Terrorism is one the main threats to the
Western way of life. Several violent terrorist
groups—from ISIS to Al-Qaeda—are vying for
control of the Middle East. Although the US has
tried to bring peace to the region for decades,
many of its measures have only worsened the
problem.


10 Training Radical Forces
After perpetrating the 9/11 attacks, Al-Qaeda
became the target of antiterrorist measures
and their leader, Osama bin Laden, became one
of the most wanted men in the world. However,
the history of bin Laden and Al-Qaeda goes
back to a violent power struggle in Afghanistan
several decades ago.
In 1979, Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev
invaded Afghanistan, sending the country into
turmoil. Throughout the 1980s, the Soviets
maintained a presence in Afghanistan and the
CIA was permitted to do anything to overthrow
the Soviet puppet government. From 1985 to
1992, the CIA operated camps to train 12,500
Afghan rebels in sabotage and guerrilla warfare.
The camps were eventually taken over by
Islamic extremists (including Osama bin
Laden). As one military official said, “We
created a whole cadre of trained and motivated
,people who turned against us. It’s a classic
Frankenstein’s monster situation.”

9 Giving Out Radical
Textbooks To spur young Afghans to overthrow their Soviet aggressors, the US printed a new
curriculum for Afghan children centered on a
radical interpretation of Islam. The textbooks
featured extreme Islamic teachings and violent imagery, such as pictures of guns, bombs, and other weapons that played to anti-Soviet themes. Children were taught to count by using grenades and land mines.
These books soon became the core of the
Afghan curriculum during the post-Soviet
years. In 1994, the US stopped funding for
these textbooks but they still circulated in the
country. The books were apparently extreme
enough that the Taliban used them when they
took control in 1996.
Soon, efforts were launched to remove violence and extremism from textbooks. But it wasn’t enough to remove an entire generation of terror indoctrination as continued violence has shown.

8. CIA Bankrolls
A year before Osama bin Laden was killed, Al-
Qaeda desperately needed cash. They began
kidnapping high-ranking officials and
demanding ransoms—often in the millions—
which was far more than most Middle Eastern
governments could afford.
Every month, the CIA brought large cash
amounts—from the hundreds of thousands to
the millions—to the presidential palace in Kabul.
Then-President Hamid Karzai called the
deliveries a “source of petty cash,” and it
became something of a political slush fund.
The cash was supposed to be used to gain favor with warlords and other factions, but it was delivered to Al-Qaeda instead. Although the CIA bankrolls were funding the enemy, these cash deliveries continued until Karzai stepped down in 2014.

7 American-Made ISIS Weapons

In 2014, Kobani (populated mainly by Kurds)
was just one of many towns besieged by ISIS.
The US would air-drop ammunition and
weapons to the embattled forces, but some of
these deliveries fell into the hands of ISIS.
In addition, dysfunctional and poorly trained
Iraqi soldiers who tried to defend towns would
often surrender, leaving their weapons caches
for the taking. In the Anbar Province, for
instance, ISIS stole seven tanks from military
bases manned by the resistance army.
When Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, fell in
2014, ISIS captured an almost unlimited
treasure trove of supplies left behind, including 2,300 armored Humvees that had been purchased recently from the US. Two-thirds of the Humvees were eventually turned into suicide car bombs.

6. Destabilizing Libya

In 2011, Muammar Gadhafi, the longtime
dictator of Libya, was killed and his decades-
long reign of terror ended. Gadhafi was a
vicious, cruel man, but he was also effective at
rooting out terrorists. Many declassified reports
now show that Gadhafi was one of the few
Middle Eastern leaders successful at preventing
the rise of terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda.
After Gadhafi’s fall, Libya entered into chaos.
Various radical factions emerged throughout
the country, making it a fertile ground for
terrorists. On the 2012 anniversary of the 9/11
attacks, a massive assault by radicals at the US
embassy in Benghazi resulted in the deaths of
four Americans. This started the rise of ISIS in
Libya.
According to Michael Morell, the former deputy
head of the CIA, the intelligence community
never had a plan to maintain stability, which
ultimately strengthened ISIS. Seeing the results of the Libya Initiative, US President Barack Obama admitted in 2016 that it was the “ worst mistake” of his presidency.

