- Mainstream media in 2013: "Conspiracy Theorists!"
- Mainstream media in 2017: "ISIS Got a Powerful Missile the CIA Bought!"
Years late to the party, mainstream media outlets like USA Today, Reuters, and Buzzfeed are just out with "breaking" and "exclusive" stories detailing how a vast arsenal of weapons sent to Syria by the CIA in cooperation with US allies fuelled the rapid growth of ISIS. Buzzfeed's story entitled, Blowback: ISIS Got A Powerful Missile The CIA Secretly Bought In Bulgaria, begins by referencing "a new report on how ISIS built its arsenal highlights how the US purchased munitions, intended for Syrian rebels, that ended up in the hands of the terrorist group."
The original study that Buzzfeed and other media are referencing comes from a UK-based independent weapons research organization called Conflict Armament Research (CAR) which has had a team of weapons and munitions experts on the ground in the Middle East for years examining arms and equipment recovered from ISIS and other terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria. Using serial numbers, crate shipping markings, and all available forensics data, the CAR experts began finding that as early as 2013 to 2014 much of the Islamic State's advanced weapons systems as well as small arms were clearly sourced to the United States and the West.
“Supplies of materiel into the Syrian conflict from foreign parties - notably the United States and Saudi Arabia - have indirectly allowed IS to obtain substantial quantities of anti-armor ammunition,” states the CAR report. “These weapons include anti-tank guided weapons and several varieties of rocket with tandem warheads, which are designed to defeat modern reactive armor.”
Image source: Conflict Armament Research
A PG-9 missile modified to fit a Model 2 recoilless launcher system. Produced in 2016 in Romania, exported to the United States and documented in Mosul in September 2017. Source: Conflict Armament Research
The study further reveals that in one notable instance, a weapons shipment of advanced missile systems switched hands from US intelligence to "moderate" Syrian groups to ISIS in only a two month time period. Though the report is now evoking shock and confusion among pundits, the same weapons research group has actually published similar findings and conclusions going years back into the Syrian conflict.
For example, a previous 2014 Conflict Armament Research report found that Balkan origin anti-tank rockets recovered from ISIS fighters appeared identical to those shipped in 2013 to Syrian rebel forces as part of a CIA program.
And CAR's damning publications presenting such inconvenient empirical data have been consistent for years, yet were largely ignored and suppressed by analysts and mainstream media who were too busy cheerleading US support for Syrian "rebels" cast as romantic revolutionaries in their struggle to topple Assad and his secular nationalist government. Of course, it's an old story if you've been reading Zero Hedge or the profusion of independent outlets that have long reported the truth about the covert "dirty war" in Syria since nearly the beginning.
Even though it's now suddenly acceptable and fashionable to admit - as does one recent BBC headline ("The Jihadis You Pay For") - that the US and Saudi covert program in Syria fuelled the rise of ISIS and various other al-Qaeda linked terror groups, it must be remembered that only a short time ago the mainstream media openly mocked analysts and writers who dared make the connection between the West's massive covert Syrian rebel aid programs and the al-Qaeda insurgents who so clearly benefited.
When news of the 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency report broke, which described what it called a "Salafist principality" or "an Islamic State" as a strategic asset or buffer in Syria that could be used by the Western coalition "in order to isolate the Syrian regime", American media outlets dismissed what was labelled a "conspiracy theory" at the time in spite of the hard evidence of a US military intelligence report being made available.
The Daily Beast for example mocked what it called "The ISIS Conspiracy Theory that Ate the Web" - describing those analyzing the Pentagon intelligence document as far-right and far-left loons. This occurred even as the document was taken very seriously and analyzed in-depth by some of the world's foremost Middle East experts and investigative journalists in foreign outlets like the London Review of Books, The Guardian, Der Spiegal , as well as RT and Al Jazeera.
Daily Beast fail from 2015
And yet now once again "conspiracy theory" has been confirmed as "conspiracy fact": Conflict Armament Research's new report out this week is the result of a three-year ground investigation which compiled findings from 40,000 military items recovered from ISIS between the years 2014 and 2017. Its conclusions are scientific, exhaustive, and irrefutable.
