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Old August 9th, 2014 #1
Karl Radl
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Default Is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Jewish?

Is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Jewish?


Earlier this week 'Veterans Today' published a piece proclaiming that the leader of ISIS/ISIL/IS and self-appointed Caliph of the Muslim World: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was in fact born a jew and was more over an agent of the Israeli Mossad. (1) The basis for this argument however is supposed revelations from documents whose origin was the infamous NSA turncoat Edward Snowden that have somehow filtered through to Iranian intelligence.

The 'Veterans Today' article alleges that al-Baghdadi's real name is Elliot Shimon (anglicizing it to Simon Elliot) and provides a grainy photos that is alleged (with no supporting evidence I might add) to be Shimon then juxtaposes it with a photo of the man who is alleged to be al-Baghdadi. The problem with this, as I have already intimated, is that we have no evidence whatsoever that the person in the photo used by 'Veterans Today' is Shimon or that there is even an Israeli jew named Elliot Shimon who works for the Mossad.

I would also add that the man who is claimed to be Al-Baghdadi is, in my view, probably not the man himself since it has been similarly reported in Iranian media (who also picked up the al-Baghdadi is a Mossad agent claim from 'Veterans Today') (2) that the man purported to be al-Baghdadi who was preaching in Mosul was not in fact him, but rather ones of his lieutenants named Abu Bakr al-Khatuna. (3)

I am personally inclined to believe this Iranian report since al-Baghdadi deliberately kept himself, his visage and details of his life secret as a pointed security measure (4) since any kind of open public appearance or video immediately gives his enemies (notably the United States) valuable intelligence to enable them to hunt him down with a view to assassination (something he learned from the mistakes of his predecessor Abu Musab al-Zarqawi). (5) It simply makes no sense for him to reveal himself at this juncture: especially as he has got to know that the West would sooner or later intervene militarily against ISIS/ISIL/IS in Syria and Iraq if it continued to be successful (as has now occurred).

It makes much more sense if the man preaching in Mosul was a representative of al-Baghdadi not the man himself as otherwise he is making himself a much easier and less elusive target than he has previously been and repeating the rather obvious mistakes of his predecessor al-Zarqawi.

Are we really to believe that he isn't a 'shrewd strategist' (to use the 'Washington Post' phrase) (6) and just lucky?

No: I think it is far more sensible to view al-Baghdadi as a man who has put a lot of thought into what he is doing and how he is doing it. We can deplore the products and results of his vision, but we cannot and should not regard him as a fool since in so doing we only fool ourselves.

This is a man who has masterminded the takeover of large swathes of Iraq and then had the strategic ability to recognize that moving the heavy weaponry he had captured in Iraq (7) into Syria would allow him to gain military success there by out-gunning the Kurdish forces as well as the Free Syrian Army and the other Islamist rebels while also achieving a measure of military parity with the Syrian Army.

This is a man who understands that to hold territory you have to do more than simply terrorize your opponents: you have to offer a sizable carrot as well as a stick. You have to give people a reason to fight for you other than fear of what you'll do if they don't. Al-Baghdadi has understood this and has actually succeeded where many would not have done so.

Let's be honest that is no mean feat: so why on earth would al-Baghdadi come out into the open now when he is vulnerable to assassination by the attention of numerous intelligence services and military forces?

It simply makes no sense for him to do so.

It is also worth remembering that we have very little real information about al-Baghdadi and what we do have is either probably propagandistic myth-making (for example al-Baghdadi's ancestral connections to the Prophet Mohammed's Quraysh tribe and his 'PhD in Islamic Studies') or confused rumours (for example the fact that no-one seems to know his real name for certain).

As such it is difficult to make any assumptions about al-Baghdadi's past, but rather all we can do at this point is to work with how he is acting and estimate him based upon the realities on the ground.

Arguing that al-Baghdadi is jewish based on a grainy photograph compared to a video still of a man who may or may not be al-Baghdadi is simply absurd.

The fact of the matter is that, as the International Business Times has observed, (8) the 'evidence' simply doesn't stack up and it seems that the reported origin of these claims cannot have actually been the case.

We simply do not know enough about al-Baghdadi, let alone the supposed Mossad operative Elliot Shimon, to be able to even speculate whether the two are one and the same. Until we get some corroborative and verifiable evidence for al-Baghdadi's jewishness and/or Elliot Shimon's existence and his status as a Mossad agent then we simply cannot rationally argue the case that 'Veterans Today' is trying to make.


References


(1) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08...eader-mossad/; also see http://www.globalresearch.ca/isis-le...reveal/5391593
(2) http://www.abna.ir/english/service/i...591/story.html
(3) http://www.abna.ir/english/service/m...272/story.html
(4) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-wanted.html; http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...ihadi-leader/; http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ira...ghdadi-n132311
(5) http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/orig...n-zarqawi.html
(6) http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...jihadi-leader/
(7) http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-...wn-2014-7?op=1
(8) http://www.ibtimes.co.in/isis-leader...parents-606213

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Old August 9th, 2014 #2
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Gordon Duff has been mentioning the jews lately but he aways dissembles about the NAZIS and never mentions the reasons why Germany/Hitler were fighting against international jewery - World Wide Communism.

One look at the number of jews he has on this editorial board and the number of official government agents he has will tell you that Gordon Duff's website is a product of Army Intelligence.

Gordon Duff - Chairman, U.S. Marines, Vietnam, Managing Director, Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland

Lt. General Hamid Gul – Director General ISI (Former Chief of Intelligence Services, Pakistan)

Col. Eugene Khrushchev - Former Soviet/Russian Airborne, Intelligence, PsyOps, First Secretary, Soviet and Russian Embassies, Kabul, Afghanistan, Director of Strategic Planning, Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland

Jim W. Dean – Military Order of World Wars, Association for Intelligence Officers, Senior Vice President, Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland

Col. James Hanke – US Army Special Forces (Ret.) Former G2 Third Army, Attache to Israel, A-Team Leader Vietnam, Director of Operations, Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland

F. William Engdahl – Global Energy Policy Specialist, Strategic Risk Analyst and author

Gwenyth Todd - Former Head, White House National Security Council, Middle East Desk, Chief Political Advisor, US Navy 5th Fleet
Leo Wanta – Former National Director of Intelligence under President Reagan and Inspector General, Department of Defense
 
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