The Rise and Fall of Syria (satire)

Once upon a time a long time ago, a young doctor studying to be an ophthalmologist at the Western Eye Hospital in London was called back to his home country to his father's heir apparent due to the death of his elder brother in a tragic car crash. He later married a beautiful lady born in the UK, and after the death of his father, he became president and she became his First Lady. All in all, it seemed a wonderful life.

Years passed, and then in 2011, everything changed. Bashar al Assad, the current President of Syria is the name of that doctor.

During the Arab Spring of 2011, some of the people of his country rebelled against him. After bloody clashes, it became clear that Syria was in a civil war, a proxy war between Russia and Western nations aligned with America and sympathetic members of the Gulf States known as Friends of the Syrian Group.

According to a recent news report, Al-Qaeda of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) — also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Islamic State — is covertly funded by the Friends of Syria Group (FSG), of whose members Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia fund Sunni covert mercenaries from around the world, including Canada such as a man who was convicted as one of the Toronto 18.

In essence, Western nations aligned with the US government are facilitating the covert training of home-grown militants by capturing them where a few of them radicalize. Once they are released from jail, these militants find their way to Syria as a part of a secret plan to send 100,000 covert mercenaries to Syria. Perhaps, about five percent of detained homegrown militants who are released from prison have radicalized.

Thus the fall of Syria is being plotted by these Western nations with advice from the US government. Rather than drop bombs, the West will instead detain their home-grown terrorists and let each one fly to Syria to join the ISIL which includes most of the al-Nusra Front, each of which are Islamic terrorist organizations.

While al Nusrah Front is aligned with Al Qaeda, ISIL has broken with al Qaeda due to the ISIL's leader's intent to absorb al Nusrah Front into ISIL. For a thorough background on Islamic State's leader, see the Update for December 7, 2015 below.)

Currently, the ISIL-dominated area in which consists of eastern Syria and northern Iraq has been turned into a quasi-Caliphate where Sharia law is the rule of the land. However, it also includes anywhere in the world where local Islamic dissidents have aligned with Islamic State e.g. northeastern Nigeria where Boko Haram have terrorized Christians and Muslim citizens.

When Syria falls, it will be because of the Western nations' leaders aligned with the US government who agreed to bomb Libya, and consequently contributed to the murder of Gaddafi by clan members whose clans were brutally suppressed under the Libya despot.

In that scenario, it is more likely the reason for Libya falling was due to the proposed gold currency that he was fronting and his announcement to share oil wealth with every Libyan, a promise that faded when the Arab Spring morphed into civil war.

In Syria, the Alawite Shi'a minority run the government while the Sunni majority have been routinely suppressed under the al-Assad Dynasty. Indeed, before the current proxy war by the superpowers of the US, Russia, China, and the Gulf States of Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, Syria outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, possibly due to their ties to CIA.

It is known that Pakistan routinely receives US aid, and that their spy organization ISI secretly trained mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union during the Afghanistan civil war that preceded the Taleban and later US invasion. Thus Pakistan is complicit in the war crimes that the US and its allies in the Coalition committed in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Today it is most likely that when Gitmo is closed, captured militants will be redeployed in Syria. This is likely why a certain militant was released from US custody.

Thus, in the future, this is what Homeland Security might do:

1. Closely scrutinize males from the Middle East who are not Israelis.
   
2. When said males exhibit radical Muslim ideology, isolate them from mainstream Muslims.
   
3. Send in psy ops specialists to convince said males to commit to a terrorist act on US soil.
   
4. Send in police and FBI to "foil" terrorist act and arrest said males.
   
5. Send in more psy ops to convince "home-grown terrorist(s)" that redeploying in Syria is the only option.
   
6. If they choose a trial, then that means their lawyer knows the truth about the covert mercenary plan devised by the FSG, particularly with the aid of Canada.

