Ivy Ziedrich, a 19 year-old college Democrat and political science student at the University of Nevada, confronted presumptive Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush at an event in Reno about the rise of ISIS. After arguing that President Obama’s “withdrawal from the Middle East” was responsible for the rise of the terror group ISIS, Ziedrich argued, ““It was when 30,000 individuals who were part of the Iraqi military were forced out — they had no employment, they had no income, and they were left with access to all of the same arms and weapons….Your brother created ISIS.”
While Ziedrich’s initial statement placing blame for the rise of ISIS on the Bush administration is true, she does so only in the context of promoting Democratic party talking points; she chooses to ignore the Obama administration’s role in the creation, arming and funding of ISIS, as well as the long history of ISIS (aka Al-Qaeda) being used as a destabilizing force around the world.
The Saudi Arabian and Qatari governments, dominated by Wahhabist Sunnis, seek to spread their radical version of Islam across the Middle East and Africa, thus defeating their Shia Islam rivals, specifically Iran and Syria. Meanwhile, the Western global elite are playing both sides against each other in a game of divide-and-conquer to create a total Sunni/Shia civil war between Iran and proxy forces in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and elsewhere. This is the stated clash of civilizations outlined in the Wolfowitz Doctrine, Brzezinski Doctrine and by former General Wesley Clark.
The Overthrow of the Ottoman Empire by the British Empire
As World War I raged in Europe, and to a lesser extent Asia, the British, in cooperation with France, Italy and Russia, worked to wrest control of the Middle East from the decaying Ottoman Empire. The story of the “Arab Revolt” was popularized by the story of Lawrence of Arabia, a British soldier who was sent to work with the Hashemite army of Arabs, who were led by members of a clan who would ultimately form the ruling families of Jordan, Iraq and Yemen.
The British also supported Ibn Saud, the leader of a Wahhabi sect in central and eastern Arabia who fought against the Ottoman Empire. In 1925, after receiving financial support and weapons from the British, Saud’s army captured the city of Mecca from Sharif Hussein bin Ali, ending nearly 700 years of Hashemite rule over the area now called Saudi Arabia. On September 23, 1932, Saud completed his military campaigns and proclaimed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
With the complete collapse of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, the British and French drafted borders that ultimately created the states of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait and Lebanon. With the discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia in 1938, and the large wealth it brought, Ibn Saud began exporting the Wahhabism across the Middle East and the world.
The Rise of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan
With its puppet government facing collapse, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. The CIA, working with Pakistan’s ISI and Saudi Arabia, organized a loose tribal confederation called the Mujaheddin to battle the Soviet army occupying the country. One of the primary financial backers from Saudi Arabia was a man named Osama Bin Laden.
After providing the Mujaheddin weapons, most importantly the Stinger surface-to-air missile, the Soviet army was forced to withdraw from Afghanistan. Bin Laden would form a base of operations in Afghanistan along with “Al-Qaeda”, a terrorist organization named after the computer file that contained the names of thousands of fighters who were recruited and trained to battle the Soviet army.
The joint CIA-ISI-Saudi Arabian collaboration would also give rise to the Taliban, a group consisting of veterans of Afghanistan’s six year civil war who would take control of most of the country in 1996. The Taliban embraced a radical branch of Wahhabism imported by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
To further provide proof of our involvement with Al-Qaeda, while our troops were fighting real Taliban fighters who refused to surrender, the Bush Administration “allowed” Pakistani Air Force cargo planes to take off from the Taliban-occupied city of Kunduz, carrying thousands of Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters, including top Al-Qaeda leadership, to safety in Pakistan.
The Occupation of Iraq
The United States and NATO have used Al-Qaeda to destabilize unflavored governments, primarily Islamic governments along the former Soviet Union, most notably in the break-away Russian region of Chechnya. The activities of Al-Qaeda linked and inspired organizations in Iraq contributed to calls for our continued presence in the country, along with the construction of military bases. Our covert collaboration with these organizations became clear when British soldiers were caught posing as radical Arabs shooting Iraqi civilians in the southern city of Basra in 2005.
Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh wrote in 2007 that the Bush administration had aligned itself with radical Sunni elements across the Middle East, including Iraq, to undermine attempts by Shia Iran to dominate the Middle East. “Some of the core tactics of the redirection are not public, however. The clandestine operations have been kept secret, in some cases, by leaving the execution or funding to the Saudis, or by finding other ways to work around the normal congressional appropriations process, current and former officials close to the Administration said.”
Support for Al-Qaeda in Libya and Egypt
As the effort to overthrow Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 reached its peak, it became clear the United States and NATO were funding and arming paramilitary organizations that swore allegiance to Al-Qaeda and radical Wahhabism.
“The United States switched sides in the war on terror with what we did in Libya, knowingly facilitating the provision of weapons to known Al-Qaeda militias and figures,” Claire Lopez, a member of the Citizens Commission on Benghazi and a former CIA official told The Daily Mail, three years after the fall of Gaddafi and the deaths of over 30,000 Libyans. The country has now collapsed into a failed state with rival factions battling for control and Jihadi groups raising their flags in cities across the country. As ISIS continues to gain a foothold in Libya, thousands of Libyans are using human smuggling networks in an attempt to flee the country; European countries, lead by the United Kingdom, are drafting a resolution requesting the United Nations authorize military action against the smuggling networks inside Libya’s territorial waters, as well as harbors and ports along the coast.
The Egyptian government under than-President Hosni Mubarak, by refusing to support the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya and the eventual gun-running operation run from Benghazi to “rebels” in Syria, earned itself a place in the globalist cross-hairs. After violent protests, Mubarak was overthrown by the Egyptian military, who begrudgingly allowed the Muslim Brotherhood and other Al-Qaeda linked groups to take power. The Muslim Brotherhood began moving the country away from the secular path followed by Mubarak and championed by the nation’s military towards a path dominated by radical Wahhabism; in response, the military swiftly overthrew the government under Mohammed Morsi and moved to shatter the Muslim Brotherhood, drawing condemnation from the United States.
Direct Collaboration with Al-Qaeda in Syria
While the “secret” CIA gun-running operation out of Benghazi to rebels, including Al-Qaeda affiliated groups, fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has come to light, the United States’ support for organizations like al-Nusra and ISIS (directly or through proxies) is already well known.
The New York Times reported in September, 2013, a 50-man cell of “rebels” trained and armed by the CIA in Jordan were to sneak across the border to begin fighting government forces in Syria. That same month, the United States announced it was providing lethal aid to “rebels” fighting in Syria. Bill Gertz, senior editor of the Washington Free Beacon, quoted an anonymous U.S. official who declared “we’ve come full circle from going after Al-Qaeda to indirectly backing Al-Qaeda.”
Using the ISIS Threat to Take Away Our Rights
As countries across the Middle East and North Africa are pushed into anarchy by the Western-created terror army ISIS, the threat, both real and perceived, will be used to justify the continued erosion of our freedoms and liberty. When Judicial Watch published a report claiming the existence of a pair of ISIS camps in Mexico, one bordering New Mexico and the other near El Paso, Texas, the mainstream media scoffed at the idea; the report, however, hearkens back to comments made by Texas Representative Ted Poe in August, 2014, in which he asserted there was indications that ISIS and Mexican drug cartels were “talking to each other.”
While the actual threat posed by ISIS is real, with online “hit-lists” detailing the names and other personal information of American military members being a regular occurrence, it will ultimately be reversed to further erode our Constitutional rights and demonize the globalists’ true enemy: Americans who support freedom, liberty, private property, and gun rights. Just as a story about an ISIS hit-list made the rounds in the mainstream media, another story about a separate hit-list came to light; this time, however, it was “right-wing extremists” who were responsible. By publishing both stories at the same time, the mainstream media hoped the American people would sub-consciously conflate them, connecting ISIS to anyone who opposes the “NWO”.
As the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the NSA’s bulk, warrant-less collection of Americans’ phone records (Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act) illegal, a dubious ISIS message appeared online, threatening cyber attacks that would “frighten America.” It is certain more supposed threats will occur in the near future, as Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act is set to expire on June 1st.