of an
intelligence agenda, an engineered process which consists in transforming Iraq
into an open territory.
Meanwhile, public opinion is led to believe that what is at stake is
confrontation between Shia and Sunni.
America’s military occupation of Iraq has been replaced by non-conventional
forms of warfare. Realities are blurred. In a bitter irony, the aggressor nation
is portrayed as coming to the rescue of a “sovereign Iraq”.
An internal “civil war” between Shia and Sunni is fomented by US-NATO support
to both the Al-Maliki government as well as to the Sunni ISIS rebels.
The break up of Iraq along sectarian lines is a longstanding policy of the US
and its allies. (See map of Middle East below)
“Supporting both Sides”
The “War on Terrorism” consists in creating Al Qaeda terrorist entities as
part of an intelligence operation, as well as also coming to the rescue of
governments which are the target of the terrorist insurgency. This process is
carried out under the banner of counter-terrorism. It creates the pretext to
intervene.
ISIS is a caliphate project of creating a Sunni Islamist state. It is not a
project of the Sunni population of Iraq which is broadly committed to secular
forms of government. The caliphate project is part of a US intelligence
agenda.
In response to the advance of the ISIS rebels, Washington is envisaging the
use of aerial bombings as well as drone attacks in support of the Baghdad
government as part of a counter-terrorism operation. It is all for a good cause:
to fight the terrorists, without of course acknowledging that these terrorists
are the “foot soldiers” of the Western military alliance.
Needless to say, these developments contribute not only to destabilizing
Iraq, but also to weakening the Iraqi resistance movement, which is one of the
major objectives of US-NATO.
The Islamic caliphate is supported covertly by the CIA in liaison with Saudi
Arabia, Qatar and Turkish intelligence. Israel is also involved in channeling
support to both Al Qaeda rebels in Syria (out of the Golan Heights) as well to
the Kurdish separatist movement in Syria and Iraq.
More broadly, the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) encompasses a consistent
and diabolical logic: both sides –namely the terrorists and the government– are
supported by the same military and intelligence actors, namely US-NATO.
While this pattern describes the current situation in Iraq, the structure of
“supporting both sides” with a view to engineering sectarian conflict has been
implemented time and again in numerous countries. Insurgencies integrated by Al
Qaeda operatives (and supported by Western intelligence) prevail in a large
number of countries including Yemen, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, Mali, the Central
African Republic, Pakistan. The endgame is to destabilize sovereign nation
states and to transform countries into open territories (on behalf of so-called
foreign investors).
The pretext to intervene on humanitarian grounds (e.g. in Mali, Nigeria or
the Central African Republic) is predicated on the existence of terrorist
forces. Yet these terrorist forces would not exist without covert US-NATO
support.The Capture of Mosul: US-NATO Covert Support to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Something unusual occurred in Mosul which cannot be explained in strictly military terms.
On June 10, the insurgent forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) captured Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, with a population of over one million people. While these developments were “unexpected” according to the Obama administration, they were known to the Pentagon and US intelligence, which were not only providing weapons, logistics and financial support to the ISIS rebels, they were also coordinating, behind the scenes, the ISIS attack on the city of Mosul.
While ISIS is a well equipped and disciplined rebel army when compared to other Al Qaeda affiliated formations, the capture of Mosul, did not hinge upon ISIS’s military capabilities. Quite the opposite: Iraqi forces which outnumbered the rebels by far, equipped with advanced weapons systems could have easily repelled the ISIS rebels.
There were 30,000 government forces in Mosul as opposed to 1000 ISIS rebels, according to reports. The Iraqi army chose not to intervene. The media reports explained without evidence that the decision of the Iraqi armed forces not to intervene was spontaneous characterized by mass defections.
Iraqi officials told the Guardian that two divisions of Iraqi soldiers – roughly 30,000 men – simply turned and ran in the face of the assault by an insurgent force of just 800 fighters. Isis extremists roamed freely on Wednesday through the streets of Mosul, openly surprised at the ease with which they took Iraq’s second largest city after three days of sporadic fighting. (Guardian, June 12, 2014, emphasis added)The reports point to the fact that Iraqi military commanders were sympathetic with the Sunni led ISIS insurgency intimating that they are largely Sunni:
Speaking from the Kurdish city of Erbil, the defectors accused their officers of cowardice and betrayal, saying generals in Mosul “handed over” the city over to Sunni insurgents, with whom they shared sectarian and historical ties. (Daily Telegraph, 13 June 2014)The report is misleading. The senior commanders were largely hardline Shiite. The defections occurred de facto when the command structure collapsed and senior (Shiite) military commanders left the city.
What is important to understand, is that both sides, namely the regular Iraqi forces and the ISIS rebel army are supported by US-NATO. There were US military advisers and special forces including operatives from private security companies on location in Mosul working with Iraq’s regular armed forces. In turn, there are Western special forces or mercenaries within ISIS (acting on contract to the CIA or the Pentagon) who are in liaison with US-NATO (e.g. through satellite phones).
Under these circumstances, with US intelligence amply involved, there would
have been routine communication, coordination, logistics and exchange of
intelligence between a US-NATO military and intelligence command center, US-NATO
military advisers forces or private military contractors on the ground assigned
to the Iraqi Army in Mosul and Western special forces attached to the ISIS
brigades. These Western special forces operating covertly within the ISIS could
have been dispatched by a private security company on contract to US-NATO.
Yaser
Al-Khodor/Courtesy Reuters
In this regard, the capture of Mosul appears to have been a carefully
engineered operation, planned well in advance. With the exception of a few
skirmishes, no fighting took place.
