STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT –The Biden administration’s immediate attempt to blame terrorist group ISIS-K for last Friday’s terrorist attack outside Moscow has generated suspicion, noted The Critical Hour host Wilmer Leon. “Now we find out that this whole ISIS-K, which was supposed to be created in Afghanistan, that the leader of the organization actually has ties – and numerous ties – to the CIA,” he noted.
“I’m not very surprised,” responded independent journalist Dan Lazare. “There really has been a tangled relationship between al-Qaeda and its various offshoots in US intelligence.”
“A study found out that most of the equipment, ammunition and weaponry that ISIS was using in Syria had come from the US,” he added.
The United States has historically utilized Islamic extremists to help achieve its geopolitical objectives, perhaps most famously when the country backed Islamist “resistance groups” known as the mujahideen in their fight against the the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Some Mujahideen fighters went on to form al-Qaeda, which tragically struck within the United States on September 11, 2001.
More recently the US has backed Islamic extremists in Syria in its effort to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. The country’s destabilization has allowed ISIS to find safe haven, another extremist group that emerged in the aftermath of the United States’ disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq.
“There’s been some very strange overlaps in recent years where ISIS or ISIS-K and its positions have been oddly coincident with those of the US,” said Lazare. “It is very hostile to Hamas, for example, it’s very hostile to Iran, and it’s hostile to Russia.”
