Back in 2015, in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS, I noted that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was aiding the Islamic State in the ultimate hope of co-opting its caliphate and making it part of his own revived Ottoman caliphate. Even though the Islamic State has suffered severe losses in Iraq and Syria, Erdogan has not given up on that hope.
“Police Chief: Turkey Fueling Islamic State Pipeline to Iraq,” by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Breitbart, October 25, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is helping the Islamic State (ISIS) rebuild a clandestine terror network inside Iraq that poses an ongoing security threat, according to Iraqi National Police Brigadier General Aref al-Zebari.
In an interview in his Mosul office, General Zebari detailed a series of recent arrests of ISIS fighters who had gone to ground in the Mosul area after the end of major military operations last year.
“We found one cell of seventeen fighters trying to reconstitute themselves into an active terror cell,” General Zebari said. “When we arrested them, they were carrying fake IDs, money, weapons, and communications equipment. They told our interrogators, ’our leaders are in Turkey.’”
ISIS continues to be led by foreign fighters – Chechens, Afghans, Syrians, and Pakistanis – based inside Turkey, General Zebari said: “Here in Mosul, they are moving into new neighborhoods. During the occupation, there were around 30,000 to 35,000 ISIS fighters in Mosul. Of those, 7,000 were killed, 7,000 escaped, and 7,000 we arrested. We believe around three to four hundred remain underground.”
To avoid attracting attention to their activities, he noted, ISIS is increasingly using women as couriers. “Just two weeks ago, we arrested a woman who was distributing money to ISIS families in and around Mosul,” General Zebari said. “She told us that her leader was in Turkey.”
“In recent months, we have arrested forty women just in our sector, which is East Mosul. These women are being used to reconstitute ISIS and handle communications, logistics, messages, and money. They were protected and aided by the Turkish government,” he said.
Asked about reports that Turkish President Erdogan’s daughter had built hospitals just inside Turkey along the Syrian border to treat wounded ISIS fighters, General Zebari was unequivocal. “That is true. We see an ongoing pipeline to ISIS from Turkey. If ISIS reappears, it will be because of Turkey.”
On the upside, General Zebari believes that ISIS is finished in Mosul itself. “The people have rejected ISIS and inform us of their movements,” General Zebari said….
David, Thailand says
Quite amusing that he’s using European and American money to help the Islamic State.
If anyone is still interested in uncomfortable truths, western leaders are either dumb or betraying their people; and not that it matters much, but this reflects less than well upon the fools that elected them.
Marco says
So sad finding our own demise. Tears for my progeny.
mortimer says
The US and Iraq should create Kurdistan a semi-autonomous republic within Iraq and then create AIRFIELDS and military bases within it. The Americans can then move most of its materiel from Turkey and fight the ‘war on terror’ on site.
The Kurds will be among America’s staunchest allies ever.
Avenger says
I’m confused Mort. I thought Saudi Arabia and Turkey were America’s staunchest allies! They have been for decades and for decades they have been responsible for the murder of Christians, Jews, Yashides etc. Your wonderful Kurds, who during the Armenian genocide not only murdered thousands of Christian Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks, were by all accounts more efficient-sinister killers than even their Turkish brothers.
gravenimage says
Saudi Arabia and Turkey are not our allies.
christianblood says
Osama Bin-Laden was America’s staunchest ally and its most important hero before he turned against them and murdered 3000 of them on a single day!!! However, US is still dancing with Bin-Ladens shitting on the graves of their 3000 dead!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f35TUFmCtYY
gravenimage says
christianblood continues to claim that Osama bin Laden was every American’s hero. What utter tripe.
Sons of Liberty says
David , Thailand ….Sad to say you are right ! Our leaders in the US still don’t understand that Muslims anywhere play us for fools. They lie and play both sides of the fence,….always ,…..while deceiving the infidels ! Did we expect Turkey under Erdogan to actually work with us ? The Turks and Saudis use the US to achieve THEIR OWN AGENDA ,….NOT OURS.
christianblood says
(..Iraqi National Police General says Turkey is helping the Islamic State rebuild in Iraq..)
