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US war against ISIL is ‘total fraud’ to create a CIA base: said Dean Henderson

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McCain-ISISA Pentagon plan to arm and train the so-called moderate militants in Syria to fight against the ISIL terrorist group is a “total fraud” and “bogus” claim to carve out a CIA base in the region, an American journalist in Missouri says.

The United States is fighting a “multi-front war” against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad because he operates independently from the West, said Dean Henderson, an author and columnist at Veterans Today.

“This whole ISIS thing is just an attempt to carve out this base where CIA, Mossad, British intelligence … can operate freely and attack Syria for now but maybe later Iran,” Henderson told Press TV on Sunday.

Henderson said Congress is wasting “precious US tax dollars” to fund the false fight against ISIL, which the CIA helped create in the beginning.

“We’re not against ISIS, we are ISIS, we created ISIS, we trained ISIS, we are ISIS,” he acknowledged.

On Saturday, a delegation of US senators led by John McCain, began a tour of the Middle East, which will take them to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to discuss a Pentagon plan to arm and train “moderate” militants in Syria.

The US Defense Department has announced it is deploying about 1,000 troops to train the Syrian militants to fight against the ISIL terrorist group.

Some analysts reject the notion that “moderate” militants exist in Syria. “Nobody in any position of expertise here thinks that there really is any significant moderate Syrian rebel force. It does not exist,” Dr. Kevin Barrett, a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, said in an interview with Press TV on Saturday.

ISIL militant says Turkey treated him well, used in hostage swap

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202364_newsdetailShabazz Suleman is seen in this undated photo taken from the website of The Times.

A British jihadist who was briefly held in a Turkish prison on the Syrian border and later exchanged with Turkish hostages has said that Turkish authorities treated him well, even ordering pizza and allowing him and other captives to use the Internet, according to a news report.

Shabazz Suleman (19) told The Times that he was spotted by security cameras on the Turkish-Syrian border after his parents reported him missing. It was later clear that Suleman, who reportedly went to Aleppo for aid work, was radicalized through Twitter and joined the ranks of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL).

Recounting his brief life in a Turkish prison, Suleman said the Turkish guard had sympathy for his cause and allowed him and dozens of other ISIL militants to use the Internet and contact ISIL.

Forty-six Turkish hostages had been held by ISIL in Mosul, Iraq, last summer for 102 days. Turkish government officials have not revealed how they managed to secure the release of the captives. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denied that they had paid a ransom, but has been vague on whether there was a prisoner swap.

He indicated that his country may have traded ISIL prisoners it held captive in exchange for the Turkish hostages held by the militants.

“It was good lol. Had pizza in prison. Dominos lol. Was allowed net. We spoke to dawla [ISIL] in prison. Watched ISIL videos. Sang nasheeds [Islamic chants],” Suleman wtote to The Times.

Suleman said he was held along with 35 other ISIL militants in an “open” prison in Şanlıurfa close to the Turkish-Syrian border. He was given a choice to be deported or rejoin ISIL as part of the swap.

“After a month of waiting, they told us buses are waiting outside for us. MİT [National Intelligence Organization] ran the exchange. Told us we are free. Exchanged at border, We drove into dawla,” Suleman wrote.

12,000 Turks joined extremist, terrorist groups in Syria, Turkish think tank says

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014b3ec9-5b0b-4ac6-aa04-bb77606c169eA Turkish think tank has said that 12,000 Turks have joined extremist and terrorist groups such as ISIL and the al-Nusra Front in Syria.

Ismail Hakki Pekin, a veteran serviceman and a researcher with the Ankara-based 21st Century Turkey Institute, who has prepared the report, says Turkey has turned into the main base for armed extremist groups.

He said Turkey is the passageway for thousands of armed forces into Syria and the ruling Turkish Justice and Development Party directly provides military and logistical support for ISIL and other armed groups.

Atilla Kart, a member of Turkey’s Republican People’s Party, has said 3,000 people have joined ISIL from the southern Turkey city of Konya, while the Turkish government knows and ignores this.

Speaking to the Turkish paper, Sözcü, the lawmaker said ISIL uses its office in the city to recruit armed people.

