John R. Houk
© April 21, 2017
One of my favorite Internet pals is a fellow that frequents
my WordPress blog
NCCR. His moniker is
Yurki1000. When I refer to him I usually his moniker because I am unsure of how
much anonymity he wishes to maintain. He does sign many of his comments with
his first name, but for the most part I’ll stick with Yurki1000 or Yurki.
That being said, Yurki has sent a lengthy comment that
demonstrates agreement with another NCCR commenter using the moniker Futuret.
Futuret leans more on the validity of some of the Conspiracy Theories than I
do.
There are many Conspiracy Theories I concur with, yet many
are simply beyond the believability scale especially when I know some facts
that contradict a Conspiracy Theory accepted by way too many people.
I am preambling with this information primarily because I do
not want to get involved in a rift with these two guys in whom typically I
enjoy reading.
With another, ‘’
that being said,” I am disagreeing
much of Yurki’s comment to Futuret by answering the premises of the links and
comments he has produced demonstrating agreement to the
Political
Vel Craft link that pushes the theory that the
Chemical attack on Khan Shaykhun
perpetrated by Bashar al-Assad that killed or injured hundreds of
civilian men, women and children was a false flag perpetrated by Trump
Administration.
Frankly, the more logical evidence I have read indicates
this was not a false flag. If the attack was a false flag, then the fingering
pointing source would be to the Trump Administration. I can’t accept that the
guy promising to make America great again had anything to do with perpetrating an
attack on men, women and children.
The other possibility is that Syrian Rebels gassed their own
supporters. THAT IS LUDICROUS!
And the last possibility is there was no chemical attack
whatsoever. There is simply too much evidence that a chemical attack occurred.
So, a false flag travels back to, It’s Trump’s fault.
Again, I cannot accept that.
I have run into a bit of a difficulty in sharing my thoughts
link by link and comment by comment. I got through Yurki’s first four links and
have out that I have the equivalent of eleven pages of a Word Document. I am
going to have to consider this post Part One of I have no idea of how
many parts.
Futuret
Evidence suggests a false flag
chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people was initiated by Syrian rebels
with the help of the United States in order to justify Thursday night’s U.S.
Military attack on a Syrian base.
pResident Trump approved the
bombing of the Syrian military base controlled by Bashir al-Assad supposedly to
destroy the Syrian government’s ability to launch further chemical attacks on
civilians.
…
READ ENTIRETY (
Syrian
False Flag: CIA Mossad Armed ISIS Rebels Set Up Desperate Excuse For Trump;
By
VOLUBRJOTR;
Political Vel Craft; 4/9/17)
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Oneway2day [That’s me – John R. Houk]
Much of Political Vel Craft’s thoughts are developed
on data that occurred under Obama and not Trump’s very brief tenure as
President. For Example Obama’s exist from Iraq enabled ISIS in the first place.
Obama wanted to get rid of Assad (which was commendable yet I mistrust the
Obama motive), his huge mistake was in not vetting which Syrian rebels got
the Libyan secret weapons cache sent suspiciously in a clandestine manner. My
feeling Obama armed ISIS just as much as any Rebels he considered moderate.
Thus the declassified evidence criticized at Political Vel
Craft has credence in accuracy than as a false flag.
Accusing Mossad/Israel of allying with ISIS is like
criticizing Jews criticizing Hitler for turning on Stalin in WWII. Both WWII
dictators were Antisemitic, but by 1939 Hitler was already targeting Jews in
Germany. In Russia 1939 Jews were joining the Red Army as Russians rather than
as Jews. It makes no sense to make a deal with the devil ISIS to get rid of the
devil Assad.
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Yurki1000
Premise of the link: Osama
bin Laden worked for the CIA and also died in 2001.
‘Who
was Osama Bin Laden?
Osama bin Laden, A.K.A. CIA Asset "Tim Osman"’
There is a striking
resemblance in the comparison photo of Tim Osman and Osama bin Laden. Nevertheless,
the facts speak for themselves. Undoubtedly the CIA was involved with arming
and perhaps even training bin Laden. BUT that was the days of former Soviet
Russia trying to convert Afghanistan into an atheistic Communist satellite. The
CIA & Saudi money aided Afghan freedom fighters (mujahideen) to drive the
Red Army crazy.
