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    Benghazi to Baghdad – Obama’s Secret Deal to Arm Jihadists Explodes Into a Caliphate



    SMOKING GUNS: Benghazi to Baghdad – Obama’s Secret Deal to Arm Jihadists Explodes Into a Looming Muslim Caliphate


    By Norvell Rose
    7 3:59 pm June 13, 2014

    Over a year ago, in May of 2013, LibertyNEWS.com ran a series of investigative and analytical reports on what really happened before, during and after the deadly attack on the U.S. facilities in Benghazi. Since those stories were published, our analysis has been confirmed in many respects by various sources inside and outside government.

    The basics are these:
    1. The American compound in Benghazi was a control/staging area for the gathering of heavy weapons scattered around Libya after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.

    2. The weapons were secretly being shipped out of Libya, headed toward Syrian rebel forces engaged in an anti-Assad offensive.

    3. The attack on the compound was a coordinated, military-style assault, possibly intended to seize control of those weapons, determine their location, interrupt the flow or cover up the clandestine operation.

    4. Many weapons, including powerful surface-to-air missiles, essentially “disappeared” into the hands of various rebel factions, largely in Syria.

    5. Barack Obama and others in the administration (including then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) either directed, assisted with, knew about, ignored or helped to cover up the truth about Benghazi.

    Now, it appears those very weapons stolen from or smuggled out of Benghazi may be in the control of vicious insurgentsjihadists fighting their way toward Baghdad, Iraq. Insurgents associated with an organization known as ISIS. These ISIS militants are bloodthirsty Muslim insurgents who have installed strict Sharia law in the major Iraqi cities they have quickly and systematically overrun on their march to the capital.
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    The situation in Iraq is perilous for the U.S.-backed government. It appears likely to fall, as its military crumbles and defenses defining the country’s border with Syria collapse. And substantial Iranian forces — the fearsome Revolutionary Guard — enter Iraq under the pretense of helping to bring an end to the turmoil.
    And now, reports from the region tell us that leaders of this newly risen Islamist insurgency are talking openly of creating a caliphate — a vast Islamic state ruled by a religious/political leader — and of having a direct confrontation with the United States.
    President Obama says the United States will not send troops to Iraq, that the country must take care of its own problems. That, however, is something it appears the government of Iraq is completely incapable of doing. And does Obama know this? Is that, quite possibly, okay with him?

    Other tough but reasonable questions must be asked as this crisis resonates and amplifies across the region…

    1. Is the Benghazi-to-Baghdad connection — Syrian rebel forces armed with weapons from Libya — is that connection part of a plan?

    2. Was letting Iraq fall into chaos leading to an overthrow of the government and the takeover by Sharia-following, war-minded Islamists part of a plan?

    3. Will a dominant Islamic caliphate rise from the Iraqi ashes, uniting Iraq, Syria and Iran…moving toward a takeover of Egypt…essentially guaranteeing the destruction of Israel?

    The dark dots of a sinister diagram of deceit and downfall are now connecting. Truly, let’s hope the picture that’s formed is not what it appears to be. For if that picture is one of Islamist strength and unity, fortified by weapons supplied by or once in the control of the United States, than we must ask…

    WHAT HATH OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION WROUGHT? AND WHAT, IF ANYTHING, CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT?

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    Gruesome Footage Of ISIS Atrocities Reveals Al Qaeda Jihadists "Will Stop At Nothing"

    Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2014 12:38 -0400

    Several videos at the page link:

    Judging by the gruesome propaganda video being released by ISIS, it is no wonder the Iraqi soldiers and police stripped off uniforms and ran... As The Daily Mail reports, blood-thirsty jihadists are carrying out summary executions on civilians, Iraqi soldiers and police officers - including 17 in one street alone - on their warpath to Baghdad, the UN said today. As a shocking picture of the ISIS insurgency continues to develop, the Islamist group are posting barbaric videos online with the intent of showing the world they will stop at nothing to achieve their end game. The aim is to terrorise Sunnis in Iraq's army and police forces and deepen their already low morale. It appears to be working as that fear is one factor behind the stunning collapse of Iraqi security forces.
    Via The Daily Mail,
    In one, which is too graphic to publish, fighters are seen knocking on the door of a Sunni police major in the dead of night.
    When he answers, they blindfold and cuff him. Then they carve off his head with a knife in his own bedroom as sweetly lilting religious hymns are played over the top.
    Shock and awe: An ISIS propaganda video shows militants blindfolding a Sunni police major in his home before cutting off his head

    Shocking: Footage reportedly taken by ISIS militants shows Islamist fighters randomly shooting pedestrians and motorists as they take over towns and cities in Iraq

    Armed with a machine-gun, the gang film themselves shooting cars off the road then move in to video close-ups of the victims' blood-stained bodies slumped in the seats. In another clip, they gun down a pedestrian.

