Posted on 05/03/2017 7:47:28 PM PDT by TigerClaws
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange today said the CIA was responsible for paving the way for ISIS as the whistle blowing organisation released more than half a million formerly confidential US diplomatic cables dating back to 1979.
On the sixth anniversary of the first infamous "Cablegate" by WikiLeaks, when it releases its first batch of sensitive US files, on November 28 2010, it has expanded its Public Library of US Diplomacy (PLUSD) with 531,525 new diplomatic cables from 1979.
In a statement to coincide with the release of the cables, known as "Carter Cables III", Mr Assange explained how events which unfolded in 1979, had begun a series of events that led to the rise of ISIS.
He said: "If any year could be said to be the "year zero" of our modern era, 1979 is it."
Mr Assange said a decision by the CIA, together with Saudi Arabia, to plough billions of dollars into arming the Mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan to tackle the Soviet Union, had led to the creation of terror group al-Qaeda.
This, in turn, he said led to the 9/11 terror strikes, the invasion of Afghanhistan and Iraq by the US, and the creation of ISIS.
Speaking about how 1979 shaped current global events, Mr Assange said: "In the Middle East, the Iranian revolution, the Saudi Islamic uprising and the Egypt-Israel Camp David Accords led not only to the present regional power dynamic but decisively changed the relationship between oil, militant Islam and the world.
"The uprising at Mecca permanently shifted Saudi Arabia towards Wahhabism, leading to the transnational spread of Islamic fundamentalism and the US-Saudi destabilisation of Afghanistan."
He said at this point Osama bin Laden left his native Saudi Arabia for Pakistan to support the Afghan Mujahideen.
He added: "The invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR would see Saudi Arabia and the CIA push billions of dollars to Mujahideen fighters as part of Operation Cyclone, fomenting the rise of al-Qaeda and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.
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"The 1979 current of Islamification spread to Pakistan where the US embassy was burned to the ground and Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed.
"The Iranian hostage crisis would go on to fatally undermine Jimmy Carter's presidency and see the election of Ronald Reagan.
"The rise of al-Qaeda eventually bore the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, enabling the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and over a decade of war, leaving, at its end, the ideological, financial and geographic basis for ISIS."
The election of Margaret Thatcher as British Prime Minister and the Three Mile Island nuclear incident are some of the incidents during the year cited by Assange.
Absolutely dead on correct. Certifiable borderline personalities with very little standing between them and a “snap” break into fantasy— dangerous fantasy. What strikes me is the continuous utter self-delusion and evasion of personal responsibility that is joined together in these people, which drives them to be ever more dependent on the organizational construct that is the growing State. Dependency on others of their ilk with govt. job sinecures working against the common people of small business, small farmers, small finance— ie. Jefferson’s common man. It is indeed a cult, with it’s own catechism of memes, beliefs and rewritten history. Well done.. home groan.
More and more living in a “country within a country”, like some undercover agent (of reality and patriotism and Americanism) in a tyrannical state. It is not healthy, but it is from long overseas experience. Working toward a day when we can all rest in the protection of our true Constitution. It will take activism from all of us— and the libs are not expecting that.
Assange releases 1/2 million more cables ping.
Carter started all of this from the Shah through Al-Qaeda and on through the mess Obama and Hillary made of the whole region.
Jimmy Carter, author of militant Islam, recrudescent.
Thank you! You actually caused me to belly laugh! Again, thanks!
He He. Thanks for a stroll down memory lane. Did you know the top speed of the Avanti R2 is around 160 mph? Pretty cool, heh?
Wow. I couldn’t believe it when I walked up on a Chrysler Turbine Car a couple of years ago. Yes, it was a car show.
But still. And it was in virtually perfect condition.
Wish I could have been there when it was started.
We Christians have another perspective which explains things much better and really cuts through the fact that Dems' behavior is so crazy at times.
Me too
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