This is what "home-grown terrorism" actually means. In the case of the recent train station bombings in Russia by Chechen militants, it may be funded by the CIA. As well, the Boston bombings is inspired by Chechen militancy and is an example of homegrown terrorism. It is well known that the Chechen Muslims who did Hajj may have radicalized in Saudi Arabia. Thus it is imperative for Western nations to identify and monitor imams who support Islamic terrorists groups such as al Qaeda and ISIL in their countries, particularly in nations with large Muslim immigrant populations such as Germany and their Turkish immigrants, most of whom immigrated to avoid Turkish suppression of potential Salafi militants. Additionally, the revisionism of Imam al-Sharif needs to be implemented in Western nations amongst the Islamic diaspora in order to prevent Muslim youths from being seduced by charismatic imams who use Salafi ideology as the means to their own ends - Islamic militancy. Because it is the misuse of ideology that is dangerous, the current propaganda that neoconservatives are manufacturing — that Islam is dangerous to America — consists of generalizations about Islam that also indicate the misuse of ideology. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but Salafi ideology is misused by charismatic imams in the name of al Qaeda and Islamic State. The irony is that al Qaeda has been in the pockets of the US government all along. Perhaps al Qaeda did not plan 9-11 all on its own but was facilitated by a covert psy ops team embedded in al Qaeda to choose two symbols of American power to destroy, namely the Twin Towers in NYC and the Pentagon. Possibly that the passenger jet that was downed in Pennsylvania might have contained an expendable CIA operative who inspired the passengers to take down the crew. The purpose of this was to instill patriotism in American people. However, there may be an unlikely scenario aboard an American passenger jet in which a purported terrorist is murdered by heroic passengers but misrepresented in the mainstream news as an "aborted hijacking." This incident will be used to inspire American passengers to aid the air marshal if a would-be hijacker attempts a hijack. The problem here is, most passengers are compliant and non-aggressive. Thus, it might be more useful to hire covert agents who have trained in hijacking scenarios to be placed on air flights in which potential terrorists are most likely to be embedded amongst passengers. These agents would be trained in techniques useful to defusing hostage situations. With this in mind, the Air France Flight 8969 is a good example of the tactics used by air crew to establish rapport with AIG terrorists. Of the four terrorists, "Bill" was probably not a terrorist, but was a poor goat-herder taken along for the ride. Additionally, it would be important to Americans to learn to be friendly to Muslim Americans so as to establish with and to dialog with Muslim Americans rather than base their actions solely on the Islamophobic propaganda that the neoconservatives are peddling. Regarding Islam, if I read another lie about Aisha and Muhammad, then my satire is going to get interesting: for example, defending teenaged pregnancy by claiming that the Virgin Mary was an unmarried pregnant lady who was married by Joseph to prevent scandal. It is likely that she would have been stoned for having premarital sex with someone she called "The Lord" after someone named "Gabriel" told her about being mother to the coming Messiah. Therefore the Christ story was probably concocted as propaganda long after Roman occupation of Judea after 63 BCE. However, Jesus never existed as depicted in the Bible. Rather, there may have been a priest-king named Jesus of whose cult members were persecuted by Saul. Therefore, Paul of Tarsus is the chief propagandist of the Christ myth. My reason for this alternate theory to the Christ story is due to the modern day Christian's role in the bloody debacle being played out in Syria today. Their right wing advocates against the Syrian government of al Assad are peddling the Islamophobic propaganda among Tea Party members by their GOP handlers. They use generalizations based on the fallacy that all terrorists are Muslims — "all terrorists are Muslims. Al Qaeda is a Muslim terrorist organization. Osama bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda. Therefore Osama was a Muslim terrorist." However, not all Muslims are terrorists. Most Islamophobic propaganda does not distinguish between radicals and moderates. This is why I call Islamophobia propaganda. Additionally, the fallacy that Bashar al Assad is almost as evil as Hitler is propaganda used to justify war on Syria. In conclusion, regarding Syria, no one's hands are clean of this mess. All participants including Canada may be guilty of war crimes. You have been informed. Update: As of February 3, 2014, al Qaeda has broke with the ISIL due to a dispute between al Qaeda and ISIL. Additionally, the ISIL militants have taken over oil wells and placed tolls on vehicles entering its territory. Syrian rebels has stated that they don't mind al Qaeda's remaining terrorists in the Nusra Front