I have no idea what happened
to this Osman fellow, but bin Laden went to be disillusioned with U.S. aid
because of an infidel status. The infidel status sent bin Laden over the edge
when Saudis allowed Bush I to set up military bases in Muslim holy land Saudi
Arabia to take down Saddam Hussein in the First Gulf War.
Shazam! Al Qaeda is born to
inflict pain on the USA. Then is a multitude of year following the 911 attack,
bin Laden makes numerous recruiting and/or fatwa videos for his minions and
against the USA.
The essence of the above link
is that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a Jew undercover for Mossad. This
conspiracy theory’s biggest problem is two-fold.
1. The
source of the theory Shi’ite Iran. Sunnis and Shia hate each other. ISIS claims
itself as Sunni. ISIS victims are largely Christians, Yazidis and Shia Muslims.
2.
The pro-Iranian use a photo comparison much like the above link uses a photo to
claim that Tim Osman and Osama bin Laden are one and the same. The theory
states that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is really actor Simon Elliot (or Elliot
Shimon to add a more Jewish pedigree).
I answer premise one within
the numbered premise.
Premise number two again uses
photo comparisons that have an uncanny resemblance. The problem: al-Baghdadi
has a public history even known to be a one-time prisoner of the USA in Iraq that
was released. The
Brookings Institution
has a quite
lengthy biography of al-Baghdadi
that
includes a family lineage and
his birth name –
which is not Elliot Simon. You should read the whole
thing, but for my purposes here are some excerpts:
IBRAHIM
AWWAD IBRAHIM AL-BADRI was born
in 1971 in Samarra, an ancient Iraqi city on the eastern edge of the Sunni
Triangle north of Baghdad. The son of a pious man who taught Quranic recitation
in a local mosque, Ibrahim himself was withdrawn, taciturn, and, when he spoke,
barely audible. Neighbors who knew him as a teenager remember him as shy and
retiring. Even when people crashed into him during friendly soccer matches, his
favorite sport, he remained stoic. But photos of him from those years capture
another quality: a glowering intensity in the dark eyes beneath his thick,
furrowed brow.
Early
on, Ibrahim’s nickname was “The Believer.” When he wasn’t in school, he spent
much of his time at the local mosque, immersed in his religious studies; and
when he came home at the end of the day, according to one of his brothers,
Shamsi, he was quick to admonish anyone who strayed from the strictures of
Islamic law.
Now
Ibrahim al-Badri is known to the world as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the ruler of
the Islamic State or ISIS, and he has the power not just to admonish but to
punish and even execute anyone within his territories whose faith is not
absolute. His followers call him “Commander of the Believers,” a title reserved
for caliphs, the supreme spiritual and temporal rulers of the vast Muslim empire
of the Middle Ages. Though his own realm is much smaller, he rules millions of
subjects. Some are fanatically loyal to him; many others cower in fear of the
bloody consequences for defying his brutal version of Islam.
…
Two
of Baghdadi’s uncles served in Saddam’s security services, and one of his
brothers became an officer in the army. Another brother who served in the
military died during the grueling eight-year war that Iraq fought against Iran
in the 1980s with tacit U.S. support. Baghdadi might well have shared that fate
had the war continued a little longer and his near-sightedness not disqualified
him from military service.
…
When
Baghdadi graduated from the University of Baghdad in 1996, he enrolled in the
recently-established Saddam University for Islamic Studies where he studied for
a master’s in Quranic recitation, his favorite subject. His family’s Baathist
connections undoubtedly helped him get into the highly-selective graduate
program. Baghdadi’s master’s thesis was a commentary on an obscure medieval
text on Quranic recitation. His task was to reconcile various versions of the
manuscript. While tedious, it involved little imagination and no questioning of
the content—a perfect project for a dogmatist. He received his master’s degree
in 1999 and immediately enrolled in Saddam University’s doctoral program in
Quranic studies.
