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The United States’ Biggest Allies Are Funding ISIS
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar & Turkey all back terror group
President Barack Obama’s authorization of air strikes on ISIS targets in Iraq serves as an opportunity to remind ourselves which countries are bankrolling the deadly terror group.
The answer; Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and Qatar – three of the United States’ biggest allies in the region.
Last night Obama announced limited air strikes to slow the advance of ISIS fighters and help members of the Yazidi religious minority group who were forced to flee into a mountainous region in the north of Iraq to avoid slaughter.
However, the administration has failed to put pressure on several Gulf states that are directly responsible for helping ISIS gain a foothold in Iraq in the first place.
As the Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin documents, “The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now threatening Baghdad, was funded for years by wealthy donors in Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, three U.S. allies that have dual agendas in the war on terror.”
In addition to funding itself through criminal activity and punitive taxes imposed on the local population on pain of death, ISIS relies on a steady stream of income from countries that have bankrolled extremist Islamists for years yet have faced zero backlash from successive White House administrations. Even evidence of direct Saudi involvement in 9/11 failed to generate any reconsideration of who America calls its friends.
“Everybody knows the money is going through Kuwait and that it’s coming from the Arab Gulf,” said Andrew Tabler, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “Kuwait’s banking system and its money changers have long been a huge problem because they are a major conduit for money to extremist groups in Syria and now Iraq.”
State backing for ISIS, now the wealthiest terror group in the world, prompted Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to point the finger directly at Saudi Arabia and Qatar during a France 24 television interview. “I accuse them of inciting and encouraging the terrorist movements. I accuse them of supporting them politically and in the media, of supporting them with money and by buying weapons for them,” said al-Maliki.
In failing to call these countries to account for funding ISIS, the White House has deliberately placed the importance of isolating Iran and Syria over and above the stability of the entire region.
The White House is also directly responsible for the spread of ISIS militants having backed other rebel groups in Syria which were once allied with and then taken over by ISIS.
Indeed, some evidence suggests that the U.S. even trained some of the Islamists who went on to join ISIS at a secret base in Jordan in 2012.
Aaron Klein was told by Jordanian officials that, “dozens of future ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.”
Yet another U.S. ally – Turkey – also trained ISIS fighters at a location in the vicinity of Incirlik Air Base near Adana.
According to a Shiite source close to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Obama administration turned a blind eye to the fact that Turkey was equipping and then sending fighters to Syria before they went on to Iraq. The source even went on to accuse the White House of being “an accomplice” in the ISIS takeover of major Iraqi cities.
Whether or not the “humanitarian” air strikes on Iraq are really aimed at stopping the terror wrought by ISIS, or are merely part of a ploy to create a justification for a long-awaited attack on Syria, the White House itself, as well as some of America’s closest supposed allies, all share some of the blame in aiding the growth of ISIS in the region.
22 Comments on "The United States’ Biggest Allies Are Funding ISIS"
rockman on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 8:47 am
“…three of the United States’ biggest allies in the region.” IMHO the time has long past to drop the “allies” BS tag. I’m not sure what might be a good substitute. The “enemy of my enemy is my friend” also needs to be flushed too.
Suggestions?
Arthur on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 8:47 am
It is the ultimate dream of every devout muslim to live in a Caliphate, it is the corner stone of Islamic thinking. It is the muslim variety of the kosher NWO.
Caliphate = sharia and submission to Allah, world wide under the rule of the Caliph. Capital Istanbul.
NWO = global holocaust religion, everybody pays interest to the central bankers and eradication of race concept, notably the white race. Obama mulatto is the typical NWO good guy. Capital NYC/Jerusalem
These two religions have at the moment real revolutionary zeal, where Christianity is almost dead, certainly in Europe.
Davy on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 9:36 am
Rock, we returning to our roots on the Serengeti. On the Serengeti hyenas, lions, cheetahs, wild dogs, crocs, and there various prey living in a harmony of a dog eat dog world. None of them liking the other but deciding it is better just to tolerate the other and occasionally eat them if the opportunity arises and they get weak.
Davy on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 9:40 am
Now Art, Christianity is alive and strong in North & South America with a Pope railing against any NWO sacrilegious speak. Europe’s religion is the good life that is why they are getting lazy and helpless.
baptised on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 9:43 am
Most things in life are complicated and full of paradox’s, that cannot be fully resolved. But one shining truth is. Logical people will think logical, EVEN when it is not to their advantage, while emotional people will justify what is to there advantage. And USA has been the later for a long time maybe always. O and emotional thinkers believe everyone is emotional thinkers, quiet sad.