International weapon supplies to factions in the Syrian conflict have significantly augmented the quantity and quality of weapons available to IS forces. Read more here https://t.co/5QKauwzHpU pic.twitter.com/uZqb8zjP3r
— CAR (@conflictarm) December 14, 2017
The extensive report confirms what former MI6 spy and British diplomat Alastair Crooke once stated - that the CIA established the basis of a “jihadi Wal-Mart” of sorts - to which ISIS had immediate and easy access. Crooke noted that the weapons program was set up with "plausible deniability" in mind, which would allow its American intelligence sponsors to be shielded from any potential future legal prosecution or public embarrassment. Crooke noted in a 2015 BBC interview that, “The West does not actually hand the weapons to al-Qaida, let alone to ISIS…, but the system they’ve constructed leads precisely to that end.”
This is what enables Buzzfeed, USA Today, and others to report the bombshell findings yet continue to soft peddle the significance by emphasizing things like "weaknesses in oversight and regulation" while also highlighting the "accidental" nature of US-supplied missiles "ending up" in the hands of ISIS terrorists.
Buzzfeed's coverage of the CAR weapons report is summarized in the article introduction:
A guided anti-tank missile ended up in the hands of ISIS terrorists less than two months after the US government purchased it in late 2015 — highlighting weaknesses in the oversight and regulation of America’s covert arms programs, according to information published Thursday by an arms monitoring group called Conflict Armament Research (CAR).
Though the report says the missile was purchased by the US Army using a contractor, BuzzFeed News has learned that the real customer appears to have been the CIA.It was part of the spy agency’s top secret operation to arm rebels in Syria to fight the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The missile ended up in the hands of ISIS fighters in Iraq, according to the report.
The CIA declined to comment on the Obama-era program to back Syrian rebels, which was canceled by President Trump in July. The Pentagon did not provide information in time for publication.
The missile is one piece of a critical puzzle that is being solved only now, with ISIS on the run: How did the vast terror group arm its war machine? CAR spent three years tracking ISIS weapons as they were recovered by Iraqi, Syrian, and Kurdish forces — and found that what happened to the missile was no aberration. Indeed, the terror group managed to divert “substantial quantities of anti-armour ammunition” from weapons provided to Syrian opposition forces by the US or Saudi Arabia.
The anti-tank missile recovered from ISIS in February 2016. It originated with the US Army in December 2015. Image source: Conflicts Armament Research, "Weapons of the Islamic State" via Buzzfeed
But some astute observers might notice the significance of the timeline related to the CIA purchase of one of the anti-tank missiles examined: "A guided anti-tank missile ended up in the hands of ISIS terrorists less than two months after the US government purchased it in late 2015." As highlighted previously, the CAR team of experts had already documented the trend of CIA weapons delivered to the Syrian battlefield going to ISIS fighters as early as September of 2014. Beyond this 2014 study, a seemingly endless stream of articles going back years published in independent and international media have underscored the reality of ISIS growing and thriving because of Western and Gulf state covert weapons shipments.
This means that CIA and government analysts knew full well where the weapons were going in real time, yet continued with the program anyway. As former Pentagon intelligence chief Michael Flynn told Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan in a stunningly frank summer 2015 interview (significantly before Flynn was part of the Trump campaign), the White House’s sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIS and al-Nusra/HTS) against the Syrian government was most certainly “a willful decision.”
Thus General Flynn in the summer of 2015, speaking as recently retired military intelligence officer, warned in no uncertain terms that US-supplied weapons in Syria were going to ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other jihadists. This was so well known at the time that it could be openly stated by a retired high ranking official an a major international program. Flynn also said something similar to both Seymour Hersh and the New York Times in 2015.
But what did the CIA and allied intelligence agencies do? They continued arming the jihadist insurgency in Syria in their efforts to oust Assad. This was indeed "a willful decision" as Flynn affirmed and not mere "weaknesses in oversight and regulation" as Buzzfeed would have us believe.
Another proof the government is inefficient at resource allocation. Amazon Prime can do it in 1 Day! Obviously CIA did not get Amazon Prime. Shame.
And Stark Industries printed on every weapon...
https://olduvai.ca
Has everyone forgotten the US openly reporting that they were paradropping arms into the Syrian desert "in the hope that they would fall into the right hands".
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria/u-s-airdrops-amm...
Fake News Mainstream medias main purpose is to lie us into wars to make billions for the bankster/MIC overlords.
BEIRUT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces airdropped small arms ammunition and other supplies to Syrian Arab rebels, barely two weeks after Russia raised the stakes in the long-running civil war by intervening on the side of President Bashar al-Assad.
