The question I asked right after we were told that an ‘ISIS terrorist’ had killed 2 American National Guard members and an American interpreter was… are we being lied to.
Unfortunately we are.
The Kurdish sources who described the terrorist as a member of the Al Qaeda government’s security forces were telling the truth while our government’s press releases, which made it sound like an ISIS terrorist staged an attack on our personnel, were misleading at best and deceptive at worst.
Especially the claims that the Syrian regime doesn’t have control in Palmyra, implying that this was the cause of the attack.
It’s now being admitted that the ‘ISIS’ terrorist was a member of the Al Qaeda government’s security forces. They’re trying to spin the story by claiming that he was a ‘recent recruit’ and that they were planning to get rid of him soon because they had learned of his ISIS sympathies. This is obvious nonsense. If you find out a member of your security forces is ISIS, you get rid of him now.
It’s yet to be seen if the other claims from Kurdish sources about his ties to Al-Shara/Al-Jolani and other members of his Jihadist HTS hierarchy are true, but it is fairly clear that the Sunni Islamist lobby desperate to keep us in Syria is lying to us.
And those elements in the Trump administration aligned with it are repeating those lies. Look at the varying stories.
A Syrian military official who requested anonymity said on Saturday that the shots were fired “during a meeting between Syrian and American officers” at a Syrian base in Palmyra.
However, a Pentagon official speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP that the attack “took place in an area where the Syrian president does not have control.”
Syria’s Interior Ministry spokesman Nour al-Din al-Baba said a gunman linked to IS opened fire at the gate of a military post.
The Pentagon was lying to us. So was the Al Qaeda government.
The Syrian authorities “had decided to fire” the perpetrator from the security forces before the attack for holding “extremist Islamist ideas” and had planned to do so on Sunday, Interior Ministry spokesman Noureddine al-Baba told state television.
What “extremist Islamist ideas”? The Syrian authorities are an Al Qaeda group. Its boss, Al-Jolani, had been set up by ISIS.
US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack on Sunday said the attack only “reinforces” the US strategy to “enable capable Syrian partners, with limited US operational support, to hunt down ISIS networks, deny them safe haven, and prevent their resurgence.”
Barrack needs to be fired. The strategy of enabling Al Qaeda as a partner killed 3 Americans so far. Enough already.
Let’s start with the truth about what happened.
