Terrorists: The US
Creates Them, Turkey Trains Them, Qatar
Finances Them
By Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
March 15, 2015 "ICH"
- "Canadian
Charger" - We
used to believe it is a crime to
organize, support and give political
cover to terrorist organizations. Things
have changed.
“If the (American)
Joint Chiefs are liable to stand trial
for crimes against humanity, so is the
President – and of course those who
fund, train, and collude with ISIS and
its kind, including Turkey, Qatar, and
the Muslim Brotherhood,” James Lewis
wrote in the February 26, 2015 American
Thinker.
Lewis added: “… the
Obama administration’s embrace of the
Muslim Brotherhood, with its penetration
of essentially all our government
agencies, including the Department of
Defense, has had an adverse impact on
our policies, particularly with regard
to the Middle East and the global war on
terrorism… The Joint Chiefs of Staff
know that what we are doing today in
Iraq and Syria to defeat the Islamic
State is wrong. By their acquiescence to
the administration’s half-hearted war
policies, they cannot escape being
held accountable for the genocide the
Islamic State will inflict on the
Syrian inhabitants of Kobani, the Kurds
and other minorities.” (Italics by
Lewis).
The terrorist army of
the Islamic State (also called ISIS and
ISIL) is made up of foreigners, mainly
Muslims. But a good number of
non-Muslims with military experience are
also populating its higher ranks. A
British woman was recently shamed to
learn that her non-Muslim brother, an
ex-British army officer, had joined IS
forces. She isn’t alone.
Many people do not
know or have forgotten (it’s been kept
very quiet) that the IS army was created
four years ago by the US to topple the
regime of Syrian dictator Bashir
Al-Assad.
Few are also aware
that Turkey, Syria’s northern neighbor,
is ruled by a Muslim Brotherhood
majority government. As a NATO member,
Turkey has long provided recruitment,
intelligence, training and armaments
(including a daily flow of ammunition
and spare parts) on behalf of US
interests. Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan,
which also border on Syria, did not
offer these convenient services to the
US.
Qatar, a tiny but
wealthy Arab state with the largest
naval American base in the region, was
also very willing to provide generous
financing.
Qatar provided another
important “service” – propaganda – in
the form of a recruitment campaign to
convince Muslims that fighting in Syria
is a “Jihad” against the infidels,
meaning all Syrians. As a result, more
than 10 million have fled that country
during the past four years; numerous
other citizens are internally displaced.
Egyptian-born Qatari
Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi, spiritual
leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, issued
the necessary fatwa and on
Qatari TV channel Al-Jazeera, where he
not only publicly blessed the terrorist
campaign against Syria, but also urged
Muslims everywhere to join the Islamic
State.
IS recruits began
flowing in from as far north as Canada
and as far south as Malaysia, passing
easily into Turkey. There, they were
greeted like friends by Turkish
intelligence, received training and
indoctrination, and were then handed
over to Turkish officers in the field.
So this bizarre
behind-the-scenes American terror
campaign against Syria was going very
well, with IS receiving committed and
aggressive international recruits. With
Qatari financing, American equipment and
Turkish training, it was like a marriage
made in heaven. Although the Syrian army
and security forces were exhausted,
however, they were still not defeated.
But then problems
arose in this clever scheme.
IS militants started
beheading Westerners and using the
universal reach of social media to
ensure that the whole world could see
the grisly killings. And some of the
terrorists recruited to the IS cause did
not die as martyrs and go straight to
Heaven; instead, they began returning to
their home countries, some with major
disillusionment.
At that point the US
had to show the international community
that it was against IS, yet it never
moved to prevent Turkey and Qatar from
continuing to recruit, train, arm and
finance IS fighters.
On March 6 the Deputy
Inspector General of Malaysia’s police
said in the New Straits Times, “with the
help of international enforcement
agencies, we had identified more than 60
Malaysians who had joined IS militants
in Syria.” He added that any Malaysians
involved would be arrested and
investigated on their return.
The case of IS
terrorists going home to other
countries, including Canada, is quite
similar. It won’t be back to
life-as-usual for anyone picked up
through more vigilant screening at the
borders.
After four years of
primary involvement in organizing,
recruiting, training, arming, financing,
and providing the necessary religious
and political cover for the IS terror
campaign in Syria, the US continues to
play its self-appointed role as a
morally upright champion of justice on
the international stage – even while
operating similarly in Libya and Egypt.
But its innocence is
wearing thin. The Obama administration
looked downright disingenuous last month
when the White House, after giving
terrorism such generous undercover help,
hosted a Feb. 18-19 Summit on Countering
Violence and Extremism.
Something is very
wrong with this picture.
Dr. Mohamed Elmasry,
an Egyptian-born Canadian, is a
Professor of Computer Engineering at the
University of Waterloo. He can be
reached at
elmasry@thecanadiancharger.com