Turkey has time and time again been accused of backing the ISIL terrorists in Syria.

ISIL controls parts of Iraq and Syria. The terrorists are engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control. They have terrorized and killed people of all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.

Death toll in ISIL’s attack on Kurdish fighters rises to 30

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8925cff4-9566-4e63-a8a6-b0eb6b1b2011An Iraqi Kurdish military official says ISIL militants have killed at least 30 Peshmerga forces during clashes between the two sides in the country’s northern region.

On Sunday, Halgurd Hekmat, the spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdish forces in Erbil, said the fighting had erupted the day before in the northern town of Gwer, adding that he did not have further details on casualties.

Earlier reports said the death toll stood at 26.

Back in August, the Kurdish forces managed to recapture Gwer, located south of Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, after ISIL militants gained control over large areas of Iraq.

Retaking Gwer would provide the militants with a new base, allowing them to target the Kurdish capital more easily.

Earlier this month, Peshmerga forces defeated the militants after launching an attack on the terrorist group’s strongholds situated between the two regions of Makhmour and Gwer, regaining control of a large area.

Iraqi soldiers, police units, Kurdish forces, Shia militiamen, and Sunni tribesmen have recently succeeded in driving the ISIL out of some areas in Iraq. The most notable of all operations came in November, when Iraqi forces retook the strategic town of Baiji and its refinery from the terrorists. The Iraqi army also managed to liberate key districts in the city of Samarra in early December.

ISIL launched an offensive in Iraq in June and took control of the country’s second-largest city, Mosul, before sweeping through parts of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.

ISIL terrorists abduct 80 young men in northern Iraq

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ISIL-iraqThe ISIL Takfiri militants have abducted 80 young men from a tribe in northern Iraq.

According to Iraqi security sources on Sunday, the ISIL terrorists kidnapped 80 people from the al-Ubaid tribe in the village of Arbidha east of the city of Tikrit. report by presstv

On Saturday, ISIL militants kidnapped more than 170 civilians from the two villages of al-Shajra and Gharib in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk after accusing them of burning the terrorist group’s flag. ISIL released 160 of the hostages on Sunday.

In another mass kidnapping in September, the Takfiri group nabbed 70 people in Kirkuk for disrespecting Takfiri terrorists and setting their flag ablaze.

The ISIL terrorist group, with members from several Western countries, controls swathes of land in Iraq and Syria.

The group has been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.

Despite the US establishment of an international coalition to allegedly conduct aerial strikes against ISIL positions, the raids have failed to dislodge the terrorist group.

In recent weeks, Iraqi forces have clinched decisive victories against the Takfiri terrorists operating in the Arab country.

UN report: Turkey a route for arms going to al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria

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n_76266_1ISIL militants (Rear) stand next to an ISIL flag atop a hill near Kobane as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border, with Turkish troops in foreground, in the southeastern town of Suruç, Şanlıurfa province. AFP Photo / Aris Messinis

Turkey is being used as one of the primary routes for weapons smuggling to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Nusra, according to a United Nations report.

“Most [arms] supplies have either been seized from the armed forces of Iraq or (to a lesser extent) the Syrian Arab Republic, or have been smuggled to ISIL and [al-Nusra], primarily by routes that run through Turkey,” said a report penned by the U.N. al-Qaida Sanctions Committee.

Turkey has been pressured by Western countries to beef up its measures at borders, which have been claimed to be a primary route for jihadists’ oil and weapons smuggling as well as foreign jihadists’ joining the war in Syria.

Turkey, for its part, denies the accusations of negligence in its border policies and insists that it is maintaining a close and firm watch on its borders.

December/30/2014

Yazidi girl gives account of sex slavery by ISIL

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Yazidi-womanAn Izadi girl has given a blow-by-blow account of the way the ISIL Takfiri group enslaved and abused thousands of women in the Iraqi town of Sinjar.

