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Yet another top military
leader for the Islamic State, (ISIS), was exposed as having been
trained by the U.S. government — this one as recently as 2014 and on American
soil, according to media reports confirmed as accurate by the U.S. State
Department. The ISIS military leader also said in a video that he was secretly
trained in Russia.
The terror leader in question, Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov (shown
above), who is originally of Tajikistan, is the new “minister of war” for ISIS,
according to my sources. He took over ISIS forces after the previous U.S.
government-trained ISIS military chief, Tarkhan Batirashvili (a.k.a.
Abu Omar al Shishani), was reportedly killed.
U.S. authorities said Khalimov, the
41-year-old new ISIS military chief, received “appropriate vetting” prior to
his advanced military and terror training by the U.S. State Department, including during the terms of
Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. The former Tajik official's involvement
with ISIS apears to have been first reported by CNN last
year, before he became “minister of war” for the terror group.
Critics said the latest revelations highlight
major problems with U.S. foreign policy, as well as serious questions about the
Obama administration's supposed “vetting” capabilities. Indeed, for
generations, the U.S. government has been caught variously arming and training
mass-murdering dictators, terrorist groups, and other unsavory forces — often
with tragic results
The new ISIS military commander began his U.S. government
training in 2003 and continued for more than a decade, according to the U.S.
State Department. It was not immediately clear when exactly his training in
Russia took place, or who exactly was behind it. Before joining ISIS, Khalimov
served as special forces commander for the Interior Ministry of Tajikistan's
brutal regime.
Tajikistan is and has been since the early
1990s ruled by a brutal communist-minded dictatorship led by Emomali Rahmon, the
ruthless former chairman of the “Supreme Soviet” of the ostensibly defunct
Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. Why the U.S. government was training the totalitarian regime's
“security” forces was not immediately clear, nor was the supposed source
of authority for doing so, though the public justification was, ironically,
“terrorism.”
In a
statement, the State Department confirmed its role in training the new ISIS
military chief. “From 2003-2014 Colonel Khalimov participated
in five counter-terrorism training courses in the United States and in
Tajikistan, through the Department of State's Diplomatic
Security/Anti-Terrorism Assistance program,” spokesperson Pooja Jhunjhunwala
explained. “All appropriate Leahy vetting was undertaken in advance of this
training.” The “Leahy” vetting refers to a law sponsored by Senator Patrick
Leahy (D-Vt.) that prohibits U.S. training for military units that violate
human rights with impunity.
Despite some apparent disagreements
with the Kremlin, at least as a show put on for Western authorities,
the Tajik regime and its armed forces have long been very close to Moscow.
Indeed, as of 2002, the authoritarian government has been a member of the
Kremlin-led “Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO),” a formal military
alliance that includes other communist dictatorships and “former” Soviet
states. As stated previously, Khalimov boasted on a widely circulated ISIS
propaganda video of having received military training in Russia, too.
According to the U.S. State Department, the
U.S. federal program through which Khalimov was trained is intended to help
foreign governments and regimes learn the latest “counter-terrorism” tactics.
The ostensible purpose is for those foreign governments and dictatorships to be
able to more effectively battle terror groups and militants such as al Qaeda
and ISIS.
Khalimov reportedly received U.S. government
training in “crisis response, tactical management of special events, tactical
leadership training and related issues,” according to a State Department
official cited by CNN. In a video posted online, Khalimov bragged about how
effective the training he received from Washington, D.C., would be in
butchering Americans.
“Listen,
you American pigs: I've been to America three times. I saw how you train
soldiers to kill Muslims,” the terror leader explains in Russian as part of the
10-minute video, which also includes footage of him using a sniper rifle to
blow up a tomato from about 25 yards away. “You taught your soldiers how to
surround and attack, in order to exterminate Islam and Muslims.... God willing,
we will find your towns, we will come to your homes, and we will kill you.”
