{"id":14693,"date":"2015-11-23T07:37:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T12:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2015-11-23T07:37:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T12:37:39","slug":"so-whos-really-sponsoring-isis-turkey-saudi-arabia-and-other-u-s-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14693","title":{"rendered":"So Who\u2019s Really Sponsoring ISIS? Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Other U.S. \u201cAllies\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header \">\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/11\/22\/so-whos-really-sponsoring-isis-turkey-saudi-arabia-and-other-u-s-allies\/\" target=\"_blank\">So Who\u2019s Really Sponsoring ISIS? Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Other U.S. \u201cAllies\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"clearfix post-meta post-meta-top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29128\" src=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-22-at-9.54.56-AM-1024x710.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-11-22 at 9.54.56 AM\" width=\"344\" height=\"238\" \/><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><strong><em>Mass surveillance at home and endless military projection abroad are the twin sides of the same coin of national security, which must simply be maximized as much as possible.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Conspicuously missing from President Hollande\u2019s decisive declaration of war however, was any mention of the biggest elephant in the room: state-sponsorship.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A senior\u00a0Western official\u00a0familiar with a large cache of intelligence obtained this summer told the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0that \u201cdirect dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIS members was now \u2018undeniable.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><b>ISIS, in other words, is state-sponsored\u200a\u2014\u200aindeed, sponsored by purportedly Western-friendly regimes in the Muslim world, who are integral to the anti-ISIS coalition.\u00a0Which then begs the question as to why Hollande and other Western leaders expressing their determination to \u201cdestroy\u201d ISIS using all means necessary, would prefer to avoid the most significant factor of all: the material infrastructure of ISIS\u2019 emergence in the context of ongoing Gulf and Turkish state support for Islamist militancy in the region.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>There are many explanations, but one perhaps stands out: the West\u2019s abject dependence on terror-toting Muslim regimes, largely to maintain access to Middle East, Mediterranean and Central Asian oil and gas resources.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 From the excellent Nafeez Ahmed article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/insurge-intelligence\/europe-is-harbouring-the-islamic-state-s-backers-d24db3a24a40#.92p4kgp93\">NATO is Harbouring the Islamic State<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the way the French government\u2019s cracking down on the civil liberties of its own citizens, you\u2019d think the general public was supporting and funding ISIS as opposed to the French government allies who actually are.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, we learn the following from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2015\/11\/france-passes-new-emergency-snooping-censorship-law-in-wake-of-paris-attacks\/\">ArsTechica<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>In the wake of last Friday\u2019s attacks in Paris, France is bringing in new legislation extending the country\u2019s temporary state of emergency to three months. The new laws also grant the authorities new powers to carry out searches of seized devices and to block websites.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Who\u2019s Really Sponsoring ISIS? Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Other U.S. \u201cAllies\u201d Mass surveillance at home and endless military projection abroad are the twin sides of the same coin of national security, which must simply be maximized as much as possible.\u00a0 Conspicuously missing from President Hollande\u2019s decisive declaration of war however, was any mention of [&hellip;]<\/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":[1239,446,447,5570,525,701,776,818,827],"class_list":["post-14693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-military","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693","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=14693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14694,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions\/14694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}