    Video of the civilian killings
    Sabre-rattling: An Islamic militant issues a call to arms, saying: 'Declare Allah the Greatest! Allah is the Greatest!' in a video released by ISIS



    An explosion as militants of ISIS allegedly seize an Iraqi army checkpoint in the northern Iraqi province of Salahuddin

    A man is executed in a propaganda video released this morning by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as the Al Qaeda-inspired militants continue their march towards Baghdad


    ISIS Propaganda video... (gruseome)

    and the full uncensored compilation of horror...



    Where we stand...



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    Lines In The Sand - The 5 Key Maps Of The Middle East Crisis

    Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2014 18:12 -0400

    Reams of paper have already been spilled about the past, present, and potential future of Iraq and the rest of the Middle East but in order to attempt to simplify things a little, we offer 5 maps that answer: What ISIL already have..., What they want..., What they will gain control of if they win..., and where all the allies.. and enemies are...

    The updated map of the situation in Iraq... (what they have...)


    As WaPo reports, the remarkable success of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in capturing huge swaths of land in Iraq and Syria is even more surprising when you consider the scale of the lands captured: Iraq and Syria are big countries, and ISIS controls a lot of them.
    This map helps to put ISIS' reach into perspective for U.S. readers. As you can see, it pretty much stretches from Illinois to Virginia.

    There's another remarkable factor here. ISIS troop numbers are not huge: According to The Guardian, just 800 militants managed to force 30,000 Iraqi soldiers to flee in Mosul. In total, there are believed to be between 7,000 and 10,000 fighters.

    Here is the oil and gas pipelines around Iraq's oil hub in Kirkuk (via Platts) which ISIL will gain control of (if allowed)


    "This entire system is disintegrating like a house of cards that starts to collapse," Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz said.
    As WSJ reports, the group—known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham—isn't a threat only to Iraq and Syria. It seeks to impose its vision of a single radical Islamist state stretching from the Mediterranean coast of Syria through modern Iraq, the region of the Islamic Caliphates established in the seventh and eighth centuries.
    Governments and borders are under siege elsewhere, as well. For more than a year, Shiite militias from Lebanon have moved into Syria and operated as a virtual arm of the Syrian government. Meanwhile, so many Syrian refugees have gone in the opposite direction—fleeing into Lebanon—that Lebanon now houses more school-age Syrian children than Lebanese children.
    And in Iraq, the Kurdish population has carved out a homeland in the north of the country that—with the help of Turkey and against the wishes of the Iraqi government—exports its own oil, runs its own customs and immigration operations and fields its own military, known as the Peshmerga.

    The mess puts Mr. Obama in a box. A few weeks ago he laid out in a policy speech his rationale for staying out of the mire of such sectarian conflicts, since they seem far removed from concrete U.S. interests. Yet, he now seems to acknowledge the U.S. must do something.
    The danger for the president is the U.S. are being drawn back into the fray, but with very few options, never mind good ones.
    Especially when one considers the Sunni-Shiite splits across each and every nation in the region that the US is trying to befriend...

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    Obama Behind Al-Qaeda Invasion of Iraq

    Al Qaeda used by western powers as a destabilizing force to foment chaos and disorder and facilitate divide and conquer

    by Infowars.com | June 14, 2014

    Related: Saudi Arabia, Sunni Caliphate, NATO Run Secret Terror Army in Iraq and Syria



    Alex Jones breaks down the exploding conflict in Iraq with Al-Qaeda, and how the link between the US and Syrian rebels is unfolding.

    Iraq has privately signaled to the Obama administration that it would allow the U.S. to conduct airstrikes with drones or manned aircraft against al Qaeda militant targets on Iraqi territory, senior U.S. officials said Wednesday.
    We also reached out to World Net Daily investigative journalist Jerome Corsi for his take on Iraq being handed over to al Qaeda and to discuss his latest article detailing how 200 American contractors were captured by ISIS jihadists.



