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U.S. General: “We Helped Build ISIS” – Islamic State Obtained Weapons from U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya
Paul
Joseph Watson
3
September, 2014
During
an appearance on Fox News, General Thomas McInerney acknowledged that
the United States “helped build ISIS” as a result of the group
obtaining weapons from the Benghazi consulate in Libya which was
attacked by jihadists in September 2012.
Asked
what he thought of the idea of arming so-called “moderate” Syrian
rebels after FSA militants kidnapped UN peacekeepers in the Golan
Heights, McInerney said the policy had been a failure.
“We
backed I believe in some cases, some of the wrong people and not in
the right part of the Free Syrian Army and that’s a little
confusing to people, so I’ve always maintained….that we were
backing the wrong types.”
Then
made reference to a Bret Baier Fox News special set to air on Friday
which will, “show some of those weapons from Benghazi ended up in
the hands of ISIS – so we helped build ISIS,” said
In
May last year, Senator Rand Paul was one of the first to speculate
that the truth behind Benghazi was linked to an illicit arms
smuggling program that saw weapons being trafficked to terrorists in
Syria as part of the United States’ proxy war against the Assad
regime.
“I’ve
actually always suspected that, although I have no evidence, that
maybe we were facilitating arms leaving Libya going through Turkey
into Syria,” Paul told CNN, adding that he “never….quite
understood the cover-up — if it was intentional or incompetence”.
At
the same time it emerged that the U.S. State Department had hired an
Al-Qaeda offshoot organization, the February 17th Martyrs Brigade, to
“defend” the Benghazi Mission months before the attack.
Senator
Paul was vindicated less than three months later when it emerged that
the CIA had been subjecting its operatives to monthly polygraph tests
in an effort to keep a lid on details of the arms smuggling operation
being leaked.
CNN
subsequently reported that dozens of CIA agents were on the ground in
Benghazi during the attack and that the polygraph tests were mandated
in order to prevent operatives from talking to Congress or the media
about a program that revolved around “secretly helping to move
surface-to-air missiles out of Libya, through Turkey, and into the
hands of Syrian rebels.” Key Syrian rebel leaders later defected to
join ISIS.
In
addition to ISIS obtaining weapons from Benghazi, many members of the
group were also trained by the United States at a secret base in
Jordan in 2012.
Aaron
Klein was told by Jordanian officials that, “dozens of future ISIS
members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the
insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
in Syria.”
As
we have previously documented, many of the United States’ biggest
allies in the region, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and
Qatar, have all bankrolled and armed ISIS militants.
What Is The Truth About ISIS?
By
Peter Chamberlin
4
September, 2014
A
detainee appears before the Multinational Forces Review Committee.
This is one of Camp Bucca’s programs that help detainees to
reintegrate into Iraqi society. (Department of Defense photo/Pfc.
Amie J. McMillan)
An instructor provides a mathematical lesson to detainees at the theater internment facility in Camp Bucca, Iraq. The class is part of the educational opportunities available to the detainees to help them get a better job and serve as an example for their community upon their release. (Department of Defense photo/Pfc. Amie J. McMillan)
What
is the truth about ISIS?
Is
it an ISIS/ISIS a pseudo-gang,
working for the CIA, or is it merely a bi-product of the US/Saudi
strategic union? There has not yet been another serious explanation
put forth, other than this, to explain their meteoric rise to sudden
terror stardom in 2014, when they were “being kept on life support”
in mid-2012. Despite the non-serious explanations offered by some
serious mis-informers to the contrary (State Dept, Al-Arabiya), “bank
robberies, extortion and kidnapping” do not explain the sudden
mobility, or capability to mount continual operations, by a small
army of thousands of men, with an apparently limitless supply of
modern weaponry, spread-out over 2-1/2 states (still working on
Lebanon). Such an army could NOT exist without a state sponsor.
In
trying to use the Internet as primary (only) source, we first learn
that there are many questions that are nearly impossible to answer
effectively there, because of the constant “scrubbing” (deleting)
of information that is embarrassing to the owner of the Internet
(USA), or to its minions. It is not even necessary to delete articles
there to hide them, a simple extra space or extra letter in the title
link will nullify all further links made back to the article of
embarrassment.
In
addition, researchers must rely upon Google Translate to unlock all
articles in the foreign press, effectively turning most translations
into gibberish. For an English researcher wanting to locate specific
articles in Arabic, or other tongues, there is also that annoying
foreigner habit of adding their own letters to words (words with
multiple spellings), thus making a nearly impossible task even
harder.
