The Global Research Center for Globalization Canada (GRCGC), published on March 8, 2015 a lengthy report criticizing the U.S. approach in the Middle East, and accusing it of supporting extremist groups, including the Islamic State (IS). "U.S. and British aircraft carrying arms to IS, shot down by Iraqi forces have been met with shock and denial in western countries. Few in the Middle East doubt that Washington is playing a ‘double game' with its proxy armies in Syria, but some key myths remain important amongst the significantly more ignorant western audiences," the opening statement read. The report provided evidence on the absence of serious U.S. ideology against extremists, alongside the western attempts to provide ‘moderate rebels' with logistic and military aid, while supporting extremist groups in Syria and Iraq, including Al Nusra front and the Islamic State (IS). In 2006, the George Bush administration announced its plans for a ‘New Middle East', by igniting sectarian strife as part of a process of ‘creative destruction' in the region. Later the same year, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi (IS Caliph and leader), was imprisoned for two years in the U.S. alongside a number of Iraqi military soldiers, following the American offensive against Iraq. Claims over connections between Al Baghdadi and the CIA or Mossad have surfaced recently; however, there was no solid proof. Abdel Hakim Belhaj, the Libyan terrorist and U.S. collaborator in Gaddafi's overthrow who was also held in US prisons for several years over terror related charges, has been defended by Washington and praised by US Congressmen John McCain and Lindsey Graham on several occasions. A decade after the announcement of Washington's ‘creative destruction' plans, designed to reduce the Iranian influence in Iraq, an article in the Foreign Policy magazine complained that Iran's influence was at its' highest point in almost four centuries', the complaint came after the Iranian military emerged as Iraq's main partner in the recent offensive on IS-held Tikrit. The Iraqi and Iranian media reported that Iraqi MP Majid Al Ghraoui said in January that ‘an American aircraft dropped a load of weapons and equipment to IS militants in Al Dour, Saladin province. The statement is backed up with photos showing IS retrieving the weapons. The U.S. admitted the seizure but said this was a ‘mistake'. Meanwhile, The Iraqi army pictured two British planes carrying weapons to IS in Al Anbar province and also backed it up with photos showing the wrecked planes. ‘We have discovered weapons made in the U.S., European countries and Israel in the areas liberated from ISIL control in Al Bagdadi region', Iraqi MP Hakem Al Zameli stated in the report. Another witness, Al Hashd Al Shabi Iraqi militia said they had shot down a U.S. Army helicopter carrying weapons for IS in Al Bagdadi region, not to mention the Iraqi counter-terrorism forces report about arresting ‘four foreigners' who were employed as military advisers to IS, three of whom were American and Israeli. Studies by the Jane Terrorism and Insurgent database show that IS attacks and killings in Iraq have increased rapidly as the U.S. air attacks began. Moreover, three thousand ‘moderate rebels' left the U.S.-backed ‘Harakat Hazzm' with a large stock of U.S. arms including anti-tank weapons and joined Jabhat Al Nusra (Al Nusra Front). The western media outlets which celebrate the killing of Syrian soldiers by IS also claim the Syrian Army is ‘not fighting IS', to justify the U.S. shelling of Syrian territories. Washington Foreign Affairs magazine has even published a survey claiming that IS fighters were ‘surprisingly supportive of democracy'. It is now clearly understood that the U.S., to interfere again in the region's affairs, had to create a new enemy that is aggressive and brutal enough to terrorize the whole world. Dragging regional armies into what has been termed 4th generation warfare, in which militias fight state armies in a proxy war, is the adopted strategy to destabilize countries and destroy them from within.