And so is the USA and its pro-jihadist allies, like the Saudis, UK and France!
Also reported last week is that US and its Saudi and Western allies gave terrorists in Syria modern equipment, including radio electronic tools, and even a direct support from advisers and more sophisticated techs! It is also reported by the Russian MoD that a US spy plane coordinated a drone attack on Russia’s Syria base in January this year and Russian military has prove for this collaboration between a US spy plane and the terrorists in Syria! Please read more of this news pieces on the links below::
https://www.rt.com/news/442219-kremlin-attack-us-syria/
https://southfront.org/terrorists-are-monitoring-radio-frequencies-used-by-russian-aricraft-in-syria-russian-media/
mortimer says
Dezinphormatsiya.
gravenimage says
Of course, it makes no sense that the US would destroy ISIS’s “Caliphate” and then rebuild it. But then, christianblood has claimed that ISIS is actually America and Israel.
christianblood says
gravenimage
US uses ISIS and Al-Qaeda and othet jihadist groups for its own very STUPID political short term agendas and every now and then it back fires on them like it did on 9/11 when their favorite jihadist terrorist (UBL) attacked them and killed 3000 of them!
Let us all remember that Osama Bin-Laden was America’s hero before he turned America’s most wanted! More below:
http://theduran.com/osama-a-hero-turned-most-wanted/
gravenimage says
More sneering at victims of Jihad–it is all their own fault.
christianblood has said before that he wants to see the West conquered by Muslims.
christianblood says
gravenimage
Are you denying that Osama Bin-Laden was America’s most important hero in the eighties? And that today, the head-chopping, savage Saudis are America’s mot important allies? USA=ISIS! I absolutely see NO difference!
http://theduran.com/osama-a-hero-turned-most-wanted/
gravenimage says
The claim that Osama bin Laden was”America’s most important hero in the eighties” is ridiculous.
Note that this article was written by a Muslim.
And claiming that life in the United States is no different from life in the Islamic State is utterly ludicrous.
Halal bacon says
helping is an understatement, the chosen one, Sultan Erdo Buddy Buddy’s kids are the ISIL trucking company for oil
mortimer says
HB is correct. The KLEPTOCRACY of Turkey is getting fat from oil revenues by selling cheap oil from ISIS. Turkey did not stop helping ISIS throughout the conflict.
There must be a doctrine in place of BALANCE OF THREATS to keep various states from getting ideas against their neighbors. What better way than to encourage internal insurgencies?
This fighting wars by PROXY.
Avenger says
The US State Department knows full well of this money for oil exchange. The US actually encourages selling this stolen oil because it infuses the USA’s own Al-Qaeda allies with quick cash. The Bushes, Obama (Hillary) and now Trump, all kiss Sunni ass. All those Saudi Kings and Princes have such warm reassuring smiles.
gravenimage says
What a load of tripe. Citations, please.
christianblood says
Avenger posted
(..he US State Department knows full well of this money for oil exchange. The US actually encourages selling this stolen oil because it infuses the USA’s own Al-Qaeda allies with quick cash. The Bushes, Obama (Hillary) and now Trump, all kiss Sunni ass..)
Very well-said!
USA=ISIS!
I see NO difference between the two!
gravenimage says
Of course, christianblood cannot say in what way the US is ISIS, either.
Georgiann Maloney says
Well, we keep pretending that it is the “Free Syrian Army”. Obama started this mess doe his “Arab Spring” and Trump is not smart enough to get the hell out. Assad is not much fun, but he is somewhat better than the opposition groups. We just don’t have a good dog in this fight.
Indiana Tom says
A lot of people make money off ISIS and a lot of people use ISIS to further their ends.
Avenger says
The US State Department used the Taliban in the same way and that has worked out really well for the 2,400 dead American soldiers and another 24,000 maimed and wounded by our former muslim allies.
Our US State Department, under any recent Presidency, doesn’t give a half shit about our men in uniform.
gravenimage says
Iraqi National Police General says Turkey is helping the Islamic State rebuild in Iraq
……………….
Why are these thugs still in NATO?