Nonetheless,
I continue to pursue the origins of the “Islamic State” or the
history of its leaders, looking for the smoking guns to tie the
movable “false flag” to its state benefactors. From the evidence
that still remains on the Web, I soon discovered that the ISIL
leadership (photos
and history below)
has links to Iraqi internment Camp Bucca…but, this is a story with
many holes.
By
my own “guesstimate,” ISIS is the result of a failed US Army
behavioral modification program at Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq,
between 2007 and its closure in 2009.
If
it is true that alleged ISIS leader “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi” was
ever in Camp Bucca then he went through the Camp 134 Process,
subjecting him to a “behavior modification” process, part of a
“proactive counterinsurgency strategy” for detention operations
(according to Detention
Operations, Behavior Modification, and Counterinsurgency,
from the US ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER). If al-Baghdadi or other ISIS
members were at Bucca, they were herded through a dividing process,
which identified the “unreconcilable” insurgents, in order to
sequester them away from the general population.
“Moderates or
former extremists moving toward moderation” were separated for
special treatment intended turn them away from extremist beliefs,
before “releas[ing] them to return to their homes as “moderate
missiles of the mind.” The mission at Bucca was to “modify the
behavior of detainees so that when they reenter Iraqi society, they
are no longer threats to the Iraqi government and coalition forces
but rather agents of change for the future of Iraq.”
Before
pursuing the question of the truth about ISIS, we must ask whether
this behavior modification process successful, or did it have an
unanticipated opposite result? It seems pretty obvious from our
perspective that graduates of the ISIS program went on to become the
world’s most notorious terrorist army, a grave threat to world
peace? Was this the result of a failed overt detainee/prisoner
strategy, or was this the intended result? Was the US Army training
terrorists at Bucca, or did its proactive counterinsurgency strategy
for detention operations” to turn the prison system into “a
legitimate
arena for counterinsurgency actions“ backfire
miserably, producing a generation of terrorist-jihadis like the world
has never seen?
Consider
what follows to be “hole-filler” in that storyline, hopefully
helping readers to link the terrorists back to their state sponsors.
Saudi Al-Arabiya provided
the graphic answer below (making the text automatically suspicious).
Click on the photo or the Arabiya link to view readable text.–
What
is significant about Camp Bucca?
It
was the primary site for an experimental US Army behavioral
modification program, Task Force 134, “Detention Operations
Process,” which got into detainees home and their lives, as well as
reconditioning their heads.
DR
AMI M. Angell–rehabilitation programme leader at Camp Bucca.
“I
think our efforts were successful. In fact, so successful that three
previous Al Qaeda operatives [see confirmation by Dr. Angell] went
through all the programs, were released, and then returned to work
the programs as civilians.” (1)
“They
were guided by a psychiatrist and art instructor nick
named Picasso
– once an Al-Qaeda operative and a detainee at Camp Bucca.”
(2b)–["They
discussed issues such as violence and Iraq's future, before
expressing their feelings in art." ]
FURTHER
TESTIMONY FROM DR. ANGELL–
“The
spare time led some to start radical religious classes so some
moderate detainees were converted into extremists. ‘When we came up
with rehab programmes as a solution, the American military was very
against it,…They didn’t understand why we are spending money on
rehab when we are going to leave the country eventually.’–“The
Art of Rehabilitating Terrorists” (2)
“The
rehab programme won the support of US Marine Major-General Douglas
Stone. Initial funding was enough for ‘religious rehabilitation’
for only 30 detainees. She brought in well-respected imams to teach
them about the Quran. ‘We saw a thirst for education as the other
detainees all wanted to know what the 30 learnt,’ said Dr
Angell.–[confirmation comes from former Bucca detainee Adel Jasim
Mohammed.via Al
Jazeera (below)--ed.]
‘Because many of them were uneducated, those who went for the
classes were shocked to learn that what they had thought of Islam was
flawed. ‘They didn’t question what people told them and didn’t
even understand the reasons for many things, from washing hands and
feet before prayers to why they pray.’ (2a)
“They
discussed issues such as violence and Iraq’s future, before
expressing their feelings in art. They were guided by a psychiatrist
and art instructor nick named Picasso – once an Al-Qaeda operative
and a detainee at Camp Bucca.” (2b)
Through
Dr. Angell’s program, a “moderate” Imam was brought in to teach
religious classes at “Bucca Freedom School.” He was given a list
of religiously inclined detainees and allowed to pick 10-12 to mentor
closely, with allegedly moderate ideas. Those special students were
allowed to hold religion classes for hundreds of students. For all we
know, that list of religious trainees formed the basis for the
“Islamic State.” Again, intentional, or the biggest
“cluster-fuck” of all time?
