ISIS HYPE: False Threats, Staged Executions, While Israel ‘Expands’
September 10, 2014
By Shawn Helton, 21st Century Wire
As the black-clad terror troupe ISIS rages on, its ‘greater’ role concerning the policy planning of those in Washington, Tel Aviv and Britain is rapidly being revealed. This is a world in hyper-drive-destruction, and the propaganda machine is in full swing while approaching the 13th anniversary of 9/11.
It can no longer be denied that the chaos caused by ISIS has not also benefited the transnational corporate interests intertwined within the US-NATO-Israeli-GCC alliance. Whether its through the recent beheading videos that appear to be staged, the social media frenzy surrounding the #ISIS hashtag revolution, or Israel’s largest land grab in 30 years, the timing of the ISIS phenomenon has to be looked at more closely.
The Sunni extremists of the Islamic State, in the eyes of the West, seem to have been assigned a rather large part in shaping the future landscape of the Middle East.
The sudden rise of ISIS militants was not by accident, just as it is was no accident that their apparent death march was timed with the pressurized resignation of former Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki. No matter how you slice it, ISIS has enabled Western policy planners to pursue a more direct route to intervene and destabilize Iraq and possibly Syria.
IMAGE: ‘Terror control’ – UK Home Secretary Theresa May (photo theguardian.com)
UK Home Secretary Theresa May, recently announced that a terror attack within the UK is ‘highly likely’ without confirming any specific or imminent threat made against the sovereign state. The Home Secretary is the Cabinet Minister in charge of state security and has been involved in some interesting tangles as of late, seemingly fowling up a major child abuse investigation within the UK by bringing in an organization that itself has had links to abuse. Additionally, she’s been embroiled in political upheaval over the subsequent ‘Trojan Horse’ Islamic school takeover plot that was reported on earlier this year.
With the UK terror threat on high-alert, May commented on the swell of ISIS following the alleged beheading of American journalist James Foley, prior to learning about American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff‘s apparently deceptive decapitation:
“The increase in the threat level is related to developments in Syria and Iraq where terrorist groups are planning attacks against the West. Some of those plots are likely to involve foreign fighters who have traveled there from the UK and Europe to take part in those conflicts.”
As the UK raised terror threat levels to severe, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Jeh Johnson stated that the agency was “unaware of any specific, credible threat to the U.S. homeland.” This seemed to echo an FBI threat assessment from 2013, that seems more preoccupied with homegrown concerns, excluding militants abroad. Here is an excerpt from the Freebeacon:
“The internal FBI intelligence report concluded in its 2013 assessment published this month that the threat to U.S. internal security from extremists is limited to attacks and activities by eight types of domestic extremist movements—none motivated by radical Islam.”
Among those on the top of the FBI threat list were those with anti-government views. Ironically, neither the DHS or FBI mentioned the country’s porous border situation as a threat to national security. The government watchdog group Judicial Watch, published a report that completely contradicted other security agencies, stating that:
“High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued. Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat.”
Only time will tell which report will be accurate but one thing is for sure, if something does happen, it will be used as a pretext for future war campaigns for decades.
The engineered ‘terror’ of ISIS
The timing and predictable reaction of the UK government regarding the seemingly botched execution videos appear to fall in line with the phony chemical weapons narrative that came out of Syria in August of 2013.
Over the past two weeks, there was a very real shift in media focus to transplant the ISIS threat in Iraq into that of war-torn Syria. The alleged brutal beheadings of both Foley and Sotloff have been used by Western media to sway public opinion, preemptively prepping the public for future western-backed war theater - and this is just the beginning of the propaganda push.
IMAGE: ‘Without blood’ Journalist’s James Foley and Steven Sotloff seen before their seemingly staged executions (Photo dailynews.com)
In a news release from the UK’s Telegraph, writer Bill Gardner, remarked on the peculiar Islamic State video that allegedly featured Foley’s death:
“Forensic analysis of the footage of the journalist’s death has suggested that the British jihadist in the film may have been the frontman rather than the killer.
The clip, which apparently depicts Mr Foley’s brutal beheading, has been widely seen as a propaganda coup for Islamic State miltant group.
But a study of the four-minute 40-second clip, carried out by an international forensic science company which has worked for police forces across Britain, suggested camera trickery and slick post-production techniques appear to have been used.”
Forensic experts go on to discuss the lack of blood during the apparent execution:
“After enhancements, the knife can be seen to be drawn across the upper neck at least six times, with no blood evidence to the point the picture fades to black.”
This prompted an expert who was commissioned to examine the video under anonymity to state, “I think it has been staged,” suggesting that several things don’t make sense, such as the sound expected to be heard coming from Foley during the supposedly savage attack in addition to his lack of emotion.
Moreover, there were other elements of the video that didn’t quite add up, and details not discussed in the Telegraph article.
The most obvious discrepancy in the video – is that it appeared to be shot in front of a green screen. Foley in particular looked superimposed in the foreground rather than naturally integrated within the picture plane.
Other reports have questioned the authenticity of Foley’s death scene, claiming that it looked as though a CPR doll was inserted in his place when examining a frame by frame of the video. Many have also acknowledged that the knife used in the execution scene was suspect as well.
Here’s a YouTube video suggesting that Foley’s brother and sister seen in an interview with Katie Couric, were displaying micro-expressions referred to as ‘duping delight’ after learning of their brother’s apparent death. Witness the misplaced emotion for yourself…
There were other anomalies in the video allegedly featuring Sotloff’s decapitation, as noted in a recent special report by 21wire:
“Sotloff’s video is shot with at least two cameras, with camera one supplying a close-up of Steven, and camera two providing a pull-back shot at a 45º angle towards Sotloff’s lefthand side. Camera two gives us some idea of camera one’s position – at least 10 feet in front of Sotloff (see video below).
Both the Foley and the Sotloff videos suggest that the alleged victims’ monologues were memorized, or even delivered ad lib. Both are possibilities. Sotloff’s opening 10 minute diatribe is clearly reciting from a script, however camera two’s position would suggest that there were no cue cards or a teleprompter close enough to read. Weather conditions show heavy winds, so no flip pads or cue cards.”
While there is much to question in the videos of Foley and Sotloff, the lack of proof, the contradictory physical evidence, one thing is sure, we’ve been purposely steered away from looking for the forensic truth. The government engineered media spin on both seemingly staged videos, is eerily similar to that of anyone questioning the official narrative of 9/11.
The idea that Scotland Yard has made it a criminal offense to merely analyze the videos for their authenticity, is not indicative of a free society.
Another key aspect of the questionable videos, is the company that often seems to be procuring terror footage for its prime-time reveal across the globe. The company known as SITE is an offshoot of Pentagon linked Intel Center and has a suspicious connection between government agencies and terrorist organizations, as pointed out here at 21WIRE:
“Part of the ISIS PR magic is because the Islamic terror outfit seems to have a media super pipeline in SITE. In the past, SITE has managed to gain exclusivity to all high-profile al Qaeda, al Shabaab, Boko Haram, and other popular terrorists brands. Now they are trafficking in ‘ISIS’ videos.”
“Both SITE and Intel Center have been repeatedly accused of distributing completely fake al Qaeda videos at what can only be described as politically convenient times, in order to manipulate public opinion, particularly American opinion.”
You can see how both Foley and Sotloff might have become a part of this theatrical web given their affiliation to media organizations and other agencies. Foley is said to have worked for CIA front organization USAID, while Sotloff separately, published on location stories about arms and rebel fighters being shipped from Libya to Syria in 2012.
Did both men have a deeper link to the intelligence community?
IMAGE: ‘Stage-managed terror’ - Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary aka ‘L Jinny’ aka ‘Abu Kalashnikov’ aka ‘Jihadi John’ aka ‘John the Beatle’ is the suspected executioner seen with Foley and Sotloff (Photo dnd.com)
Cracked actor ‘Jihadi John’
The Daily Mail reported that London rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, also known as ‘Jihadi John’ was behind the apparent executions of Foley and Sotloff without any forensic proof. According to reports, he was quickly identified by MI5 and MI6 as the main suspect in both highly theatrical events. The former rapper is said to have left his affluent West London family home, relocating to join militants within proxy ravaged Syria.
Bary’s father, is stated to have been an Islamic extremist named Adel Abdul Bary, and was known as one of Osama Bin Laden’s closest lieutenants, according to US authorities. Of course, it is widely known that Bin Laden, a Saudi ‘businessman’ who recruited the mujahedeen fighters that became al-Qaeda, was an intelligence linked asset for the CIA. Following the end of his United States-backed mission in Afghanistan, Bin Laden, set up operations in Sudan where he apparently owned 35 companies, helping to construct much of the infrastructure around the capital, Khartoum.
IMAGE: ‘Living in luxury’ - Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary’s family home in well-to-do Maida Vale in West London (Photo standard.co.uk)
In a report here at 21WIRE two weeks ago, we learned that ISIS recruiter’s had been busy handing out stylized propaganda leaflets in order to encourage those living in London to relocate to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State.
It has been reported that Bary was indoctrinated by the contemptible preacher Anjem Choudary. There are accounts alleging that Choudary enabled Bary to join ISIS militants within Syria. It has been well documented that Choudary and Omar Bakri the founders of Al-Muhajiroun, a terror labeled organization,are linked to British intelligence. Former US Army Intelligence Officer and Justice Department prosecutor, John Loftus, stated that, Al-Muhajiroun did in fact have ties to British intelligence, as was reported by the Guardian back in 2005:
“The former US federal prosecutor John Loftus reported that British intelligence had used the al-Muhajiroun group in London to recruit Islamist militants with British passports for the war against the Serbs in Kosovo.”
It was reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, that Bary’s father was an Egyptian-born militant that was involved in the well-known 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. It was later revealed, that the double embassy attacks were a product of manufactured terror.
Over the years, given Bary’s family pedigree, It would stand to reason that British agents would have kept a close eye on him:
“Bary is the son of an Egyptian-born militant who is awaiting trial on terrorism charges in Manhattan, due to his alleged involvement in the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.”
It has been stated that the apparent Al Qaeda mastermind behind the twin bombings in 98′ was possibly a double agent known as Ali A Mohamed, also known as Ali “the American,” as reported in a Global Research article from 2012 entitled, “Kenyan False Flag Bomb Plot Aimed At Tightening Sanctions Noose on Iran:
“It then transpired that the alleged Al Qaeda bomber had an impeccable US military service record, having trained at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and later working as an instructor in explosives at the John F Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School until 1989.”
The article goes on to discuss how black sites are favored by the US, Britain and Israel, as they render young men suspected of jihadist activities, later transferring these same men into proxy hot zones throughout the world. Some think that these renditions are used to place operatives back in the field under intelligence control.
Was Bary is an operator working on behalf of British intelligence, given his affiliation with Al-Muhajiroun, one might think so?
To provide a background on the existence of state-sponsored terror using proxy agents, here’s a YouTube clip of a BBC documentary entitled Operation Gladio. It describes how a secret army operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO was used…
Could it be that British intelligence is also connected to the operational capacity of ISIS in a manner similar to Operation Gladio now?
On August 15th, the London Evening Standard ran an article appearing to prep the public for the rap celebrity turned ISIS executioner, displaying a picture supposedly making the rounds on twitter featuring bary holding a severed head. The article entitled, “Abdel Bary: the rising rap star who rejected drugs and chose jihad instead,” went on to share critical background information about the former rapper:
“Bary, the son of a high-profile terror suspect, was a rising rapper whose tracks have been played several times on BBC radio stations. He was raised in a Maida Vale council-owned home worth £1 million. His appearance on the scene raises difficult questions for the security services.”
“Bary’s father Adel, an Egyptian militant born in 1960 who had been granted refugee status after being repeatedly imprisoned and tortured in his homeland. However, Adel was then extradited from Britain to the US on terrorism charges two years ago, where he is awaiting trial in connection with the 1998 Embassy bombings in East Africa, in which 224 people died. He is accused of being a senior associate of Osama Bin Laden in the early days of al Qaeda and running the terror network’s London cell.”
Bary appears to have been fairly well-connected in the music industry, culminating with him being featured on BBC radio 1 in 2012. Given that Bary had gained a certain amount of notoriety with his music, how was it possible for him to quietly slide into joining up with other militants in Syria without drawing any attention?
Strangely, Bary has also been named as being linked to the husband of a British Rocker mom turned Jihadist, calling herself Umm Hussain al-Britani. The surreal connection of British music and terror related activities is a bizarre side note in this tale.
Below is a YouTube video depicting Bary’s rap persona L Jinny performing over the top of a popular song by internationally known British band XX. Did this man leave a comfortable life and emerging career to go to join militants in war-torn Syria? Decide for yourself…
Although the UK Foreign Office believes that hundreds of British-born citizens have made their way to Syria since the ISIS uprising made headlines, its important to remember that ISIS, ISIL and now more recently dubbed IS, began fighting in Iraq not Syria, with the Sunni tribes referred to as the Awakening Council, that were rebranded as the Sons of Iraq - later becoming members of ISIS.
The US military had been paying salaries to many of the tribal fighters that had apparent ties to Al-Qaeda. We’ve been told that “by 2013 the Sons of Iraq were virtually non-existent,” this appeared to be around the same time a revised terror narrative took hold in the press regarding the rise of ISIS militants. It was these same tribal factions that were rooted in Sons of Iraq and ISIS that threatened to ‘burn’ Iraq “after not doing well in elections” in 2009.
Former Awakening Council leader Nathum al-Jubouri who had quit back in 2010, explained the role that ‘Awakenings’ were to have in unraveling certain regions:
“The Awakening doesn’t know what the future holds because it is not clear what the government intends for them,” adding, “At this point, Awakening members have two options: Stay with the government, which would be a threat to their lives, or help Al Qaeda by being a double agent, ” he then summarized the terror connection, “The Awakening is like a database for Al Qaeda that can be used to target places that had been out of reach before.”
If we look at the past few months, we should remember that on June 22nd, the UK’s Telegraph reported that some 500 British-born fighters apparently made their way to fight alongside ISIS - in addition to 15 Somali-Americans, according to intelligence reports at the time. More recently, it has been stated that over a 100 US citizens have supposedly joined up to fight with ISIS, along with the the first wave of American fighters reported.
In a recent Newsweek piece, it was stated that, “Khalid Mahmood, the MP for Perry Barr in Birmingham, estimates that at least 1,500 young British Muslims have been recruited by extremists fighting in Iraq and Syria in the last three years.”
IMAGE: ‘The Devil in the details’ – One of the founders of Al-Muhajiroun, Anjem Choudary, appears to be inextricably linked to British intelligence and the 7/7 bombings in London (Photo link counterjihadreport.com)
British agents cloaked in plain sight
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