Entire divisions of the Iraqi National Army –trained by the US military with
advanced weapons systems at their disposal– could have easily repelled the ISIS
rebels. Reports suggest that they were ordered by their commanders not to
intervene. According to witnesses, “Not a single shot was fired”.
A contingent of one thousand ISIS rebels takes over a city of more than one million? Without prior knowledge that the US controlled Iraqi Army (30,000 strong) would not intervene, the Mosul operation would have fallen flat, the rebels would have been decimated.The forces that had been in Mosul have fled — some of which abandoned their uniforms as well as their posts as the ISIS forces swarmed into the city.Fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an al-Qaeda offshoot, overran the entire western bank of the city overnight after Iraqi soldiers and police apparently fled their posts, in some instances discarding their uniforms as they sought to escape the advance of the militants. http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/10/mosul-falls-to-al-qaeda-as-us-trained-security-forces-flee/
Who was behind the decision to let the ISIS terrorists take control of Mosul? Who gave them the “green light”
Had the senior Iraqi commanders been instructed by their Western military advisers to hand over the city to the ISIS terrorists? Were they co-opted?
Source: The
Economist
Was the handing over of Mosul to ISIS part of a
US intelligence agenda?
Were the Iraqi military commanders manipulated or paid off into allowing the
city to fall into the hands of the ISIS rebels without “a single shot being
fired”.
Shiite General Mehdi Sabih al-Gharawi who was in charge of
the Mosul Army divisions “had left the city”. Al Gharawi had worked hand in
glove with the US military. He took over the command of Mosul in September 2011,
from US Col Scott McKean. Had he been co-opted, instructed by his US
counterparts to abandon his command?
(image left) U.S. Army Col. Scott McKean,
right, commander, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Armored Division, talks
with Iraqi police Maj. Gen. Mahdi Sabih al-Gharawi following a transfer of
authority ceremony on September 4, 2011
US forces could have intervened. They had been instructed to let it happen.
It was part of a carefully planned agenda to facilitate the advance of the ISIS
rebel forces and the installation of the ISIS caliphate.
The whole operation appears to have been
carefully staged.
In Mosul, government buildings, police stations,
schools, hospitals, etc are formally now under the control of the Islamic State
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In turn, ISIS has taken control of military hardware
including helicopters and tanks which were abandoned by the Iraqi armed
forces.
What is unfolding is the installation of a US
sponsored Islamist ISIS caliphate alongside the rapid demise of the Baghdad
government. Meanwhile, the Northern Kurdistan region has de facto declared its
independence from Baghdad. Kurdish peshmerga rebel forces (which are supported
by Israel) have taken control of the cities of Arbil and Kirkuk. (See map
above)
Concluding Remarks
There were no Al Qaeda rebels in Iraq prior to
the 2003 invasion. Moreover, Al Qaeda was non-existent in Syria until the outset
of the US-NATO-Israeli supported insurgency in March 2011.
The ISIS is not an independent entity. It is a
creation of US intelligence. It is a US intelligence asset, an instrument of
non-conventional warfare.
The ultimate objective of this ongoing US-NATO
engineered conflict opposing the al-Maliki government forces to the ISIS
insurgency is to destroy and destabilize Iraq as a Nation State. It is part of
an intelligence operation, an engineered process of transforming countries into
territories. The break up of Iraq along sectarian lines is a longstanding policy
of the US and its allies.
The ISIS is a caliphate project of creating a
Sunni Islamist state. It is not a project of the Sunni population of Iraq which
historically has been committed to a secular system of government. The caliphate
project is a US design. The advances of ISIS forces is intended to garnish broad
support within the Sunni population directed against the al-Maliki
government
Through its covert support of the Islamic State
of Iraq and al-Sham, Washington is overseeing the demise of own proxy regime in
Baghdad. The issue, however, is not “regime change”, nor is the “replacement” of
the al-Maliki regime contemplated.
The division of Iraq along sectarian-ethnic lines
has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon for more than 10 years.
What is envisaged by Washington is the outright
suppression of the Baghdad regime and the institutions of the central
government, leading to a process of political fracturing and the elimination of
Iraq as a country.
This process of political fracturing in Iraq
along sectarian lines will inevitably have an impact on Syria, where the US-NATO
sponsored terrorists have in large part been defeated.
Destabilization and political fragmentation in
Syria is also contemplated: Washington’s intent is no longer to pursue the
narrow objective of “regime change” in Damascus. What is contemplated is the
break up of both Iraq and Syria along sectarian-ethnic lines.
The formation of the caliphate may be the
first step towards a broader conflict in the Middle East, bearing in
mind that Iran is supportive of the al-Maliki government and the US ploy may
indeed be to encourage the intervention of Iran.
The proposed re-division of both Iraq and Syria
is broadly modeled on that of the Federation of Yugoslavia which was split up
into seven “independent states” (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia
(FYRM), Slovenia, Montenegro, Kosovo).
According to Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, the re
division of Iraq into three separate states is part of a broader process of
redrawing the Map of the Middle East.
The above map was
prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Peters. It was published in the Armed
Forces Journal in June 2006, Peters is a retired colonel of the U.S. National
War Academy. (Map Copyright Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Peters 2006).
Although the map does not officially reflect
Pentagon doctrine, it has been used in a training program at NATO’s Defense
College for senior military officers”. (See Plans
for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a “New Middle East” By , Global Research, November 2006)
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