http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13931206000521 posted:

Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:41
Official: US Planes Continue Dropping Weapons Supplies for for ISIL in Iraq

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iraqi provincial official lashed out at the western countries and their regional allies for supporting Takfiri terrorists in Iraq, revealing that the US airplanes still continue to airdrop weapons and foodstuff for the ISIL terrorists.

"The US planes have dropped weapons for the ISIL terrorists in the areas under ISIL control and even in those areas that have been recently liberated from the ISIL control to encourage the terrorists to return to those places," Coordinator of Iraqi popular forces Jafar al-Jaberi told FNA on Wednesday.

He noted that eyewitnesses in Al-Havijeh of Kirkuk province had witnessed the US airplanes dropping several suspicious parcels for ISIL terrorists in the province.

"Two coalition planes were also seen above the town of Al-Khas in Diyala and they carried the Takfiri terrorists to the region that has recently been liberated from the ISIL control," Al-Jaberi said.

On Monday, a senior lawmaker disclosed that Iraq's army has shot down two British planes as they were carrying weapons for the ISIL terrorists in Al-Anbar province.

"The Iraqi Parliament's National Security and Defense Committee has access to the photos of both planes that are British and have crashed while they were carrying weapons for the ISIL," Head of the committee Hakem al-Zameli said, according to a Monday report of the Arabic-language information center of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.

He said the Iraqi parliament has asked London for explanations in this regard.

The senior Iraqi legislator further unveiled that the government in Baghdad is receiving daily reports from people and security forces in al-Anbar province on numerous flights by the US-led coalition planes that airdrop weapons and supplies for ISIL in terrorist-held areas.

The Iraqi lawmaker further noted the cause of such western aids to the terrorist group, and explained that the US prefers a chaotic situation in Anbar Province which is near the cities of Karbala and Baghdad as it does not want the ISIL crisis to come to an end.

Also on Monday, a senior Iraqi provincial official lashed out at the western countries and their regional allies for supporting Takfiri terrorists in Iraq, revealing that US and Israeli-made weapons have been discovered from the areas purged of ISIL terrorists.

"We have discovered weapons made in the US, European countries and Israel from the areas liberated from ISIL's control in Al-Baqdadi region," the Al-Ahad news website quoted Head of Al-Anbar Provincial Council Khalaf Tarmouz as saying.

He noted that the weapons made by the European countries and Israel were discovered from the terrorists in the Eastern parts of the city of Ramadi.

Meantime, Head of Iraqi Parliament's National Security and Defense Committee Hakem al-Zameli also disclosed that the anti-ISIL coalition's planes have dropped weapons and foodstuff for the ISIL in Salahuddin, Al-Anbar and Diyala provinces.

In January, al-Zameli underlined that the coalition is the main cause of ISIL's survival in Iraq.

"There are proofs and evidence for the US-led coalition's military aid to ISIL terrorists through air(dropped cargoes)," he told FNA at the time.

He noted that the members of his committee have already proved that the US planes have dropped advanced weaponry, including anti-aircraft weapons, for the ISIL, and that it has set up an investigation committee to probe into the matter.

"The US drops weapons for the ISIL on the excuse of not knowing about the whereabouts of the ISIL positions and it is trying to distort the reality with its allegations.

He noted that the committee had collected the data and the evidence provided by eyewitnesses, including Iraqi army officers and the popular forces, and said, "These documents are given to the investigation committee ... and the necessary measures will be taken to protect the Iraqi airspace."

Also in January, another senior Iraqi legislator reiterated that the US-led coalition is the main cause of ISIL's survival in Iraq.

"The international coalition is only an excuse for protecting the ISIL and helping the terrorist group with equipment and weapons," Jome Divan, who is member of the al-Sadr bloc in the Iraqi parliament, said.

He said the coalition's support for the ISIL is now evident to everyone, and continued, "The coalition has not targeted ISIL's main positions in Iraq."

In Late December, Iraqi Parliamentary Security and Defense Commission MP disclosed that a US plane supplied the ISIL terrorist organization with arms and ammunition in Salahuddin province.

MP Majid al-Gharawi stated that the available information pointed out that US planes are supplying ISIL organization, not only in Salahuddin province, but also other provinces, Iraq TradeLink reported.

He added that the US and the international coalition are "not serious in fighting against the ISIL organization, because they have the technological power to determine the presence of ISIL gunmen and destroy them in one month".

Gharawi added that "the US is trying to expand the time of the war against the ISIL to get guarantees from the Iraqi government to have its bases in Mosul and Anbar provinces."

Salahuddin security commission also disclosed that "unknown planes threw arms and ammunition to the ISIL gunmen Southeast of Tikrit city".

Also in Late December, a senior Iraqi lawmaker raised doubts about the seriousness of the anti-ISIL coalition led by the US, and said that the terrorist group still received aids dropped by unidentified aircraft.

