Tony Cartalucci
Activist Post
Image: FBI's latest entrapped patsy, Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, a
U.S. citizen, attempted to join Al Qaeda's Syrian franchise, Jabhat
al-Nusra. The irony is, as Tounisi is charged with attempting to provide
material support to a foreign terrorist organization, the US State
Department has announced an additional $123 million in military aid to
these very same terrorists.
As the FBI reels from
its bungled Boston bombing case,
where the suspects turned out to have been contacted and perhaps
monitored (even directed) by the FBI up to 2 years prior to the attacks,
the Chicago Tribune has now reported of yet another bizarre FBI
entrapment case hyped as a "foiled" would-be terrorist.
In its article, "
FBI: Aurora man wanted to join al-Qaida in Syria," the Chicago Tribune would report:
An 18-year-old Aurora man with ties to a foiled attempt last year to
bomb a downtown Chicago bar was arrested as he was about to travel to
the Middle East to join the al-Qaida terrorist network, federal
officials said Saturday.
Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, a U.S. citizen, was held without bail Saturday
after being arrested the night before at O'Hare International Airport,
where he was about to board an airplane to Istanbul, Turkey, FBI
officials said in a press release.
Bizarre, considering US ally and NATO-member Turkey has hosted thousands
of other known terrorists passing through Turkish territory to invade
Syria, and even facilitated their activities along with US CIA agents
near the Turkish-Syrian border since the conflict in Syria began in
2011.
The Chicago Tribune would specifically mention Al Qaeda's Syrian franchise, Jahbat al-Nusra:
Tounisi had hoped to eventually join a jihadist militant group operating
inside Syria called Jabhat al-Nusrah, according to a federal complaint
unsealed Saturday and filed in U.S. District Court. The organization
is an alias for al-Qaida in Iraq, the complaint said.
Tounisi had the year before, assisted another FBI-entrapped patsy. The Chicago Tribune reports:
According to the complaint, Tounisi was a close friend of Daoud, who on
Sept. 14, 2012, traveled into Chicago with an undercover agent who
brought him to a Jeep that had an inert explosive device in it,
officials have said.
Daoud allegedly drove the Jeep to the target — identified by the
Tribune as the Cactus Bar & Grill at 404 S. Wells St. — and walked
to an alley a block away, where he pulled a triggering device he
thought would explode the vehicle, authorities said. The bomb never
exploded and Daoud was apprehended and is being held without bail.
“Tounisi and Daoud appeared to share an interest in violent jihad, a
topic about which the two exchanged a number of emails, phone calls, and
text messages,” according to the complaint filed Saturday.
FBI officials said that in preparation for last year's foiled attack,
Tounisi had “recommended certain attack techniques, offered ideas about
targeting, and researched those locations online to analyze their
feasibility.”
While Daoud allegedly continued his role in the plot, Tounisi backed
out in mid-August because he suspected that the person Daoud was
working with was an undercover law enforcement officer, according to
the complaint. Daoud told the undercover officer that Tounisi wanted to
go overseas and join a terrorist group.
According to the complaint, hours after Daoud was arrested, Tounisi was
interviewed by FBI agents “and admitted to assisting Daoud in target
selection and acknowledged that he had contemplated traveling to Yemen
to carry out jihad.”
After Daoud's arrest, Tounisi allegedly continued to research travel to
Syria and terrorist organizations. He also applied for and obtained a
new passport, officials said.
Perhaps most ironic of all is what Tounisi
is being charged with:
He was was charged with attempting to provide material support to a
foreign terrorist organization, a felony offense that could bring 15
years in federal prison.
This is particularly ironic because US Secretary of State John Kerry has just announced an additional
$123 million in military aid
that is headed directly to this very same foreign terrorist
organization, Jahbat al-Nusra - and unlike Tounisi, Kerry and his
collaborators are not being charged with attempting to provide material
support to a foreign terrorist organization.
US is Funding, Arming Jabhat al-Nusra
The FBI's bizarre entrapment racket is revealed to be a nationwide
operation with multiple patsies being cultivated at any given time, with
FBI agents literally running around the country with bombs, weapons,
vehicles and would-be terrorists carrying out attacks only to be foiled
at the last possible moment. That FBI agents have now arrested a target
attempting to join a terrorist group who owes its continued existence
in Syria to the US, British, French, Saudi, and Qatari governments,
tells the tale of "War on Terror" out of control - inspiring hapless
would-be terrorists and real threats alike.
While the US maintains that the inception and expansion of Al Qaeda in
Syria is merely an unintended consequence of a spontaneous crisis in
Syria, it was reported as early as 2007 that the US, Saudi Arabia, and
Israel plotted to arm and fund Al Qaeda affiliated sectarian extremists
to overthrow the government of Syria in a sectarian-driven bloodbath.
In Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh's 2007 New Yorker
article, "
The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?" the strategy was described as follows:
To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush
Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in
the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has cooperated with
Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations
that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is
backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations
aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has
been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant
vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
It is now revealed that the US CIA is working along Syria's borders,
funneling cash, equipment, supplies, and thousands of tons of weapons
into Syria. It would be these very CIA agents, the FBI's witless patsy,
Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, would have passed on his way to slaughter
Syrians alongside Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists.
The New York Times in their article titled, "
Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With C.I.A. Aid," admits that:
With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply
increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent
months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the
uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic
data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts of
rebel commanders.
The airlift, which began on a small scale in early 2012 and continued
intermittently through last fall, expanded into a steady and much
heavier flow late last year, the data shows. It has grown to include
more than 160 military cargo flights by Jordanian, Saudi and Qatari
military-style cargo planes landing at Esenboga Airport near Ankara,
and, to a lesser degree, at other Turkish and Jordanian airports.
The New York Times piece attempts to spin America's role in arming militants in Syria. The Times continues by stating:
The American government became involved, the former American official
said, in part because there was a sense that other states would arm the
rebels anyhow. The C.I.A. role in facilitating the shipments, he said,
gave the United States a degree of influence over the process,
including trying to steer weapons away from Islamist groups and
persuading donors to withhold portable antiaircraft missiles that might
be used in future terrorist attacks on civilian aircraft.
However, this contradicts both documented intentions reported by the New
Yorker's Seymour Hersh in 2007, and the strategic realities on the
ground in Syria today. While the US claims it is "steering weapons away
from Islamist groups," the US State Department admits that al-Nusra,
(listed by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization),
operates in every major Syrian city, has carried out hundreds of
terrorist operations since 2011, and is clearly the most prominent
militant group in Syria today.
The official US State Department statement announcing al-Nusra as a foreign terrorist organization and an alias of Al Qaeda in Iraq stated:
Since November 2011, al-Nusrah Front has claimed nearly 600 attacks –
ranging from more than 40 suicide attacks to small arms and improvised
explosive device operations – in major city centers including Damascus,
Aleppo, Hamah, Dara, Homs, Idlib, and Dayr al-Zawr. During these
attacks numerous innocent Syrians have been killed.
Western media would elaborate on the prominence al-Nusra has achieved in
Syria's 2 year-long conflict. The New York Times' article "
Syrian Rebels Tied to Al Qaeda Play Key Role in War," states:
The lone Syrian rebel group with an explicit stamp of approval from Al
Qaeda has become one of the uprising’s most effective fighting forces,
posing a stark challenge to the United States and other countries that
want to support the rebels but not Islamic extremists.
Money flows to the group, the Nusra Front, from like-minded donors
abroad. Its fighters, a small minority of the rebels, have the boldness
and skill to storm fortified positions and lead other battalions to
capture military bases and oil fields. As their successes mount, they
gather more weapons and attract more fighters.
The group is a direct offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Iraqi officials and
former Iraqi insurgents say, which has contributed veteran fighters and
weapons.
While the London Telegraph reports in their article, "
Syria: how jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra is taking over Syria's revolution," that:
And in recent weeks it is Jabhat al-Nusra, a radical jihadist group
blacklisted by the US as terrorists and a group that wants Syria to be
an uncompromising Islamic state governed by sharia, that is holding
sway.
The group is well funded – probably through established global jihadist
networks – in comparison to moderates. Meanwhile pro-democracy rebel
group commanders say money from foreign governments has all but dried
up because of fears over radical Islamists.
The effect is changing the face of the Syrian revolution.
How does the West reconcile admissions it and its regional allies are
sending torrents of cash, equipment, supplies, and thousands of tons of
weapons to "moderates" in Syria, with al-Nusra's rise in prominence? If
the West, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, and Jordan are substantially
propping up "moderates," who then, is sending even more aid to Al
Qaeda's al-Nusra? The reality is, there are no moderates, and as stated
in Seymour Hersh's New Yorker report in 2007, the plan was from the
beginning to arm and fund Al Qaeda in Syria to overthrow the Syrian
government in a sectarian bloodbath. Statements of steering arms to
"moderates" are crafted for the gullible public's consumption only.
That the FBI is arresting entrapped patsies attempting to join al-Nusra
in a conflict intentionally perpetuated by the West, while the US State
Department and Pentagon openly provide real material aid to the very
same foreign terrorists, illustrates the unhinged nature of American
domestic and foreign policy. It also depicts a nation out of control,
orchestrating an increasingly complex and dangerous militant threat that
is creating and inspiring real human suffering, from Boston to
Damascus.
Tony Cartalucci's articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here.
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