In early June this year, Judicial Watch obtained a de-classified document produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, which was sent personally to Hillary Clinton, the State Department, and other top Obama Administration officials. Breitbart.com reported on it a few days later.
Dated in August 2012, this intelligence information
report identified Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) as being one of the principal
elements the U.S. and its allies were supporting in their opposition to
the Assad Government in Syria. It stated that the “Salafists,” Muslim
Brotherhood (MB), and AQI are the major forces driving the insurgency
against the Assad Syrian Government. It noted that AQI was speaking
through the spokesman of the Islamic State of Iraq, Muhammad Al Adnani.
[Al Adnani is now the chief spokesman for the current version of the
Islamic State, also called ISIS. Both the MB and AQI are salafist
organizations—fundamentalist reformers wanting to return to the days of
Muhammad and his companions, the first Caliphs. “Salfafists” as a group
in this context probably refers to the Hamas terrorist group, who are
the backbone of the “Free Syrian Army” insurgents.]
The report said that AQI had supported the Syrian
opposition (rebels) from the beginning, both ideologically and through
the media. AQI declared its opposition to the Assad Government because
it considered it a sectarian regime targeting Sunnis. AQI conducted a
number of operations in several Syrian cities under the name of Jaish Al
Nusra (Victorious Army), one of its affiliates.
The intelligence report also predicted the rise of a
broad Islamic State forming from segments of Al Adnani’s group. [This
group, in fact announced itself to be part of the Islamic State and
Caliphate in June 2014, and Al Adnani was named by the State Department
as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist’ in 2014]
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