U.S. Says Syria Still Has Chemical Weapons

The items that are being brought to you and me today, readers, truly are SILLI (nothing from Iraq today?).

And this ABSOLUTE LAUGHER DID make it?

"Syria may have undeclared chemical weapons, US says; Expresses fears that extremists may seize cache" by Rick Gladstone | New York Times   September 05, 2014

OMG, they ACTUALLY THINK THIS IS GOING TO SELL know that ISIS has been EXPOSED as FRONT!!! 

The PROPAGANDISTS of the AmeriKan war media are BEREFT of IDEAS and NO NOTHING ELSE! 

This TRASH should be ENJOYED, readers!!

NEW YORK — The United States expressed concern Thursday that Syria’s government might be harboring undeclared chemical weapons, hidden from the internationally led operation to purge them over the past year, and that Islamist militant extremists now ensconced in that country could possibly seize control of them.

(Blog editor shaking his head in astonishment that they would try and run this stinky steamer of a log at us after Iraq, 2003 and last year in Syria. How insultingly disrespectful to the population of the United States that they think this will roll once more)

The assertions by Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations and current president of the Security Council, were made after the Council received a private briefing on the Syria chemical weapons disarmament effort from Sigrid Kaag, the UN official appointed last year to coordinate it. Under Kaag, 96 percent of Syria’s declared chemical weapons stockpile, including all of the most lethal materials, have been destroyed.

What a hacking hypocrite, and her husband is the $cumbag Cass Sunstein.

But Kaag told reporters after the briefing that Syria had yet to address what she described as “some discrepancies or questions” about whether it had accounted for all of the chemical weapons in its arsenal. She also said Syria had yet to destroy seven hangars and five tunnels used for mixing and storing the weapons — which is required under the chemical weapons treaty that Syria has signed.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Hague-based group that collaborated with the United Nations in overseeing the Syrian chemical disarmament, is now responsible for ensuring that Syria honors its promise.

“It’s a discussion that’s continuing in Damascus as well as The Hague,” Kaag said.

She sounded more diplomatic than Power, who suggested in her remarks to reporters later that the Syrian government’s history regarding chemical weapons use raised skepticism about its commitment. She noted that Syria had repeatedly violated a timetable for the export and destruction of the chemicals, delaying the operation well past the June 30 target date.

The US broke the treaty they signed to destroy their chemical stocks, so f*** off!! 

Beyond that, considering the source of the charges I'm looking for the "al qaeda."

She also reiterated longstanding accusations that Syrian forces had used indiscriminate weapons, including bombs filled with chlorine, in the country’s civil war. While chlorine is not on the list of prohibited chemicals, its use as a weapon would violate the treaty and could constitute a war crime.

The use of chlorine was by the ISIS rebels the CIA created and trained in Jordan and other parts of the world. This woman is an EMBARRASSMENT!

“I want to stress that much more work still needs to be done on Syria’s chemical weapons program,” Power said. “The international community must continue to press for the resolution of all discrepancies and omissions in Syria’s original declaration.”

Looks like my work is never down until the shit-shoveling (sorry) by her cla$$ stops.

Power expressed concern that any undeclared chemical weapons in Syria could wind up in the hands of the Islamic State, the group that has seized parts of northeast Syria, invaded northwest Iraq and bragged about mass killings, beheadings, and other atrocities.

“Certainly, if there are chemical weapons left in Syria, there will be a risk,” she said. “And we can only imagine what a group like that would do if in possession of such a weapon.” 

Yeah, we can ONLY IMAGINE on the upcoming anniversary of 9/11. 

So is that the false flag that is being planned and is ready to go?

Syria’s government agreed in September 2013 to renounce chemical weapons, destroy its stockpile, and join the treaty that bans their use, under an agreement brokered by Russia and the United States. That deal averted the Obama administration’s threat to bomb Syrian military sites in reaction to an attack last year with the nerve agent sarin.

The United States and its allies said the attack killed hundreds of civilians and could have been carried out only by Syrian forces, although President Bashar Assad said rebels were responsible.

Outside analysts have generally praised the Syrian chemical disarmament operation. Some discounted any prospect of a repeat attack using sarin or other banned compounds.

BUT?!?

“There is the possibility that there remains a small quantity of some type of material that the Assad regime has held back,” said Daryl G. Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, a Washington-based advocacy group. “Is it likely or possible that the Assad government loses control? Anything is possible, especially in Syria, but I’d put the possibility as low.”

