ISIS:
US-Saudi Plague Reaches Indonesia?
ISIS attacks conveniently mesh with Washington's
growing frustration with Jakarta and its expanding
ties with China.
By Tony Cartalucci
January 16, 2016 "Information
Clearing House"
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Destroyer"
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"NEO" - Coordinated bombings and mass
shootings struck Indonesia's capital of Jakarta on
Thursday leaving several dead and many more wounded.
The pattern matched that
of attacks carried out last year in Paris, France,
where known terrorists Western intelligence agencies
were tracking, some for years, were somehow allowed
to mobilize large caches of weapons in Belgium and
execute their coordinated mass murder with virtually
no effort to stop them ahead of the attacks.
The
so-called "Islamic State in Iraq and Syria" quickly
claimed responsibility for the attack and the
Western media has begun stoking fears that the
terrorist organization has now spread to Southeast
Asia.
G.I. Jihadis: Wherever US Foreign Policy is in
Trouble, ISIS is There...
A pattern is beginning to develop. Wherever the US
wants to put its military, ISIS shows up and
conveniently justifies it. And whenever the US is
having a problem persuading a foreign government to
do what Washington desires, ISIS shows up. In fact,
pretty much everywhere US foreign policy is in
trouble, ISIS and similarly state-sponsored
terrorism seems to show up and save the day.
ISIS itself is a creation of the US and its European
and Middle Eastern allies. The US' own Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) admitted as much in
a leaked 2012 report (.pdf) which stated:
If the
situation unravels there is the possibility of
establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist
principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der
Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting
powers to the opposition want, in order to
isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered
the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq
and Iran).
To clarify
just who these "supporting powers" were that sought
the creation of a "Salafist" (Islamic) principality"
(State), the DIA report explains:
The
West, Gulf countries, and Turkey support the
opposition; while Russia, China, and Iran
support the regime.
When the US'
own Defense Intelligence Agency says the US sought
the creation of a "Salafist principality," the
verbatim definition of the so-called "Islamic
State," in eastern Syria precisely where ISIS is now
established, it is clear that ISIS is an enemy of
the West in name only, and only to distract from the
fact that this abhorrent terrorist organizations is
in reality one of the West's most potent and far
reaching foreign policy tools. ISIS is a reboot of
sorts of Al Qaeda which the US and its Saudi allies
first created - intentionally - to wage proxy war
against the Soviet Union with in Afghanistan during
the 1980s.
Instead of waging war against the Soviet Union with
Al Qaeda, the US is now waging an increasingly
global war against Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan,
and now clearly much of East and Southeast Asia with
either ISIS or a similarly state-sponsored terrorist
organization with.
What Other Explanation Could there Be?
What the world is expected to believe is that the
"Islamic State in Iraq and Syria" so named because
of where it is supposedly based and primarily
operates, is currently fighting both the Syrian and
Iraqi governments, Lebanon's Hezbollah, Iran, and
Russian airpower, apparently funded, armed, and
backed by no one.
Additionally, we are expected to believe ISIS is
also fighting thousands of "moderate rebels" the US
and its allies claim to have armed, funded, and
trained to the tune of several billion dollars. Not
only are they fighting these moderates backed by a
multi-billion dollar multinational coalition, but
are fighting and have been winning. But it doesn't
end there. We are also expected to believe that ISIS
is also weathering the combined military might of
the US, France, Germany, the UK, Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, and Jordan.
And finally, we are
expected to believe not only all of this, and that
ISIS is independently supporting expanding
operations in Afghanistan and Libya, but that ISIS
now has the extra time, money, resources, and
inclination to attack Indonesia all the way in
Southeast Asia.
Few nations-states on Earth possess the ability to
do what it is claimed ISIS is doing, everywhere it
is doing it, and to the degree of success it is
allegedly doing it with. Among those few nations,
there is only one that benefits from ISIS'
activities. The United States.
What's the US Using ISIS and other Terror Groups
in Asia for and Why?
It was just in August of last year that
the joint US-Turkish terrorist group, the "Grey
Wolves," were implicated in a bombing in
Southeast Asia's Thailand. The bomb blast killed 20
and maimed many more in an attack that killed mostly
Chinese tourists.