since they are not as eager in profiting from the fact that much of the infrastructure in parts of Syria are ripe for making gobs of cash. It looks like the American government has created a monster. Update: As of December 7, 2015, it is most likely that the American government created the Islamic State. Originally known in the West as ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) or ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), in the Middle East, and among informed academics and politicians in the West, another name associated with the Islamic State: Da'esh. Documented proof exists that the Islamic State was manufactured by the US government to fight in Iraq and in Syria, mainly to destabilize both nations. Back in 2005, in an opinion editorial in the L. A. Times by UC Berkley law professor John Yoo, he mentions a tool that could be used to fight against al Qaeda: "Another tool would have our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within Al Qaeda's ranks, causing operatives to doubt others' identities and to question the validity of communications." According to Peter Santilli, who runs an alternate media show in his name, this is the smoking gun that points to his contention that Islamic State was created by the CIA. He contends that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a CIA covert agent. Originally, al-Baghdadi was created by al Qaeda to legitimize the leadership of the Islamic State of Iraq prior to 2010. Later on, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi replaced the Iraqi actor who played al-Baghdadi. When al-Baghdadi was killed in 2010, he was replaced by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. An elaborate back story for Abu Bakr — also known as Abu Dua — has enhanced his prestige as leader of Islamic State. However, at the time of the Coalition invasion of Iraq in 2003, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a Muslim cleric who helped found the militant group Jamaat Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamaah (JJASJ), in which he served as head of the sharia committee. After he was arrested by US Forces-Iraq in 2004 near Fallujah, he was detained at Camp Bucca detention center under his name Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badry. In 2005, he was released from Camp Bucca as a "low level prisoner". In 2006, his group JJASJ joined the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC). He served as a member of the MSC's sharia committee. Later that year, when MSC became Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), Abu Bakr was the general supervisor of the ISI's sharia committee and a member of the group's senior consultative council. When Osama bin Laden died in May 2011, Abu Bakr praised the leader of al Qaeda and threatened violent retaliation. On May 5, 2011, al-Baghdadi claimed responsibility for an attack in Hilla, that killed 24 policemen and wounded 72 others. On August 15, Mosul was targeted by ISI, resulting in 70 deaths. Later, on their website, in response to bin Laden's death, ISI vowed to kill 100 attacks throughout Iraq. As leader of ISI, al-Baghdadi orchestrated the killing of prominent Sunni lawmaker Khalid al-Fahdawi in August 28 2011. According to a June 11, 2014 Washington Post interview of Colonel Kenneth King, Abu Bakr was detained from 2005 to 2009. This disinformation was used by conspiracy theorists to substantiate claims that the CIA trained Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and to support the theory that the Islamic State is in fact the tool used to destabilize Iraq and Syria. In 2013, as ISIL insurgency made its way into eastern Syria, al-Baghdadi declared that ISI would now be known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which could be alternately translated from Arabic as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). He also stated that al-Nusrah Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) be merged with ISIL. This led to a break with al Qaeda, with 80% of al Nusrah Front being absorbed into ISIL. Mainstream media use of the alternate name for ISIL, ISIS, led to its popularity due to the acronym being similar to Isis, an ancient Egyptian goddess of life and fertility. A few Christian and Muslim religionists might manufacture the fallacy that ISIS is as evil as the ancient Egyptians who conquered the Middle East because some of them were the pagan worshipers of Isis. Yet there is no evidence that the ancient conquest of the Middle East was done in the name of Isis, given that the ancient Egyptian god Ra is associated with ancient Egyptian royalty and their conquests. Of course, mainstream media refrains from the use of such a pointless fallacy. By the beginning of 2014, after pushing al Nusrah Front out of the Syrian city of Ar-Raqqah, and fighting with the faction throughout the Deir ez-Zor Governorate left hundreds of militants dead and displaced tens of thousands of Syrians. In February 2014, al Qaeda cut off all ties with ISIL. Meanwhile, mainstream media discovered that al-Baghdadi and the ISIL received private financing from citizens in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Then in June 