{"id":14522,"date":"2015-11-18T07:29:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T12:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14522"},"modified":"2015-11-18T07:29:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T12:29:58","slug":"theres-no-such-thing-as-isis-journalist-destroys-wests-terror-narrative-warns-of-crackdown-on-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14522","title":{"rendered":"“There’s No Such Thing As ISIS”: Journalist Destroys West’s Terror Narrative, Warns Of Crackdown On “Dissidents”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“There’s No Such Thing As ISIS”: Journalist Destroys West’s Terror Narrative, Warns Of Crackdown On “Dissidents”<\/a><\/h3>\n
On Saturday, the day after the massacre in France which turned the streets of Paris into a warzone and left some 130 civilians dead, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had a message for the West.<\/div>\n
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While\u00a0condemning the attacks<\/a>\u00a0and branding the perpetrators \u201csavages\u201d, he was also quick to note that Syria has been dealing with this brand of terrorism for nearly five years straight. In what amounted to an \u201cI told you so<\/em>\u201d moment, Assad also said the following:\u00a0\u201cWe said, don’t take what is happening in Syria lightly. Unfortunately, European officials did not listen.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assad also took the opportunity to once again suggest that the West\u2019s sponsorship of the regional powers who support (both explicitly and implicitly) Sunni extremism in Syria is the root cause of the problem although the language he used was a bit less harsh than that which he employed in September (presumably because he was trying not to inflame tensions less than 24 hours after the Paris massacre). Here\u2019s what he said:\u00a0“The question that is being asked throughout France today is, was France’s policy over the past five years the right one? The answer is no.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presumably, Assad was referencing the West\u2019s support for the various militant groups seeking to oust his government. Those groups, including ISIS, have received money, guns, and training at various times from the CIA, from Turkey, from Saudi Arabia, and from Qatar. The situation on the ground is of course so fluid that it\u2019s nearly impossible to keep track of where the guns, money, and fighters end up, meaning that\u00a0even those observers who shun conspiracy theories would be hard pressed to contend that the US has not\u00a0at least indirectly<\/em>\u00a0armed and trained ISIS.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“There’s No Such Thing As ISIS”: Journalist Destroys West’s Terror Narrative, Warns Of Crackdown On “Dissidents” On Saturday, the day after the massacre in France which turned the streets of Paris into a warzone and left some 130 civilians dead, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had a message for the West. While\u00a0condemning the attacks\u00a0and branding the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3218,135,2322,281,333,441,442,1239,446,447,462,5909,3180,2510,1026,701,10131,776,793,818,965,4318],"class_list":["post-14522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-cia","tag-dissidents","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-journalism","tag-judicial-watch","tag-narrative","tag-paris","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sunni-extremism","tag-syria","tag-terrorism","tag-turkey","tag-west","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14523,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions\/14523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}