I would be more inclined to use something like this to establish there was time to be interviewed so his past should be well know to the US rather than it being a 'blank'.
Iraq crisis: the jihadist behind the takeover of Mosul - and how America let him go - Telegraph
The FBI “most wanted” mugshot shows a tough, swarthy figure, his hair in a jailbird crew-cut. The $10 million price on his head, meanwhile, suggests that whoever released him from US custody four years ago may now be regretting it.
Taken during his years as a detainee at the US-run Camp Bucca in southern Iraq, this is one of the few known photographs of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the new leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, now known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (ISIS). But while he may lack the photogenic qualities of his hero, Osama bin Laden, he is fast becoming the new poster-boy for the global jihadist movement.
Well-organised and utterly ruthless, the ex-preacher is the driving force behind al-Qaeda’s resurgence throughout Syria and Iraq, putting it at the forefront of the war to topple President Bashar al-Assad and starting a fresh campaign of mayhem against the Western-backed government in Baghdad.
Is it because it does notfit in wit your white hate / muzzy loving ideals?
It is because the US lies about everything, little toads like you keep the lies rolling. You can't even come up with your own questions, that's quite the new hero you have, I can see why he still has a job, can you?
Sunny Hundal | The Guardian
There are three common rules when people discuss politics:
1) they are willing to believe anything on the internet if it confirms their prejudices
You are the one that looks at just one side of every issue, that's how you justify terms like 'muzzi' a term I quite sure you wouldn't actually use if a Muslim would even talk to you. There aren't any Muslims around here to love in case you haven't noticed.
2) they don’t want to accept people of their tribe do awful things
Being from North America that would be a long list as we are the authors of such wonderful things as 'Death Squads' as part of how we spread out love into south America and other places. Be happy to give you the body count fpr all those places yet it was their own fault somehow. That about sum up your version of the truth?
You forgot to show that Iran cause the horrors they endured in the years the CIA was running the secret police ot that Afghanistan caused it own civil war.
CIA activities in Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran#Further_reading 1952
Britain, resentful of the nationalization of
Iran's oil industry, came up with the idea for the coup in 1952 and pressed the U.S. to mount a joint operation to remove the democratically elected government of Prime Minister
Mohammed Mossadegh[1] and install the Shah
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to rule Iran autocratically. Partially due to fear of a Communist overthrow due to increasing influence of the Communist
Tudeh party, and partly to gain control of a larger share of Iranian oil supplies, the US agreed. Brigadier General
Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr. and CIA guru
Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. were ordered to begin a covert operation to overthrow Mossadegh. A complex plot, codenamed Operation Ajax, was conceived and executed from the US Embassy in
Tehran. Full details of the operation were released fifty years later, in 2003. Britain, who previously had controlled all of the Iranian oil industry, lost its monopoly and allowed U.S. oil companies to compete in Iran.
1953
Main article:
1953 Iranian coup d'état
The United States and
the West helped to overthrow
Mohammed Mossadegh, the
prime minister of Iran, in Operation Ajax. Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi gained in political power. Over the next decades the Shah increased the economic strength of Iran but he also
repressed political dissent. This eventually led to the rise of political Islam in Iran.
1957
CIA help form and train
SAVAK, the internal security apparatus of the Shah. CIA provides SAVAK with lists of Communists who the Savak would either imprison or execute.
[2][3]
1960's - 1970's
Through the 1960s and 1970s the CIA used their alliance with the government of Iran to gain staging grounds and Iranian Air Force assets for aggressive, airborne reconnaissance missions into Soviet Territory in
Project Dark Gene.
1975
The CIA colluded with the
Shah of
Iran to finance and arm Kurdish rebels in the
Second Kurdish-Iraqi War in an attempt to overthrow
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. When Iran and Iraq signed the
Algiers Agreement in 1975, the support ceased. The Shah denied the Kurds refuge in Iran, even as many were slaughtered. The U.S. decided not to press the issue with the Shah.
[4] "Covert action should not be confused with missionary work", declared Sec. of State
Henry Kissinger.
[5] Subsequently, al-Bakr attempted in 1979 to demote the Vice-President, Saddam Hussein, to a position of relative obscurity. Hussein responded with a counter-coup, forcing al-Bakr to resign, conducting a ruthless purge of hundreds of Ba'athists and naming himself President.
1983
In 1983, the CIA passed an extensive list of Iranian communists and other leftists secretly working in the Iranian government to Khomeini's administration.
[6] A
Tower Commission report later observed that the list was utilized to take "measures, including mass executions, that virtually eliminated the pro-Soviet infrastructure in Iran."
[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran#cite_note-Beinin_.26_Stork_1997.2C_11-12-6
How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen
by Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair
Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
Brzezinski: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today?
Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
Brzezinski: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.
3) they find a way to blame America or the UK for most of the world’s problems
We cause more problems than we fix and out fixes always end up making the rich ricer and the poor poorer. Anybody that still believes the 9/11 official story is a rock as far as intelligence goes.
