The terror hordes originated from NATO territory and
have inundated Syria, Iraq, and now Lebanon. The goal of this well
funded, heavily armed, professionally organized mercenary force is
clearly to supplant pro-Iranian political and military fronts across
Tehran’s arc of influence – from Baghdad to Damascus, to Lebanon and
Hezbollah along the Mediterranean. In the process, the heavily
indoctrinated rank and file have committed horrific atrocities ranging
from rape and torture to mass executions and sectarian genocide. While
such war crimes have been taking place in Syria since 2011, it is
becoming increasingly difficult to cover up similar crimes beyond
Syria’s borders under narratives of “civil war” linked to the so-called
“Arab Spring.”

Image: ISIS began its invasion into Iraqi territory from NATO-member Turkey, through Syria and riding in Toyota Hilux trucks – identical to those provided to “moderates” by the US State Department as part of multi-million dollar “non-lethal” aid packages. ISIS did not take these trucks from “moderates,” the moderates never existed to begin with. From the beginning, it was the West’s plan to raise a mercenary army of sectarian extremists operating under the banner of Al Qaeda.

Beginning in 2011 – and actually even as early as 2007 – the United
States has been arming, funding, and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood
and a myriad of armed terrorist organizations to overthrow the
government of Syria, fight Hezbollah in Lebanon, and undermine the power
and influence of Iran, which of course includes any other government or
group in the MENA region friendly toward Tehran.

Image: ISIS corridors begin in Turkey and end in Baghdad.

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Billions in cash have been funneled into the hands of terrorist
groups including Al Nusra, Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and what is now being
called “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” or ISIS. One can see clearly
by any map of ISIS held territory that it butts up directly against
Turkey’s borders with defined corridors ISIS uses to invade southward –
this is because it is precisely from NATO territory this terrorist
scourge originated.

ISIS was harbored on NATO territory, armed and funded by US CIA
agents with cash and weapons brought in from the Saudis, Qataris, and
NATO members themselves. The “non-lethal aid” the US and British sent including the vehicles we now see ISIS driving around in.
They didn’t “take” this gear from “moderates.” There were never any
moderates to begin with. The deadly sectarian genocide we now see
unfolding was long ago predicted by those in the Pentagon – current and
former officials – interviewed in 2007 by Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran
journalist Seymour Hersh.
Hersh’s 9-page 2007 report, “The Redirection” states explicitly:

To
undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration
has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle
East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s
government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended
to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The
U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and
its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering
of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and
are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

Now, as the US feigns concern for religious minorities being
slaughtered in front of the eyes of the world, it should be remembered
that this conflict was engineered, set in motion, and perpetuated
intentionally by the West for at least the last 7 years. The West knew
the sectarian genocide now unfolding in Syria, Iraq, and soon in Lebanon
was the inevitable result of their efforts to raise this regional
mercenary force.

Western concern for religious minorities and the minimal provisions being made to “assist” them, is to maintain an increasingly tenuous plausible deniability.
The feigned dithering of the West in the face of their growing
mercenary force is to allow it to overrun the Iraqi government if
possible, create more havoc within Syria, and spread the chaos to
Lebanon.

ISIS is a standing army that requires state sponsorship – billions in
cash, gear, weapons, and logistical, intelligence, and political
support. While the West claims it has been handing over hundreds of
millions to “moderates” in Syria, it has offered no plausible
explanation as to who is providing ISIS and other Al Qaeda affiliates
with even more resources enabling the extremists to displace these
“moderates.” There is no other explanation besides the fact that there
were never any moderates to begin with and that the US, UK, France,
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and even Israel, have from the beginning,
intentionally created a mercenary army composed of Al Qaeda extremists
of unprecedented dimensions and capabilities.

The direct war with Iran the West has for so long attempted to sell
the world is now clearly being replaced with an immense proxy war. It
will feign ignorance to the genesis of ISIS and the fact that no other
explanation beyond state-sponsorship exists to explain its continued
success on the battlefield. Token airdrops and even “airstrikes” against
ISIS positions will admittedly do nothing to disrupt ISIS’ ongoing
campaigns across the region.

Depending on ISIS’ ability to
achieve the West’s goals by proxy will determine the level of direct
intervention the West seeks across the region. “Buffer zones” and
“humanitarian interventions” to “relieve” areas plagued by ISIS will
conveniently leave terrorist safe havens extending far beyond their
current boundaries in NATO-member Turkey, Jordan, and northwest Iraq.

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