CNN interviewed former military officials
warning that, with his U.S. training, Khalimov would be very familiar with
counter-terrorism tactics, protection of VIPs, and more. For U.S. troops
illegally deployed to the region by Obama without a declaration of war,
American and Western diplomatic personnel, persecuted Middle Eastern Christians
facing genocide, and others, that knowledge and skill provided by the U.S.
government could have deadly consequences.
Following his promotion to ISIS military chief,
as reported by numerous media outlets around the world, the U.S. State
Department has now reportedly placed a $3 million bounty on Khalimov's head. An
international arrest warrant has also been issued by the regime in Tajikistan.
But the story gets even more outrageous.
The U.S. government-trained Khalimov is actually replacing another ISIS
military chief who, like his successor, was also trained by the U.S.
government. As The
New American reported last year,
Abu Omar al Shishani, pictured above, a fighter from Chechnya, was trained by U.S. Special
Forces in the nation of Georgia before joining ISIS and eventually becoming a
top military leader before being reportedly killed.
“We trained him well, and we had lots of help
from America,” an unidentified former Georgian defense official told the
McClatchy news agency, which first broke the explosive story. Separately, a former military
comrade of the Shishani described him as a “perfect soldier” and a “star.”
Another member of the Obama administration’s
supposed “anti-ISIS” coalition, the Wahhabi-Islamic dictatorship in Saudi Arabia, which like ISIS also
beheads apostates, played a key role radicalizing the jihadist leader through a
hard-core Islamist mosque it funded near his village. Top U.S. officials later
confirmed that Islamic dictatorships in the gulf were funding and arming ISIS
directly, too.
In other words, without the direct
assistance of key “anti-ISIS” governments — including Washington, D.C. — the
men reputed to be ISIS's most fearsome and skilled military leaders would
almost certainly never have arrived in Syria to wage war on infidels in the
first place. Indeed, as explosive evidence and news reports continue to emerge,
it is becoming increasingly
difficult to tell where ISIS begins and the globalist establishment ends.
As The New American reported
last year, for instance, an official U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency document
from 2012 exposed the fact that the Obama administration
and its allies were supporting the jihadist uprising in Syria — even though
they admitted to knowing that it was led by al-Qaeda and the Muslim
Brotherhood. One of the key
goals was simple, if horrifying: the creation of a fundamentalist Islamic State
in Eastern Syria, referred to as a “salafist principality” in the document but
today known as ISIS. Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton received the
document in 2012, as GOP contender Donald Trump noted when he blasted Obama and Hillary as co-founders of ISIS.
Even before that smoking-gun document
emerged in a lawsuit by Judicial Watch, Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at
Harvard, had admitted that Obama's “anti-ISIS” coalition funded and armed various
terrorist groups in Syria that went on to become ISIS. Later, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chairman Martin Dempsey revealed in Senate testimony that Sunni Arab dictators
in Obama's “anti-ISIS” coalition were not just supporting ISIS — they were funding it.
More recently, former Pentagon DIA intelligence chief Michael
Flynn dropped a bombshell during a TV interview. While distancing himself from
the illegal policies, among other concerns, Flynn blasted the White House's
"willful" support to Islamic terrorists in Syria,
including many on the official U.S. government terror list.
Similar scheming and support by the Obama
administration for designated terror groups occurred in Libya, too. Beyond
supporting Islamic terrorists, Obama has been showering money and
weapons on communist terror groups in Syria and Iraq that are also on the U.S.
State Department's listed of designated terrorist organizations. Practically
every faction fighting in Syria has benefited from support illegally provided
by the Obama administration, including Iraqi allies of Syrian dictator Bashar
al Assad.
Of course, federal terror laws do not provide
exceptions for government officials. It is time for administration officials
involved in the lawlessness to be held accountable.
At the very least, the latest example of a U.S.-trained killer for a
dictatorship becoming a U.S.-trained killer for a terror group illustrates the
utter stupidity of what passes for “foreign policy” in Washington, D.C. At
worst, it is still more evidence of the fact that there is much more to ISIS
and other terror groups than the establishment media and the White House would
like Americans to know. Either way, Congress must hold the executive
branch accountable.
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