It has abducted and beheaded many journalists and aid workers, claimed responsibility for attacks in Libya, Egypt and Lebanon, targeted international capital cities such as Istanbul, Brussels and Paris with terrorist attacks and suicide bombings that caused mayhem and hundreds of causalities. This has inspired many “sleeping individual wolves” globally to carry out heinous crimes.
It is the vicious octopus with a Hollywood-style criminal imagination that went beyond it even in inventing new ways of killing and inflicting unprecedented unconscionable torture on its victims.
But, where in the world did it come from? Many pundits say this army of terrorists would not have existed unless it had been supported by a regional power, or had been set to play the role of a shadow-power.
Further analysis indicates that ISIS was created to intimidate the whole world. It is the scarecrow that was portrayed as a Frankenstein-monster to bring the ‘genie’ of the Arab Spring back to its bottle.
However, more practical and local understanding of the global terrorist organization has become, for some time, an article of faith among think tanks, media experts and some policymakers who came to believe that the Assad regime has incubated the jihadi movement creating the enemy he needed to unite his advocates and win international support.
On the other side of this understanding, a cunning and evasive realpolitik propaganda has long flourished in marketing ISIS as the cause of the crisis in Syria, but not as the result of Assad’s brutal crackdown on peaceful protests on one hand and as a fruit of his tacit alliance with extremists to defame the Syrian revolution on the other.
Assad has many peddlers of his cheap propaganda who have perniciously put the cart before the horse to portray the situation in Syria as a “struggle” between the “good guys”−Assad’s so-called secular regime−and “extremists”. Nevertheless, some of Assad’s propagandists couldn’t whiten Assad’s sooted picture, so they reshaped the crisis as a conflict between “two evils”. Assad was intended to look the lesser evil, by arguing that while it was true Assad is brutal and vicious, he maintains a “savage and terrible order” that prevents the unleashing of an even worse anarchy. However, soon tangible information proved the whole formula to be false when new documents about ISIS surfaced showing clearly that the Assad regime is the real patron of ISIS and the very real hand that moves this scaring puppet.
Emerging information shows that ISIS and the Assad regime have been colluding with each other in deals on the battleground, as Sky News revealed recently.
An exclusive investigation into leaked secret ISIS files led by the news agency suggests there was co-operation over the ancient city of Palmyra. The leaked files also confirm that there was an agreement with the Assad regime to withdraw ISIS weapons from Palmyra, a deal to trade oil for fertilizer and arrangements to evacuate some areas by ISIS forces before Assad forces attacked.
The previous points appear to be pre-agreed deals and suggest direct evidence of collusion between the Assad regime and ISIS chiefs.
Earlier in April 2015, German journalist Christoph Reuter revealed in an article published in Spiegel Online the real identity of ISIS mastermind Haji Bakr, whose real name is Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi, the former colonel in the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein’s air defense force who had been secretly pulling the strings of ISIS for years.
The most interesting part about Assad-ISIS relationship, which proves that the Assad regime masterminded the rise of ISIS and its spread in Syria and Iraq, was revealed after new letters (in addition to a massive haul of 22,000 files) were handed over last month. The revealed documents show egregiously that Haji Bakr was recruited by the Assad regime to establish ISIS and that the regime’s ministry of defense deliberately sent groups of fake clerics and religious characters to many Syrian towns and villages to brainwash young men and urge them to join jihad.
The report pointed out that many of the foreign fighters who have flocked to Syria to fight against the Assad regime were eliminated after they declined to fight the Free Syrian Army and the moderate opposition.
The documents also included a plan by ISIS to target wealthy Syrian families by infiltrating youths. Teams of spies would then pursue the head of the family and its members in order to uncover the most private details about every person’s life, including obtaining intimate pictures of them to threaten them with blackmail.
Haji Bakr, as well as other leaders in the organization, decided to declare Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi as the Caliph because he has the required charisma, which would draw the unsuspecting public into his influence. He also gave the members of the organization the impression that he is committed to a religious ideal.
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