Iraq

Realities Clash As US Dwells on Belgium False Flag and Iraq Exposes US-ISIS Partnership

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Bernie Suarez – Two simultaneous realities are playing out and right now is a great time to hone your skills at identifying these realities especially as they play out simultaneously in real-time. Perhaps it’s time for all of us to apply the Hegelian Dialectic in a useful and effective way. Many of us are observing two directly opposed and conflicting consciousness (thesis and antithesis) which require a reconciliation (synthesis or solution) of consciousness.

These two consciousness are very real. One that wants to see the truth come out and one that wants to live in lies. One that cares about justice and another who relishes in wrongly oppressing others. One that wishes to share and spread knowledge and enlightenment and another that wishes to hide knowledge and deception.

One consciousness understands that those in power are liars and deceivers, another consciousness wants to oppress, control and silence those who see through them for who they are. Likewise, one consciousness is telling the masses that ISIS just blew up Brussels on their own because they hate everyone who is not with them and killing is the solution to everything, while another consciousness is seeing through their lies and realizing that, as we speak, fighters in the nation of Iraq are fed up with the US support of ISIS and they are boldly and loudly pointing out that US forces are viewed as pro-ISIS and completely inseparable in cause.

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The Oil Mafia – Stolen Oil From Syria and Iraq Taken To Kurdistan, Turkey, and Israel

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Afraa Dagher – The oil journey from Syria and Iraq to Turkey and then to the Zionist entity of Israel.

oilThe Islamic State in Syria and the Levant has been caught smuggling stolen oil to Turkey as its primary buyer. Oil tankers have been heading from Syria and Iraq to the Turkish city Zahko, which is located close to Sirnak province. Both are on the borders with Syria and Iraq.

Every oil convoy consists from 70 to 100 tankers. On the other side of the border, the oil smuggling mafias are waiting for these convoys and the oil they carry. Those mafias consist of merchants of Syrian, Kurdish, Iraqi, and Turkish as well as other nationalities, possibly even Iranian. All, however, maintain sympathies with terrorists.

The one who is directly responsible for the oil cargo provides it to the highest bidder and, in return, takes a part of the price in dollars. Some drivers receive the empty oil tankers and return back with it, while others who have an official license take the full tankers and transfer it into Turkey.

This information belongs to a source in the Iraqi interior ministry who refused to give his name.

After subjecting the stolen oil to a preliminary refining, it is brought in to Turkey as a waste product through Ebrahim Khalil crossing via a single gate. This is the border between Turkey and Iraq which is strongly held by Turkish troops, planes and checkpoints. No one can cross it without their knowledge and permission! Continue reading →

US Delivery of TOW Missiles to ISIS Seized by Iraq

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isilTEHRAN (FNA) – The Iraqi army and volunteer forces discovered US-made military hardware and ammunition, including anti-armor missiles, in terrorists’ positions and trenches captured during the operations in the Fallujah region in Al-Anbar province.

The Iraqi forces found a huge volume of advanced TOW-II missiles from the Takfiri terrorists in al-Karama city of Fallujah. The missiles were brand new and the ISIL had transferred them to Fallujah to use them against the Iraqi army’s armored units.

Iraqi officials have on different occasions blasted the US and its allies for supplying the ISIL in Syria with arms and ammunition under the pretext of fighting the Takfiri terrorist group.

On Saturday, the Iraqi forces discovered US-made military hardware and ammunition from terrorists in the town of Beiji.

“The military hardware and weapons had been airdropped by the US-led warplanes and choppers for the ISIL in the nearby areas of Beiji,” military sources told FNA.

In February, an Iraqi provincial official lashed out at the western countries and their regional allies for supporting Takfiri terrorists in Iraq, revealing that the US airplanes still continue to airdrop weapons and foodstuff for the ISIL terrorists.

“The US planes have dropped weapons for the ISIL terrorists in the areas under ISIL control and even in those areas that have been recently liberated from the ISIL control to encourage the terrorists to return to those places,” Coordinator of Iraqi popular forces Jafar al-Jaberi told FNA.

He noted that eyewitnesses in Al-Havijeh of Kirkuk province had witnessed the US airplanes dropping several suspicious parcels for ISIL terrorists in the province.

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My Enemy, My Brother

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Ann Shin – When I first met Zahed Haftlang and Najah Aboud in Vancouver back in 2012, they seemed like any other Middle Eastern immigrants settling into new lives: Zahed was working as a mechanic, while Najah ran a small furniture moving company. But when I sat down with them over cups of mint tea, their story moved me to tears. I’ve been helping them tell it ever since. Najah’s moving company helped many of the local residents relocate at the time.

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Zahed Haftlang was only 13 when he joined Iran’s Basij force to fight in the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. The conflict was among the most brutal of the 20th century – one wrought with chemical weapons, ballistic missiles and cadres of child soldiers. After a deadly battle, Zahed found an enemy Iraqi soldier critically injured in a bunker and committed an astonishing act of mercy. It would change the path of both their lives for decades to come. (Parts of their story in this documentary are told through recreations.)

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Charles Hugh Smith ~ What Have We Learned From 24 Years Of War?

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“The responsibility for starting and ending wars, the way wars are fought and the losses we suffer all rest with our elected civilian leadership.” – C H Smith

CharlesHughSmithWhat have we learned from 24 years of war? Since the First Gulf War in early 1991, the U.S. has had continuous combat operations in one theater or another. After the first war, combat air patrols enforced the No-Fly Zones over Iraq for years, until 9/11 triggered the first phase of the Afghanistan War and President Bush led the nation into the Second Iraqi War in March 2003.

Though this war officially ended with U.S. troop withdrawals in December 2011, the war continues to burn through lives and treasure in Iraq and it continues on in the memories, wounds and lives of veterans and their families.

What have we learned from 24 years of continual warfare? There may be two sets of answers: one set for policy-makers, those we have elected to make the consequential decisions of war and withdrawal, and another set for the citizenry who provide the volunteers who actually fight the wars and the treasure to pay for the wars and their long aftermath.

For policy-makers, Foreign Affairs just published three informed essays on the complex legacy of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars. Each is thoughtful and worth reading:

More Small Wars: Counterinsurgency Is Here to Stay? Foreign Affairs by Max Boot

Pick Your Battles: Ending America’s Era of Permanent War? Foreign Affairs by Richard K. Betts

Withdrawal Symptoms: The Bungling of the Iraq Exit?? Foreign Affairs by Rick Brennan

I also recommend a previous Foreign Affairs article from 2005, just two years into the Second Iraqi War by former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird: Iraq: Learning the Lessons of Vietnam  Continue reading →