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    Iraq Update: Jihadists Seize 2 More Iraqi Towns; Close To 30 Miles Of Baghdad; Iran Rushes To Help

    Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2014 08:09 -0400

    While the US scrambles to figure out what the least painful way is to admit yet another humiliating foreign policy defeat, things in Iraq continue to deteriorate as the relentless blitzkrieg unleashed by the ISIS/ISIL Al-Qaeda spin off, which has shocked everyone by its speed and scale, takes two more towns, as it rushes for its target: Baghdad itself.
    As Reuters reports, "Islamist rebel fighters captured two more Iraqi towns overnight in a relentless sweep south towards the capital Baghdad in a campaign to recreate a medieval caliphate carved out of fragmenting Iraq and Syria. Thrusting further to the southeast after their lightning seizure of the major Iraqi city of Mosul in the far north and the late dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, ISIL entered two towns in Diyala province bordering Iran. Saadiyah and Jalawla had fallen to the Sunni Muslim insurgents after government troops fled their positions, along with several villages around the Himreen mountains that have long been a hideout for militants, security sources said."
    As the following map shows, as of this moment the Al Qaeda extremeists are now just 30 miles away from Baghdad and closing fast, although Iraqi forces may have succeded in halting the advance for now near the town of Samarra.

    What the map above also shows is the extensive US presence in the region, one which however as Obama stated yesterday, he is so far unwilling to unleash on the ISIS army.


    Obama said military action alone was no panacea against ISIL. He alluded to long-standing Western complaints that Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has done little to heal sectarian rifts that have left many of Iraq's minority Sunnis, cut out of power since Saddam's demise, aggrieved and keen for revenge.

    "This should be also a wake-up call for the Iraqi government. There has to be a political component to this," Obama said.

    U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assured Maliki by telephone that Washington was prepared to intensify and accelerate its security support. The White House had signaled on Wednesday it was looking to strengthen Iraqi forces rather than meet what one U.S. official said were past Iraqi requests for air strikes.

    But fears of jihadist violence spreading may increase pressure for robust international action. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said international powers "must deal with the situation".

    In Mosul, ISIL staged a parade of American Humvee patrol vehicles seized from a collapsing Iraqi army in the two days since its fighters drove out of the desert and overran the city.
    The parade can be seen in the clip below:



    So will Baghdad fall as rapidly as all other cities in the north? For now that appears unlikely:


    ISIL and its allies took control of Falluja at the start of the year. It lies just 50 km (30 miles) west of Maliki's office. ISIL has set up military councils to run the towns they captured, residents said. “'Our final destination will be Baghdad, the decisive battle will be there' - that’s what their leader kept repeating," said a regional tribal figure.

    The senior U.N. official in Iraq assured the Security Council that Baghdad was in "no immediate danger". The council offered unanimous support to the government and condemned "terrorism".

    As with the concurrent war in Syria, the conflict cuts across global alliances. The United States and Western and Gulf Arab allies back the mainly Sunni revolt against the Iranian-backed Syrian President Assad, but have had to watch as ISIL and other Islamists have come to dominate large parts of Syria.

    Now the Shi'ite Islamic Republic of Iran, which in the 1980s fought Saddam for eight years at a time when the Sunni Iraqi leader enjoyed quiet U.S. support, may share an interest with the "Great Satan" Washington in bolstering mutual ally Maliki.

    The global oil benchmark prices have jumped, as concerns mounted that the violence could disrupt supplies from a major OPEC exporter. Iraq's main oil export facilities are in the largely Shi'ite areas in the south and were "very, very safe", Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said.
    Until they aren't. As a reminder, ISIS's immediate ambition is to create an independent religious state-entity/caliphate that looks like this:

    Which probably is why none other than the country's most senior Shiite cleric urged broad mobilization, telling people across the land to take arms:


    A representative of Iraq's most influential Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, urged people in a sermon at Friday prayers to take up arms and defend their country from mostly Sunni insurgents.

    Sheikh Abdulmehdi al-Karbalai, who was delivering the sermon at prayers in the city of Kerbala, holy to Iraq's majority Shi'ites, said those killed fighting the militants would be martyrs.

    "People who are capable of carrying arms and fighting the terrorists in defence of their country... should volunteer to join the security forces to achieve this sacred goal," Karbalai said.

    In response, worshippers chanted "Labbeik Ya Hussein", meaning they would act at the behest of Imam Hussein, who is buried in a shrine in Kerbala.
    But what virtually assures that it is only a moment of time before the situation spirals out of control is the arrival of Iran troops who are now being sent to guard Baghdad, and fight Al Qaeda:


    Reports coming out of security sources in Iran say that two battalions of Quds Force troops from the nation’s Revolutionary Guard have deployed into neighboring Iraq to guard Shi’ite holy sites as well as the capital city of Baghdad. Some have also reportedly taken part in fighting in Tikrit.

    The move comes in response to al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) taking most of the country’s Sunni west, and moving dangerously close to Baghdad on multiple fronts. Iraq’s Shi’ite government is on good terms with Iran.