A recent example: the claim that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the self proclaimed leader of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq – was funded or trained by the CIA or Israel’s Mossad, and that this was apparently revealed by Edward Snowden.
Stories claiming this hoax have gone viral all over the web (
example 1,
example 2,
example 3).
This is simply not true. In fact I asked the reporter Glenn Greenwald, who has had more contact with Snowden than most people – this question directly.
I already showed above that he was with the US for 4 years, ISIS equpiment came from Jordan
I didn't use Snowden.
How ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became the world’s most powerful jihadist leader - The Washington Post
But the narrative solidifies in 2005, when he was captured by American forces and spent the next four years a prisoner in the Bucca Camp in southern Iraq. It was from his time there that the first known picture of Baghdadi emerged. And it’s also there, reports Al-Monitor, that he possibly
met and trained with key al-Qaeda fighters.
He gained enough respect that by 2010, after several leaders of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq were killed, he assumed control of it. At that time, the power of the Islamist militancy in Iraq was at its lowest ebb, and the number of killings had
plunged. The Sunni rebellion, which it had once spearheaded, was on the verge of collapse.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWRurKlurYc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu0YtkHRBWg
So where did ISIS money and the guns come from?
I explain this briefly in
my New Statesman article:
“After initially funding its efforts with extortion, smuggling and private donations, it literally struck gold in June when it
made off with $400m in cash and gold from the central bank in Mosul.
“Since then it has also captured oil fields and
earns up to £3m a day by selling the resource on the black market.
“The group also has a modernised arsenal from the weapons and vehicles it has captured from the Iraqi army. Even the well-trained and feared Kurdish forces are being pushed back in places.”
And who is taking the money in exchange, the US. They must be selling it in USD or they would have been shut down already.
But America is still to blame, right?
In some ways, yes. The
New York Times recently reported:
“The Pentagon says that Mr. Baghdadi, after being arrested in Falluja in early 2004, was released that December with a large group of other prisoners deemed low level. But Hisham al-Hashimi, an Iraqi scholar who has researched Mr. Baghdadi’s life, sometimes on behalf of Iraqi intelligence, said that Mr. Baghdadi had spent five years in an American detention facility where, like many ISIS fighters now on the battlefield, he became more radicalized.”
From there he joined al-Qaeda, and later split off into his own group which later became ISIS and Islamic State.
Wrong.
But what about all the pictures?
If you see any pictures, supposedly of al-Baghdadi meeting someone (like John McCain!), they’re also fake. McCain met some Syrian opposition leaders but he didn’t meet Baghdadi. These pics never reveal their source, time, date or location. Unless a pic does that, so it can be verified, its a fake.
So McCain was never there, he brags about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu0YtkHRBWg
He left a month afte McCain was there as the vid of that was posted in May/2013.
(from the link above)
The rise of ISIS under his stewardship has been less about a cult of personality than what one expert
told AFP signaled a “transnational ideology.” This became especially clear after Baghdadi
cast off al-Qaeda’s leadership in June 2013. “I chose the command of God over the command that runs against it in the letter,” Baghdadi told al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri, who had tried to bring the rogue commander back into line.
So where did ISIS come from?
ISIS were initially
an al-Qaeda offshoot:
“The Islamic State is the current incarnation of al-Qaeda in Iraq(AQI), which was created when Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden in October 2004. The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) was declared in October 2006, four months after a U.S. airstrike killed Zarqawi (by
tf support everette). This was not just a naming convention: according to its organizers, AQI ceased to exist at that point, as the ISI was intended to be a governing institution independent from al-Qaeda and a practical step toward ultimately declaring a Caliphate.”
But ISIS split from Al-Qaeda and went its on way to establish a Caliphate. Its only over the last year they have made serious inroads towards their aims and have therefore become much more prominent.
“ISIS’s rise at the expense of Zawahiri’s movement signals that a new, more dangerous hybrid based on state development by wrecking everything in its path is emerging from the Syrian terrorist incubator,”
wrote Theodore Karasik of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis. “Ultimately, ISIS seeks to create an Islamic state from where they would launch a global holy war. Perhaps that war is now beginning as Baghdadi’s ISIS eclipses Zawahiri’s al-Qaeda.”
Now, stop spreading conspiracy theories please.
You make me want to puke mostly.
And I never knew tinfoil could shrink until now.
You trying to add some metal to your balls?
There is a fluctuation in the number of ISIL militants in Iraq and Syria and the number of casualty announced by the Pentagon accounts for about 20% to 30% of the total ISIL militants.
According to the so-called Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, over 1,200 ISIL fighters have been killed in Syria since coalition airstrikes began there in late September.
Kirby also said that the US is “mindful that they're still a potent force inside Iraq and in Syria” and that eradicating them will “take some time".
The ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, are engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control.
They have been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.
PressTV-ISIL lost 1% of captured area in Iraq: US
www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=dYXXcwuJtbQ&x-yt-cl=84503534#t=157
