Ex-Intel Officials: Pentagon Report Proves US Complicity in ISIS

Bafeez Ahmed
OpEdNews.com
June 8, 2015


According to leading American and British intelligence agents, a declassified Pentagon report confirms that the West accelerated support to extremist rebels in Syria, despite knowing full well the strategy would pave the way for the emergence of the Islamic State (ISIS).

The experts who have spoken out include renowned government whistle-blowers such as the Pentagon's Daniel Ellsberg, the NSA's Thomas Drake, and the FBI's Coleen Rowley, among others.
Their remarks demonstrate the fraudulent nature of claims by two other officials, the CIA's Michael Morell and the NSA's John Schindler, both of whom attempt to absolve the Obama administration of responsibility for the policy failures exposed by the DIA documents.

As I reported on May 22, the US defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document obtained by Judicial Watch under Freedom of Information confirms that the US intelligence community foresaw the rise of ISIS three years ago, as a direct consequence of the support to the extremist rebels in Syria.

The August 2012 "Information Intelligence Report" (IIR) reveals that the overwhelming core of the Syrian insurgency at that time was dominated by a range of Islamic militant groups, including al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
It warned that the "supporting powers to the insurgency" - identified in the document as the West, Gulf States, and Turkey - wanted to see the emergence of a "Salafist Principality" in Eastern Syria, to "isolate" the Assad regime.

The document also provided an extraordinarily prescient prediction that such an Islamic
quasi-statelet, backed the the region's Sunni states, would amplify the risk of the declaration of an "Islamic State" across Iraq and Syria.

The DIA report even anticipated the fall of Mosul and Ramadi.

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