US Guantanamo Detainee Killed in Syria While Leading NATO-Backed Death Squad
The Long War Journal reported in its post, “Former Guantanamo detainee killed while leading jihadist group in Syria,” that:
Ibrahim
Bin Shakaran, a Moroccan who spent more than three years at the
Guantanamo Bay detention facility before being released to Moroccan
custody, has been killed while leading a jihadist group that fights
Syrian government forces.
Bin
Shakaran, who is also known as Abu Ahmad al Maghribi, Abu Ahmad al
Muhajir, and Brahim Benchekroune, was “martyred, Insha’Allah, in battles
for Hilltop # 45 in Latakia,” according to Kavkaz Center, a propaganda arm of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate.
Bin
Shakaran led a jihadist group known as Sham al Islam, which is based in
Latakia and is comprised primarily of fighters from Morocco, according to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Bin Shakaran created the group “not only to recruit fighters for the
Syria war, but also to establish a jihadist organization within Morocco
itself.”
Sham
al Islam has been fighting alongside the al Qaeda’s Syrian branch, the
Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, as well as Ahrar al Sham
and the Army of the Emigrants and Supporters in an ongoing offensive in
the coastal province of Latakia.
Curiously absent from The Long
War Journal’s report is any mention of how Bin Shakaran made it into
northern Syria in the first place. Clearly this is because it would
involve mentioning Turkey, a long-standing NATO member, with NATO being
the organization that invaded and occupied Afghanistan, and whom Bin
Shakaran had been fighting and ultimately fled from before being
captured.
The Long War Journal also makes
mention of the Kavkaz Center, calling it “a propaganda arm of the
Islamic Caucasus Emirate.” Only the Kavkaz Center had been backed by the
now defunct US National Endowment for Democracy-funded ”Russian-Chechen
Friendship Society.” While The Long War Journal poses as a stalwart
fighter of terrorism, its Western-backed counterpart, the Kavkaz Center
is promoting terrorism in Russia.
“The Long War Journal” itself is a project of the Neo-Con Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD). The FDD has counted among its membership US politicians and policy makers such
as current US Vice President Joseph Biden, William Kristol, Steve
Forbes, Charles Krauthammer, Paula Dobriansky – many of whom were
signatories of the now notorious Project for a New American Century and
who had been the chief proponents of the so-called “War on Terror” and
the two costly conflicts fought in its name – the war in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
The detention center in
Guantanamo is part of the “War on Terror’s” legacy, a continuous point
of contention between the US government and rights activists, and
clearly a failure in its alleged role of keeping dangerous terrorists
off the battlefield.
A Pattern That Fits Conspiracy
What Bin Shakaran’s case appears to prove, is that Guantanamo, and
the larger “anti-terror” network maintained by the United States is
instead redirecting terrorists from NATO theaters of operation to
conflict zones NATO is currently unable to directly intervene in. In Bin
Shakaran’s case, that conflict zone is northern Syria. Bin Shakaran is
joined by fellow US detainees like Abdel Hakim Belhadj,
who was fighting NATO troops in Afghanistan, was briefly captured in
Malaysia and tortured by the CIA in Thailand, before then leading a
NATO-backed assault on the Libyan government of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011.Other members of Bin Shakaran’s militant group were also Guantanamo inmates. This includes Moroccan-born Mohammed al Alami who Reuters reported on in their article, “Former Guantanamo prisoner killed in Syria after joining Islamist brigade.” In it, Reuters stated:
A
former prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base died fighting for
anti-government rebels in Syria, according to an Islamist opposition
group which posted a video of his funeral on YouTube.
Reuters would add:Alami, was the second known former Guantanamo detainee to be killed this year, Zelin added. A Saudi second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was killed in a U.S. drone attack in Yemen in July.Throngs of terrorists, whose leaders are former inmates held in US custody, harbored, funded, and armed within NATO territory, and sent into Syria with NATO air and artillery cover fits the pattern of a conspiracy rather than a series of very unlikely coincidences.
It was in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s 2007 article, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” that prophetically stated (emphasis added):
“To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.”
It is more clear than ever, with
the West’s own warmongering policy makers admitting terrorists kept at
their detention centers are now spearheading the fighting in a war of
their own design, that the conspiracy described by Seymour Hersh in 2007
had been executed in earnest in 2011 and is continuing today.
The US and its axis partners are
not waging a “War on Terror,” they are waging a “War of Terror.” While
they will attempt to portray the appearance of Bin Shakaran and others
in Syria as the unfortunate result of poorly planned policy, it was, by
their own admission, all part of the plan, years before the so-called
“Syrian Arab Spring” began.
Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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