{"id":197008,"date":"2019-10-28T08:04:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T08:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197008"},"modified":"2019-10-30T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T08:22:21","slug":"us-tries-to-reverse-syrian-fortunes-with-baghdadi-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197008","title":{"rendered":"US Tries to Reverse Syrian Fortunes with \u201cBaghdadi Raid\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Cartalucci \u2013 Activist Post Oct 27, 2019<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n
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Al-Baghdadi, reputed Mossad trained leader of Islamic State. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The Western media is reporting that US military forces have killed the supposed leader of the so-called \u201cIslamic State in Iraq and Syria\u201d (ISIS) in Syria\u2019s northern governorate of Idlib.<\/span><\/p>\n

Newsweek in its article, \u201cTrump Approves Special Ops Raid Targeting ISIS Leader Baghdadi, Military Says He\u2019s Dead<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u201d claimed:<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States military has conducted a special operations raid targeting one of its most high-value targets, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Newsweek has learned. President Donald Trump approved the mission nearly a week before it took place.<\/span><\/p>\n

The article also claimed:<\/span><\/p>\n

Amid reports Saturday of U.S. military helicopters over Syria\u2019s northwestern Idlib province, a senior Pentagon official familiar with the operation and Army official briefed on the matter told Newsweek that Baghdadi was the target of the top-secret operation in the last bastion of the country\u2019s Islamist-dominated opposition, a faction that has clashed with ISIS in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Newsweek would include \u201cdetails\u201d of the supposed raid worthy of a Hollywood action movie finale, claiming:<\/span><\/p>\n

The senior Pentagon official said there was a brief firefight when U.S. forces entered the compound and that Baghdadi then killed himself by detonating a suicide vest. Family members were present. According to Pentagon sources, no children were harmed in the raid but two Baghdadi wives were killed, possibly by the vest detonation.<\/span><\/p>\n

As with most every claim the Western media or the US military makes without any sort of evidence, this most recent story cannot or shouldn\u2019t be trusted, especially when there\u2019s little to nothing that can be verified about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Timing is Everything<\/h2>\n

The supposed military operation \u2013 unfolding just miles from the Syrian-Turkish border \u2013 comes at a time when the prospects of America\u2019s proxy war in Syria have reached all-time lows.<\/span><\/p>\n

First \u2013 US proxy forces jointly armed and aided by Turkey as well as other US allies \u2013 have been all but eliminated from the battlefield with their remnants residing in Idlib, increasingly encircled by Syrian forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Attempts by the US to intervene in Syria directly to oversee the overthrow of the government in Damascus was also thwarted by Russia\u2019s military intervention beginning in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

US forces have most recently\u00a0retreated from the Syrian-Turkish border in Syria\u2019s northeast<\/a>, setting the stage\u00a0for a joint Russian-Turkish agreement<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0that appears poised to see the disarmament of Kurdish militants or their possible integration into Syria\u2019s security forces. The deal also aims at fully restoring Syria\u2019s territorial integrity \u2013 fully derailing Washington\u2019s secondary plans to \u201cBalkanize\u201d Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Russian-Turkish deal comes at a time when US-Turkish relations are particularly shaky, with Ankara realigning itself within a Middle East emerging out from under decades of US hegemony.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite alleged ISIS leader al Baghdadi lurking about Syria and Iraq throughout the duration of Syria\u2019s war \u2013 why has the US with all its vast resources only now been able to \u201cfind\u201d and \u201celiminate\u201d him? The timing and location couldn\u2019t have been better for the US if the entire incident was staged.<\/span><\/p>\n

And regardless of whether the US staged the operation or not \u2013 the truth about who truly created and directed ISIS throughout the duration of the Syrian war \u2013 resigns al Baghdadi\u2019s death ultimately as theater.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US Created ISIS to Begin With\u2026<\/h2>\n

The US has admittedly spent billions of dollars arming militants throughout the duration of the Syrian war.<\/span><\/p>\n