    Earlier today, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his country can’t tolerate the growth of a terrorist group so close to their borders, and promised unspecified aid to the Maliki government.

    Iran has already been aiding the Assad government in Syria against AQI’s advances there, albeit without much success. As the problem of this new AQI-run state grows, Iran is likely to try to increase support for its struggling allies, out of whose territory the state is being carved.
    More from Reuters, which reports that Iran, a Shiite republic, is so alarmed by Sunni insurgent gains in Iraq that it may be willing to cooperate with Washington in helping Baghdad fight back, a senior Iranian official told Reuters. The idea is being discussed internally among the Islamic Republic's leadership, the senior Iranian official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official had no word on whether the idea had been raised with any other party.


    Officials say Iran will send its neighbor advisers and weaponry, although probably not troops, to help its ally Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki check what Tehran sees as a profound threat to regional stability, officials and analysts say.
    Islamist militants have captured swathes of territory including the country's second biggest city Mosul.

    Tehran is open to the possibility of working with the United States to support Baghdad, the senior official said.

    "We can work with Americans to end the insurgency in the Middle East," the official said, referring to events in Iraq. "We are very influential in Iraq, Syria and many other countries."

    For many years, Iran has been aggrieved by what it sees as U.S. efforts to marginalize it. Tehran wants to be recognized as a significant player in regional security.

    ...

    Rouhani on Thursday strongly condemned what he called violent acts by insurgent groups in the Middle East.

    “Today, in our region, unfortunately, we are witnessing violence, killing, terror and displacement," Rouhani said.

    "Iran will not tolerate the terror and violence ... we will fight against terrorism, factionalism and violence.”
    That's right: as a result of the epic US leftover mess in Iraq, it is now up to its arch nemesis Iran to get in and protect the country from none other than Al-Qaeda. And not only that, but Iran is prepared to work with the "great Statan", America, to defend the middle east from Al-Qaeda!
    And to think: this is only the beginning.

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    How The US Is Arming Both Sides Of The Iraqi Conflict

    Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/12/2014 18:29 -0400

    Recall a week ago we wrote "US Begins Delivering F-16s To Iraq This Week, A Decade After It Wiped Out Iraq's Air Force" in which we said:


    ... the US will deliver the first of 36 F-16 fighter jets to Iraq in what Baghdad's envoy to the United States called a "new chapter" in his country's ability to defend its vast borders with Iran and other neighbors.

    ....the US earlier in March provided Iraq with some 100 Hellfire missiles as well as assault rifles and other ammunition. Then in April the US sent more arms, providing Iraq with 11 million rounds of ammunition and other supplies.
    It is unknown how many of these have fallen into Al Qaeda/ISIS hands (we do know that at least one Iraqi Black Hawk chopper was captured during the rush for Mosul). What is known is that as PBS Frontline reported two weeks ago, while the administration has denied arming Syrian "rebels", i.e. the same ISIS militants that have crossed the border and are now fighting in Iraq...

    ... the reality is that it has. From: "Obama Says Not Arming Syrian Rebels, Syrian Rebels Say He Is"


    ... the Syrian rebels themselves say they are already armed and trained by US in the use of sophisticated weapons and fighting techniques, including, one rebel said, "how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush." The interviews are the latest evidence that after more than three years of warfare, the United States has stepped up the provision of lethal aid to the rebels, as PBS notes "it appears the Obama administration is allowing select groups of rebels to receive US-made anti-tank missiles."

    The commander of the unit also told Ali that their American contacts had asked him to bring 80 to 90 members of his unit to Ankara for training.

    One of the fighters said they received three weeks of training in how to conduct ambushes, conduct raids and use their weapons. They also said they received new uniforms and boots.

    “They trained us to ambush regime or enemy vehicles and cut off the road,” said the fighter, who is identified only as “Hussein.” “They also trained us on how to attack a vehicle, raid it, retrieve information or weapons and munitions, and how to finish off soldiers still alive after an ambush.”
    To summarize: the US was arming and training the same Al Qaeda/ISIS groups of Jihadists, that it concurrently gave Iraq weapons to fight. And since the Iraq army has so far proven utterly incapable of any resistance, it is now up to US drones to "fight" the same "rebels" that the US itself was collaborating with until a month or so ago.
    The clear winner here? The US military-industrial complex, of course, as well as the banks who lend money to the governments to fight wars provoked by various "developed nation" spy agencies.
    Collateral damage? Millions of innocent people on the ground in Syria and Iraq, and everywhere else too.

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