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The U.S. Is Supporting the Most Violent Muslim Terrorists In Order to Wage War for Oil
The Government – Which Has Taken Away Our Liberties and Destroyed Our Prosperity to Fight An Endless War On Terror – Has Been Arming, Funding and Otherwise Backing the Very Terrorists Who Are Carrying Out Most of the Attacks
Sunni Muslims commit more terrorist acts worldwide than any other group. For example, the National Counterterrorism Center’s 2011 Report on Terrorism found that:
Sunni extremists accounted for the greatest number of terrorist attacks and fatalities for the third consecutive year. More than 5,700 incidents were attributed to Sunni extremists, accounting for nearly 56 percent of all attacks and about 70 percent of all fatalities. Among this perpetrator group, al-Qa‘ida (AQ) and its affiliates were responsible for at least 688 attacks that resulted in almost 2,000 deaths, while the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan conducted over 800 attacks that resulted in nearly 1,900 deaths. Secular, political, and anarchist groups were the next largest category of perpetrators, conducting 2,283 attacks with 1,926 fatalities, a drop of 5 percent and 9 percent, respectively, from 2010.
(Thankfully, the percentage of Muslim terror attacks in the U.S. is relatively small).
Saudi Arabia is the center of the Sunni branch of Islam. It is also the center of the most violent and radical sect of Islam … the “Wahhabis” (also called “Salafis”). But the U.S. has long supported the Madrassa schools within Saudi Arabia which teach radical Wahabi beliefs.
Indeed, the U.S. has directly inserted itself into a sectarian war between the two main Islamic sects, backing the “Sunnis” and attacking the “Shiites” (also called “Shia”). See this, this and this.
For example, American political leaders have been very close to Saudi (i.e. Sunni) leaders for decades:
Obama is no different:
Why? Because of Saudi oil. (Virtually all geopolitics are based on oil and other hydrocarbons.)
Indeed, (1) the Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and (2) a former 6-year congressman and MSNBC talk show host have both said that – even if the Saudi government was behind 9/11 – we need Saudi oil too much to do anything about it.
Our backing of the most violent branch of Sunni Muslims has had real consequences:
- Our backing of Sunnis in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia led to 9/11*
- Our backing of Sunni extremists in Chechnya led to the Boston bombings
- Our backing of Sunni extremists throughout the Middle East and North Africa has led to the persecution of Christians and Jews
And McClatchy interviewed an Al Qaeda terrorist fighting against the Syrian government – with U.S. backing – as saying:
When we finish with Assad, we will fight the U.S.!
Do you still doubt that the U.S. is supporting Sunni terrorists?
The U.S. National Security Adviser admitted that the U.S. created, organized and armed the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan – including Bin Laden and his lieutenants – to fight the Soviets. The Mujahadeen are predominately Sunni. The Mujahadeen eventually morphed into Al Qaeda, which is a Sunni organization.
During various times and places, the U.S. has also backed the Muslim Brotherhood … another Sunni group.
In addition, the American government has supported:
- Al Qaeda Sunni terrorists in Libya and Mali
- Sunni terrorists in Chechnya
- Sunni MEK terrorists in Iran
- Al Qaeda Sunnis in Bosnia
- The brutal Sunni government in Bahrain as it crushes its majority Shia population whenever it pushes for democratic reform
And the “rebels” in Syria who we’ve been supporting are Al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood.
The New York Times reports this week:
In Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, rebels aligned with Al Qaeda control the power plant, run the bakeries and head a court that applies Islamic law. Elsewhere, they have seized government oil fields, put employees back to work and now profit from the crude they produce.
Across Syria, rebel-held areas are dotted with Islamic courts staffed by lawyers and clerics, and by fighting brigades led by extremists. Even the Supreme Military Council, the umbrella rebel organization whose formation the West had hoped would sideline radical groups, is stocked with commanders who want to infuse Islamic law into a future Syrian government.
Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of.
Do you get it?
The government has taken away our liberties and destroyed our prosperity in order to fight an endless war on terror. Americans have become the most spied upon people in history. Never-ending war has destroyed our economy.
And yet the government has been arming, funding and otherwise backing the very terrorists who are carrying out the biggest percentage of terror attacks.