US
Iraq jail an ‘al-Qaeda school’–“Former
inmates of Camp Bucca say military prison was training ground for
extremism.
Adel
Jasim Mohammed, a former detainee of Camp Bucca near Umm Qasr, said
that US officials did nothing to stop radicals from indoctrinating
young detainees at the camp.
“Extremists
had freedom to educate the young detainees. I saw them giving courses
using classroom boards on how to use explosives, weapons and how to
become suicide bombers,” Mohammed said.
“For
the Americans we felt it was normal. They did not stop them [the
radicals].”
…In
2005, an extremist was sent to our camp. At first, Sunnis and Shias
rejected his teachings. But we were told that he was imposed by the
prison authority,” he said.
“He
stayed for a week and recruited 25 of the 34 detainees – they
became extremists like him.”
Was
this visiting scholar of radical Islam the same man who now calls
himself Emir of the self-declared “Caliphate”?
Abu
Bakr Baghdadi allegedly took the helm of “Al Qaida In Iraq,”
after the death of the terrorist leader known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
in June 2006
The
combined real and fake histories of Abu Bakr Baghdadi paint a
portrait of an Iraqi from Ramadi in Anbar Province, who was allegedly
a scholar of Islam with a master’s degree and a PhD in Islamic
studies from University of Islamic Sciences in Baghdad. He was
allegedly captured by American forces sometime in 2003, before
allegedly being released to the Iraqis in 2004. All articles
repeating the claim that Baghdadi was held at Camp Bucca until its
closure, can be traced back to this article from The Daily Beast.
There is no information to be found on the Internet to fill in the
gaps about his his time with the Iraqis, revealing where (or even if)
he was held, but we know for certain that the only known photo of the
man whom the Western media call “al-Baghdadi” came from the Iraq
Min. of Interior. We cannot know for certain that the man held and
released by American forces back then is the same man who now calls
himself “Caliph Ibrahim.”
“Many
of us at Camp Bucca were concerned that instead of just holding
detainees, we had created a pressure cooker for extremism.”–James
Skylar Gerrond, a former compound commander at Camp Bucca in 2006 and
2007
Critics
of the facility say it had in effect become a terror training
institute, run by resentful inmates under a strict interpretation of
Islamic law.
“It
is al-Qa’ida central down there,” said Sheikh Ali Hatem Suleiman,
a tribal leader from Anbar province. “What better way to teach
everyone how to become fanatical than put them all together for scant
reason, then deprive them?”
The
Battle Behind the Wire–Rand Corp].
Reform
School for Radicals,
Marisa L. Porges
July 1, 2011
To
varying degrees, these initiatives also include religious education,
from one-on-one meetings with local religious leaders who discuss
ideological sources of radicalization to group sessions that review
the Quran and Islamic law. In Iraq, the “Countering Extremism with
Enlightenment”, or Tanweer program, was modeled after early efforts
in Saudi Arabia. Clerics and social workers led a religious dialogue
to advance moderate views of Islam while promoting civic duties
associated with Iraqi democracy.
On
Aug. 19, 2009, a series of massive car-bombs announced the rebirth of
Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)–Scores
dead as Baghdad rocked by series of massive explosions
Sept.
17, 2009, Camp Bucca Detention Center Closes in Iraq…thousands of
inmates are set free in southern Iraq, near the Kuwaiti border.
“An
Air Force C-17 carrying the last group of 180 detainees lifted off
from the Basra airport headed to Camp Cropper.”
AL-QAIDA
IN IRAQ ON THE ROPE
The
following is also taken from the July 22, 2008 al‐Qa`ida’s Road
In and Out of Iraq. Analysis from West Point expert on Iraq, Dr.
Michael Knights–
”
AQI is a wounded
organization….foreign fighters are now trying to leave the
country.”
That
was Dr. Knights’ opinion on AQI in July 2008, the following is his
assessment on July 31, 2012--
“The
Sunni insurgencies (plural) are being kept on life support.”
“It
is clear that AQI has benefited from an unprecedented infusion of
trained terrorist manpower. Many of the released persons spent time
planning inside detention facilities like Camp Bucca and Camp
Cropper, specifically so they could launch a smarter, stronger
insurgent effort one day.”
