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U.S. Mobilizes Allies to Widen Assault on ISIS

Specialops.org (Elite Magazine for Elite Warriors) reports:

"Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials. The officials said dozens of ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The officials said the training was not meant to be used for any future campaign in Iraq.

The Jordanian officials said all ISIS members who received U.S. training to fight in Syria were first vetted for any links to extremist groups like al-Qaida."

Now, there are reports that the CIA is forming new hit squads to use ISIS tactics against ISIS with an ISIS-like assassination offensive, to "cut off the head of the snake." (Sounds like beheading doesn't it?) Shh!

Sounds like we are headed back to the dark side with killings, torture, renditions, secret sites etc. Will that long awaited CIA report be now be seen as a manual for more of the same?

The last time the US organized assassination teams in Iraq, it didn't work out that well, And guess who else was involved?

" Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/09/iraq.israel

"Israel helping train US special forces in aggressive counter-insurgency (CI) operations in Iraq, including the use of assassination squads against guerrilla leaders, US intelligence and military sources said yesterday...The new CI unit made up of elite troops being put together in the Pentagon is called Task Force 121, New Yorker magazine reported... One of the planners, highly controversial ..Lt. Ge. William "Jerry" Boykin...with calls for his resignation after he told an Oregon congregation the US was at war with Satan who "wants to destroy us as a Christian army". "

Ten Years later, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported U.S. training Syrian rebels in Jordan."3/10/13

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/10/us-syria-crisis-rebels-usa

And so it goes, as once again, around and around, we become more and more like the enemy we warn against.

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