In een artikel van Shahtahmasebi op Anti-Media (11 juli jl.) stelt de schrijver dat er een behoorlijke stank hangt rond de ‘bevrijding’ van Mosul, niet alleen de letterlijke stank van lijken die nog onder het puin liggen (lijken van meer dan 4.000 mensen die werden vermoord middels bombardementen), maar ook een figuurlijke stank……

Volgens Shahtahmasebi had de VS in 2014 kunnen voorkomen, dat IS de grens van Syrië naar Irak overstak. De VS liet dit moordend tuig hun gang gaan, zodat het leger van de VS kon deelnemen aan het verdrijven van IS uit Irak. Daarmee legitimeerde de VS voor zichzelf en haar hielenlikkende partners, het besluit om in de achtervolging van IS vanuit Irak de grens met Syrië over te steken en zo het reguliere Syrische leger te kunnen aanvallen, zoals intussen meermaals is gebeurd………. De VS stak dan ook geen poot uit, toen bleek dat IS grote aantallen VS wapens, Humvee’s tanks en helikopters buit maakte in Irak, terwijl het makkelijk IS aan had kunnen vallen, dit nog naast minstens 2 VS leveringen van wapens en munitie direct aan IS……….

De VS heeft haar tactiek pas veranderd, nadat Rusland het reguliere Syrische leger te hulp schoot en IS werkelijk en effectief werd bestreden……….

Het gebruik van terreurgroepen is overigens een tactiek die de VS ook in Syrië gebruikte: de VS liet IS en andere terreurgroepen (‘gematigde rebellen’) haar gang gaan in Syrië, waarmee dit moordend en verkrachtend tuig werd en wordt gebruikt als een extra legermacht tegen het reguliere Syrische leger….. Voorts heeft de VS de ‘gematigde rebellen’ in Syrië van wapens, munitie en training voorzien, al deze ‘gematigde rebellen’ zijn gelieerd aan Al Qaida, zo bleek onlangs (waar Saoedi-Arabië de financiën voor deze terreurgroepen regelt, naast ook levering van wapens en munitie)…… Niet voor niets ook. dat de VS onlangs het besluit nam Al Qaida Syrië van de terreurlijst te halen…….

Jammer dat Shahtahmasebi in zijn artikel stelt dat Iraanse troepen zich te buiten zijn gegaan aan oorlogsmisdaden, daar is geen nanometer bewijs voor. Waarschijnlijk maakt hij de fout, om sjiitische terreurgroepen, die meevechten met de Iraakse coalitie (die in feite door de VS wordt aangestuurd), als Iraans militairen aan te duiden. Iraanse militairen die zouden worden gepakt voor oorlogsmisdaden begaan in Irak of Syrië, zullen zwaar worden gestraft door Iraanse militaire rechtbanken……

Het aantal doden dat Shahtahmasebi noemt is intussen zwaar achterhaald, onlangs werd bekend gemaakt, dat er de laatste 9 maanden in Mosul meer dan 40.000 inwoners zijn vermoord (vooral middels VS bombardementen….)….*

Verder een goed leesbaar artikel, met ontluisterende feiten:

The
Media Says the US Just Liberated Mosul: Here’s What Really Happened

July
11, 2017 at 2:21 pm

Written
by Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA) — The
mainstream media appears to
be celebrating ISIS’ recent defeat in Mosul, albeit with
some reservations.
The media is largely using the word “liberation,” which indicates
the people of Mosul have been freed from a monstrous force by a
friendly, benevolent one.

In
reality, the “liberation” of Mosul paints a dark, horrifying
picture of America’s foreign policy when one realizes how ISIS took
hold of Mosul in the first place. As Anti-Media in summarized in
September of last year, the U.S. allowed ISIS to gain control of
Mosul quite deliberately:

“In
June 2014, ISIS crossed the Syrian border into Iraq, effortlessly
taking the strategic oil-rich cities of Mosul and Baiji and
almost making it as far as Baghdad. Amid the terror group’s
frightening victory, they uploaded images
and footage of drive-by-shootings, large-scale death marches, and
mass graves (following the mass
executions of Iraqi soldiers).

“ISIS
militants claimed massive quantities of American
military equipment, including
entire truckloads of humvees, helicopters, tanks, and artillery as
their own. This was no secret to Washington, or even the world, as
the militants photographed and recorded themselves and publicly
flaunted their activity on social media.”