The attack was part of a wider terror campaign
backed by the US and Turkey in China's western
Xinjiang region where Turkic Uyghur terrorists have
been carrying out attacks for years. The US-Turkish
backed Grey Wolves have been behind training and
arming terrorists in China for years, and more
recently have played a role in smuggling Uyghur
fighters from China, through Southeast Asia -
including through Thailand - and onward to Syria to
fight the West's proxy war there.
Killing
Chinese tourists in Thailand was aimed at straining
recent and
growing ties between Bangkok and Beijing.
Thailand has recently sought closer military and
economic cooperation with China while slowly moving
away from an increasingly meddlesome West. Bangkok
had sought to purchase Chinese weapons, including
several submarines. It already possesses
Chinese-made warships and armored vehicles, and late
last year conducted its first ever joint
Thai-Chinese air military exercises.
Economically, Thailand has been working with China
toward a deal to construct additional rail
infrastructure both in Thailand, and connecting the
nation beyond, including to China itself.
When the US has repeatedly placed pressure on
Bangkok to join its provocations in the South China
Sea aimed at Beijing, Bangkok has repeatedly
insisted that the conflict is none of their
business, and that they will play no part in it.
The bombing in August by a terrorist organization
which at one point was run out of the US embassy in
Ankara during the Cold War, was a warning to Bangkok
that if it hinders rather than aids US "primacy" in
Asia, it will suffer destabilization.
ISIS Punishes Indonesia for its "Sins"
And Indonesia is likewise "guilty" of many of the
same "sins." Jakarta while occasionally challenging
China rhetorically, has repeatedly avoided getting
too deeply involved in America's provocations in the
South China Sea. Additionally, Jakarta, like
Bangkok, has sought to build greater economic ties
with Beijing. This includes a deal that will see
China construct a high-speed rail network throughout
the country.
Bloomberg
Business' article, "China
to Build $5 Billion High-Speed Rail Line in
Indonesia," would state:
China
won the rights to build a $5.5 billion railway
line in Indonesia as the Southeast Asian nation
tries to upgrade its infrastructure to drive
economic growth.
The massive
infrastructure project will boost both China and
Indonesia for decades to come. With the economic
opportunities mass transportation brings a nation,
opportunities for Washington to use socioeconomic
disparity as a tool to divide and gain leverage over
nations like Indonesia internally as it and other
Western powers have done in the past will dwindle.
Additionally, that China is building such projects
in both Thailand and Indonesia, will only lead to
greater ties between Beijing and a rising Southeast
Asia - a Southeast Asia rising on the back of
expanding and improving infrastructure.
With few attractive alternatives to offer Southeast
Asia, the United States appears to have departed
from offering "carrots" it does not have, and has
instead resorted increasingly to the "stick." But
instead of wielding that stick itself, it has handed
it to the "Salafist principality" it admittedly
conspired to create with its allies in eastern Syria
in 2012.
For the crime of wanting to move further out from
under what the US itself calls its "primacy over
Asia," Indonesia has been attacked, and now has the
menace of ISIS being further still dangled over its
head if it continues forging stronger ties with
Beijing.
Thailand and Indonesia are not alone. The US has
openly declared in signed and dated policy papers
that it believes controlling a unified Southeast
Asian front, and arraying it against China, is the
only way to encircle, contain, and eventually
undermine and destroy the current political order in
Beijing.
To that end, the United States has formulated an
array of options ranging from supporting internal
political subversion through US State
Department-funded political fronts and
nongovernmental organizations, to an increasing
dependency on terrorism, to coerce Southeast Asia
away from Beijing while dividing and disrupting
Southeast Asia's own geopolitical future.
The US and its allies could at any day expose and
cut ISIS' supply lines leading from their various
subsidiaries and fronts around the world, back to
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and its other
state-sponsors. Instead, the US protects and cover
up this extensive, global state-sponsorship of
terrorism. As such, when "ISIS attacks," it is
really an extension of US foreign policy, and not
merely ISIS alone that is committing this violence,
nor for ISIS and its own agenda alone that it is
being carried out.
Most ironic of all, perhaps, is the possibility that
because of America's dwindling credibility
worldwide, and its waning influence in Asia, its
complicity in the violence being carried out against
the governments and peoples of Southeast Asia may -
instead of creating a unified front against China -
end up creating a unified front displacing
Washington's influence form the region. In many ways
this is already underway, and Thursday's attack in
Jakarta may only stand to accelerate this process.
Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical
researcher and writer, especially for the online
magazine“New
Eastern Outlook”.
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