Hey, ANYTHING is POSSIBLE!

Kimball spoke by phone from a conference in Brussels, where the director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Ahmet Uzumcu, said in an address that the work was “well advanced” for the destruction of Syria’s 12 chemical mixing and storage facilities.

So what is Power doing other than spewing shit?

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And now for things to get REALLY SILLI!!!

This next item made print but not the web? 

"Mass. man may be supporting militants in Syria" by Milton J. Valencia | Globe Staff   September 04, 2014

The spotlight that has been cast on the Islamic State terror group in Syria has also put a new focus on a Massachusetts man wanted for terrorism, who is believed to be living in that country and possibly supporting ISIS.

SIGH!

Ahmad Abousamra, who grew up in Stoughton and attended schools in the Boston area, faces terrorism charges in federal court in Boston, and the FBI in December put him on its Most Wanted Terrorists list. A $50,000 reward has been offered for information leading to his capture, and officials believe he has been living in Aleppo, Syria.

The Marathon guys, the 9/11 hijackers, now this. Boston must be loaded with terrorists. Don't ever go there.

ABC News reported this week that officials believe Abousamra may be using his computer and social media skills to support ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the terror group that is trying to establish an Islamic state and has claimed responsibility for the beheadings in recent weeks of two American journalists.

HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

“This guy is somebody that continues to concern us, and we’re not going to stop looking for him,” said Vincent Lisi, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office.

Lisi would not comment on the ABC News report or on the search for Abousamra, saying certain facts remain part of an ongoing investigation. But he said that the decision to elevate Abousamra to the Most Wanted Terrorists list in December was based on increasing concerns about “his threat to our national security.”

Abousamra, 33, was indicted in 2009 along with Sudbury resident Tarek Mehanna on charges that he conspired to support Al Qaeda. Friends since childhood, the two men allegedly used their knowledge of Arabic and their computer skills to promote the terror group’s message. They also allegedly went to Yemen in 2004 in search of terror training. Mehanna returned without success, but authorities alleged that Abousamra also went to Pakistan and Iraq in search of training.

Abousamra fled the area in 2006, after he was first questioned by authorities. Mehanna was later arrested and convicted, and was sentenced in 2012 to 17½ years in prison. The US Supreme Court is slated to consider later this month whether to hear his case.

And THERE is your 9/11-Marathon bombing connection!

In December, when the reward for Abousamra was announced, Lowell Police Sergeant Thomas Daly – a member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, said that Abousamra “has shown that he wants to kill United States soldiers’’ and that he has made at least three trips overseas, seeking terrorist training so he could fight American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Why didn't you guys pick him up then? 

(Of course, we know why: he is a US intelligent asset, as are all these guys that make the paper)

Daly said Abousamra has a “high-pitched voice that would distinguish him from others.’’

A gay Muslim?

Abousamra attended Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood for three years before graduating from Stoughton High School in 1999. He also attended Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Where he was contacted by the CIA.

He is of Syrian descent and has dual citizenship in the United States and Syria.

There are and were a bunch of neo-con war-mongerers within the US government that are mostly dual national Israelis and no one makes a stink. 

He is 5 feet 11 inches tall and has brown eyes. At the time he fled, he weighed approximately 170 pounds and had a slim build and dark brown hair. He speaks, reads, and writes fluently in English and Arabic.

He has a number of known aliases, including: Ahmad Abou-Samra, Ahmad Abou, Ahmad Abou Samira, Ahmad Samra, Ahmad Abu Samra, and Ahmad Abou Samra.

The FBI said he should be considered armed and dangerous.

I have bad news: he's already back inside the United States.

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Can the top that? YES!

"Al Qaeda announces new branch on Indian subcontinent" by Ellen Barry | New York Times   September 05, 2014

NEW DELHI — Al Qaeda has released a video announcing the establishment of a new branch on the Indian subcontinent, saying it is meant to revive jihadist activity in a region that was once “part of the land of Muslims, until the infidel enemy occupied it and fragmented it and split it.”

Al-CIA-Duh, huh?

In the 55-minute video, which was posted on jihadist forums, Al Qaeda’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, addresses listeners in parts of the region with large Muslim populations, assuring Muslims in Burma and Bangladesh; in the Indian cities and states of Assam, Gujarat, Ahmedabad, and Kashmir that “your brothers” in the militant organization “did not forget you and that they are doing what they can to rescue you.”