2014, al-Baghdadi declared that ISIS would be known as the Islamic State (IS), and he would be its Caliph. Over the intervening months, the Islamic State murdered a Jordanian pilot, which led to a response from the military of America, Jordan and other Arab nations to attack them. In time, Russia joined them, defending Syria from the IS and recently clashing with Turkey. Perhaps the fall of Syria has been delayed. Only time will tell. Update for December 19, 2015: Islamic State is a joint CIA and Pakistan ISI product known in the mainstream media as terrorist organization. Yet what the news reports fail to mention is that Islamic terrorists groups like the Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban have been manufactured by Israeli Mossad with aid from the US spy agency (CIA), Pakistan's ISI, Canada's black ops unit, Joint Task Force, and many other spy agencies of Western nation allied with the Us military. Five Eyes are needed to manipulate the news media to prevent an honest and truthful exposure of this smoke and mirrors shell game that the intelligence agents play while replacing honest reporting in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the US with the straw man called "the Islamic militant" AKA "Muslim terrorist." Even the Paris attack consisted of a black ops crew consisting of French military personnel in plain clothes who led the dissidents on their killing spree last month. Likewise, the shooting in San Bernardino was morphed into a terrorist attack, with the purported terrorists' home open to news reporters in an effort to contaminate the scene of the dissidents' bomb-making. These false flag operations are designed to satisfy the MSM's hunger for terrorism, and their desire of the government to protect its citizens. Instead, sometimes the dissidents go roguecafter training and morph into terrorists thanks to their radicalization in Saudi Arabia during Hajj, the Muslim faithfuls' annual pilgrimage to Mecca to worship God Almighty as they circumambulated the Kaaba. If you want to stop terrorism, then demand that the governments of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand bring home their spies from the Middle East. Though it may be true that those who live by the sword may die in bloody conflict, this militancy has not been sanctioned by a imam, thus proving that Islamic State is only Islamic in name only. Islamic State's religious leanings remind me of a darker and more homicidal version of US domestic terrorism, with the trappings of religion so as to legitimize these militants' violence by declaring that all of Islam in the Middle East is apostate and thus ought to be excommunicated from the mosques ad the streets, by force if necessary. Yet its militants are subtle secularists who have worn the robes of Muslim holy rollers and whose action gives religion a day name. For a true Muslim has no need to wage jihad on the Crusaders embedded in the Coalition's forces, who are inspired by Christ an war hawks. Thus islamophobia that paints Islam as a warrior religion ignores the old Testament as the source of such militancy in Christendom. Indeed, the Old Testament is full of stories about armies warring to win the Holy Land for the nomadic Semites in ancient times, who settled in Jerusalem after captivity and became the jews of today. While the West overlooks the religious origins of rivalry between Sunni and Shi'a due to socialist romaticism, the truth is, favoring Israel over Jordan and perpetuating the bloody mindedness of thechosen ones in spite of the promise of Jesus Christ to return. Mankind cannot usher in a free world devoid of religion, due to the willingness to mistake that freedom for license, breaking bonds of spiritual devotion in order to deal thoroughly with the secular world because it is the 21st century. How modern to fight each other with weapons, with the Israeli government willing to compromise human rights for the sake of right-wing radicalisms that favour assassination, servitude, and starvation. Small wonder the New Left is willing to risk being seen as antisemitic when, in fact, antisemitism now only consists of hate crimes against Jews. Yet Israeli rightwingers are wont to say they don't misrepresent the truth that Palestine is not an urban legend but rather the fact they need to show friendliness to the Syrian immigrants and live what the Christ taught us. It is the obligation of the West to love one another and to love your enemies, because love is the answer to militancy and war! I am sure that all you need is to willingly practice the charity that Paul wrote of in 1 Collosians 13, which is of the Christ. Even a true Christian, Jew, and Muslim would know this to be true, but would only abandon the Old Testament fir churchvdoctrine, and replace charity and love with subtle antisemitism and the willingness to split up the house of Shem into Arab and Jew, Jews and Muslims. Both Judaism and Islam are based in part on ancient Hebrew tradition and Arabic principles of justice, not petty tribalisms like honkurvkukkings. That war in the Middle East was manufactured by the West's foreign policy in the Middle East. So no nation usi free of responsibility.