"The international coalition is not serious about air strikes on ISIL terrorists and is even seeking to take out the popular (voluntary) forces from the battlefield against the Takfiris so that the problem with ISIL remains unsolved in the near future," Nahlah al-Hababi told FNA.

"The ISIL terrorists are still receiving aids from unidentified fighter jets in Iraq and Syria," she added.

Hababi said that the coalition's precise airstrikes are launched only in those areas where the Kurdish Pishmarga forces are present, while military strikes in other regions are not so much precise.

In late December, the US-led coalition dropped aids to the Takfiri militants in an area North of Baghdad.

Field sources in Iraq told al-Manar that the international coalition airplanes dropped aids to the terrorist militants in Balad, an area which lies in Salahuddin province North of Baghdad.

In October, a high-ranking Iranian commander also slammed the US for providing aid supplies to ISIL, adding that the US claims that the weapons were mistakenly airdropped to ISIL were untrue.

“The US and the so-called anti-ISIL coalition claim that they have launched a campaign against this terrorist and criminal group - while supplying them with weapons, food and medicine in Jalawla region (a town in Diyala Governorate, Iraq). This explicitly displays the falsity of the coalition's and the US' claims,” Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri said.

The US claimed that it had airdropped weapons and medical aid to Kurdish fighters confronting the ISIL in Kobani, near the Turkish border in Northern Syria.

The US Defense Department said that it had airdropped 28 bundles of weapons and supplies, but one of them did not make it into the hands of the Kurdish fighters.

Video footage later showed that some of the weapons that the US airdropped were taken by ISIL militants.

The Iranian commander insisted that the US had the necessary intelligence about ISIL's deployment in the region and that their claims to have mistakenly airdropped weapons to them are as unlikely as they are untrue.

gwarp posted:

those artifacts don't look hellenistic to me

They smashed some hellenistic stuff from Hatra.

A lot of stuff in the video is clearly not hellenistic, but look at the face the guy knocks off the wall with a sledgehammer

Edited by Lykourgos (Feb. 27, 2015 01:09:21)

pow posted:

also does anyone have a mirror to the original video or can they summarise it for me, as it is now gone

i recall there being an intro screen so this might have been clipped to be shorter

http://en.alalam.ir/news/1680239#sthash.teGXTsLJ.dpuf

marimite posted:

Petrol posted:

I like how the farsnews article i posted has only been picked up in the west by infowars type sites, thus proving once again that alex jones and his ilk exist to frame anti-imperialism as area 51 bullshit

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13921021000393

maybe they're just appealing to US based conspiracists?

either way it has been widely reported that US aid has been falling to ISIS so who cares about farsnews.

drwhat posted:

RedMaistre posted:

Meanwhile, among the loyal opposition, the 'jihadi john' story is shown as an example of state terror inspiring extremism.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/ben-hayes/why-britain-won%E2%80%99t-talk-about-crucial-elements-of-jihadi-john%E2%80%99s-story

Which is a dynamic that is of course part of all this, but running to that as an explanation shuts the door to seeing the deeper, more direct collusion between the American Empire and the Islamist gangs.

The author is drawing the wrong Northern Ireland lesson, in other words. Which partly flows, perhaps, from his apparent belief that the IRA and ISIS/ISIL are equivalent organizations.

so was (is?) the IRA a state/capital puppet show? and/or was it a legitimate vehicle for working class anger against an occupying state?

in the domestic entrapment/"radicalisation" that's been extensively documented already, it does tend to be poor desperate working class muslims who get targetted. the people whose strings get pulled would be less susceptible to it if they didn't already have legitimate rage about shit, including the surveillance state. capital fucks people on both ends, first by giving them a shitty situation to hate, and then by faking them into joining/creating made up radical outlets of violence and funding it.

even if the IRA wasn't puppeted around, it still has a similar class oppression root cause doesn't it. which seems to be what the author is talking about but doesn't realize it entirely

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear: The Provisional IRA is not comparable at all to ISIS/ISIL; the former was a leftwing national liberation organization (ableit one that indeed had moles and informants); the latter is a sectarian organization intent on destroying any force that would resist the aims of the US-Zionist-Saudi Axis. The piece in question however, insists on interpreting ISIS as the IRA of the Levant, as opposed to seeing them as more like the Loyalist gangs than anything else. This analogical framework confirms the author's preference to see the problem at hand as the radicalization of this or that population by arbitrary and illegal state policing methods, as opposed to the primary problem being the long and continuing history of Anglo-American complicity with Islamist terror.

What the article is doing is the equivalent of saying that the really bad thing about British policy in Ireland in the 1970s and 80s was that it inspired Catholic Belfast youth to identify with Irish Republicanism because of the internment camps and the like, instead of the fact that it colluded in the killings carried out by UDA death squads.

I agree completely with what you are saying, otherwise.

Edited by RedMaistre (March 1, 2015 18:17:01)