What's with the background?

In recent months, Al Qaeda’s emerging competitor, the Islamic State group, has begun to recruit Indian Muslims, and some analysts viewed the videotaped announcement as a response.

PFFFFFFT!!!!

The new entity, Qaedat al-Jihad in the Indian Subcontinent, represents the network’s fifth official branch and its first in Asia, adding to branches based in the Sahara region of Africa, in East Africa, in Yemen, and in Syria.

Zawahiri said it had taken more than two years “to gather the mujahideen in the Indian subcontinent into a single entity,” but did not mention smaller groups that might be affiliated. The SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity online, said the video was posted Wednesday.

Said who? 

"Katz, a former Zionist occupation soldier and daughter of an Israeli spy, erected SITE as a front for Mossad psychological warfare operations in the Zionist-designed global ‘war on terror.’"

Also see: Rita Katz's Jewish Media Group, SITE, releases the latest al-Qaeda recording

SITE Institute

IS ISRAEL CONTROLLING PHONY TERROR NEWS?

Yeah, and it is getting really, really old.

Indian news outlets reported Thursday that the country’s Intelligence Bureau had verified the video’s authenticity and had alerted police across the nation to a heightened threat.

So when is the next Mumbai-style false flag in India?

Sambit Patra, a spokesman for the governing Bharatiya Janata Party, called the announcement “a matter of serious concern.”

Al Qaeda, which has been weakened by military and economic pressure in the years since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has not traditionally recruited heavily in India or staged major attacks on Hindus.

Instead, its ideological focus has been on driving out a “far enemy” — the United States and its allies — from the Middle East. Analysts say its leaders may be wary of provoking conflict with the Indian region’s huge Hindu population.

Were this stuff not so damn serious it would be laughable.

In his videotaped address, Zawahiri does not make specific reference to the Islamic State group, but he does call for unity among jihadists, saying, “discord is a curse and torment, and disgrace for the believers and glory for the disbelievers.”

Laith Alkhouri, a senior analyst at Flashpoint Global Partners, a New York security consulting firm that tracks militant websites, called the message “a serious counter-narrative” to the Islamic State expansion.

Some analysts played down the announcement’s significance because Al Qaeda has a limited presence in India, where militant networks rely on local fighters and are driven by local conflicts.

And why would the web chop off this?

"Wilson John, a terrorism expert at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, said one measure of Al Qaeda’s weakness was that no Kashmiri militants had ever associated themselves with it. He added that organizers of the 2008 militant attacks on Mumbai were forced to bring in Pakistanis, presumably because they were unable to recruit inside India.

“There is an ideological disconnect,” he said, because most Indian Muslims have little sympathy for the Wahhabi religious movement followed by some extremists. “They never had this support despite two decades of trying to find an anchor in India.”"

And yet they are there now!

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Thanks for helping out India's new prime minister who is reaching out to Pakistan. 

Who wouldn't like that, huh? 

Btw, the coup coverage has died down.

Speaking of possible coups:

"US wants more from Saudis in fight against extremists" by Bryan Bender | Globe Staff   September 05, 2014

WASHINGTON — The US battle against the self-described Islamic State is being complicated by concerns that Saudi Arabia has helped support extremist Sunni elements — both spiritually and financially — even as the Saudis call themselves friends and allies of the United States.

What a joke! Everyone knows they are the money and manpower behind those CIA-created groups, it's an open secret.

Saudi Arabia is led by a Sunni monarchy, the same branch of Islam whose extremist elements make up the violent Islamic State. Counterterrorism experts in the US worry Saudi Arabia is not exerting enough influence to undermine the group’s terrorist acts, including the recent beheadings of two American journalists.

You Saudis finally getting the signal that your are not safe despite all the assistance over all these years? 

When USrael is down with Iran they are coming for you and that huge patch of oil under you. Haven't you read the Project for the New American Century documents?

“The Muslim leadership in Saudi Arabia would rather spend their time writing [religious edicts] on the color of women’s fingernail polish” and has failed to deal with the crisis “inside of their religion,” said James B. Smith, the American ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2009 to 2013.

Nearly 13 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks — with the reach of terrorist groups who adhere to the most violent forms of Sunni Islam as unchecked as ever — such concerns underscore a major shortcoming in the global effort to fight terrorism, current and former counterterrorism officials and diplomats say.