5 Supporting Radical Syrian Rebels

The war in Syria has mostly been a war of
proxies with different factions that are often at
odds. ISIS groups have been trying to attack
Bashar al-Assad, the dictator of Syria, while
other moderate rebels are fighting for freedom
from both. In 2013, the CIA began to support
such moderate rebel groups.
At first, the CIA was stingy with resources,
causing the rebels to ration ammo. One rebel
group even severed ties with the CIA and
began to align itself with more radical factions,
including the Al-Qaeda Syrian surrogate, Jabhat al-Nusra.
In 2015, it was confirmed that CIA-backed
rebels fought alongside Nusra during a
campaign to capture the southern Syrian city
of Deraa. Whether the alignment of CIA-backed rebels with radical groups will lead to
radicalization or is a “marriage of necessity” is
open to debate. But intelligence communities
agree that radical groups have been growing
stronger in Syria with CIA support.

4 US-Iran Nuclear Deal

When fears began to grow that Iran was
creating nuclear weapons, the Obama
administration tried to find a diplomatic solution through a nuclear treaty in 2015. But that also provided potential funding for terrorism.
As part of the US-Iran deal, Iran was supposed
to receive $150 billion. Even before the deal
was completed, there were fears that Iran
might use the money to further terrorism in a
region already torn apart by ISIS. Iran has a
defense budget of up to $30 billion, much of
which is used to fund rebel groups and other
terror organizations.
Countries that have long held sanctions against Iran will gradually lift them, and the increased income might be used to finance terrorism on a larger scale. Even US Secretary of State John Kerry has admitted that the Iranians will probably use some of the money for terror.

3 Focusing On ISIS

In recent years, the majority of anti-terror
resources has been used to fight ISIS, which
has allowed other groups to gain strength. After bin Laden’s death in 2011, Al-Qaeda fell by the wayside without a central leader. But the rise of ISIS has caused a resurgence in Al-Qaeda, especially in Syria where it is known as Jabhat al-Nusra.
Nusra has been fighting alongside moderate,
CIA-backed forces, blurring the line between
enemy and ally. Rather than portray itself as a
brutal force like ISIS, Al-Qaeda has been acting
as a benevolent force among local populations
in countries like Yemen. There, it regained the
city of Azzan, a major commercial hub it had
lost in 2012.
In Syria and Iraq, Al-Qaeda has tried to label
itself as moderate. With the majority of air
strikes and attacks going against ISIS, it’s
frightening but reasonable to think that Al-
Qaeda will exploit this to regain its former
influence.

2 Drone Wars

Yemen had long been one of the few countries
that tried to cooperate with the Western world, especially the US, in the War on Terror.
However, in recent years, Yemen has gone from sympathetic to antagonistic toward the US for one reason: drones.
Drones have become an efficient tool of war,
but they also cause ordinary people to turn to
terrorist groups. Al-Qaeda has been growing in
influence in Yemen by exploiting drone strikes
that have killed innocents there.
By some estimates, 90 percent of people killed
by drone attacks are unintended victims.
Terrorists groups have used this as a
recruitment tool by portraying the US as an
unfeeling, uncaring bully. Despite this, the
Pentagon plans to increase drone flights by 50
percent by 2019.

1 Releasing Guantanamo Detainees

Closing down Guantanamo Bay, the infamous
detention center for suspected terrorists, was
one of President Obama’s biggest promises. By
2016, he had released 144 detainees. Former
President George W. Bush had also released
532 detainees during his presidency. According to Pentagon reports, some former prisoners have returned to their previous occupations of terror.
Of the 532 detainees released by Bush, an
estimated 111 returned to terror activities and
another 74 returned to the battlefield. Of the
144 released by Obama, around 30 percent are believed to have returned to terror activities.
Some detainees are believed to have been
involved in the 2012 Benghazi attack.
Many of the detainees have gone on to fight in
the battlefields of Syria, such as three Moroccan detainees who went on to lead Harakat Sham al-Islam, one of the most violent forces in Syria.
By September 2013, the US had added this
group to a special list of global terrorist entities.