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Originally posted on 1/19/14, 12:24 PM Pacific Standard Time

References:

Pentagon admits to 'Zarqawi as legendary terrorist' propaganda:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-behind-al-qaeda-in-iraq-pentagon-acknowledges-fabricating-a-zarqawi-legend/2275

Bashar al Assad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad

Al Qaeda Breaks With Jihadist Group in Syria: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/world/middleeast/syria.html

Documented proof that the US government created the Islamic State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqIyJycXxOo

Go on the Offensive Against Terror: http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/13/opinion/oe-yoo13

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_al-Baghdadi

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi

How ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became the world's most powerful jihadist leader: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/11/how-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-became-the-worlds-most-powerful-jihadi-leader/

Criticism of Jihad movement: Sayyed Imam al-Sharif: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyed_Imam_Al-Sharif#Criticism_of_Jihad_movement

Get Out of Syria, Al Qaeda Terrorists! / الخروج من سوريا وإرهابيي القاعدة

السلفية هي شكل من أشكال الفاشية الدينية عند واحد من أعضائها تطالب النساء بتغطية وجوههن ويواجه الرجال مكة المكرمة خمس مرات في اليوم بعد غسل أقدامهم للصلاة.

تنظيم القاعدة يأخذ الفكر السلفي خطوة أخرى إلى يزعمون أنهم الآحاد الله المختار وأن جميع المسلمين الآخرين هم الكافرون لحظة والاسترخاء الأصولية من خلال فصل الكنيسة والدولة.

وبالتالي هذا ليس من الإسلام في شيء. لمحمد (الحمد له) لم نشن حربا ضد المسيحيين أو اليهود. بل كان يعاقب اليهود للخيانة ثقته ومنافسيه إنهاء لادعائه النبوة.

حتى معركة الجمل ليست على وشك التمرد والردة، ولكن عن نيتبيكينج على القيادة المنتخبة مقابل القيادة الموروثة، والفرق بين الخليفة المنتخب وسلالة الأئمة.

هذا هو الانشقاق من الشيعة والسنة.

النضال السوري حفر حكومة الأقلية الشيعية، وجميعهم من العلويين، ضد الأغلبية السنية.

ما هو جبهة النصرة آل ولكن واجهة لهيمنة الأميركية في سوريا؟
ما هو آل النصرة ولكن تابعا لتنظيم القاعدة؟ ما هو تنظيم القاعدة في العراق وبلاد الشام ولكن واجهة لمجموعة أصدقاء سوريا؟

وتمول المنظمات الإرهابية على حد سواء من قبل قطر والكويت والمملكة العربية السعودية.

مجموعة سوريا الحرة هو في الواقع منظمة غير حلف شمال الاطلسي التي تمول تنظيم القاعدة والشركات التابعة لها لغزو الأراضي وإقامة الشريعة، والذي يشكل تحديا لحقوق الإنسان بسبب قمعها من الرجال والنساء والأطفال الذين يرغبون فقط في أن يكون حرا.

للشيعة والسنة على حد سواء أحرار عندما لا يحكم الشريعة أراضيهم. وبالتالي آل النصرة والقاعدة ليست في سوريا أن تطلق سراح أحد ولكن لقمعهم مع أحكام الشريعة.
— Translation: English —
Salafi is a form of religious fascism when one of its members demands that women cover their faces and men face Mecca five times a day after washing their feet to pray.

al Qaeda takes Salafi ideology a step further to claim they are Allah's Chosen Ones and that all other Muslims are unbelievers the moment they relax their fundamentalism by separating church and state.

Thus this is not Islam at all. For Mohammed (praise be unto him) did not wage war against Christians or Jew. Rather he punished the Jews for betraying his trust and terminated rivals to his claim of Prophethood.

Even the Battle of The Camel is not about rebellion and apostasy, but about nitpicking over elected leadership versus inherited leadership, and the difference between an elected Caliph and a dynasty of imams.

Such is the schism of Shi'a and Sunni.

Syria's struggle pits a Shi'a minority government, all of them Alawi, against a Sunni majority.

What is al-Nusra Front but a front for American dominance of Syria?
What is al-Nusra but an Al-Qaeda affiliate? What is al-Qaeda of Iraq and the Levant but a front for the Friends of Syria Group?