So 13 YEARS of WAR and CONQUEST and we are LOSING? The terrorists are STRONGER than EVER?

Saudi supporters insist the country has cracked down on the direct financial support that went to Al Qaeda-linked groups and assert that it is now other Persian Gulf monarchies, especially Qatar, helping to bankroll the most virulent of the groups fighting to topple the Syrian regime of Bashir Al-Assad — including the Islamic State.

But some US officials suspect the groups are still receiving significant support from inside Saudi Arabia.

The warnings and show arrests not enough for you?

“I think the Saudis — and there are different elements within the Saudi leadership — have been promoting some of the Sunni factions that have been challenging Assad up in Syria,” said Representative Stephen Lynch, a South Boston Democrat who heads the bipartisan Task Force on Terrorism and Proliferation Financing.

So was the U.S., Steve! CIA trained them in Jordan!

Lynch, who has proposed legislation to declassify still-secret US intelligence information relating to Saudi support for the 9/11 hijackers, cited the radical Al Nusra Front, the Syrian arm of Al Qaeda.

Okay, I wanted to address that for just a minute. 

That redacted report is a sword of Damocles to be held over Saudi head (nice touch, huh?). The Saudi cooperation through shepherding patsies is being held as an ace-in-the-hole against them and is the limited hangout back-up of this government. It's also known as the triple cross.

I mean, we all know the 800-lb gorilla in the room, and there is no sense dancing around the missing links anymore.

“I think the Saudis in some capacity have been supporting the Al Nusra Front financially,” he said. “There are probably a fair amount of Saudi citizens fighting for that group. Some of them went over to the Islamic State when they had success.”

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

The Saudi Arabian Embassy declined requests for an interview but through its Washington public relations firm, Qorvis Communications, provided a series of fact sheets outlining its efforts to combat violent Islamists.

The Saudi government insists that the kingdom’s response — to the Islamic State and violent extremists more broadly — has been as comprehensive as any country.

It says its religious leaders have publicly condemned the Islamic State, calling its ideology “enemy number one of Islam.”

The kingdom says its security forces recently arrested dozens of alleged terrorists with reported ties to such foreign groups, it has mounted a public awareness campaign to educate Saudi citizens of about the dangers of extremism, and it is modernizing textbooks, including in Saudi religious schools.

Saudi officials also said the royal family has provided billions of dollars to help fight terrorism, including recently contributing $100 million to a United Nations counterterrorism fund and providing humanitarian assistance for Iraqi and Syrian refugees.

Yeah, they wouldn't covertly fund it on the one hand then openly fund against it on the other, that never happens.

But there remains fierce debate about the extent of Saudi Arabia’s lingering role in fomenting Islamic extremism, and some observers believe it should be doing far more to try to combat an ideological movement for which it is at least partially responsible.

It was largely Saudi money that funded the religious schools, or madrasas, across the Islamic world that helped give birth to Al Qaeda in the 1990s, and the 19 hijackers who flew planes into New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, were Saudi.

If that is in fact what we saw. 

Btw, Al-CIA-Duh was created long before 1990. It was originally created in the mid-1970s and sent into Afghanistan to goad the Soviets to invade and give them "their own Vietnam" as someone once said.

So once more the propaganda war pre$$ has distorted the issue.

Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Institute of Gulf Affairs, a Washington think tank, said Sunni extremist groups such as the Islamic State, and other Al Qaeda-linked groups, are an increasing threat. “Their power, their influence, their territory is greater than 2001,” he said, in part because the US is unwilling to pressure its Arab allies to do more.

All these wars we have won the past decade and it has all meant NOTHING! The "terrorists" are STRONGER than EVER!

“The policy has not changed of absolving the Saudis,” Ahmed said. “Without confronting them and putting pressure on them, terrorism will continue to grow.”

President Obama has been under fire in recent days for asserting that the United States does not yet have a comprehensive strategy for dealing with the growing threat to the region — and potentially the West — posed by the Islamic State, which now controls parts of Syria and Iraq. 

They do, he just doesn't want to tell the American people two months before an election we need to invade and reinvade places. 

For now, the Obama administration is relying most prominently on a limited air campaign to loosen some of the Islamic State’s grip in northern Iraq, while calls are steadily growing to target its forces inside neighboring Syria.

But some observers said the Saudis must play a bigger role.