“They were local Sunni” militants, “some of whom we recognized,” the 19-year-old Izadi girl, who introduced herself as Girl B, told The Times, recalling a day in early August when the Takfiri militants captured Sinjar. reported by Presstv

The militants reportedly killed hundreds of residents, kidnapped and enslaved hundreds of Izadi women and girls, and forced tens of thousands to seek refuge on Mount Sinjar.

Girl B, along with her younger sisters, was among the captured and enslaved people.

“A local mechanic was among them. The Sunni men in our area became Daesh as soon as they got a smell of them approaching. No one even had to ask them to join,” Girl B added.

The Yazidi girl noted that the Takfiri militants took hundreds of Yazidi captives to a building in Sinjar and separated them there.

“The Daesh took our names and ages and noted everything down,” said Girl B, adding, “Then they began dividing us: the men to one side, woman and children to another. Then they selected the young women, both married and unmarried. They told me and my two younger sisters to join that last group. We didn’t know what was happening, but our mother realised, and she began screaming.”

“My mother started screaming and begging for mercy as the Daesh [IS] fighters told my sister and me to join the group of younger women specially selected,” the 19-year-old Izadi girl said, further noting, “But they tore us from her grasp.”

The slaves were then taken to dozens of lorries, pick-ups and dumper trucks in order to be transferred to Mosul where they were sold to the Takfiri group’s senior officials, the girl said.

“I saw other women in the building being dragged out to waiting lorries by their hair,” Girl B said, pointing, “It was organized, and they took us away like cattle.”

In Mosul the slaves were taken to the city’s “Galaxy Hall”, holding centre belonging to the Takfiri group, the Izadi girl said, adding that the enslaved Yazidi women were further subcategorized there and were moved to new centers.

The girl said that the slaves were selected by ISIL commanders the same way as “sheep” and were taken to the house of a prominent ISIL sheikh in the town of Baaj.

“There, the commanders of the Daesh came to look at us again,” Girl B said, explaining, “We were lined up while they came to inspect and buy us. I could see the dinars change hands.”

The girl said her buyer was “Abu Ghuffram”, an ISIS (ISIL) commander in his forties. The girl further noted that Ghuffram was a local Sunni and was reputed for criminal acts before the crisis begins in the area.

The girl along with two other slaves were taken to Ghuffram’s house in the village of Rambussi where they had to serve the ISIL commander and two of his captains.

“Sometimes he would call me by name and talk reasonably,” said Girl B, adding, “At other times the men would insult our Yazidi faith and curse us. If Abu Ghuffram was angry he would strike or kick me. Once he put his hands around my throat and tried to choke me.”

It was also discovered by Izadi health workers that the three girls had been raped numerous times by the three ISIL militants.

Girl B and the two other girls escaped captivity one night in late November, managed to reach the slopes of the Sinjar Mountains, where they met with Izadi fighters and were taken to Dohuk in Iraq’s Kurdistan region by helicopter.

According to Izadi activists, 3,500 women and children are missing as captives and sex slaves. They also say that 2,000 Izadi men are also missing, many of whom feared to have been executed.

“We have raped and pregnant cases; children who have escaped without parents; parents without children. We have cases of women who have been raped by just one Daesh fighter, and cases of women who have been multiply raped and sold several times among ISIS (ISIL) fighters. We have found women sold for dollars 25, for dollars 100, for dollars 1,000. We have it all,” Khider Domle, a Yazidi activist helping escapees in Dohuk said.

On Saturday, Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters distributed aid on Mount Sinjar after breaking the ISIL terror group’s months-long siege on the area in northwestern Iraq.

The ISIL terrorists control some parts of Syria and Iraq.

 

Turkey-bound ships take militants to Iraq, Syria: Interpol

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385091_Turkey-ISILInterpol says terrorists use cruise ships to get to countries including Turkey to join Takfiri groups in Syria and Iraq.

Foreign terrorists are increasingly going to Turkey through booking tickets on cruise ships to join Takfiri groups in neighboring Syria and Iraq, Interpol has warned.

“Because they know the airports are monitored more closely now, there’s a use of cruise ships to travel to those areas,” Pierre St. Hilaire, the director of counterterrorism at Interpol, said on Thursday.