Both terrorist organizations are funded by Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

The Free Syria Group is actually a non-NATO organization that funds al-Qaeda and its affiliates to conquer territory and establish Sharia, which is a challenge to human rights due to its oppression of men, women and children who just wish to be free.

For Shi'a and Sunni alike are free when Sharia does not rule their land. Therefore Al-Nusra and al-Qaeda are not in Syria to free anyone but to oppress them with Sharia.

Hey! CIA: You Caused 911! (satire)

According to rumor, without a shred of verifiable evidence, Obama's rise to power is seen as a CIA inside job.

Decades ago, the CIA stated in the past that the best way to overthrow a targeted nation is through use of American expressions of mainstream media such as music. It worked in the Soviet Union i.e. when American product was sold on the black market.

However, the US government is making mistakes in the Muslim world because of the tendency to create client states according to American foreign policy. During the Cold War, this meant protecting the world from Communism. Once the Cold War thawed out after 1991, the Soviet threat was no longer valid.

After 911, the new threat became Muslim insurgents in al Qaeda. Yet there was still rivalry between Russia and America. Daily, the American military industrial complex profits from turning Afghanistan and Iraq into client states.

Even so, anti-American protests in the Muslim world are justifiable in the Middle East. Ditto for Occupy Wallstreet.

Originally, the CIA trained the Mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan circa 1989 as part of the Cold War. The US government had to pretend it had nothing to do with their training. They were CIA assets.

Rhetoric by America led to the Iraq-Kuwait War, which led to a US bases in Ridayh, Saudi Arabia, compromising its sovereignty. However, it peeved Osama bin Laden and other men in the leadership of al Qaeda that America had placed a military base on Arab soil.

This eventually led to 911.

In a sense, 911 was like America shooting itself in its own foot. Foreign intelligence sources were ignored by the America government. What could anyone do to America?

It is likely that US diplomat Barbara Bodine's spat with FBI agent John P O'Neill over the USS Cole investigation shows the politics played between the CIA, which viewed Yemen as an asset and the FBI, which viewed Yemen as full of terrorists.

In the months preceding 911, rivalry between the CIA, the FBI and the NSA led to communications problems with the White House. Various messages from German secret service indicating an imminent terrorist threat sent to the US government were ignored.

Then it happened: al Qaeda operatives hijacked three passenger jets. While one jet missed its target and crash-landed killing all aboard, this was due to a heroic effort by passengers to overcome the hijackers. However, it was the two jets that destroyed the Twin Towers that supposedly led to the invasion on Afghanistan and later, Iraq.

In 2008 the US Presidency was passed on from a Republican war-bird to a Democrat who represented a new hope for America and the world.

When Barack Obama won the election, Americans hoped things would change. America would get out of Afghanistan and Iraq, and both nations would become strong once more.

However, the invasion of Iraq led al Qaeda there. Once there, they began blowing up funerals, kidnap humanitarian personnel for ransom and sometimes execute them. As well, they would pay families for their disabled sons and daughter to use them as suicide bombers and blow them up by remote control.

Initially America's time in Iraq was successful as long as military personnel were kept on the ball. Any fatalities can be attributed to leaving an occupation force rather than a fully deployed army that is always on the alert. However, al Qaeda demanded a lot of the American forces.

Both Afghanistan and Iraq were won over by the US military through dialog and retraining of troops to deal with local customs and IEDs.

Of course, the stress of living in a war zone took its toll on people. In one case, a soldier cracked and murdered a family, acting like a serial killer. Yet the propaganda machine of America, its mainstream media, kept the details out of the news. By the time the world knew about it and the early embarrassment of Abu Ghraib, it was time to bring the troops home.

This happened before Obama was re-elected in 2012 and is continuing now.

With al Qaeda, America was not dealing with an enemy that plays by the rules. They had taken Salafi ideology and mixed it with rhetoric to glorify killing innocent people while claiming that any one who is an unbeliever is worth only of death and that only they are the true believers, and all other Muslims are akin to unbelievers and only worthy of death.

So the rumor goes.

This rumor is probably based in fact, unlike the rumor that the CIA caused 911 and the even more preposterous one that claims that America paid militants to fly two passenger jet into the Twin Towers and one jet into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Indeed this rumor is false and only conspiracy theorists will rant about it.