The Saudis are “the only ones that can counter the ideological bent” of the group, said Chas W. Freeman, who served as US ambassador in Riyadh during the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War. “They have the capacity to act. Any US strategy that doesn’t find basis for finding common cause with them can’t work.”

Related: Lawmakers deny Freeman's Israel lobby charges 

That is how powerful that damn Lobby is.

That is difficult — but not impossible — under Islam’s structure, said W. Patrick Lang, the former of head of the Middle East and South Asia division at the Defense Intelligence Agency.

“If you wish to really go after the Islamic State, a group of scholars can launch a campaign and denounce them for their view of Islam. You could attack this thing by undercutting its foundations,” he said.

So when is the U.S. going to BOMB and INVADE Saudi Arabia?

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Another place where Saudi-supported assets are raising hell:

"Lebanon nervously expects to be targeted by Islamic State" by Donna Abu-Nasr | Bloomberg News   September 05, 2014

BEIRUT — The crowd at the Beirut music club roared approval when the band struck the first notes of a satirical song about Islamic State chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.

Related: Baghdadi Has Bad Breath 

Must be at the dentists; that why dropped out of sight.

A woman swayed her hips in a gentle belly dance. Another doubled up with laughter, slamming her table and rattling the whiskey glasses spread across it. Some captured the moment on phone cameras, as the musicians belted out the refrain: ‘‘You will lead God’s servants to an abyss like no other.’’

The mood of mockery belied the nervousness among many Lebanese that they may be the Islamic State’s next target.

Good thing they have been beaten back in Iraq.

The country is part of the Levant, where the militant group, previously called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, seeks to extend the caliphate it has established in parts of Iraq and Syria.

That's the narrative.

Islamic State already knocked on Lebanon’s doors when its fighters joined hundreds of militants who raided the border town of Ersal last month, clashing with the army and kidnapping more than 30 soldiers and security personnel. One of them was beheaded, reportedly by the Islamic State.

Yeah, the Lebanese defeated them and sent them back into Syria. 

And all this fuss over a few dead people because they were beheaded (forgetting the videos were faked) when the EUSraeli empire has killed millions.

‘‘The Islamic State is coming’’ has been spray-painted on the walls of two churches in north Lebanon, after a picture was posted online of three boys in a mostly Christian neighborhood of Beirut setting the group’s black flag on fire.

Can you read the programming propaganda on the wall?

‘‘I’m having Da’esh nightmares,’’ said animation videomaker Joan Baz, 28, using the Islamic State’s Arabic acronym. ‘‘The entire reshaping of the region is what scares me. I don’t know where we’re headed.’’

Baz’s fears were triggered by the Islamist extremist group’s recent gains in Iraq and Syria and reports of the killings, beheadings, and other atrocities it committed.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam of Lebanon said on Sept. 1 that the spread of Islamist militants poses ‘‘a big test that our destiny depends on.’’ Lawmaker Nayla Tueni wrote in her Annahar newspaper column that ‘‘all the Lebanese are facing an existential threat’’ and that politicians should put aside their differences.

Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi said his office is putting together an antiterrorism strategy. ‘‘It’s become imperative,’’ Rifi said, according to the official National News Agency. ‘‘We need to be vigilant all the time.’’

That is why SILLI can't get a hold in Lebanon. That and Hezbollah.

Lebanon’s population of 4.5 million is made up of at least 17 sects. Under the country’s power-sharing system, the president must be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni, and the parliament speaker a Shi’ite. The country fought its own 15-year sectarian civil war through 1990, and has more recently been dragged into the conflict in neighboring Syria.

Some analysts say Lebanon’s unique makeup makes it less vulnerable to Islamic State.

The group’s advances were made in its ‘‘natural Sunni Muslim’’ habitat, something that will not be easy to replicate in Lebanon, said Yezid Sayigh, a senior associate at the Middle East Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Beirut.

Really, because that was not what I was led to believe all these years in my war paper. 

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And now they are waving kids at us again!?

You know who I look to for answers and solutions?

"US needs plan to defeat ISIS — but also for what follows |    September 05, 2014

Perhaps the most surprising thing about the rise of ISIS, the militant group that has proclaimed an Islamic state in parts of Iraq and Syria, is the odd collection of former adversaries that are teaming up to fight it. In recent weeks, US warplanes, Iranian-backed Shiite militias, and Kurdish fighters have successfully battled the group, dealing it a series of military setbacks.

