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The Balkanization of Iraq
Manlio Dinucci
The
offensive launched by the Islamic
State of
Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL)
comes as no surprise to the United States, for the
simple reason that the historic leaders of the
jihadi forces are already official allies of NATO in
Libya. Despite all Washington’s rhetorical
gesticulations, the Islamic Emirate in Iraq and the
ISIL’s offensive in Iraqi territory are part of the
strategy aimed at dismantling Iraq, approved by the
U.S. Senate in 2007, as a result of a proposal put
forward by Joe Biden.
The U.S. is not thrilled with Iraq’qs
new relations with China and Iran. Pictured are
Hassan Rohani, Iranian President (right) with Iraqi
prime Minsiter Nuri Al-Maliki. Photo: EFE.
If
what they are saying in Washington is true – that
the
ISIL offensive, also known in Arabic as
Daesh, truly came as a surprise to the U.S. –
President Obama must immediately dismiss all his
intelligence directors, which includes the CIA, and
numerous federal agencies devoted to espionage and
the execution of secret U.S. operations on a global
scale.
On
the contrary, there is no doubt that those directors
have - in private - received the President’s
congratulations. The ISIL is in reality, a tool in
the U.S. strategy to destroy nations through secret
wars. Many of its leaders come from Libyan Islamist
groups - initially classified as terrorists - armed,
trained and financed by the U.S. secret service to
overthrow Muammar el-Kadhafi.
And
the ISIL itself has confirmed as such, by
commemorating the death of two of its Libyan
combatants, Abu Abdullah al-Libi, who fought in
Libya until his death in Syria – September 22, 2013
– at the hands of a rival group; and Abu Dajana who
also fought in Libya and died in Syria, February 8,
2014, during a clash with an al-Qaeda group, a
former ally.
The ISIL is a tool used by the U.S.
to destroy nations through
secret wars. Pictured are fundamentalist executing
Iraqi army recruits.
Photo: AP.
When
the secret war to bring down President Bashar al-Assad
began, many of the fighters operating in Libya
arrived in Syria, where they joined up with others,
the majority not Syrian, but from Afghanistan,
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Chechnya, among other
countries. It was precisely in Syria where the ISIL
built up a large portion of its forces, and it was
also where the “rebels”, infiltrating the country
from Turkey and Jordan, received arms shipments from
Croatia, through a network organized by the CIA (a
network whose existence has also been documented in
an investigation by the New York Times).
Is
it possible that the CIA and other U.S. agencies –
with access to vast networks of spies, effective
drones and military satellites – were unaware that
the ISIL was preparing a large-scale offensive
against Baghdad, an offensive which had been
preceded by a series of attacks? They obviously
couldn’t ignore it, so why didn’t Washington sound
the alarm before the offensive was launched? Because
it’s strategic objective isn’t to defend Iraq, but
to control it.
The ISIL was armed, trained and
financed by U.S. secret services to overthrow
Muammar el-Kadhafi in Libya.
After spending more than 800 billion dollars on
military operations in the second Iraq war, the
United States, is now, just like China, even more
present in Iraq. China is buying almost half of
Iraq’s oil - on the increase - and is making large
investments in its extraction industry.
But
that’s not all, in Baghdad February 2014, during
Wang Yi Chinese minister of
Foreign Relations’ visit to the country, the Chinese
and Iraqi governments signed various agreements to
supply Iraq with Chinese military equipment. In May,
the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki participated
in the Conference on Interaction and Confidence
Building in Asia (CICA) held in Shanghai, which was
also attended by the President of Iran Hassan Rohani.
It is also important to remember that in November
2013, al-Maliki’s government defied the U.S. embargo
against Iran by signing an agreement with Teherán,
for the purchase of weaponry for a total sum of 195
million dollars.
Vice President Joe Biden’s plan,
approved by the Senate in 2007, is designed
to divide Iraq into three autonomous regions,
allowing the country to be more
easily controlled.
In
this context the ISIL offensive was launched, which
set Iraq afire, using the rivalry between Sunnis and
Shiites, a rivalry which the al-Maliki
administration has exacerbated, allowing the U.S. to
revive their strategy to take control of Iraq.
Against this backdrop, we can not loose sight of
Vice President Joe Biden’s current plan which was
approved by the Senate in 2007, a plan designed to
divide Iraq into three autonomous regions: Kurd,
Sunni and Shiite, with a central government limited
to Baghdad. In other words, the dismembering of
Iraq. (Voltaire)
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