One military official said the drop, by Air Force C-17 cargo planes in northern Syria on Sunday, was part of a revamped U.S. strategy announced last week to help rebels in Syria battling Islamic State militants.
Where did the money come form to pay for those weapons?
Oh, yeah, the 6 BILLION DOLLARS Clinton lost when she was Secretary of State.
(Compliments of the American taxpayer)
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Before we give you these weapons we need you to answer the following question, please:
How moderate a Muslim are you?
A) Very moderate
B) Super moderate
C) Totally batshit crazy psycho moderate
Thank you for your response. Hmmmmm...... OK, all this paperwork looks in order, here's your weapons.
it must be that cut-up crazy Charlie Wilson again..jeez, will he never quit?
gotta love that guy..
The Brown Clown revealed this years ago, was no one in the media paying attention?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2NkjNvwuaU
What difference does it make?
People will still pay their taxes and transact in USD which implicitly endorses this shit.
Now see!
No one would have ever found out about what the Obama administration was doing if they had just used the Strzok 1000 Super Secret Spy Phone System, with prompt next day air delivery shipped anywhere via the world wide Fusion GPS dossier inventory management.
Fucking amateurs ;-)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/268739/huma-abedin-took-muslim-engagem...
I am tired of this shit. Aren’t you?
Please, EVERYONE with a Twitter account send this message Every Day (tell your friends on facebook):
Mr. President, the time to purge the Obama-Clinton holdovers has long passed. Please get rid of them at once. Make your base happy. Fire 100+ from DOJ - State - FBI. Hire William K. Black as Special Prosecutor
send it to:
@realDonaldTrump
@PressSec
@KellyannePolls
@WhiteHouse
Does anybody know how to start an online petition?
Let’s make some NOISE!!
Kinda like the MENA version of fast and furious.
Oh wait, fast and furious was just another right wing conspiracy theory.
What difference does it make?
People will still pay their taxes and transact in USD which implicitly endorses this shit.
It took the CIA 2 months?
They are getting slow and old.
And the plausible deniability route these weapons took was a fail.
CIA needs to do some wet work on the CIA.
Again.
Sorry, going ass to mouth might be a money maker for you but I prefer a real job.
I lived near Picatinney Arsenal and a neighbor who worked there said that whenever a new model of an artillery shell came off the line (Martin-Marietta?) the State Deoartment bought them and sent them to Israel to be tested for efficiency on real live Palestinian targets. Yes, Our State Department in action bring democracy to the world.
Of course they did. And their are Matians who will be invading Earth tomorrow. You are an idiotic asshole.... Where in the article is Israel even mentioned. Why are you even on your computer or device. Don't you realize that Jews and Israelis have invented much of the software and hardware in your devices.
Don't you realize that Jews and Israelis have invented much of the software and hardware in your devices.
On Uncle Sap's payroll. "Israel" wouldn't exist, let alone invent stuff, without our $Umpteenbillion a year now would it?
And the rest came from the poppy fields in Afghanistan.
Does anyone think NASA isn't a deep state black budget operation? It don't take no $20B a year to produce cartoons of planets.
It's all part of Obama-backed Orwellian politics of war on your own people
TERRORISM IS FREEDOM
DEATH IS LIFE
Tyrannical Lawlessness.
The Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Seditious Psychopaths at the CIA.
Arming, funding, & training I CIA SIS terror organizations since the days of the Mujahaideen.
The time for Elimination of the CIA is here.
The National Security Elimination Act of 2018.
Rope and a tree. Sometimes the old ways are best.
>Thus General Flynn in the summer of 2015, speaking as recently retired military intelligence officer, warned in no uncertain terms that US-supplied weapons in Syria were going to ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other jihadists. <
They took care of him, didn't they?
I am glad that the plans to oust assad backfired on the us imperial government and israhell...now the filthy jews have iran and hezbollah on their border.
Every VETERAN injured during the U.S. armed ISIS conflict shoukd SUE the CIA and the PENTAGON for millions PER injured troop!
Globalist traitors!
any statistical analysis of their fucked up weapon drops would prove that the repartition between "good" and "wrong" hands was just to slanted for them to pretend being innocent. You can argue what you want until someone shows you 100% of your drops fell in the wrong hands...
They better not come back with this old excuse...
What was the holdup on the distribution?
