if only you applied the same rigorous skepticism toward articles like that this that you do toward the mainstream media
The curious fact is that despite being on the US most wanted list since 2003, Douri has miraculously managed to avoid capture and now to return with a vengeance to retake huge parts of Sunni Iraq. Luck or well-placed friends in Washington?
a rhetorical question isn't a fact. the author simply doesn't know one way or the other how he avoided capture - but that doesn't help his narrative, so he implies
The financial backing for ISIS jihadists reportedly also comes from three of the closest US allies in the Sunni world—Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
from their governments, and with the full knowledge and support of the US, or from rich Kuwaiti, Qatari and Saudi individuals without that knowledge of support? the author doesn't know this either - but once again this doesn't help his narrative, so more implying
Key members of ISIS it now emerges were trained by US CIA and Special Forces command at a secret camp in Jordan in 2012, according to informed Jordanian officials.
"officials said..."
Robert Fisk does a great hatchet job on the "officials said" school of spoon-fed journalism. perhaps you should go find it and read it
Advertised publicly as training of ‘non-extremist’ Muslim jihadists to wage war against the Syrian Bashar Assad regime, the secret US training camps in Jordan and elsewhere have trained perhaps several thousand Muslim fighters in techniques of irregular warfare, sabotage and general terror. The claims by Washington that they took special care not to train ‘Salafist’ or jihadist extremists, is a joke. How do you test if a recruit is not a jihadist? Is there a special jihad DNA that the CIA doctors have discovered?
these training camps are apparently both "advertised publicly" and "secret" according to the author. given that their existence has been reported on before (as the Reuters article linked on the first page of this thread mentions) I'm gonna go with "advertised". The word "secret" here is a dog-whistle term designed to catch the attention of conspiracy theorists (successfully, if you're anything to go by). on this occasion it primes the reader to accept unquestioningly the author's claims about "[training]... in techniques of irregular warfare, sabotage and general terror" (how does he know this what they're being trained in, if these camps are "secret"?) and to switch off their critical faculties when faced with yet another rhetorical question ("jihad DNA")
Former US State Department official Andrew Doran wrote in the conservative National Review magazine that some ISIS warriors also hold US passports. Now, of course that doesn’t demonstrate support by the Obama Administration. Hmm...
No, it doesn't. In the same way driving down to Tijuana to get shitfaced on tequila on a US passport doesn't "demonstrate support" by the Obama administration. Because it doesn't. Hmm... indeed.
this is just shit journalism. if the same kind of question-begging, inductive-collage-making, officials-said-ist claptrap had appeared in the pages of the same National Review mentioned above, you'd dismiss it as obvious propaganda
and don't even get me started on this turd of an article:
http://topinfopost.com/2014/10/12/isis- ... a-creation
Shot in high-def, with perfect cinematic lightening, the beheading videos are setup to generate a visceral feeling of horror and terror.
as opposed to those beheading videos setup to generate mellow feelings of calm and well-being...
Its name: Islamic State in Syria, or ISIS. The name itself is symbolic and revealing. Why is an “Islamic” group named after an Ancient Egyptian goddess? Perhaps because it is a favorite figure of the occult elite – the true culprits that are behind the horrors of ISIS.
wtf
