discipline posted:hey henry did you know they play radio shows in iraq to educate kurds about the holocaust in europe and draw connections between israel and kurdistan for the audience
fucked up
discipline posted:hey henry did you know they play radio shows in iraq to educate kurds about the holocaust in europe and draw connections between israel and kurdistan for the audience
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discipline posted:hey henry did you know they play radio shows in iraq to educate kurds about the holocaust in europe and draw connections between israel and kurdistan for the audience
its real mean to encourage an entire race to commit suicide
S. Hersh in Bloody 2007 Mates! Crickey posted:To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
it's a good read re: the AQI days and how it relates to US objectives in neighboring countries
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/magazine/theo-padnos-american-journalist-on-being-kidnapped-tortured-and-released-in-syria.html?_r=0
have a read,
The main opposition group, the Free Syrian Army, founded by former Assad generals and considered moderate by many in the West, had taken over the two most important border crossings north of Aleppo.
The F.S.A., it turned out, had given me to the Nusra Front, or Jebhat al Nusra, which was using the Children’s Hospital in Aleppo as a headquarters and a prison.
I returned to the F.S.A. troops. One told me that his unit had recently traveled to Jordan to receive training from American forces in fighting groups like the Nusra Front.
“Really?” I said. “The Americans? I hope it was good training.”
“Certainly, very,” he replied.
The fighters stared at me. I stared at them.
After a few moments, I asked, “About this business of fighting Jebhat al Nusra?”
“Oh, that,” one said. “We lied to the Americans about that.”
anyway, the jist of the article is that FSA and al-nusra were in somewhat of an alliance, both were fighting isis but many al-nusra fighters were defecting to isis. idk anything about syria so make of this article what you will.
xipe posted:did u successfully own the normie on fb lgp?
no he lolled at me for quoting fars news agency ("even PressTV thinks they're full of shit" um hello source?) and then unfriended me
The most interesting aspect to me is the Syrian Support Group, the US-based NGO that raised funds for and handled shipments of supplies to the FSA from early 2012 to late 2014. SSG received a very unusual license from the US Treasury Dept in 2012 to provide support to the FSA - unusual because licenses tend to be general, covering US companies in certain sectors like telecommunications or aid to do business in countries that are otherwise prohibited. A license for a specific organisation to provide aid to a rebel military group, not so much. But I suppose these sorts of things are to be expected when your govt relations guy previously spent 6 years working "in NATO operations in Brussels".
Some of the other people involved in SSG are interesting too. There's Oubai Shahbandar, who spent 8 years as a "Foreign Affairs Officer" with the DoD before joining SSG. These days he is based in Arlington and is a principal at Dubai-based Dragoman Partners, along with Top Secret-cleared former ExxonMobil exec Ali Khedery, former diplomat and Iraqi extremist liaison Jeffrey Beals, and CFR member Dr Carl Schramm. It's hard to know what Dragoman Partners actually do (their website says something vague about facilitating western business in the middle east), but Ali Khedery frequently pops up in US media as an expert on Iraq. Here's something he wrote for Foreign Policy about Iran-backed militias being the real threat: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/19/irans-shiite-militias-are-running-amok-in-iraq/
tl;dr Fuck to america
littlegreenpills posted:discipline are fars news agency full of shit? they published this http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13921021000393
they were trolling
http://www.rhizzone.net/forum/topic/12760/?page=1#post-274583
discipline posted:It's so obvious and common knowledge if you're here. What's weirder is that everyone outside thinks it's a crack conspiracy theory
Meanwhile, back on Planet Amercia, http://nypost.com/2014/06/20/how-irans-spy-chief-paid-for-the-benghazi-attack/
Petrol posted:discipline posted:It's so obvious and common knowledge if you're here. What's weirder is that everyone outside thinks it's a crack conspiracy theory
Meanwhile, back on Planet Amercia, http://nypost.com/2014/06/20/how-irans-spy-chief-paid-for-the-benghazi-attack/
"He’s the Wizard of Oz of Iranian terror"
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discipline posted:It's so obvious and common knowledge if you're here. What's weirder is that everyone outside thinks it's a crack conspiracy theory
i met future widow today and she asked if i knew how you were doing and what you were up to and there was this wistful look in her eyes i dont know what to make of it
