The Long History of U.S. Support For Radical Islamic Jihadist Terrorists - Including ISIS in Syria.

Overview

The U.S. government has a long history (via the CIA and miltary) of funding, training and supplying radical Islamic Jihadists and terrorists. 

This seems to be done as part of some grand geo-politcal strategy, i.e. 'The Great Game' against first the Soviet Union, and now Russia. The fact that it always backfires and results in more instabilty, terrorism and mass migration into the West doesn't seem to matter. Or, maybe that is the goal.

Throw Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia into the mix, each aligned with various Islamicist factions for strategic purposes, and you get the mess we have today.

Back In 1979 - Cold War Era

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Afghanistan make considerable progress towards modernisation. It was courted by both the United States and Soviet Union, although it remained officially neutral. Considerable numbers of Soviet citizens were in Afghanistan assisting with education, construction and technological development. The U.S. influence was primarily financial. Source

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Picture taken in 1962 at the Faculty of Medicine in Kabul of two Afghan medicine students listening to their professor (at right) as they examine a plaster cast showing a part of a human body.

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An Afghan worker checks a Russian-made truck in the Kabul Janagalak factory in an unspecified date. The factory situated in the center of the city as the only firm for making vehicle's chassis was plundered, like other public properties in the Afghan capital, during the Afghan mujahedin rule from 1992 to 1996.

However, during the 1970s, more conservative Muslim elements within Afghanistan became increasingly unhappy with what they perceived as 'un-Islamic' modernisation. There were some protests and riots, coups and counter-coups. Source

The Soviet Union, which had ties to the Afghan military, assisted in quelling dissent. Finally, in 1979, the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan, sending in tens of thousands of troops to assist the Soviet-backed government to maintain order. 

Most people will be familiar with this invasion or intervention, depending on how you look at it. What many people might now realise, is that the U.S. government (along with Saudi Arabia) was funding, supplying and training Afghan anti-government Mujahideen long before the Soviet intervention.

Operation Cyclone

'Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the mujahideen, in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR in support of its client, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.' Source 

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Early 1980s - Charlie Wilson was a United States naval officer and Democratic United States Congressman from the 2nd congressional district in Texas.

The driving force behind U'S. support of the Mujahideen was Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security advisor.

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Late 1970s - Zbigniew Brzezinski with Osama Bin Laden

Zbigniew Brzezinski, explains his key role in creating the Mujahideen Here

The rest, as they say, is history. Parts of the so-called Mujahideen, ostensibly an Afghan Muslim nationalist force, morphed into the Ismaic terrorist group known as Al-Qaeda, led by Saudi national Osama Bin Laden.

 Other parts of the Mujahideen morphed into the Taliban, sponsored largely by Pakistan's ISI, Inter Services Intelligence.

Veteran journalist John Pilger explains in the Video below how the U.S. created the Taliban Source

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A member of the Taliban's religious police beating an Afghan woman in Kabul on August 26, 2001.

A great image showing Afghan women before and after U.S. sponsored Mujahideen took over Afghanistan. Source

After the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan ended in the late 1980s, Al-Qaeda spread world-wide, committing terrorist attacks throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. Islamic fundamenatlist terrorism, as we know it today, had come into its own.

The U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar and ISIS

You would think the after the Afghan experience, U.S. administrations would learn their lessons and not repeat the tactic of supporting Islamic fundamentalists for temporary goals, but you would be wrong. 

As this article from The Guardian explains, U.S. and allies have been funding, training and supplying so-called 'moderate' Syrian resistance forces. It turns out that these 'moderates are in reality Islamic terrorist groups aligned with ISIS or Al-Qaeda or other smaller groups. Article Here

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2013 - Senator John McCain with at least 2 members of the terrorist associated Syrian Free Army

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John McCain with know terrorists

And as this article from The Independent explains, U'S. allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been directly funding and arming ISIS. Article Here

To complicate matters even more, evidence shows that Turkey, a Western ally and NATO member has direct links with ISIS. Article from Business Insider Here

Some very revealing and incriminating information from Wikileaks Here

More reference articles revealing the state-sponsored nature of ISIS Here and Here.

The EvidentTruth 

The Western news media generally tries to portray Islamic terrorism as radical minority offshoots of main-stream Islam. Rarely do they address the state sponsored nature of Islamicism and Islamic terror. Even more rarely do they confront the U.S. and the West's culpability for the rise of such groups.

The current conflict in Syria has almost nothing to do with Syrian home-grown resistance. Syria, up until at least 2011, was considered a largely secular, tolerant, diverse country, with large minorities of Shiites, Christians and Alawites.

As many have written about before, it is about keeping Russian and Iranian influence out of the Middle East. 

It is about the Sunni - Shiite divide within Islam. And it is about regime change in Syria - getting rid of Assad to allow for the construction of a gas pipeline from Qatar, through Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey to Europe.

The West, especially the United States, has a history of sponsoring Islamic terrorism in short-sighted attempts to achive objectives. With virtually no consideration given to any blow-back or long-term consequences. 

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Migrants are escorted through fields by police as they are walked from the village of Rigonce to Brezice refugee camp on October 23, 2015 in Rigonce,, Slovenia. (Getty)

Now, in 2018, there is world-wide islamic terrorism. Migrants (welfare-seeking travellers) and so-called refugees pour into Europe and the West, causing instability, unrest and increased crime rates, especially rape and murder.

It would be highly ironic if the West's own short-sightedness in supporting Islamic terrorism resulted in eventual Western collapse. Ironic, sad and completely unneccessary.

As I have said before, our leaders are absolutely insane.