Blowback! U.S. trained Islamists who joined ISIS
Secret Jordan base was site of covert aid to insurgents targeting Assad
Aaron Klein,
WND correspondent in Jerusalem
Comment by Julio Severo: This significant
WND article shows how the U.S. government trained many of the Islamic
terrorists who have been torturing, raping and slaughtering Christians in Iraq
and Syria. There is also information from WND that CIA was delivering
arms to these terrorists. The current article also reveals that ISIS
received assistance from two big U.S. allies: Turkey and Saudi Arabia. All of
them helping to exterminate Christians in Syria and Iraq. I ask my American
friends to help end the U.S. war on Christians by proxy. A nation founded by
persecuted Christians should help persecuted Christians, not to help shed their
blood.
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| U.S. Army trainers |
The officials
said dozens of future ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert
aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
in Syria. The officials said the training was not meant to be used for any
future campaign in Iraq.
The Jordanian
officials said all ISIS members who received U.S. training to fight in Syria
were first vetted for any links to extremist groups like al-Qaida.
In February 2012, WND was first to report
the U.S., Turkey and Jordan were running a training base for the Syrian rebels
in the Jordanian town of Safawi in the country’s northern desert region.
That report has
since been corroborated by numerous other media accounts.
Last March, the German
weekly Der Spiegel reported Americans were training Syrian rebels in
Jordan.
Quoting what it
said were training participants and organizers, Der Spiegel reported it was not
clear whether the Americans worked for private firms or were with the U.S.
Army, but the magazine said some organizers wore uniforms. The training in
Jordan reportedly focused on use of anti-tank weaponry.
The German magazine reported some 200 men received the
training over the previous three months amid U.S. plans to train a total of
1,200 members of the Free Syrian Army in two camps in the south and the east of
Jordan.
Britain’s Guardian
newspaper also reported last March that U.S. trainers were aiding Syrian
rebels in Jordan along with British and French instructors.
Reuters
reported a spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department declined immediate
comment on the German magazine’s report. The French foreign ministry and
Britain’s foreign and defense ministries also would not comment to Reuters.
The Jordanian
officials spoke to WND amid concern the sectarian violence in Iraq will spill
over into their own country as well as into Syria.
ISIS previously
posted a video on YouTube threatening to move on Jordan and “slaughter” King
Abdullah, whom they view as an enemy of Islam.
WND
reported last week that, according to Jordanian and Syrian regime sources,
Saudi Arabia has been arming the ISIS and that the Saudis are a driving force
in supporting the al-Qaida-linked group.
WND further reported that, according to a
Shiite source in contact with a high official in the government of Iraqi Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Obama administration has been aware for two
months that the al-Qaida-inspired group that has taken over two Iraqi cities
and now is threatening Baghdad also was training fighters in Turkey.
The source told WND that at least one of the training
camps of the group Iraq of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Syria, the ISIS,
is in the vicinity of Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey, where American
personnel and equipment are located.
He called Obama
“an accomplice” in the attacks that are threatening the Maliki government the
U.S. helped establish through the Iraq war.
The source said that after training in Turkey,
thousands of ISIS fighters went to Iraq by way of Syria to join the effort to
establish an Islamic caliphate subject to strict Islamic law, or Shariah.
Source: WND,
via Julio Severo in English
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