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[David Johnson]

This would explain how ISIS is able to get their oil out of Syria and Iraq
to sell on the international market.

Oh what a tangled and destructive web is weaved by Obama and U.S.
neo-liberal / neo-con foreign policy.

 

 

 

The Mystery Over the Surprise Release of 49 Turkish Diplomats

Is Turkey Colluding with ISIS?

by PATRICK COCKBURN 

Mystery surrounds the surprise release of 49 Turkish diplomats and their
families held captive for three months by Isis. The Turkish government is
denying any deal with the hostage-takers, making it unclear why Isis,
notorious for its cruelty and ruthlessness, should hand over its Turkish
prisoners on Saturday without a quid pro quo.

Many Kurds are expressing bitterness towards the Turkish government,
claiming that it is colluding with Isis to destroy the independent enclaves
of the Syrian Kurds, who number 2.5 million, along the Turkish border. The
pro-Kurdish Amed news agency asks "if Isis [is] the paramilitary wing of the
of the neo-Ottomanism project of Turkey in the Middle East?" The Turkish
government vehemently denies any collaboration with Isis.

Nevertheless, the strange circumstances of both the capture of the 49 Turks
and their release shows that Ankara has a different and more intimate
relationship with Isis than other countries. Pro-Isis Turkish websites say
that the Turks were released on the direct orders of "the caliph" Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi. They had been moved to Raqqa, the Syrian headquarters of Isis
from Mosul, and both men and women were well-dressed and appeared to have
suffered little harm from their imprisonment. This is in sharp contrast to
the treatment of Alan Henning, the British taxi driver seized when taking
aid to Syria, and of the journalists who have been ritually murdered by
Isis.

Patrick Cockburn's new book is
<http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/jihadis-return/> The Jihadis Return: ISIS
and the New Sunni Uprising.

 

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The Jihadis Return

ISIS AND THE NEW SUNNI UPRISING

 

 <http://www.orbooks.com/patrick-cockburn/> PATRICK COCKBURN

"Patrick Cockburn has produced the first history of the rise of the Islamic
State or Isil. No one is better equipped for this task ... This short book
does not suggest any solutions. Perhaps there aren't any. Western
interventions in the past few years-such as Iraq in 2003 and Libya in
2010-have been disastrous. But it is indispensable for anybody wishing to
understand a terrifying new phenomenon which is already showing signs of
inspiring emulators from North Africa to Pakistan." -The Daily Telegraph,
London

"One of the most accurate and intrepid journalists in Iraq." -Sidney
Blumenthal

"Quite simply, the best Western journalist at work in Iraq today." -Seymour
Hersh

 <http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/jihadis-return/> About the Book

Though capable of staging spectacular attacks like 9/11, jihadist
organizations were not a significant force on the ground when they first
became notorious in the shape of al-Qa'ida at the turn of century. The
West's initial successes in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan weakened their
support still further.

Today, as renowned Middle East commentator Patrick Cockburn sets out in this
explosive new book, that's all changed. Exploiting the missteps of the
West's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, as well as its misjudgments in
relation to Syria and the uprisings of the Arab Spring, jihadist
organizations, of which ISIS is the most important, are swiftly expanding.
They now control a geographical territory greater in size than Britain or
Michigan, stretching from the Sunni heartlands in the north and west of Iraq
through a broad swath of north-east Syria. On the back of their capture of
Mosul and much of northern Iraq in June 2014, the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi, has been declared the head of a new caliphate that demands the
allegiance of all Muslims.

The secular, democratic politics that were supposedly at the fore of the
Arab Spring have been buried by the return of the jihadis. As the Islamic
State announced by ISIS confronts its enemies, the West will once again
become a target. Cockburn cites an observer in southern Turkey interviewing
Syrian jihadi rebels early in 2014 and finding that "without exception they
all expressed enthusiasm for the 9/11 attacks and hoped the same thing would
happen in Europe as well as the US."

How could things have gone so badly wrong? Writing in these pages with
customary calmness and clarity, and drawing on unrivaled experience as a
reporter in the region, Cockburn analyzes the unfolding of one of the West's
greatest foreign policy debacles and the rise of the new jihadis.

Publication August 28, 2014 . 150 pages
Paperback ISBN 978-1-939293-59-6 . E-book ISBN 978-1-939293-60-2

 

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