Contrary to what is widespread in Western corporate media which denies that the United States and NATO supported the Islamic State (ISIS) and describing any statement in this regard as "pure conspiracy theory", on 18th May, Judicial Watch published a selection of recently declassified documents –obtained from the US Defense and State Departments- which reveal that since 2012 the US and NATO admitted in their own documents that they had supported al-Qaeda and ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

The documents demolish the Western "official story" which had maintained that, since the beginning of the Syrian crisis until today, the "rebellion" is autochthonous in character and part of the action by freedom-loving moderates, advocates of democracy, in that nation.

The declassified documents reveal unequivocally that “the Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda were the main forces leading the insurgency in Syria.”

They also reveal that “The West, the Gulf states and Turkey constitute the opposition in Syria; while Russia, China and Iran support the local government.” According to the documents "al Qaeda supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning, both ideologically and through the media ..."

The documents show that the crisis in Syria was never a rebellion by moderate fighters for democracy, but from the beginning it was a concerted action by Muslim Brotherhood fighters and al-Qaeda (al Qaeda in Iraq /Al-Nusra Front).

The documents state that the opposition forces in Syria were trying to control the eastern areas (Hasaka and Der Zor), together with Iraq's western provinces (Anbar and Mosul), plus neighboring regions in the Turkish borders. The Western countries, the Gulf states and Turkey supported these goals.

If the United States and its NATO allies supported an opposition in Syria which included al-Qaeda and ISIS, it is clear that Washington did have a foundation of partnership and alliance with these terrorist forces. This is also confirmed by the acceptance by the US of a plan to create within Syria "buffer zones" and "safe heavens” along the lines of the Libyan model.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham, or just Islamic State (ISIS), is a jihadist militant group self-proclaimed a "caliphate."

In March 2015, the organization had control over a territory of Iraq and Syria in which 10 million people live. It also has limited territorial authority in Libya and Nigeria. It operates, or has branches, in other parts of the world including Southeast Asia.

ISIS gained notoriety when it pushed out the forces of the Iraqi government from the major cities in the west of that country. In Syria, it launched attacks against government forces and some of the factions involved in the local civil war.

Iraq’s territorial losses almost caused the collapse of the Iraqi government which had requested the resumption of the US military intervention in Iraq. For this the Iraqi government had the support of the US high command and of members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who claimed this was in response to the resurgence of the Sunni insurgency ... and of Al Qaeda.

ISIS emerged in 1999; joined al Qaeda in October 2004 and declared itself an Islamic state of Iraq in 2006. It was formally separated from al Qaeda in February 2014 and in June of that year proclaimed itself a caliphate. Until November of the same yearc it made territorial claims against Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Saudi, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Carefully tying up all the loose ends, we find some answers to the inexplicable situation that ISIS, al Qaeda, and their accomplices were able to act with so much impunity. The corporate-financial elite who exercise the real power in the United States created them and have been funding them to serve their immediate interests, such as the present war against Syria.

For the most qualified analysts of the current events in the Middle East it is clear that the US target is to isolate the Syrian government to "prevent Shia expansion and curb Iranian influence". This is part of a larger purpose (destroying Iran) and a final goal which would be the confrontation with Russia and China.

June 27, 2015.

A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann.

- Manuel E. Yepe http://manuelyepe.wordpress.com/