{"id":15912,"date":"2016-01-03T10:43:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T15:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15912"},"modified":"2016-01-03T10:43:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T15:43:33","slug":"isis-the-enemy-the-us-created-armed-and-funded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15912","title":{"rendered":"ISIS: The \u2018Enemy\u2019 the US Created, Armed, and Funded"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ISIS: The \u2018Enemy\u2019 the US Created, Armed, and Funded<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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To delve into Daesh\u2019s convoluted money trail, one must first explore its equally convoluted origins. And in both areas, the role of the U.S. and its allies can not be ignored.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(MINTPRESS<\/a>)\u00a0<\/strong>Out of nowhere, it seems, Daesh, also commonly referred to as ISIL or ISIS, spontaneously formed, a group that perverts aspects of Islam for its own violent ends, and threatens, we are told, all that the civilized world holds dear.<\/p>\n

The \u201cwar on terror,\u201d governments inform their citizens, has a new front. And that front is Daesh.<\/p>\n

Let us not be too hasty. Things are not always what they appear. Daesh is well-financed, and that money must be coming from somewhere other than a ragtag band of malcontents. Daesh soldiers have advanced weaponry and sophisticated communications methods. They have tanks and Humvees. None of these can be obtained without significant funding. Though the source is quite illusive, there is some evidence that will lead to a trail.<\/div>\n

First, we must look at Daesh\u2019s origins, and even that is not easily discernible. Writing for The Guardian in August 2014,\u00a0Ali Khedery suggests<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cPrincipally, Isis is the product of a genocide that continued unabated as the world stood back and watched. It is the illegitimate child born of pure hate and pure fear \u2013 the result of 200,000 murdered Syrians and of millions more displaced and divorced from their hopes and dreams. Isis\u2019s rise is also a reminder of how Bashar al-Assad\u2019s Machiavellian embrace of al-Qaida would come back to haunt him.<\/i><\/p>\n

Facing Assad\u2019s army and intelligence services, Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah, Iraq\u2019s Shia Islamist militias and their grand patron, Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards, Syria\u2019s initially peaceful protesters quickly became disenchanted, disillusioned and disenfranchised \u2013 and then radicalised and violently militant.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

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ISIS: The \u2018Enemy\u2019 the US Created, Armed, and Funded To delve into Daesh\u2019s convoluted money trail, one must first explore its equally convoluted origins. And in both areas, the role of the U.S. and its allies can not be ignored. (MINTPRESS)\u00a0Out of nowhere, it seems, Daesh, also commonly referred to as ISIL or ISIS, spontaneously […]<\/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":[23,8350,35,4536,3771,441,442,1239,446,447,522,1633,1634,776,827],"class_list":["post-15912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-anti-media","tag-assad","tag-daesh","tag-guardian","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-middle-east","tag-shia","tag-shiite","tag-syria","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912","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=15912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15913,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912\/revisions\/15913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}