During
Baghdadi’s time in graduate school, his paternal uncle, Ismail al-Badri,
persuaded him to join the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational movement dedicated
to establishing states governed by Islamic law. … But Baghdadi quickly gravitated toward those few
Salafis whose strict creed led them to call for the overthrow of rulers they
considered betrayers of the faith. They called themselves jihadist Salafis. Baghdadi’s
older brother, Jum`a, was part of this movement. So was Baghdadi’s mentor,
Muhammad Hardan, a one-time member of the Brotherhood who had fought in the war
against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Baghdadi
threw himself into the writings of those Muslim Brothers who had embraced
jihadism. Under their tutelage he grew increasingly impatient with the
Brotherhood mainstream, which he felt was made up of “people of words, not
action.”
…
THE
PRISONER
LATE
IN 2003, after the Americans had defeated
and disbanded Saddam’s army, Baghdadi helped found Jaysh Ahl al-Sunna
wa-l-Jamaah (Army of the People of the Sunna and Communal Solidarity), an
insurgent group that fought U.S. troops and their local allies in northern and
central Iraq.
Soon
after, in February 2004, Baghdadi was arrested in Fallujah while visiting a
friend who was on the American wanted list. He was transferred to a detention
facility at Camp Bucca, a sprawling complex in southern Iraq. Prison files
classified him as a “civilian detainee,” which meant his captors didn’t know he
was a jihadist.
…
By
the time Baghdadi was released on December 8, 2004, he had a virtual Rolodex
for reconnecting with his co-conspirators and protégés: they had written one
another’s phone numbers in the elastic of their underwear.
THE
CONFIDANT
JUST
TWO MONTHS BEFORE BAGHDADI’S RELEASE,
al-Qaida established a branch of its terror network in Iraq by absorbing a
jihadist militia run by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and putting him in charge of it.
Zarqawi, a Jordanian who wanted to create an Islamic state, thought he could
use al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) to provoke a sectarian civil war between Iraq’s
minority Sunnis and the majority Shiites, which would force the Sunnis to turn
to his group for protection.
… Baghdadi set about
his assigned task of ensuring that AQI’s online propaganda was in line with its
brand of ultraconservative Islam. Baghdadi’s tribal connections in Iraq and his
ties with other jihadist groups there must have also come in handy, because on
several occasions he was able to help foreign jihadists cross Syria’s border
into his native land. At the time, Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad, was
turning a blind eye to the foreign fighter pipeline into Iraq in order to
punish the United States for invading the country; that same pipeline …
In
2006, al-Qaida in Iraq formed an umbrella organization for jihadist groups
resisting the American occupation. Baghdadi’s group was one of the first to
join. Soon after, Zarqawi declared his intent to establish an Islamic state,
directly countermanding al-Qaida’s instructions to wait until after the
Americans had withdrawn and AQI secured popular support for establishing the
state. When Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike in June, his successor, Abu
Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian jihadist, went ahead with the plan. …
Because
of his scholarly credentials, Baghdadi was put in charge of the Islamic State’s
religious affairs in some of its Iraqi “provinces.” Because the group did not
yet actually control any territory, this largely meant that Baghdadi continued
to be responsible for ensuring that the Islamic State’s propaganda reflected
its creed, and that its foot soldiers abided by its strictures and implemented the
harsh punishments prescribed by Islamic scripture wherever and whenever they
could. Accused adulterers whom they managed to capture were stoned, alcohol
drinkers were whipped, thieves had their hands amputated, and
“apostates”—anyone who defied the Islamic State’s program—were executed.
…
… Whatever the case,
the captured courier led the Iraqi authorities to al-Rawi, who, under
interrogation, gave his captors information that enabled a U.S.-Iraqi force in
April 2010 to surround the mud house outside Tikrit where Abu Umar and Masri
were hiding. The two blew themselves up rather than surrender.