The 82-day siege that ISIS had laid on the town of Amerli, about 100 miles north of Baghdad, was broken after US war planes bombed strategic locations, allowing Kurdish fighters, Iraqi soldiers, and Iranian-backed Shiite militias to move in. A similar assault retook Iraq’s largest dam. The gruesome stridency of two recent ISIS videos, in which a masked fighter beheads kidnapped journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, belies the group’s worsening fortunes on the battlefield.

Amid an entirely justified public outcry over those videos, President Obama is coming under increased pressure to step up American military action against the group. But the breadth of forces arrayed against ISIS suggests that defeating the group may be the easy part. What will happen if and when this coalition of convenience actually wins? Who will take charge of the areas that ISIS has conquered after it melts away? The United States needs a diplomatic strategy that promotes a concerted multilateral effort against ISIS, as well as a political strategy to prevent a power vacuum that leads only to further violence.

If extremist Shiite militias are allowed to take charge of Anbar, a predominantly Sunni province of Iraq controlled in part by ISIS, serious human rights abuses against Sunnis will follow. And if the various members of the factions that are fighting ISIS end up turning their guns on one another, turmoil will continue for years to come. “Once the fighting is over, the political infighting will begin right away,” predicted Bill Roggio, of the Long War Journal, which closely tracks conflicts.

Nearly all of the members of the coalition against ISIS have been at odds with one another in the past. Iraqi forces under Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki once crushed Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army, but now Iraq needs Sadr’s men to help fight ISIS. The Iranian-backed Shiite militias once killed American soldiers with improvised explosive devices. Now the United States quietly supports them by bombing ISIS, their mortal enemy. And Iraq’s central government has long struggled with local authorities in largely autonomous Kurdistan over control of oil and the city of Kirkuk. Now officials in Baghdad are counting on Kurdish fighters to defend Kurdistan from ISIS.

Meanwhile, the local militias known as peshmerga aren’t the only Kurdish fighters involved. Some of the most effective soldiers against ISIS hail from the PKK, a Kurdish guerrilla force designated as a terrorist group in the United States and Europe. The PKK has fought for decades to win self-determination for Kurds in Turkey, and it has had an uneasy relationship with Kurdish authorities in Iraq, who want good ties with Turkey. But recently, the PKK has seen its image rehabilitated. Its fighters, which include many women, helped rescue the Yazidi minority, who had been attacked by ISIS. Turkey, which has already taken steps toward peace talks with the PKK, should accelerate that process. The brutality of ISIS is convincing Turkey that the PKK could be a useful buffer against an even greater threat.

When the dust settles, the lasting legacy of ISIS might be the bolstering of Kurdish nationalism.

There they go again.

Since the US-led invasion, Iraqi Kurds have been told to remain loyal to the government in Baghdad. But it’s difficult to be loyal to a government that can’t even protect its people. As long as ISIS remains in charge of a terrorist quasi-state in the middle of Iraq, Kurds will ask why they have been forbidden to create their own peaceful and prosperous one.

What remains to be seen is whether Obama can corral factions besides the Kurds to play a constructive, stabilizing role. The temptation for the United States, especially after the murder of Foley and Sotloff, is to seek to wipe ISIS out immediately, even in the absence of a long-term plan for the aftermath. But that very approach created the conditions allowed a group like ISIS to emerge, and it must not be repeated.

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Also see: 

The CIA's GlobalPost Assets
Occupation Iraq: ISIS Be Dammed

Same goes for the propaganda pre$$ of AmeriKa.

NEXT DAY UPDATE: 

"Letters that slain journalist Steven Sotloff wrote to his family before he was beheaded by Islamic State militants were read at a memorial service punctuated by tears. Several dignitaries were in the audience, including US Senator Marco Rubio. He told the gathering that Sotloff unmasked ‘‘the true nature of what we are dealing with.’’ Sotloff, 31, freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines before he was captured in Syria a year ago. He also was an Israeli citizen, a fact not widely known before his death."

So we have a fake video, a Mossad spy under reporter cover, and follow up fakery by crisis actors and the like. It's surreal, and all I can do is shake my head. The lies are so tremendous, the staged and scripted marketing so outrageous, that nothing, nothing that comes from the AmeriKan ma$$ media is to be believed. If it smells stinky.... follow your nose.

It's all nothing but mind-manipulating, agenda-pushing propaganda.