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.
Certainly explains why deep state tries so hard to ruin Trump...draining the swamp would clearly reveal breathtaking traitorous history.
Illary was/is your choice?
Read again, it’s fundamental.
I was commenting about when i was 11.
But there are always folks looking for a fight around here.
Mercs were a cost saving method.
They are much cheaper than paying the benefits to an enlisted soldier, and easier to deny. Except that once you build up a group of mercs, they tend to stay mercs.
When you make violence a commodity, you make it more widespread.
The Fedgov is pretty stupid here. All the guys who are “contractors” for them now may end up being against them in the near future.
Maybe not news, but for an ADD public - not particularly interested in doing personal research - Assange’s revelation is both timely and useful.
Funny thing is, in this forum we have a cadre of posters, whose paymasters are unknown, and who engage in Alinsky-style tactics against anyone who speaks the truth about such things. They can generally be found in any thread agitating for more of the same, more war etc.
Dems and giving enemys Nukes are like bread and butter
Everyone with more than two brain cells knows Carter and the Shah created this perpetual ME nightmare. Of course, we will now know the details. I am interested in this history.
The oil cris created beautiful cars with zero power. Then in the 80s we got great music and the ugliest automobiles in history. I have an 01 TT 225 bhp fun.. she is getting a check up today, old girl.. so it’s the Hemi and I..
You’ve got three paragraphs. I’m supposed to make that leap?
If true, this is treason. We also committed genocide against Christians.
Completely agree about the cars...completely disagree about the music...Madonna, Flock of Seagulls, Paula Abdul???? Bleck! LOL!
Well there was the cold war at the time.
Carter and the Shah were players, damm their hides but no one or two people are responsible for the mess known as the Middle East. Ottoman empire, the British, the French, US, Russia, nazis Germany, and later China all had a hand in creating this quagmire. The Saudi’s and Gulf oil money has turned much of world into butchers just like satan wants.
We are watching the bible play out, worse is coming before the return of the King, which doesn’t happen till after the Great Tribulation.
All eyes should be on Jerusalem.
Better all know history accurately and even today’s secrets are made public other than those secrets that directly put at risk individuals who are active against our enemies.
Most things labeled “National Security” are measures to prevent powerful people from being locked behind bars or lined up in front of firing squads.
Nothing new here, I remember reading the rise of Islamic Terrorism and it’s origins back in 2001/2002.
once you build up a group of mercs, they tend to stay mercs.
"EDUCATE THE COMMON PEOPLE"
--Thomas Jefferson
And the Truth shall make you free.
You’re right- most Libs I have met, have mental problems- the kind that a pill wouldn’t help- they’re called personality disorders. Pathological liars, narcissists, oppositional defiant disorders— it’s amazing.
But the Liberals have become a cult. An honest to goodness cult. It is another reason logic and the truth does not matter to them. It is why many of them had literal breakdowns when Trump won and began trying to impeach him before he was even sworn in.
So because they cannot be turned, all we can do is outnumber them, and continue to rid ourselves of the GOPe and the Dems in the GOP.
It was a very bad year. The second big gas price shock came in ‘79 as I recall as well.
Friends is not even a relative term. Nations have no friends, only interests.
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