Yeah, well... There can't be many of us ZH readers who ever believed the MSM's dismissal of the truth as just another "conspiracy theory". Three years ago I wondered in my personal blog (link below) which offshore tax-haven had facilitated the sale of those Toyoto pickups that ISIS was driving around the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East. Was it my home territory of the Cayman Islands? I never found out, but it was fun speculating.
http://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2014/10/who-sold-isis-all-those-toyotas.html
And it did, to ISIS.
OBAMA.
as... fucking always, the word 'Israel' is absent from yet another report and article.
Two things though, boys:
1) Anyone with an internet connection can learn about Israeli weapons found in the hands of AQ and IS;
2) Just because weapons were made in the US doesn't mean the US delivered them anymore than the fucking Bulgarians had a ratline into Syria. My shiniest nickel says a lot of the US weapons were delivered by Saudis, Qataris, and Israelis.
The CIA gave weapons to jihadi psycho scumbags who went on to murder civilians and quite probably US special operators.
Let that sink in.
CIA is nothing but the shadow of its former glory... In the past they would have smuggled russian weapons to at least play the plausible deniability gambit.
Here, nothing but the echo of their empty melted down brains in the cavity that is now their head.
USA is being run by idiots, and I'm afraid idiocracy is nothing but a pleasant joke.
The future's going to be much, much worse than this old documentary.
The deep state is obviously just phoning it in now. In times past, this report would be wall to wall covered by MSM. Now, the CIA just tells Disney not to notice. The old spies must be disappointed that the new chaos masters just don't even care to bake the plausible denials into the cake anymore.
"Now, the CIA just tells Disney not to notice."
Probably in the basement of some gothic old church, nude except for cloaks, and engaging in some type of grab-ass ritual.
I watched a lot of coldwar espionage movies and really loved the intricacies in the plots.
Nowadays what we see coming from the so called intelligence agencies is just so partisan and stoOOopid that I wonder if these guys are actually on life support or just born without a brain.
And of course, putin's having the time of his life because gnawing into americanos territories has never been so easy.
That's the natural conclusion of years of partisan politics and purges in the system during the glorious obongo years.
See, if the chif in chief is not intelligent, the system will not follow suit.
"The Devils a tricky motherfkr, brother"
-Richard Pryor 1979
2 MONTHS?
Try....weeks....
Days in some airbourne cases....
.........................................days
You are correct. 2 months is when the weapons were discovered by Syrian government on the battlefield.
How long until it's openly acknowledged that the US gov't purposely built ISIS for the specific purpose of regime change in the ME? The asshats in the media don't report anything unless they are told to. I wonder what has changed to elicit this report?
Still beats the Post Office.
Very very inefficient why should it take so long to arm our enemies?
“Our” enemies? You mean the MIC is not armed already?
The MIC lower level Officers, Captains, Commanders what have you, are just Soldiers following orders aka “order takers.”
At the Highest Compartmentalized Levels They’re Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Seditious Psychopaths that wear the uniform however, are Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Seditious Psychopath CIA Operatives. Former Colonel Fletcher Prouty alluded to that exact fact in his book “The Secret Team.”
Those are the ones giving them the orders. Behind the scenes they arming, fund & training the I CIA SIS = CIA = Mossad terror organizations through Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Syria, Lybia, Yemen for “plausible deniability” should they get caught. Which they already have.
Basically, everyone & their mothers now know the Pure Evil War Criminal Treasonous Seditious Psychopaths at the CIA / State Dept. have been arming, funding & training terror organizations since the days of the Mujahaideen.
Everyone except a complicit Presstitute Media.
In your dreams. Almost no one knows anything. Very few are paying attention or care. Many of those who are paying attention think it's okay as long as it's their team doing Dirty Deeds.
Here is an article that looks at how the United States has justified its presence in Syria:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.ca/2017/11/james-mattis-united-nations...
There's nothing like rewriting history.
If you haven't already, watch Oliver Stone's Untold History of the US. It's very interesting, to say the least, how history is interpreted so differently.
https://olduvai.ca
"There's nothing like rewriting history."
Dude you got that right. The real history? Hillary Clinton led the charge! She mucked it up with murdering Islamists in Libya in 2011, bringing them losts of cash and supposedly "looking for lost missles".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3419982/Hillary-Clinton-guarded-...
Thank a progressive for your foreign intervention today!
Grimaldus