Davy on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 10:00 am
Bap, come on Sir, you are hanging out on that one! What country are you from?
Arthur on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 10:41 am
Davy, Christianity maybe alive in the American hemisphere, but in the US it is subservient to Judaism (‘Christian zionism’). Israel ueber Alles!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_v3hqtCl0
See 0:35, Christian zionist addressing AIPAC croud: “Israel lives!”
We have yet to wait for Bill Kristol addressing a Christian congregation, exclaiming “Jezus lives!”. Jews opine that Jesus needs to be cooked in a kettle with semen and excrement. Just look up recent clip by Sarah Silverman, professing that Jews would kill nice antisemitic jewish defector Jezus again if they had to.
Although my heritage is unbroken five centuries of Dutch protestantism, I have distanced myself from it, probably terminally. Have more affinity with the French New Right of Alain Benoist and Dominique Venner, the most sophisticated right wing political thinking on the planet, anti-Christian, pagan, Roman classic, with strong Nietzschean influences.
steve on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 10:50 am
The storm is fast approaching…..What we get as news is probably nothing of the truth…For all we know the U.S and Russia might be allies and forming alliances…..or Germany and Russia for that matter..I think I am going to take that vacation I have been putting off…
Arthur on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 11:04 am
Good idea steve, I think I am going to look for my mountain shoes and go to my beloved Switzerland for a week or so.
And look for a mountain cabin with wifi.lol I need my daily shot.
Davy on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 11:13 am
Art, I am a Christian Native American doomer with a love of Taoism. Can you get more screwed up than that!
Northwest Resident on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 11:28 am
steve — I also strongly suspect that the U.S. and Russia are secretly allied along with Germany and other major European countries, and that the whole “Ukraine production” is just that — a major world class PR stunt — designed to influence mass opinion and attitudes, and to create a cloak of chaos behind which TPTB can make strategic moves without being noticed.
JuanP on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 11:28 am
The bomb strike was not humanitarian in any way, it was a bomb attack against an artillery position threatening Irbil.
There was a separate humanitarian aid drop to refugees seeking shelter in the mountains around Zintan.
This were two separate operations, one a military attack and the other an aid drop.
JuanP on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 12:21 pm
Davy, “Art, I am a Christian Native American doomer with a love of Taoism. Can you get more screwed up than that!”
Do you mean Native as in belonging to a precolombian tribe or as in born in the USA?
ghung on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 12:42 pm
A lot of US and Western contractors fled to Irbil (Erbil?) from the south; the primary reason for the air strikes (according to reports). Couldn’t have the Kurds protecting western interests all alone it seems.
Uh…. that would be oil field contractors.
Arthur on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 12:43 pm
Davy, let me guess… you read ‘Zen and the art of motor cycle maintenance’ a long time ago?
Davy on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 12:53 pm
No, Juan I have Native American spiritual tendencies similiar to the Kogi of Columbia and Christian mysticism of the pre modern church. The Toism is were I just say F**k it when I get confused.
JuanP on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 12:59 pm
Davy, wellcome to the club. I wouldn’t know where to start if I had to define or explain myself to myself, forget others. And on top of that, I am constantly changing my mind about things. I just take it one day at a time now and try to keep things simple to avoid further confusion.
Keith_McClary on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 5:52 pm
“… steady stream of income from countries that have bankrolled extremist Islamists for years yet have faced zero backlash from successive White House administrations.”
But is the money coming from those regimes or from people who want to overthrow those regimes? (AQ’s objective)
Andy on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 8:16 pm
How about colonies Rockman?
Makati1 on Fri, 8th Aug 2014 8:32 pm
rockman, maybe ‘supplier’ of our oil addiction would fit? We ‘need” them or our economy is toast.
MKohnen on Sat, 9th Aug 2014 1:18 am
The three states mentioned shouldn’t be called “allies”, as RockMan pointed out. They should be called satellite states, since the US had a direct hand in building all of them.
Kenz300 on Sat, 9th Aug 2014 10:14 am
If the world did not need Middle East oil —- the world would not care……….
The sooner we end our reliance on oil the better……..
Bring on alternative energy sources and modes of transportation.