Did the Obama Administration actively help the terrorist group that grew to become ISIS? Thats the implication of a secret memo sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton uncovered by Judicial Watch and pounced on by Donald Trump.
The intelligence information report (IAR) from August 2012 describes active support given al-Qaeda in Iraq the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups driving the insurgency" against the Assad regime in Syria. Al-Qaeda in Iraq (or AQI") would become ISIS.
The memo likely produced by somebody within the Defense Intelligence Agency contained reporting from the field by an intelligence agent says Christopher J. Farrell Director of Investigations and Research for Judicial Watch. Some of the intelligence information on al-Qaeda in Iraq came from Muhammad Al Adnani the spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq who is now the senior spokesman for ISIS. (See the video below.)
The heavily-redacted report goes into great detail about the opposition forces fighting the regime and the imperativeness of those opposition forces including AQI. The memo lists The West Gulf countries and Turkey" as supporting the opposition while Russia China and Iran backed the Syrian regime.
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Did the Obama Administration actively help the terrorist group that grew to become ISIS? Thats the implication of a secret memo sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton uncovered by Judicial Watch and pounced on by Donald Trump.
The intelligence information report (IAR) from August 2012 describes active support given al-Qaeda in Iraq the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups driving the insurgency" against the Assad regime in Syria. Al-Qaeda in Iraq (or AQI") would become ISIS.
The memo likely produced by somebody within the Defense Intelligence Agency contained reporting from the field by an intelligence agent says Christopher J. Farrell Director of Investigations and Research for Judicial Watch. Some of the intelligence information on al-Qaeda in Iraq came from Muhammad Al Adnani the spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq who is now the senior spokesman for ISIS. (See the video below.)
The heavily-redacted report goes into great detail about the opposition forces fighting the regime and the imperativeness of those opposition forces including AQI. The memo lists The West Gulf countries and Turkey" as supporting the opposition while Russia China and Iran backed the Syrian regime.
Read the rest of the article at The Stream