Was
there a good reason the American military sat on its hands despite
knowing full well that this was going on? As Anti-Media explained
further:

“What
did the U.S. do in response? Nothing. In spite of all the American
bases in Iraq and
the government’s ability to perform all manner of illicit activity
— including assassinating Muammar Gaddafi in Libya using a drone
that was flown out of Sicily by a pilot who operated the vehicle from
a naval base in Nevada‚
the
U.S. couldn’t do anything to stop ISIS rapid advancements. Was
there a problem preventing the U.S. military from conducting air
strikes? Clearly not, as the U.S. had been launching drone strikes in
Pakistan at around
the same time ISIS
advanced.”

The
U.S. allowed ISIS to gain this significant portion of territory
before moving into Iraq with an air war that was designed to
pave the way for a segued operation into Syrian territory. The U.S.
couldn’t justify an intervention into Syria without going into Iraq
first, and this was quite
clearly the underlying intention of
this operation the whole time, as evidenced by the
U.S.’ obsession with
the Syrian conflict throughout both
the Obama and Trump administrations.

Since
the U.S. moved back into Iraq in 2014, the U.S. has dropped 84,000
bombs in Iraq and Syria up until the end of May 2017.
As Counterpunch explains,
this is nearly three times the number of bombs and missiles dropped
on Iraq during George W. Bush’s “Shock and Awe” campaign
in 2003.

Monitoring
group Airwars’ currently estimates that the minimum number of
civilians killed by the U.S.-led coalition’s campaign in Iraq and
Syria has reached roughly 4,354
since the operation began in 2014. The number is likely higher, but
we will never know the exact total because up until a month ago, the
U.S. only had
two personnel investigating
casualties in Iraq and Syria full time.

Under
President Trump, the number of bombs being dropped increased rapidly
after Trump gave complete
control to
the military generals on the ground to call in airstrikes with little
oversight. One such air raid in Mosul saw
close to
300 civilians die, and the fact that the strike had been called in by
Iraqi forces on the ground demonstrates the immense amount of scope
that Trump has delegated to call in airstrikes with little regard to
international law and the principle of proportionality.

The
battle for Mosul also drew in
Iran-backed Shia militias, who have been known to terrorize Iraq’s
Sunni population (including torturing
civilians).
No one doubts that ISIS is a brutal and abhorrent group, but the
people who are supposedly “liberating” the local population —
whether it’s the U.S. military, the Iraqi armed forces, or the
various militia on the ground — appear to be no better.

Now
that these Iran-backed militias have firmly planted themselves in
Iraq, the U.S. is left with an ultimate dilemma of how to kick
them out and
counter Iran’s expanding influence. In all seriousness, the battle
for Mosul is only paving the way for further occupation and laying
the groundwork for America to pursue its regional ambitions in its
never-ending quest to confront Iran.

According to
the U.N., more than 742,000 Iraqis have fled the battle in Mosul,
with approximately 10,000 new civilians fleeing every day. For a
country that hates
refugees,
the U.S. certainly plays a significant role in creating an endless
supply of them.

And
for those civilians still trapped in the city, their lives will never
be the same. As Airwars explains:

“According
to city officials, as
much as 80 per cent of West Mosul has been completely destroyed.
Civilians still emerging from the battlefield are often bloodied and
starving – traumatised by Iraqi and Coalition bombardments; and by
atrocities commited [sic] by ISIS.

“According
to reporters accompanying Iraqi forces, the stench of death is
everywhere in the Old City – with civil defence officials reporting
that as many as 4,000
bodies still remain unrecovered in
the rubble. It is likely to be many months before the full death toll
is known.”

That
is quite the liberation. Even if Mosul really has been “liberated”
by the U.S.-backed coalition, no one seems to be talking about the
fact that ISIS was only able to conquer strategic areas like Mosul
under the safety of the Obama administration’s policies. Leaked
audio of
former Secretary of State John Kerry when he was a senator confirmed
the U.S. was watching ISIS grow, and in turn, the hoped this would
bring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table (you
can listen to the full audio here).

You
can’t target a group as an enemy in one location and view it as a
useful proxy army in another. Indeed, ISIS was always a useful proxy
force for the anti-Assad coalition, as Kerry admitted.

Essentially,
the U.S. allowed ISIS to gain control of large swaths of Iraq and
Syria so they could justify interventions in these war-ravaged
nations.

As
far as the people of Iraq are concerned, there is only one
winner here:
the military-industrial complex, which secured massive
years-long contracts to
make, supply, and drop over 84,000 bombs on a territory that never
should have been in the hands of ISIS in the first place.