SOURCE: listverse.com/2016/07/23/10-ways-the-us-unwittingly-aided-terrorism/
Cc. Lalasticlala

davidflipcy5856:


As part of the US-Iran deal, Iran was supposed to receive $150 billion. Even before the deal was completed, there were fears that Iran might use the money to further terrorism in a region already torn apart by ISIS.

This is 1 of the reasons Y I so much despise Amerika. She paints all her perceived enemies black while covering-up her atrocities all over the globe, including those perpetrated by the real terrorist states like Israel, Saudi-Arabia & Turkey.

The questions, therefore, to be asked are these: If UNWITTINGLY means “unintentional” , as stated in the subject of this useless thread;

Could we then say or conclude that the invasion of Iraq was unintentional? Was the falseflag OP of 911 unintentional? Were the Arab Springs also unintentional? Was the colour revolution in Ukraine unintentional? Was the failed-coup in turkey orchestrated by Amerika unintentional?

What about the violations of International waters like the Black Sea, Baltic Sea, South-China Sea, Korean Peninsula & the Strait of Hormuz - mostly violated under the guise of “Routine Patrol & Freedom of Navigation” ? Were they also unintentional?

What about the war games at the Russian border - simulating & practising the seizure of Russian Territories; were they unintentional?

What about Boko Haram, Al-Shabab, Al-Qaeda, ISIS & the moderate “liver-eating” rebels in Syria?

This cheap propaganda, concocted by the 4th branch of the Amerikan government (The Media) is aimed at laundering Amerika's battered image.

The Amerikan government has never shrunk from making clear to the world that her perceived enemies like Iran, North Korea & Russia constitute the world's top threat to global security just like she's currently demonizing the Assad regime in Syria.

We have been told, countless times, how the Assad regime is a murderous regime that violates human rights; that has violated international law; used chemical weapons against his own people; has killed hundreds of thousands of people, including tens of thousands of children and bla, bla, bla, while also calling for tougher measures against Vladimirovich Putin - to punish him for invading Ukraine and annexing Crimea as well as for supporting the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Seemingly reminiscent of the propaganda spin by the Klinton Administration against the Yugoslavian President - Slobodan Milosevic - depicting him as the new Hitler, before butchering & disemboweling Yugoslavia on humanitarian grounds.

In 2003, casting her vote for the invasion of Iraq, Killary Clinton cited the persecution of Milosevic as the example to follow for removing Saddam Hussein. It’s worth listening to her self-assurance in demonizing a man she, and Bill Clinton’s administration, knew to be innocent of the charges - saying:

“We and our NATO allies did not depose Mr. Milosevic, who was responsible for more than a quarter of a million people being killed in the 1990s. Instead, by stopping his aggression in Bosnia and Kosovo, and keeping on the tough sanctions, we created the conditions in which his own people threw him out and led to his being in the dock being tried for war crimes as we speak.”

I take this opportunity to remind my fellow Nairalanders that all the allegations made by the Amerikan Government (The Klinton Klan) against Slobodan Milosevic were - posthumously - thrown out by a UN court, which found them to be “groundless”.

Before the invasion, when Milosevic’s representatives came to Rombouillet in France (where the peace talks were being brokered by the Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov & the Amerikan Mad Witch -Madeleine Albright), they were expecting to find copies of the memorandum prepared by Primakov.

Milosevic would quietly step down, new elections would be held, and Milosevic and his family would retire to a charming villa on Russia’s Black Sea Coast - and a sinecure job at the UN which involved no responsibilities but a lot of kudos.

But no! Once Primakov was already in the air, on his way to Washington to ink the deal, the harridan biitch - Mad Albright broke into the conference room in the early morning, and replaced all the agenda papers with material of her own, which the Serbian delegates hadn’t seen before.

O' boy! Instead of Primakov’s neat diplomatic solution, the Serbs were asked to admit an Amerikan invasion force into their country, give the Amerikan troops bed and board, AND pay the full costs of the invasion, in cash.

Of course, the Serb delegation walked out in fury, as the Witch - Mad Albright had planned. And thus the war began.

When the news reached Primakov’s plane mid-air., he gave his pilot instructions to turn back. Primakov was furious at Albright’s deception and lies (which by the way is, and will always be - Amerikan's forte), and he never spoke to her for the rest of his life.