With
their deaths, the Islamic State faced its first leadership succession. The
Consultative Council couldn’t meet in conclave to choose a new emir since that
might have ended with another American-led raid and another multiple suicide. Bin
Laden, who still had the allegiance of the Islamic State, issued
instructions to the Consultative Council to appoint an interim leader [Blog
Editor: NOTE that was 2010! A full 9-yrs after the above Conspiracy Theory that
Osama bin Laden died in 2001.] and to send him a list of candidates for emir
and their qualifications.
THE
EMIR
WITH
THE DEATH OF THE ISLAMIC STATE’S COMMANDERS,
the head of the Islamic State’s military council, Hajji Bakr, was suddenly in a
position to manipulate the succession. A former officer in Saddam’s army who
had served time in Camp Bucca after Baghdadi’s release, Bakr was tainted as the
former servant of an impious regime and therefore not a contender for supreme
leadership himself, so he set about to be the kingmaker and the power behind
the throne. Ignoring bin Laden’s instructions, Hajji Bakr polled the 11 members
of the Consultative Council on their preferences. But he reportedly rigged the
outcome by writing a letter to each saying that all of the others were in favor
of Baghdadi. …
The
council elected the new emir of the Islamic State by a vote of 9 to 2. It was
then that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, at the age of 39, took his now-famous nom de
guerre, a double homage to his faith and his native land. Abu Bakr was
Muhammad’s father-in-law and, after the Prophet’s death, the first caliph;
Baghdad was the capital of the grandest caliphate in early Islam, the Abbasid
dynasty. The Abbasids had swept to power in the eighth century using clever
apocalyptic propaganda and clandestine networks to mobilize popular anger against
the ruling regime in Damascus. Baghdadi was clearly hoping to repeat the
performance on the same stage.
With
the new emir’s blessing, not to mention gratitude, Hajji Bakr set about purging
the ranks of the Islamic State of anyone who could challenge Baghdadi’s
authority. Dubbed by Islamic State insiders as the “prince of shadows” and the
emir’s “private minister,” Hajji Bakr settled scores and eliminated rivals
through intimidation and assassination, much as Saddam had done.
The
power had now shifted from the foreign fighters to the Iraqi members of the
Islamic State. As American and Iraqi forces killed or captured the previous
emir’s commanders, their replacements were often, like Baghdadi and Hajji Bakr,
former prisoners from Camp Bucca.
… READ ENTIRETY (
THE
BELIEVER: How an Introvert with a Passion for Religion and Soccer Became Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi Leader of the Islamic State; By William McCants;
Brookings Institution; 9/1/15)
A bit lengthy of an excerpt,
right? It does prove that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi IS NOT an Israeli Mossad agent
whose name is Simon Elliot. Not only is it ridiculous, the Conspiracy Theory
smacks of the Antisemitic concept that Jews are behind are the evils of the
world. That is a bit infuriating for me.
The next link on Yurki’s
list:
The link is to a WordPress
blog called “
the real Syrian Free Press”. A brief examination of the
website shows it is probably is not as free as it claims or real Syrian as it
claims. The
blog is a rubberstamp for Bashar al-Assad
the dictator that rules as a Shia-Alawite in the Sunni majority Syria. That
means its support of Assad there is also support for the crazy Mullahs of
Shia-Twelver Iran. Iran is currently the biggest state sponsor of Islamic terrorism.
And Iran calls the shots for its terrorist client Hezbollah – Jew-hating Shias
in Lebanon which is west of Syria.
The next on the list:
The title of this webpage is
“
LIBYA AGAINST SUPER POWER MEDIA: LIBYA
RESISTING AGAINST THE WEST.org site”. There is a subsection on the website
called “
Videos of Al Jazeera, CNN, ABC, ALArabia
and other Western Media Lying”. It lumps Qatar owned
al Jazeera and Saudi owned but United Arab Emirates
- Dubai (UAE) located
al Arabiya with two Left
leaning American news outlets. Saudi Arabia and Qatar propagates the Sunni
extremely Radical Islamic theology of Wahhabism. The same line of reasoning
used by most Islamic terrorists such as al Qaeda and ISIS.
Well, that is Part One. Look
for Part Two (not necessarily in sequential posts).
JRH 4/21/17
