And what is this new and dangerous agenda? It is about no less than the
future of Afghanistan and Central Asia. It is about the US and its
allies clinging to the country, a key foothold in the region, and
wanting to find any pretext to maintain their presence. It is about Iran
and China positioning themselves in the country for the inevitable
moment of US withdrawal and the opening up of Afghanistan’s economy. At
the most basic level, it is about access and influence. And, as usual in
this part of the world, terrorism and extremism are the most potent
weapons.
It is now no secret that ISIS is an asset of western intelligence
agencies and governments. The group has been directly sponsored and
facilitated and/or allowed to develop unhindered in order to serve a
useful purpose in Syria and Iraq. As the now infamous secret 2012 US
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
document
obtained by Judicial Watch revealed, the US has knowingly promoted the
spread of the Islamic State since at least 2012 in order to use it as a
weapon against the Assad government. The document noted that, “… there
is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist
Principality in eastern Syria…and this is exactly what the supporting
powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime,
which is considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and
Iran).”
Moreover, intelligence agencies such as Turkish intelligence agency (MIT) have been
facilitating ISIS militants crossing the border into Syria, as well as
supporting an international network of terrorists to as far away as the Xinjiang province of China.
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