After Osama bin Laden was supposedly captured and killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, his body buried at sea, a few members of his leadership were later killed by drones and bombs sent by the Americans. Supposedly Osama was buried at sea to prevent violence at his funeral. This is not a rumor, and it is most likely true.

As well as bin Laden, a few of his leadership were assassinated over the years. Their deaths left a power vacuum.

In their place rose a man whose charisma could convince naive young men to become jihadis eager to kill in the name of Allah. He was leader of al-Jihad Organization which allied itself with al Qaeda. His name is Doctor al-Zawahiri. Currently it is said he is based somewhere in Iraq.

Meanwhile, in Egypt, after being captured and detained in prison in Cairo circa 1995, Dr. Sayyid Imam al-Sharif penned his book, Document for Guiding Jihad in Egypt and the World to help reform the imprisoned Islamist Group (IG) militants in 1997 and the al-Jihad Organization militants in 2007.

A former al-Jihad member from 1987-1993, Imam al-Sharif wrote his book while in prison circa 1995 as his way of revising his militant Islamism into a somewhat gentler Salafi ideology that gave up violence.

After IG reformed it help lead al-Jihad to reform too. However, there are a few men who still keep in contact with al-Qaeda, and is it likely not all of al-Jihad will reform. The radical members of al-Jihad still pose a potential threat to the Muslim world. It is likely some of them have joined al Qaeda or have formed their own terrorist cells in Egypt and possibly elsewhere.

The de-radicalization that happened in 2007 in Egypt has spread to "Algerian, Saudi, Yemeni, Jordanian, Tajik, Malaysian, and Indonesian armed Islamist movements, factions and individuals", according to De-Radicalization of Jihad? The Impact of Egyptian Islamist Revisionists on Al-Qaeda
by Omar Ashour.

It is quite likely deradicalization may have led to Arab Spring. However, not all of its participants have been associated with militants.

In Bahrain's case, the 15 protesters arrested after participating in protests in 2011 were given prison sentences. However, they are no terrorists. Rather they were part of a minority of the Shi'a middle class who work under Sunni and Shi'a employers in the service, computer and other industries. As well, Bahrain is run by the Sunni al-Khalifa dynasty, which dates back to 1783.

Arab Spring in Bahrain began in May 2011 and lasted for about a year. It seems that the last incident which might be related to Arab Spring involved four Bahraini men who tweeted a message in December 2012 that appeared to insult King al-Khalifa.

In contrast, Arab Spring in Syria evolved into an on-going three way war that began in March 2011 between Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government forces versus the Free Syrian Army (FSA) which is controlled by the Syrian National Council currently based in Turkey.

In December 2012, Brigadier General Salim Idris took over control of FSA from Riad al-Asaad who had formed the FSA in August 2011. Free Syrian Army formed in reaction to military hardliners in the government army trying to summarily execute Syrian soldier who refused to shoot civilians. The FSA is composed of former soldiers who defect to defend the people of Syria.

Currently two-thirds of FSA are Muslim Brotherhood (Sunni), and the rest are Christians and mainly Kurds.

Originally founded in 2011, Syrian National Council makes up 22 seats of the Syrian National Coalition which was founded in November 2012. Approximately two-thirds of SNC are Muslim Brotherhood, which will be represented in the Syrian Interim Government.

Looking at the list of 20 nations recognizing the Syrian National Coalition, I was surprised not to see Canada on the list. It is unknown what ties Canada has to the government of al-Assad before September 2011 but is currently sanctioning Syria. Canada is also supporting covert war efforts and also funding an al Qaeda affiliate. Indeed, Canada may be complicit in war crimes in Syria by helping to found the Friends of Syria Group (FSG),

While stating that its end goals were “to support the struggle of the Syrian people for freedom, equal citizenship and democracy”6, the practical purpose of the FSG was to launch a covert war against the sovereign state of Syria by recruiting, arming, funding, infiltrating, and supporting an army of up to 120,000 mercenaries to fight inside Syria for regime change. To that end, a division of labour was established at that founding conference. The deep pockets of the Qatari and Saudi Arabian monarchies were to fund the operation. The front-line states of Turkey and Jordan were to provide base and training camps for the mercenaries, safe (although illegal) passage into Syria, as well as services for the inevitable flood of Syrian refugees.

