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ISIL Leader's Mobile Phone Shows Turkey's Support
[ASBAREZ] (Fars News Agency)--A commander of the Iraqi volunteer forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) revealed that a mobile phone found with one of the killed ISIL ringleaders proved the Turkish spy agency's support for the terrorist group.Asbarez is an Armenian (i.e., anti-Turk until proven otherwise) and they're running a Fars article. Probably deserves more credence than something by Seymour Hersch, less than by Reuters. "The mobile phone was found with one of the killed ISIL leaders in the Northern parts of Salahuddin province two days ago," Jabbar al-Ma'mouri told Soumeriya news on Monday. He said that the mobile set and history files contain messages from the Turkish intelligence agency which show that Ankara supports the ISIL terrorist group through providing security at the points of entry used by ISIL gunnies from ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to Iraq. This is the way intel analysis works: We'e got a single bald statement that IS is working with Turkish govt agents. My feeling is that facts to date support that--they're not bombing IS that we've seen, they're killing PKK guys, and very possibly on recon information supplied by IS. "The mobile phone also contains other important information which cannot be disclosed now, and it has been delivered to the specialized security groups for further scrutiny," Ma'mouri said. That would likely be to Iranian intel, which the last time I looked wasn't very good, though that was a long time ago (but not in a galaxy far away!) In relevant remarks on November, Russian Ambassador to La Belle France Alexander Orlov said that Turkey has played an "ambiguous" role in the campaign against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) while acting as an accomplice to the terrorist group's activities. And he's probably got Russian intel to back that up. They won't disclose details because of sources and methods, but they've got their facts established and the telephone only confirms them. I'm guessing this wasn't the first cell phone ever collected, too. Also last month, former US Department of State senior advisor David Phillips said Turkey has blatantly provided material support to the ISIL because they share an ideological connection along with a common foe in Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad. Leveler of Latakia... It being the State Department, you can't really be sure he's speaking based on intel. Since he's actually a "senior advisor" who actually belongs to Columbia University's peace-mongering group, the temptation is to discount anything he says. People like him should be kept away from classified information. "Turkey's role has not been ambiguous -- it has overtly supported the ISIL," Phillips, currently Director of Columbia University's Peace-building and Rights Program, said. "It has provided logistical support, money, weapons, transport and healthcare to maimed warriors." Phillips explained that Turkey has been supporting the ISIL to remove Syrian President Bashir al-Assad from power and because of a "spiritual bond" that exists between Turkey's governing party and the jihadists. That's the part that confuses me. I guess the Turks started out to dump Assad, and the "spiritual bond" was the Moslem Brotherhood militias. Then ISIS showed up, so I guess they're putting their money on the stronger horse and the cheaper oil. I doubt Erdogan's thought through to what he'd have on his hands with an ISIS-cotrolled Syria on his border. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-24 |
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