{"id":272324,"date":"2023-08-17T07:15:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272324"},"modified":"2023-08-19T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T05:52:10","slug":"isis-are-backand-theyre-faker-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272324","title":{"rendered":"Kit Knightly: ISIS are back\u2026and they\u2019re faker than ever."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian Aug 16, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

In just the last few days ISIS \u2013 Islamic State or ISIL or Da\u2019esh or whatever \u2013 have hit the headlines in publications from all over the world. A strong resurgence for a narrative that\u2019s been more than quiet for the last few years.<\/p>\n

To do a quick recap, when last we heard from our cartoonish black-flagged head-choppers they were telling their suicide bombers to \u201csteer clear of coronavirus-stricken Europe\u201d.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

An announcement that, pre-\u201cpandemic\u201d, would have been among the silliest headlines I\u2019ve ever read\u2026but in a post-Covid world it probably barely scrapes the top twenty.<\/p>\n

Either way, that marked a hiatus for ISIS, an exit from the world stage as the \u201cwar on terror\u201d made way for the \u201cwar on Covid\u201d. In fact, a \u201creduction in violent terror events\u201d<\/em> was even sold as a potential plus-side of lockdowns, according to a study done by Yale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2026but now here we are. Three years on, and ISIS is back with a bang, or rather several bangs<\/em>. Like a balaclava-wearing bear, they\u2019ve emerged from their hibernation feeling grumpy.<\/p>\n

The mainstream started laying the ground work for it back in January\/February, with the aforementioned Yale study and then US politicians suddenly warning that ISIS was a \u201csimmering powder keg\u201d<\/a> and underlining that the War on Terror is not over.<\/p>\n

Then the US started nailing \u201csenior ISIS leaders\u201d, offing two<\/a> in two weeks<\/a> in April and a third in July<\/a>. Syria got in on the act too, dropping an ISIS leader of their own<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Through the summer, ISIS \u201caffiliates\u201d claimed responsibility for attacks in Afghanistan<\/a>, Pakistan<\/a> and Uganda<\/a>. These were followed with more \u201cthe war on terror is not over\u201d<\/a><\/em> messaging.<\/p>\n

But things have really started to heat up the last few days.<\/p>\n

On August 11th CBS reported that ISIS were behind an ambush in Syria<\/a>, killing 20 Syrian soldiers.<\/p>\n

On August 12th the Washington Post reported<\/a> that ADF, an \u201cISIS affiliate\u201d in the Congo apparently, was \u201cbecoming deadlier\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

On August 13th it was reported<\/a> ISIS was \u201cdeploying cryptocurrency to continue its reign of terror\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Oh the humanity!<\/p>\n

On August 14th the Iranian government officially blamed ISIS<\/a> for an alleged terror attack on a shrine in Shiraz, and TimesNow reported that an ISIS \u201cexpert bomb maker\u201d was planning an attack in India<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And just yesterday, The Mirror warned<\/a> that ISIS and al-Qaeda were \u201cback in Afghanistan\u201d. Meanwhile Indonesian police raided a terror-suspects home and found an ISIS flag<\/a><\/p>\n

The cherry on top is the UN releasing a report yesterday morning, warning that ISIS still posed \u201ca serious threat\u201d<\/a>, with 5000-7000 fighters in Syria and Iraq. And in case anyone was curious, they also attempted an \u00a0explanation for \u00a0the lack of ISIS activity the last few years too. It wasn\u2019t at all a result of the global elites having other (covid) fish to fry. No sir. It was a \u201cdeliberately adopted\u201d strategy<\/p>\n

to reduce attacks, in order to facilitate recruiting and reorganization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Makes sense, right?<\/p>\n

But then the ISIS narrative has never<\/em> done that.<\/p>\n

In fact ISIS were maybe the first completely fake<\/strong> narrative, \u2013 comic-book villains with impossible reach and unknowable goals, a concept creation of marketers and PR firms rather than any geopolitical reality.<\/p>\n

Someone obviously just threw a bunch of money at a roomful of ad executives and bad TV writers and told them to go nuts \u2013 and ISIS got born.<\/p>\n

They had fleets of svelte matching trucks, always staying true to the Toyota brand affiliation<\/a>. They never went anywhere without their personal branding. They were \u201csmuggling\u201d literally hundreds of tons of oil <\/a>out of Syria every day in miles-long convoys (or even on muleback according to some), which were allegedly impossible to spot or stop, and funding themselves on tons of stolen antiquities that could never<\/em> be seized.<\/p>\n

They had glossy end of year reports, bank and social media accounts that never got closed, their own android app<\/a>, a\u00a05 year plan for world domination.<\/a> Even their own currency<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, but they never got silly. They never interfered with any really big elite agenda.<\/p>\n

And even they always supported vaccinating your kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the old days, there were two sides to \u201cISIS\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the one hand they were a NATO-backed proxy force waging war on the Syrian government.<\/p>\n

But on the other they were the phantoms created by those ad executives and failed screenwriters \u2013 to scare westerners into allowing their governments \u201ctemporary emergency powers\u201d; \u00a0an elaborate concoction of overheated bad guy memes designed to incite fear and pave the way for an agenda. An official \u201creality\u201d that had virtually no actual \u201creal\u201d in it at all and didn\u2019t hold up to even a moment of clear-eyed scrutiny.<\/p>\n

You could say ISIS was Covid before Covid.<\/p>\n

But then they were dropped by the wayside when the \u201cpandemic\u201d rolled out ahead of the Great Reset and \u201cunited world\u201d narrative.<\/p>\n

In their new, post-pandemic iteration, ISIS are just another sign that the \u201cmultipolar world\u201d is a lie. After all, rather than spreading fear of the mythical ISIS, the governments of India or Afghanistan could be refusing to play along, and calling out ISIS as a West-backed chimera.<\/p>\n

Either way, we should be asking \u201cwhy would they want to bring back \u201cthe war on terror\u201d now?\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, there\u2019s a few possibilities.<\/p>\n

Firstly there\u2019s the D word \u2013 distraction<\/strong>. No further explanation needed.<\/p>\n

Second, there\u2019s\u2026well another D word actually \u2013 damage control<\/strong>. They played their Covid cards expecting to clean up and walk away from the table, but the game isn\u2019t over and they need to find some more aces.<\/p>\n

Third, there\u2019s\u2026damnit\u2026another D word \u2013 division<\/strong>. Just like the culture war, the war in Ukraine and other hot-button topics, the \u201cwar on terror\u201d can be used to further disintegrate \u00a0the new anti-establishment movement created by the Covid hoax. Splitting it along old-fashioned party lines.<\/p>\n

Maybe there\u2019s more to the story, yet to be revealed. Some elaborate long con.<\/p>\n

Maybe someone will suggest a UN \u201canti-terror army\u201d or some other international legislation \u2013 something like China\u2019s Concept Paper\u2002Global Security Initiative<\/a>, perhaps \u2013 and we\u2019ll be another step along the road to global government.<\/p>\n

Maybe ISIS will be revealed to be anti-vaxxers, or new \u201canti-terror legislation\u201d will be mooted in terms of combatting ISIS, but will have clauses concerning \u201cmedical misinformation\u201d or \u201canti-government sentiment\u201d or \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d hidden in the text.<\/p>\n

This is all supposition, of course, but whether one, all or none of those theories turn out to be true, ISIS\u2019 sudden re-entry to the story at this late hour reeks of yet another D word: Desperation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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