According to news reports:
Arizona Senator McCain crossed into Syria form Turkey with General Salem Idris, who leads the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army, and stayed there for several hours before returning back.According to AP, McCain crossed the border near Kilis, Turkey, and spent two hours meeting with 'rebel leaders' near Idlib, Syria. The article further states that McCain made the trip in order to demand "aggressive military action in the 2-year-old Syrian civil war, calling for the establishment of a no-fly zone and arming the rebels".
The senator met with assembled leaders of Free Syrian Army units in both Turkey and Syria.
Presidential Spokesman Jay Carney said "the White House was aware in advance of McCain's plans to travel to Syria. Carney declined to say whether McCain was carrying any message from the administration, but he said White House officials looked forward to hearing about his trip".
Here is an ABC News report on the visit, posted to YouTube: it speaks for itself.
McCain's two-hour visit has garnered a lot of attention because some bloggers claim that two of the rebel leaders seen in the photos that McCain posted to his Twitter account look very much like leaders of the Islamic State: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Muahmmad Noor.
The New York Times, on Sept. 11, 2014 mentioned the blog Socioeconomic History in an article that attempted to help McCain by simply claiming that the Internet "rumors" were "false"; however the Times didn't provide any details: only a denial by McCain's communications director and another denial by the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a DC lobbying organization led by a Palestinian employee of AIPAC, which arranged the senator's visit.
While information about Muahmmad Noor is hard to find, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the alleged leader of the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh).
Other blogs have denied that the man seen talking to McCain is al-Baghdadi, pointing to decoy photographs provided afterwards by the US and the Iraqi government.
However, the photographs that McCain posted to his Twitter account and a video published by the IS on July 5, 2014, in which al Baghdadi is leading Friday prayers in Mosul, are eerily alike.
Not only that, the man in the first photograph of Al-Baghdadi released by the U.S. in 2011 looks identical to the man who met with McCain.
The United States held al-Baghdadi in a military prison in Iraq named Camp Bucca from 2005 to 2009 (or 2010) and then released him, allegedly at the request of the Iraqi government. As he was being turned over to the custody of the Iraqi government, he reportedly told his US military captors, "I'll see you in New York". (quoted by Fox News)
Camp Bucca is worth more attention, as it may have been a recruiting and training center for fighters who would go on to lead the IS.
Right after al-Baghdadi was freed, the Islamic State emerged out of nowhere and rapidly took over important swaths of Iraq and Syria. The U.S. officially designated al-Baghdadi a terrorist on October 4, 2011, and offered the $10 million reward for his capture or killing. This was when the U.S. released its first photograph of its former prisoner.
Subsequently, the U.S. released another mug shot from Camp Bucca, which doesn't look like the first, partly because the man has glasses and a heavy beard. A really bad photograph released by the Iraqi Interior Ministry, like the second US mug shot, also seems to be a decoy intended to cover up al-Baghdadi's connections with the U.S. government. It doesn't appear to be the same man.
The details about al-Baghdadi's background are as blurry as the Iraqi Interior photograph. He is reported to have been born in Samarra, north of Baghdad, on July 28, 1971. According to an article in The Telegraph, he was a Salafi, who became al-Qaeda's point man in Qaim in Iraq's western desert. The article states:
"Abu Duaa was connected to the intimidation, torture and murder of local civilians in Qaim", says a Pentagon document. "He would kidnap individuals or entire families, accuse them, pronounce sentence and then publicly execute them."Al-Baghjdadi would be only 43 when he was filmed leading prayers in Mosul in 2014, and 42 when he met with John McCain in 2013. The McCain photos and the Mosul videos show a man of about that age.
Senator McCain has a long relationship with the CIA as the president of the State Department-funded International Republican Institute. The IRI organized the overthrow of Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004, and has been involved in many other overthrow operations, including the coup in Ukraine.
According to journalist Thierry Meyssan, who is based in Damascus, McCain participated in every color revolution over the past 20 years. Also according to Meyssan, McCain chaired a meeting held in Cairo on February 4, 2011, which NATO had organized to launch the "Arab Spring" in Libya and Syria. The so-called uprising in Syria began shortly afterward.
Meyssan's claim that McCain is intimately involved with CIA-organized overthrows makes lot more sense than the fiction that nobody knows who Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is or how this violent Iraqi al-Qaeda leader ended up meeting of 'Syrian rebels' with the senator inside of Syria. The inescapable conclusion is that all of the men at the meeting, including al-Baghdadi are CIA assets, and that IS is a CIA creation.
GR. Editor's Note: The author of this article has requested that his name not appear due to the sensitive nature of this text. While GR has verified the sources and evidence presented herewith, the usual disclaimer applies.
Reader Comments
I guess it's a secret that America is supporting ISIS and they don't want people to know about it, or figure it out. Luckily McCain is seen as a 'bit dippy' and not a true indicator of how the 'real' American government works. Just shadow stuff.
It comes back to plausible deniability, scapegoating, and oh well, he's going to be dead soon anyway. Yep, timing of such is everything.
He represents the worst of US politicians. Those neo-cons that firmly believe that if the US is the planet's most dominant military power, then it is next to criminal not to use it to impose their will on unwilling countries. Might is right. Both hard power and economic soft power. Hence Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and various efforts elsewhere such a s the 'Arab Spring'.
Morality is irrelevant.
Luckily, McCain, like Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc., are well past their used-by dates.
Unluckily, the same kind of creatures are still prolific in US political circles. 'Yes we can' Obama provided hope for change, but, as always, he has been proved to be of the same stripe. Any one who has witnessed the Republican debates see the same animals. Other than Trump, who seems to have his own opinion, and this perhaps explains his ratings. Democratic debates are no better, and I regard Hilary-bum as more right wing than many Republicans (probably to ingratiate herself to the powers-that-be, i.e., those half-dozen-odd media moguls).
Zealousness can be admirable, but when it become one-eyed zealotry, without respect for humanity, it is simply ill.
US politics is full of fanatics. Little better or worse than Wahhabi jihadists.
Which, sadly, appeals to the unwashed masses.
That's how you know without any doubt that these supposed shooting in the US, the supposed numbers of shooting, and all the rest are pure theater or false flags. They killed 60,000 American Boys and Girls in Vietnam and that was also another invented war. Good God, Uncle Ho even read from the Declaration of Independence after the defeat of Japan hoping that we and the French would give that nation liberty, but no we murdered millions there too. Us and the European War Lords. We are crazy to be supporting any of these people. Hell, for all we can tell they aren't even human beings, they don't act like human beings. They act like monsters.
I mean just watch this video. It's a great video really. It show what they are stealing and what we are all giving up.
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The Wahhabi jihadists can never get near the number of murdered masses of people that the USA/NATO has already achieved.
I'm sure they would like to but that prize winning title goes to....The Early Soviet Regime & now its brother in Arms the USA & its puppets in Europe.
I'm getting sick of repeating the obvious but makes me feel better so it is the obvious & obnoxiously repetitive subject.