Islamic State Terror: Made in the USA

A Pentagon report previously classified as top secret came to light over the weekend revealing that the terrorist organization “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” was a creation of the United States, intended to be the method by which Washington would affect the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and thus pave the way for redeploying U.S. military troops to Iraq. Background: The conservative U.S. civil rights organization “Judicial Watch” succeeded in securing a court order releasing a series of classified documents. Among them, U.S. journalist Nafeez Ahmed discovered a 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency paper that was sent to the State Department as well as to the Department of Homeland Security.

Although many passages in the seven-page document were obscured by censors, it is still apparent from the remaining text that Western governments favored supporting al-Qaida and other Islamic extremist factions that formed the basis for the Islamic State group and other anti-Assad groups after 2012. Unlike the so-called “reliable and serious” press sources that favored “moderate” or “democratic” Syrian opposition, the DIA had no illusions about who was actually fighting against the Syrian government. The DIA report three years ago emphasized that expansion of the anti-government movement should be oriented in an increasingly “sectarian” direction and that the Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaida in Iraq should be the main motivational forces.

At the same time, the document reveals that the West, under the leadership of the United States and the support of the feudal gulf states and Turkey, have wanted to see the start of an Islamic State-like caliphate in Syria. The paper says a possibility exists for the creation of a de facto but not officially declared caliphate in eastern Syria and that is exactly what is desired by the Syrian opposition, i.e., by the United States and its allies, in order to isolate the Syrian government and tamp down Iranian Shiite expansion in Iraq.

The DIA report predicts the rise of such an “Islamic State” as the direct result of the U.S. destabilization strategy. It expresses no reservations about further cooperation with Salafist terrorists nor the scruples of doing so. On the contrary, the birth of an al-Qaida allied “Salafist caliphate” is described in the U.S. report as a “strategic opportunity” to achieve Washington’s regional goals of regime change in Syria and the suppression of Shiite expansion as well as being an anti-Iran strategy.

The report predicts the survival of the Assad regime and its control over Syria while the crisis would develop into a proxy war with the West, the Gulf States and Turkey supporting the Syrian opposition while Russia, China and Iran supported Assad’s regime. This same criminal strategy has already resulted in hundreds of thousands killed and millions turned into homeless refugees.