He added that the international police body has evidence that “the individuals, especially in Europe, are traveling mostly to [the Turkish coastal town of] Izmit and other places to engage in this type of activity.”

Turkey has come under international criticism for allowing thousands of foreign terrorists to join Takfiri groups such as ISIL, which has captured large areas across Iraq and Syria.

“It’s a global threat — 15,000 fighters or more from 81 countries traveling to one specific conflict zone,” St. Hilaire said.

He noted that some 300 militants from China have joined terrorist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq.

Speaking at an Interpol meeting in Monaco this week, Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble confirmed that Turkey was a destination for the terrorists.

The outgoing Interpol chief also called on countries to step up screening at “airports and, more and more, cruise lines” to halt the flow of terrorists to the war-torn countries.

“Originally, our concern about people on cruise ships — dangerous people on cruise ships — really focused on the classic sort of rapist, burglar, or violent criminal,” Noble said.

Interpol has “realized that there are more and more reports that people are using cruise ships in order to get to launch pads, if you will — sort of closer to the conflict zones — of Syria and Iraq,” he noted.

Many European countries have called on Turkey to tighten its border to block the entry of recruits from European countries into Syria. They have expressed concern that home-grown terrorists will return home with skills to carry out terror attacks.

The Takfiri ISIL terrorists currently control parts of eastern Syria and Iraq’s northern and western regions. They have committed heinous crimes and threatened all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians and Izadi Kurds, during their advances in Iraq.

 

ISIL using Turkey as superhighway – analyst

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turkey-supperhighwayA political analyst says Turkey’s territory remains a major lifeline and the main route for the ISIL terrorists to move into Syria.

In an interview with Press TV on Thursday, Gordon Duff, a senior editor of Veterans Today from Ohio, said that the ISIL terrorists were “moving freely in and out of Turkey.”

“They are using Turkey as almost a superhighway,” the analyst said.

Duff said the government in Ankara has essentially turned the ISIL terrorist group into a “de facto” wing of the Turkish armed forces.

Turks are major business partners of the ISIL terrorists as they are in cahoots with the militants in their oil and gas theft from Syria, the analyst argued.

He also stated that Turkey was violating the international law by seizing oil and gas fields through its proxy forces inside Syria.

The Syrian military forces backed by pro-government fighters retook control of the Jhar and Mahr gas fields, as well as the Hayyan gas company in the east of Homs Province.

Duff said the ISIL militants are taking away large quantities of Iraqi and Syrian oil with the help of NATO and the government in Ankara.

ISIL reportedly controls some oil and gas fields in Iraq as well as Syria.

The ISIL terrorists control large areas of Syria’s east and north. The Takfiri group sent its militants into Iraq in June, seizing large parts of land straddling the border between Syria and Iraq.

ISIL, Kurds continue fierce fighting in Syria’s Kobani

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Kobani-fightingFierce clashes have resumed between ISIL Takfiri militants and Kurdish fighters in Syria’s northern town of Kobani, which has been under siege by ISIL for over a month.

Reports coming out of the town on Saturday said ISIL had made a new attempt to capture Kobani.

The militants attacked the Kurdish forces with mortar and heavy machinegun fire before dawn.

This came after Kurdish fighters had gained control of a strategic hill overlooking the town on Friday.

Meanwhile, Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region has decided to send reinforcement troops to Kobani next week to aid Kurds.

Kobani and its surroundings have been under attack since mid-September, with the ISIL militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages.

The ISIL advance in the region has forced tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds to flee into Turkey, which is a stone’s throw from Kobani.

Turkey continues to block any delivery of military, medical or humanitarian assistance into Kobani where the ISIL terrorists are feared to be aiming at massive bloodletting.

Analysts say Ankara, having already won the US green light, plans to let the terrorists seize the Kurdish town of Kobani before sending tanks and troops to fight them in a bid to capture and possibly annex the Syrian territory.

Meanwhile, Press TV has learned that Washington has moved its base from Jordan to Turkey to train radical extremists who are fighting the Syrian government.

In a separate development, Iraqi security forces took control of most of the town of Jurf al-Sakhar near the capital, Baghdad.