As we noted last year:
In the name of “fighting Al Qaeda or associated forces” or those who “support” those bad guys, the U.S. government has authorized:
- Assassinating people anywhere in the world without due process or even a legal charge . . .
- including U.S. citizens living on American soil
- Indefinitely detaining any American – without trial (and see this)
- Torturing people . . .
- including Americans living on American soil
- Labeling virtually any American as a “terrorist“
In other words, the government has shredded our constitution and destroyed our freedom and liberties in order to fight Al Qaeda and associated forces.
And yet the government is itself supporting – with money, arms, and logistical support – Al Qaeda and associated forces in a number of nations.
People who believe that we’re in a “new post-9/11 reality” should remember that everything happening now started before 9/11, and that current U.S. policy towards the Middle East and North Africa was determined many decades ago. It’s not just the Neocons who planned this strategy. Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser helped to map out the battle plan for Eurasian petroleum resources over a decade ago, and Obama is clearly continuing the same agenda.
Sadly – by any measure – the U.S. causes much more terror than we prevent … all to justify our geopolitical goals.
* The question of false flags is beyond the scope of this post.
11 Comments on "The U.S. Is Supporting the Most Violent Muslim Terrorists In Order to Wage War for Oil"
Plantagenet on Fri, 3rd May 2013 1:04 am
So Obama now wants to give weapons to Islamic terrorists. So what?
What could possibly go wrong with a great idea like that?
BillT on Fri, 3rd May 2013 1:53 am
“… the U.S. causes much more terror than we prevent … all to justify our geopolitical goals….?
BINGO! The world would be a much nicer place if the Us had not caused all of the wars in the last 120 years. But, here we are. And Europeans are the suckers who spend their wealth and young to fight in these weapons sales promotions.
The cost of war goes on and on. More American veterans and active military now die from suicide than die in battle. We even have about 70,000 troops stationed in Europe, most in Merkle’s Germany. Why? To make sure Europe remains under the Empire’s (Bankster’s) thumb. Why else?
Ditto for the 50,000 in Japan and the 25,000 in South Korea.
The world is a fascinating place to live and observe the games the so-called intelligent apes play. There is always someone trying to be the dominant ape.
econ101 on Fri, 3rd May 2013 2:48 am
The only reason we are in the middle east is because of peak oil politics. The politics of shortage drove america to import instead of produce, like we are doing now. The suppliers of the energy for Jimmy Carters new energy import nation model was of course the middle east. That lead to the situation we see now. Peak oil politics has cause untold human suffering by keeping energy expensive and scarce.
Had America been encouraged to produce to its capacity we would not only being seeing the shale revolution but we would be seeing many other energy developments as well, a mind boggeling assortment of energy fields.
DC on Fri, 3rd May 2013 3:50 am
SoS, why haven’t you been slapped with a at the very least, a temporary ban for me-tooing and sock puppetry? A lot websites do, how is it you manage to get away with it here?
GregT on Fri, 3rd May 2013 5:33 am
Econ/SOS,
If the prices of oil were as high in the 70s as they are now, the so called fraking revolution would be 30 years in the past, and the US would already be a 3rd world country. You may very well have died of starvation as a young child, and if not, you would most likely be illiterate.
You should be thankful that there were people smart enough to engage in “peak oil politics” back when the US met it’s peak of oil production. If not for them, there would have been untold human suffering in the US, and energy would have been prohibitively expensive, and scarce. Mind boggling for sure.
BillT on Fri, 3rd May 2013 8:00 am
GregT, econ/SOS doesn’t think…
J-Gav on Fri, 3rd May 2013 12:43 pm
As for the latest developments in the WOT, I think Sibel Edmonds may have hit the nail on the head with her recent hypothesis about a secret US/Russia deal, perhaps including: Russia lets NATO get its way in Syria; in exchange, the West lets Russia go down to Chechnya/Daghestan to do some clean-up work and promises to ease up on the Iran war-mongering for a while. There’s much more behind the Marathon bombs than meets the eye, folks. After all, it put Chechnya back on the map, didn’t it? Remember them? Our erstwhile allies and ‘freedom fighters’ against them evil Rooskies. But now they’re all of a sudden ripe for the ‘radical islamist’ label … Sound familiar? The boy bombers were both active at the Jamestown Foundation, a known CIA front organization. Their uncle (the one you see all over the MSM these days explaining how they became ‘radicalized’)was once married to the daughter of the ex-CIA station chief in Turkey -even lived in the guy’s house after the divorce… All just coincidence of course …
econ101 on Fri, 3rd May 2013 9:35 pm
Look at the suffering peak oil politics has brought to the human race GregT. Children are starving because of it.
