We’re being lied to.
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.
somehistory says
I read this a couple of days ago….can’t recall the source…and it’s very much like all of the other *stories*….no real vetting, and most of the time, they know anyway….*watch*…*monitor*….and then turn their backs when it’s time for the terrorist to act as they always suspect he will.
Just as the people in Australia knew about the scum who murdered so many, along with his son,….and said his *threat wasn’t “immediate.”
they know, which makes them guilty before and after the fact.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
There needs to come a point where we need to tell MbS to tell Ahmad al Shara’a that the grace that the former bought for the latter from us is running out, and that his regime needs to do a few things:
⮞ Purge his coalition of ISIS elements and stamp out that party. That includes politically cancelling their members
⮞ End all violence against non-sunni minorities, be they Christians, Druze or Alawites
⮞ Stop sheltering anti-Israel jihadists like islamic jihad
If he doesn’t do that, Syria will again be in the same place vis a vis US that it was during the Assad regime
That’s the message everyone in our government needs to send Damascus – from President Trump on downwards
Andrew Blackadder says
Tell me again…WHY are young American Soldiers Stationed in Syria, to protect who from whom exactly?.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! Since Syria is now our “ally”, we should pull every American out of there. After all, do we have troops in Israel?
Winston 101 says
Can you say “nation building” without saying “nation building”.
As Infidel says: “We don’t have troops in Israel”
Winston 101 says
No American troops injured or killed for ANY politicians pet political project.
No American troops injured or killed for any Islamic Project.
If the Muslims can’t manage to establish their State on their own too bad.
No Americans injured or dying and no taxpayers dollars, so some Jihadi Janus
can have a state.
A state from which he later can issue orders to kill Americans and their allies.
There exists a war Islam declared on every unbeliever 1400 year ago. Islam is still
fighting that very same war, updating it to include new enemies, including the U.S.
Remember, the first foreign war of America was a war forced on the U. S. by
the Islamic Barbary States. Islam’s justification for the war then, as now, was and is:
“Because Allah commands it!”
No colonialism, no modern State of Israel, no silly excuses needed.
So why would you ever invite Islam inside the borders of your country?
Why graft the ☪️ancer of Islam into your country?
memi says
Great article that should be “news” in mainstream media! What GOVERNMENT are they referring to? In Jihadist “Syria” we have a Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas & assortment of Turkish terrorist proxies (their “foreign League) from Ukraine, Chesneya, Somalia, Sudan, Uhgurs and ideological Islamist terrorists form all over the globe trained by genocidal Turkey and the mini-Qatar Islamofascist regime!
The US Amb.to Turkey is behind all “developments” of the Jihadist regime’s and ignores the massacres of 9,500 Christians, Alawites and Druzes–to date! But the mainstream media refuse to report the massacres of Al-Qaeda’s (ex & present) Chief Beheader, “president” Al-Jolani Shara whose own Head was “Wanted by U.S. Intelligence and State Dept. for $10 Million dollars.
Disgracefully, in December of 2024, Biden removed the “terrorist” designation of Al-Jolani (aka Sharaa) and now we witness the unlikely scenario of a “radical Islamist megalomaniac” – as DNI Tulsi Gabbard had called him 2019, – pesident of the Islamofascist, officially-genocidal Turkey terrorist supporting regime dictate policy to his Jihadist proxies in “Syria”!
The U.S., unless it stops the anti-Semitic, Christianophobic hate crimes happening in most states thanks to the ideological Islamist brainwashing “foundations” bilions of the Qatar-Turkey-Iran axis of political Islam, will face the same fate as Londonstan, Paristan and Madridstan. It should start investigating the insidious, pervasive funding of Qatar in the campaign of their proxy, Mamdani, in New York, and investigate the activities of Tucker Carson at his new “home” donated by the grateful Qatari oligarchs.
It won’t be loong before Doha will name Tucker its honorary citizen! Corruption in politics, of course, is an imperative!
memi says
Tom Barrack, the amb. to Turkey and in charge of “Syrian” affairs as well, was sent an email (recently released by DOJ) by Epstein asking Tom Barrack to “send me the photo of you….and the boy”! Epstein also sent him another email stating “I truly enjoyed the photo of you and the child…”
Barrack was arrested by the DOJ 2021 for receiving bribes from foreign countries to “influence American foreign policy and the President” in foreign affairs in favor of his “benefactors”. He was arrested and he had to post $250 million dollars’ bail to get out of jail! His ties to the Erdogan family are well known and Turkey’s neighboring countries are complaining that he acts more for the best interests of Islamist, undemocratic, terrorist-supporting Turkey than for the interests of the U.S. — for which he is being paid by the American taxpayers.
His loyalty to Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman expansionist aims and his “following Turkish policy” because of his many business interests in Turkey and in partnering under the table in weapons developments and being a shareholder in mnay Erdogan family shenanigans are well-known.
And everyone wonders why President Trump even listens to this Turkish agent who should be removed from his post and stop using ISIS as an excuse when he knows that the JIHADIST REGIME of ‘syria” is responsible for the death of Americans and for the massacres of 9,500 Christians, Alawites, Druzes and the imminent war Turkey is preparing to exterminate the Kurds!
Thanks to Greenfield for this article and it would be great if he continued to investigate the role of Tom Barrack working closely with Turkey and its Jihadist “Syria” regime in promoting the interests of a foreign country in which he was appointed “ambassador” and not a media “press release” secretary!