© AFPIn this file photo, foreign-backed militants fire mortar shells toward pro-government fighters during the battle for the control of Handarat region, located just north of Aleppo, Syria.
In stark contrast to the sparse coverage of the brutality of ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria over the past few years, there has recently been substantial coverage of the
emergence of ISIS in Iraq and the terrorist acts that this
US-backed and funded group has been committing. This surge of media focus on ISIS' brutality in Iraq and particularly on the recent alleged be-headings of two American journalists is extensively considered, amongst
independent political analysts, to be
setting the stage for NATO and the Axis-of-Imperialists to "fight terrorism" in Iraq and Syria, aka destroy both countries (note: there are
valid doubts as to the legitimacy of the Foley video itself).
Glaringly absent from corporate media accounts of the proxy-war being waged on Syria is the fact that the very same terrorist group, as well as other Western-backed, al-Qaeda aligned terrorist organizations (like al-Nusra and the so-called "Free Syrian Army"), have been
terrorizing Syrians for years-beheading them, flogging, crucifying, amputating hands-to name but a few of their crimes against thousands of Syrians.In a
recent interview, scholar and author Zafar Bangash noted Western-complicity in supporting ISIS and other mercenary groups, as well as NATO's complicity in the destruction of Syria thus far:
"As a member of NATO, obviously Turkey has close liaison with the United States, Britain, France, etc, providing them all kinds of information. A NATO member, that means by extension NATO itself, is involved in financing, supporting, arming, facilitating the transfer, or entry, of these terrorists into Syria."
Comment: Bush is having another WMD in Iraq moment. He, like so many of his 'Russia-meddled' obsessed peers seems to think if the lie is repeated often enough it will eventually be believed. So where is the evidence? Oh right...there isn't any!
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