In essence, this is how Canada's Harper Government is supporting covert war.

It also turns out that Mohamed Dirie, one of the convicted Toronto 18 (read supposed home-grown terrorist) was one of the 100 Canadian Muslims sent as a mercenary to fight again the al-Assad regime.

Canada is also complicit in anti-Assad propaganda such as making "statements castigating the Syrian president and government, meeting representatives of the foreign-backed opposition, closing the Syrian embassy and breaking off of diplomatic relations and blaming the Assad government for the August 2013 chemical weapons incident.

Here is the propaganda Foreign Minister of Canada Hon. John Baird said on December 17, 2011:
"As you know, the Government of Canada has reacted with a strong condemnation of Assad’s campaign of terror.

"These sanctions, in concert with those of our international partners, have isolated the regime and are having a noticeable impact.

"The measures we put in place are not meant to bring further hardship to the Syrian people but to send a message to Assad and his thugs that their actions are absolutely unacceptable. Canada supports the efforts of all peoples to secure basic freedoms, and we look toward the horizon to a new Syria, one that lives in peace with its neighbours and respects the rights of its people.

"Pressure on the Assad regime is not coming just from the West. We have seen Syria’s neighbours and former partners in the Arab League take a strong and commendable stand by formally suspending Syria from the Arab League and imposing tough sanctions on the country. The writing on the wall could not be more clear. The Assad regime has lost all legitimacy and its abhorrent behaviour will not be tolerated."

Most likely, the Houla Massacre on May 25, 2012 was committed by covert mercenaries associated with al Qaeda militants.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL and also called Daesh among Arab League members) is fighting with the Syrian government and the Syrian Free Army (Shi'a). The al Nusra Front (Sunni) - deployed by al Qaeda to Srya - is most likely fighting the government. However, it may also be fighting against ISIL too. Both of these Sunni militias are seeking to carve out small Sharia areas in Syria.

100 fighters from Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham brigade were shot dead by other al-Qaeda militants on or before January 18.

Some of the armed groups in Syria appear to be depending on Captagon, an illegal stimulant. They now have illegal drug labs making the drug.

I'm not sure what this means, but the drug is seen to be safer than amphetamines. Also known as fenethylline, the drug "is metabolized by the body to form two drugs amphetamine (24.5% of oral dose) and theophylline (13.7% of oral dose), both of which are active stimulants".

It is most likely Captagon tablets in Syria are a combination of fenethylline and other amphetamines. In the future, FSA may trade captagon for weapons and munitions.

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Original post: June 4, 2013 4:34 PM

Reference:

De-radicalization of Jihad
http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/36/html

al-Khalifah and Bahrain: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/king-hamad-bin-isa-al-khalifa

Death of Osama bin Laden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden‎

Syrian Free Army: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Syrian_Army

Syrian National Council: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_National_Council

Syrian National Coalition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coalition_for_Syrian_Revolutionary_and_Opposition_Forces

Syria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria

Canadian Sanction against Syria: http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2011/2011-06-08/html/sor-dors114-eng.html

Canada's Harper Government supporting covert war and funding al Qaeda affiliate: http://www.globalresearch.ca/canadas-harper-government-supports-covert-mercenary-war-on-syria-funds-al-qaeda-afiliated-rebels/5357781

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant‎

Al-Nusra Front: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front‎

100 Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham brigade dead: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/01/report-al-qaeda-syria-unit-executes-rivals-201411312819723199.html

Captagon pills keep Syria rebels awake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rex2HkKiXns

Syria's civil war being fought with fighters high on drugs:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10567021/Syrias-civil-war-being-fought-with-fighters-high-on-drugs.html

Captagon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captagon

Barbara Bodine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bodine

Arab League: http://www.arableagueonline.org/

Daesh adopted as alternate name to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by France and the US: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/daesh-adopted-as-new-name-for-isis-by-u-s-france-1.2861108

Mujahideen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen