Convicted criminal says U.S. should ally with Al Qaeda

Convicted criminal David Petraeus, who also happens to have served as top U.S. military commander in the Middle East and Afghanistan and director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has suggested the United States ally with Al Qaeda’s branch in Syria to battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Petraeus’s comments come just over a week from America’s observance of the alleged attack by Al Qaeda on the United States on September 11, 2001.

Petraeus, the darling of pro-Israeli neoconservatives like Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, is key to understanding how both Al Qaeda and ISIL are constructs of the neocons’ “global war on terrorism” efforts to commit the United States to a perpetual war against Israel’s enemies. Petraeus’s comments were leaked to the pro-Israeli “Daily Beast.”

While U.S. commander in Iraq, Petraeus provided support to pro-Saudi Sunni militias, many of whom later switched loyalty to Al Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner of ISIL. While CIA director, Petraeus provided weapons from former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s extensive arms caches to jihadist Syrian rebels, including Jabhat al-Nusra, the group that Petraeus wants to to ally America with in its fight against ISIL. In fact, as reported many times by WMR, Al Nusra is allied in Syria and Iraq with ISIL and both have received logistical, weapons, and intelligence support from the Israel Defense Force and Mossad. The new U.S. ambassador to Syria, Michael Ratney, another neocon from the same diplomatic fold that produced his predecessor Robert Ford and Assistant Secretary for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, is currently negotiating alliance deals with jihadist rebels groups in Syria to fight against the government of Bashar al Assad.

Other Syrian groups that have benefited from CIA largesse under both Petraeus and his pro-Saudi/Israeli successor, John Brennan, include the Khorasan Group, an ally of Jabhat al Nusra, as well as Ahrar al-Sham, which wants to create an Islamic state in Syria. In Libya, Petraeus supported the jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia, which was behind the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American diplomatic personnel. Ansar al Sharia is now coordinating its attacks in Libya with Libya’s ISIL branch that has declared Libya a part of the ISIL caliphate.

In April of this year, Petraeus was convicted by federal judge David Kessler for giving classified material to his biographer and paramour Paula Broadwell. Petraeus pleaded guilty to a count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material and he was sentenced to two years’ probation and fined $40,000. He is now re-establishing his formerly high profile thanks to a media that is dominated by neocons and Israeli propagandists who favor America getting on board with Israel’s longtime support for the Al Qaeda “bogeyman” in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, and other countries. Israel’s support for both Al Qaeda and ISIL is part of its historical penchant for dividing and conquering the Arab and Muslim worlds through a constant “strategy of tension” and “clash of civilizations” between the West and Islam.

However, after the issue of some Americans being more loyal to Israel than to the United States arise in the debate over President Obama’s desire to implement the P5+1 nuclear pact with Iran, the power of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to direct American foreign policy has waned. This has become apparent as the U.S. Congress has rallied to support Obama and ensure that his veto of an AIPAC-inspired resolution to oppose the P5+1 deal with be sustained by both houses of the Congress.

Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.

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