In
this testimony by Dr. Knights before the House Foreign Affairs
Committee on December 12, 2013 (SEE: The
Resurgence of Al-Qaeda in Iraq),
he referred to a previous article that he had written on February 24,
2012 for the West Point Center for Combating Terrorism (which has
apparently been erased from the Internet, for some reason), called
“Back with a vengeance: Al-Qaeda in Iraq rebounds.” This article
is cited frequently by researchers who search for the roots of
“Islamic State.” It described a spent organization, headed for
the great dust bin of history, far different from the supercharged
terrorist organization that is tearing across Iraq and Syria, as
described in Knights’ August 27, 2014 testimony (SEE: ISIL’s
Political-Military Power in Iraq).
The
following excerpts come from that erased assessment–
“By
the middle of 2010, Al-Qaeda in Iraq was dead on its feet. The
organization suffered critical setbacks in late 2006 and early 2007
as Sunni Arab tribal militias – the Sahwa (Awakening) – turned
against Al-Qaeda. In parallel the U.S.-led military effort protected
the Sahwa and executed high-tempo remorseless counter-terrorism
operations that ripped Al-Qaeda in Iraq to pieces. The group’s
foreign volunteers and money started to dry up. Al-Qaeda cells began
to process of disintegrating into local criminal franchises that now
kidnapped and extorted to pay their salaries rather than fund
insurgency. In April 2010 Al-Qaeda in Iraq lost its two most senior
leaders – AQI emir Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and war minister Abu Ayyub
al-Masri – and stood in the verge of “disintegration” according
to the US commander in Iraq, General Ray Odierno. In a press
conference on June 4, 2010, Odierno noted: “Over the last 90 days
or so, we’ve either picked up or killed 34 out of the top 42
Al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders.”
“By
early 2012 it was clear that the deaths of AQI’s senior leaders
were a watershed event that unfolded just as the movement sought to
find a new way to operate in Iraq. Numerous processes have unfolded
since Al-Qaeda’s defeat in 2006-2009, including the release of
large numbers of experienced militants from U.S. detention
facilities, changes in the balance of foreign and Iraqi fighters
within the movement, the withdrawal of U.S. forces, and determined
attempts by Al-Qaeda in Iraq to learn from its mistakes. These
changes crystallized in the year after the deaths of Abu Omar
al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, culminating in a successful
re-launch of the movement in April 2011 and a significant recovery of
operational space within Iraq’s Sunni Arab communities. The
movement appears to have rationalized its near-term objectives and
synchronized its propaganda with the mounting concerns of Iraq’s
Sunni Arabs.”
THE
SAUDI CONNECTION–
Members
of the Islamic State of Iraq terrorist group and the Levant (EIIL)
affiliated to Al-Qaeda, captured in Iraq, confessed to having direct
links with the government of Saudi Arabia.
ABDULLAH
AZZAM BRIGADES
Majid
al-Majid was
Saudi chief of the Ab.Azzam Brigades in Lebanon until his arrest and
death in custody of Lebanon’s Army.
“Funding
for the Sunni insurgency comes from private individuals within
Saudi
Arabia and the Gulf States.”–Iraq
Study Group Report
al
- Qa`ida’s Road In and Out of Iraq,
“Saudi
Arabia, Syria, and Egypt were the source of most of the foreign
fighters detained in Camp Bucca, Iraq….As of April 7, 2008, the
United States was holding 251 foreign fighters at Camp Bucca, Iraq.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria each contributed 19 percent of those
fighters. Libyans comprise only 3 percent.”
“Foreign Fighters
contributed approximately 75 Percent of suicide bombers between
August 2006 and August 2007.”
“The plurality of suicide bombers
entering Iraq between August 2006 and August 2007 were Saudi.“]
“Sheikh
Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi” was
installed as head of Mujahideen Shura Council, the precursor of
“Islamic State” in January of 2006. Was this the same man as Abu
Bakr Baghdadi, even though he was supposedly incarcerated at Bucca at
the time? Abdullah Azzam Brigades was spun-off from AQI in the
process. A precursor to Al Nusra Front, “Al
Nusra wal Jihad fi Bilad al Sham” split-off
from AbAzzam in 2005, taking initial credit for the assassination of
Rafik Hariri.
CONCLUSION–
Why
is it that no researchers have asked the question “How did AQI
suddenly acquire enough money and equipment to turn a failing
terrorist entity into an “Islamic Caliphate” overnight?” Even
if they did bully the Free Syrian Army and take their
weapons,pull-off a “string of bank robberies,” kidnappings and
extortion, AQI could never have come up with enough cash to run an
army, or to buy a fleet of shiny new Toyota trucks, or to become one
of the best-paying employers in the Middle East, without being on
some state’s payroll.
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