The middle east is in shambles because we were forced to import instead of producing our own. Our own country is suffering under the weight of artificially high energy costs.
The amazing thing about it is some are advocating for even more expensive transporation in the form of electric cars. These things will never be cheap. Will it be a corvette or a volt? They are the same price but the volt gets a lot better government subsidies.
Arthur on Sat, 4th May 2013 11:59 am
“Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters”
Question: what’s a ‘terrorist’?
Answer: somebody who kills innocent people for fun or sadism and no political purpose whatsoever.
According to this definition, terrorists do not exist.
When in Bagdad a Shia suicide bomber blows up 100 Sunni’s in a market place, he does that because his Shia group is at war with the Sunni’s.
Currently in Syria there is a war going on between the Sunni Moslim Brotherhood, funded by SA, Qatar and the US, in order to overthrow a secular multicultural regime of assorted minorities.
SA and Qatar do it to help expand the Sunni side of islam, the US does it to hurt an ally of Iran, to hurt Russian interests (Tarsus, the only Russian stronghold in the Mediterranean) and to prevent a pipeline between the Iranian Pars NG field (the largest in the world) and the Mediterranean to supply Europe.
And again the West will shoot itself in the foot. The idea in 2003 was to invade Iraq on a pretext (9/11, WMD) and to turn Iraq into a docile (democratic) satellite of the West, like SA. Implementing democracy in a tribal country like Iraq means that the largest ethnic-religeous group wins, meaning the Shi’ites. Game-set-and-match for Teheran, who got a nice ally as a present just by doing nothing, courtesy US taxpayer to the tune of $5T.
Not satisfied with the results so far, the West is marching towards it’s next blunder: the creation of a Caliphate/neo-Ottoman empire: give Syria to the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and you create a Sunni continuum from Istanbul, via Damascus, Cairo all the way to the Atlantic. Erdogan loves it. As far as I can see, in the US only the old fox Kissinger sees the danger, that could eventually lead to the demise of the Israeli state (hurray), becoming absorbed (again) into the Caliphate. The Turks, the Germans of the Islamic world, unlike Arabs, are the only ones able to unite the Sunni world of the Middle East (again). Erdogan is ready and is smart enough to let the dirty work and funding do by the West and Arabs with too much money.
Are you ready for the multipolar world that is emerging?
Arthur on Sat, 4th May 2013 12:29 pm
I forgot to add, that in the world of the 21st century, just like the Shi’ites of Iraq, the Sunni’s in Syria will display zero gratitude towards the West once they get the country under control. They will say: “thank you for the country and now get lost”. Syria and Egypt will NOT become western satellites, like Mubarak-Egypt was. Stronger: being a western satellite will become a burden for every ME ruler with the potential of becoming lunched by an unleashed population, with next ‘Spring’ candidate nr 1: SA. The ruling ideology in times of expansion is leftist globalist all-encompassing progressivity where life=economy and material progress (20th century: USA, USSR, socialist Baath ideology). The ruling ideology in times of contraction will be rightwing identitarian conservative if not fundamentalist. That is:
– authoritarian thinly guised nationalism in China, with Confucius comeback
– authoritarian Orthodox-Christianity in Russia
– prevailing rightwing anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe
– Constitutionalist fundamentalism with a lot of cowboy guns, with racialist undertones in the US
– Shia fundamentalism Teheran-Bagdad
– Sunni Caliphate in the rest of the ME.
– Return to Shintoism in Japan, emperor, traditional values, away from industrialism
There will be life after the crash of modernity. Modernity, the essence of which was the smell of styrofoam that came with your Apple/Walmart/IKEA box, with yet another newly bought ‘product’. The demise of which comes right in time as we all got tired of having to read yet another instruction manual.
Arthur on Sat, 4th May 2013 12:30 pm
“lunched”, that is Africa. I mean “lynched”.