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U.S. training helped mold top Islamic State military commander (Red Link On Drudge)
McClatchy ^ | 09/16/15

Posted on 09/16/2015 6:34:18 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Tarkhan Batirashvili was a natural military star when he joined Georgia’s military

Fought the Russians during 2008 war, but left Georgia for Turkey in 2012

In Syria, he’s known as Abu Omar al Shishani, commander in several major victories

"n 2012, everyone was coming to Syria and we had too much work leading all kinds of people across the border,” he explained over lunch in Killis, a Turkish town just a few miles from the rebel-held Syrian city of Azzaz. “A lot were Muslims who had come to support the revolution against Bashar Assad from every country. So many from Europe, Russia, Germany, France. . . .”

The 15 men had reached Abdullah through a network of contacts that were funneling new fighters to northern Syria, and Abdullah recalled they said they were going to Syria to assist in the fight against Assad. They were quiet, disciplined and for the most part spoke only a bit of crude formal Arabic.

Only later did Abdullah realize that the network that funneled these men to him was the beginnings of the Islamic State, and that one of the 15 would turn out to be the most important non-Arab figure in the Islamic State hierarchy, a former American-trained noncommissioned officer in the special forces of the nation of Georgia, who’d led his men heroically during the 2008 Russian invasion of his homelan"

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: commander; isis; trained; us
High Treason if true...

This would explain the U.S. leadership reluctance to really go after ISIS, the altered intelligence reports (came out yesterday), validates what 50 High Intel chiefs recently said about the Administration war with ISIS and now we know all those U.S. weapon purposely fell into the butchers, ISIS, hands. It was all to go after Assad.

This is just like Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood or Libya with ISIS.

1 posted on 09/16/2015 6:34:18 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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Abu Omar al Shishani, whose real name is Tarkhan Batirashvili, appears with other Russian-speaking Islamic State fighters in an Islamic State video, from which this image was captured. Ethnic Chechens, who have fought two wars in a failed effort to achieve independence from Russia, are among the largest groups of Islamic State foreign fighters.
2 posted on 09/16/2015 6:35:10 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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Has there EVER been a time in modern history where “arming and training” the “rebels” didn't come back eventually to bite us on the butt?

Stop giving these 3rd world idiots guns and training and let them off each other with machetes, so when they eventually turn on us we can take them and their knives out easy.

3 posted on 09/16/2015 6:43:23 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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>>This is just like...

http://www.google.com/search?q=Carter+Brzezinski+Ball+Ayatollah+Shah+Operation+Cyclone+1978


4 posted on 09/16/2015 6:44:05 AM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: Enlightened1

“Well isn’t that special”
The Church Lady


5 posted on 09/16/2015 6:49:36 AM PDT by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

We’re told it’s very important to know the names of these guys.


6 posted on 09/16/2015 6:50:30 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Enlightened1
It was all to go after Assad.

I've been saying this for the last two years while being called every name in the book.

We created, trained and armed ISIS as our surrogate to attack Assad and others. Jordan should be very afraid.

Many pilots on sorties against ISIS have reported that they were given incorrect coordinates, told not to deploy their weaponry or sent to attack areas where they knew full well there were no ISIS assets. Why?

The globalist plan to create utter havoc in the Middle East through ISIS and others. Meanwhile, we allow Iran to build the bomb to stop Israel from ever employing their bomb. This will not work and WW3 will go nuclear.

The horror of nuclear war in the Middle East will shock the world into accepting global governance so that "this terrible war will never happen again".

The globalists will have what they have always lusted for: Total Global Control.

7 posted on 09/16/2015 6:51:50 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Romans 13:12)
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Dr. Thorne :"Many pilots on sorties against ISIS have reported that they were given incorrect coordinates,
told not to deploy their weaponry
or sent to attack areas where they knew full well there were no ISIS assets. Why?"

Or directed to bomb unoccupied buildings at night , as if that ws going to stop ISIS !
Total Buffoonerie !

8 posted on 09/16/2015 6:58:59 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (The GOPe and Karl Rove got Obama elected twice. .. How'd that work out for ya ?)
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Could it be US Coalition Against ISIS May Have ‘Other Purposes’: Russia ?
9 posted on 09/16/2015 7:02:58 AM PDT by McGruff (The angry majority has awoken.)
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But isn’t it obvious that Obama is using the full might of the United States to rid the world of the people the Beheaded Our Citizens on camera? I mean, I think we may have dropped a bomb somewhere in the sand last month or so.


10 posted on 09/16/2015 7:10:19 AM PDT by The Toll
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Until Benghazi made it necessary for Obama to be reelected to do a cover up, Obama wasn’t supposed to be reelected.

Hillary created ISIS with the intention of it being a republican problem.

She could then run in 2016 against a republican with the claim Obama/dems got us out of Iraq and a republican got us back in.

What you are describing is more than likely the method of payment Hillary/Obama came up with for ISIS to do their dirty work.

When B Clinton was president he routinely used the US military as a method of payment for services so it’s not something new.


11 posted on 09/16/2015 7:12:37 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Dr. Thorne

Agree 100% with everything you said.


12 posted on 09/16/2015 7:17:11 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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I read the first few paragraphs and skimmed the rest TWICE and found no reference to training in the US. Georgia the country is not the same a Georgia the US State. Duh!


13 posted on 09/16/2015 7:49:55 AM PDT by Crazy Jim (There are known unknowns and then there are unknown unknowns. - Donald Rumsfeld)
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I read the first few paragraphs and skimmed the rest TWICE and found no reference to training in the US. Georgia the country is not the same a Georgia the US State. Duh!


14 posted on 09/16/2015 7:51:32 AM PDT by Crazy Jim (There are known unknowns and then there are unknown unknowns. - Donald Rumsfeld)
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Always thought it was weird that ISIS regulars cover their faces. Why hide ? It gives the impression they are hiding something. And apparently that something is the fact that many are not Arabs. They are from Caucasus, Turkey And slimy Euro trash.


15 posted on 09/16/2015 10:22:04 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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ISIS was the DC/Euro Cartels replacement for Saddam. They love dictators and terrorists. It is the only option available when you loath and distrust your own military.


16 posted on 09/16/2015 10:27:32 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Crazy Jim

How does that dispute that we trained him? Here, there, if we trained him the place we did so is irrelevant.


17 posted on 09/16/2015 10:39:17 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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