Articles like Foreign Policy\u2019s, \u201cThe Pentagon Is Spending $2 Billion Running Soviet-Era Guns to Syrian Rebels<\/a>,\u201d or the New York Times,\u2019 \u201cC.I.A. Arms for Syrian Rebels Supplied Black Market, Officials Say<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u201d in headlines alone indicate the extensive nature of US efforts to arm militants fighting against the Syrian government from 2011 onward.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the US and its allies were providing billions in weapons, equipment, and other forms of support to militants claimed to be \u201cmoderates,\u201d who was providing even more weapons, equipment, and other forms of support allowing extremist organizations like ISIS to rise to prominence and even supposedly displace or lure over US-backed militants?<\/span><\/p>\n

The answer is simple \u2013 the US \u2013 as it has in all of its other wars of aggression \u2013 simply lied.\u00a0There were never any \u201cmoderate\u201d militants<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. The US deliberately misled the public about the nature of its proxy war in Syria. From the beginning \u2013 in fact long before the beginning of the Syrian war \u2013 the US was knowingly funneling aid into the hands of extremists with ties to groups like Al Qaeda and its various affiliates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Far from mere speculation, it was the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) itself in a 2012 leaked memo that admitted, \u201cthe West, Gulf monarchies, and Turkey\u201d were behind the rise of a what at the time was being called a \u201cSalafist principality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0leaked 2012 report (.pdf)<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0states (emphasis added):<\/span><\/p>\n

If the situation unravels there is the possibility\u00a0of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime,<\/strong>\u00a0which is considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran).<\/span><\/p>\n

To clarify precisely who these \u201csupporting powers\u201d were that sought the creation of a \u201cSalafist\u201d (Islamic) principality\u201d (State), the DIA report explains:<\/span><\/p>\n

The West, Gulf countries, and Turkey support the opposition; while Russia, China, and Iran support the regime.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, the US, its European allies, and its closest allies in the Middle East, sought the rise of a \u201cSalafist\u201d (Islamic) \u201cprincipality\u201d (State) in eastern Syria, precisely where ISIS eventually manifested itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stories like USA Today\u2019s \u201cThe U.S. bought weapons for Syrian rebels \u2014 and some wound up in the hands of ISIS terrorists<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u201d sought to incrementally spin how ISIS suddenly found itself awash with weapons and in a dominate position among Syria\u2019s \u201copposition\u201d alongside other Al Qaeda affiliates like Al Nusra.<\/span><\/p>\n

In reality \u2013 as journalist like Seymour Hersh warned as early as 2007\u00a0in the pages of the New Yorker<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 US plans from the beginning centered around the arming and unleashing of extremists against Syria and its allies.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Meaning of the Baghdadi Raid?<\/h2>\n

Thus \u2013 at best \u2013 a US military operation eliminating the figurehead of ISIS is more akin to liquating one\u2019s own assets rather than any sort of \u201cvictory.\u201d Much more likely still \u2013 is that the operation is mere theater \u2013 with the US seeking relevance and leverage amid the conflict it itself engineered, triggered, and deliberately perpetuated \u2013 but now finds itself being evicted from.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the world waits for evidence \u2013 if any evidence even emerges \u2013 analysts and interested parties alike would benefit more from looking at how the US plans to leverage and move onward from this supposed \u201craid\u201d rather than obsessing over the supposed details of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

One may hope the US uses it as a spectacular finale before fully withdrawing from Syria \u2013 including from its oilfields \u2013 and allowing the nation and its people to finally and fully restore order while undertaking the long process of reconstruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

The proximity to Turkey\u2019s border and recent rhetoric coming out of Washington suggests it may be leveraged to prolong the conflict further.<\/span><\/p>\n

One may also hope diplomatic efforts by Syria\u2019s allies are underway to coax Washington toward adopting the former option instead of the latter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine\u00a0\u201c<\/a>New Eastern Outlook\u201d<\/a>, where this article first appeared.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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