HIGHLY MANIPULATED: A HOLY WAR

Australia, as the second largest contributor to the Coalition, had played a direct role in the largest human rights abuse of the 21st Century.

In Mosul, encompassing the ancient city of Nineveh, thousands lay dead.

A city demolished. 

He could hear the rats scrabbling through the walls, and it didn't matter how much he complained that his pursuers were dishonest, incompetent and corrupt, they were on contract. They were as unfeeling and as self-motivated as the bombs falling on the ancient city of Nineveh.

They would like to have welcomed him to paradise.

Your guards are like locusts, your officials like swarms of locusts that settle in the walls on a cold day-- but when the sun appears they fly away, and no one knows where. Nahum.

Once the largest, most powerful city in the world, the ancient city of Nineveh lay in ruins, full of the stench of death.

Worldwide, the jihad movement was incensed.

Australia had been led blindly into a jihad trap.

The greatest military strategists on Earth led the West into a blind canyon. Easily shot at. Their own civilisations in ruin, Do unto others as you shall have them do unto you. 

The footage rarely showed the rotting bodies where they fell.

All they could do, those who pressed to communicate, not to tell you the truth.

He smells a rat, one of the Watchers on the Watch observed as Australia's, and America's, bombs rained down on Muslims on the other side of the world.

The people were in ignorance, blind, compressed, manipulated.
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Of course he smelt a rat. He wasn't as dumb as he looked. 

That it took the world's greatest army's, billions of dollars, many months, the concerted manipulation and oppression of domestic populations, for no one must know the truth about this devastating war, or where it was leading, although the evidence lay strewn on the world's battlefields; easily seen. Pick up the strands. Look at what they say themselves. The world was already entering the seventh and final stage. 

The Iraqi forces on the ground were backed by the Australian government. They had peddled the lie that we were there at the request of the Iraqis, which was bullshit. The Americans were despised. The Australians were their cohorts. The notorious Iraqi Army behaved badly, looted, laughed and killed, young soldiers boasting about how many Islamic State fighters they had killed. 

In an ancient city. From the ramparts, all could be seen. But could anyone describe the madness that had set down upon the world?

There was nothing to be proud of, as the uniformed army tortured anyone they suspected,  in the blood lust that inevitably took over in extremes of war. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The news coverage was highly restricted, and highly manipulated, as Western audiences ignored, or turned their backs on the pantomime play of experts on their screens, pontificating about the "liberation".

No eyes to see, no ears to hear. They were torturing their targets in ruined buildings, for pleasure, strutting, young men for whom the whole of life should lie ahead, as their comrades died, strutting for the cameras, or their own versions of their own selves in history, barely cognisant of their own actions, or their place in the terrible scheme of things. Arbitrary detention and arrest. Torture. Disappearance. Shell shocked. Traumatised beyond all measure. As the bombs rained down mobs hunted through the the smell of death which coated rubble. Shock, pain, incomparable grief cutting through the clutter of the new millennium, the thirsting of millions of vessels ripe for harvesting.

Putrefaction. Of the bodies in the ruins. Western civilisation as we had once understood it. Of a place where the gods played their wars, and there was evil on every side. 

Let me draw you a diagram. All of these resources. The President... The Donald... The FBI. Nobody trusted the CIA to provide a reliable report about anything anymore. Homeland Security. The NSA. Heavily compromised. The local security forces were so easily impressed, had so totally abrogated their own sovereignty, they let the Americans take control of any operation. Anything.  The Australian Army was advertising to recruit devout Muslims. What was wrong, in the name of diversity, in recruiting ordinary Muslims, who like most Christians went to pray intermittently, went about their lives in what was supposed to be the liberal West, went to work, cared for their children, liked to be distracted from the turmoil and ordure of daily life.

No. Devout. They must pray five times a day. They must be there as warriors on the domestic front. Ready, with their non-Muslim brothers, to take control over a disarmed, demolarised, hoodwinked population.

Already, in Britain and in France, heavily armed soldiers stood on street corners. What they could not take with propaganda, subterfuge, manipulation, they would take with force. The enemy which had become my enemy was inside the gates. The ancient, conflicted foes were now on the same side. The Jihadis and the Jesuits met behind the back fence. The lunar left and the lunar right collaborated on their project to transform the society. 

 The killers in high places say their prayers out loud.

Those possessed settled into their mansions, like the castles of old. But no amount of money in the world could make them happy. Prestige lapped and was gone. For the cowards of war faced the dead in their dreams; and the public bayed for their blood. The mechanisms of dissemination, the deeply conflicted security apparatus, the high and the low and the fabric of it, all was settling into a future they, despite all their wealth and their technologies, had never predicted.



THE BIGGER STORY

Photography by Lauren van der Stockt, winner of the 2017 World Press Photo Award for his work in Iraq. Courtesy of Le Monde:

http://www.lemonde.fr/international/portfolio/2017/06/30/dans-les-ruines-de-mossoul-avec-l-armee-irakienne_5153949_3210.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/01/thousands-of-mosul-civilians-trapped-in-isis-territory-as-iraqi-forces-close-in

Hundreds of civilians fled Mosul’s Old City on Friday as Iraqi forces slowly squeezed the last pockets of Islamic State resistance, and the UN warned that the “intense and concentrated” fighting put innocent lives in even greater danger.

People climbed over mounds of rubble and through narrow alleys as gunshots and explosions rang out nearby. The neighborhoods where government forces are fighting have been under siege for months as grueling urban warfare drew out the operation to retake Iraq’s second-largest city.

For the civilians held as human shields by the extremists, supplies have run low and drinking water is scarce, according to residents interviewed at screening centres and clinics.

The battles came a day after Iraqi forces made significant gains against the militants and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared an end to the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate.

After a dawn push on Thursday, Iraqi forces retook the symbolic site where the al-Nuri Mosque once stood. It was from the pulpit of the 12th century mosque, which the militants blew up last week along with its famous leaning minaret, that their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had proclaimed the caliphate in 2014.

During the evening, al-Abadi announced the full liberation of Mosul was near and that Iraq’s “brave forces will bring victory”.

Lt Gen Abdul Wahab al-Saadi said by Friday afternoon the special forces were within 700 metres of the Tigris River, which roughly divides Mosul into eastern and western halves.

The operation to retake Mosul, backed closely by the US-led coalition, began in October, with the Iraqi government initially vowing the city would be liberated in 2016.

The battles came a day after Iraqi forces made significant gains against the militants and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared an end to the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate.

After a dawn push on Thursday, Iraqi forces retook the symbolic site where the al-Nuri Mosque once stood. It was from the pulpit of the 12th century mosque, which the militants blew up last week along with its famous leaning minaret, that their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had proclaimed the caliphate in 2014.

During the evening, al-Abadi announced the full liberation of Mosul was near and that Iraq’s “brave forces will bring victory”.

Lt Gen Abdul Wahab al-Saadi said by Friday afternoon the special forces were within 700 metres of the Tigris River, which roughly divides Mosul into eastern and western halves.

The operation to retake Mosul, backed closely by the US-led coalition, began in October, with the Iraqi government initially vowing the city would be liberated in 2016.

http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2017/06/30/islamic-state-mosul-falls/

The Iraqi government has announced the end of the caliphate after capturing the Al-Nuri Mosque in Western Mosul, the place where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the formation of the caliphate and unleashed a reign of terror on the world.

“Their fictitious state has fallen,” an Iraqi military spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, told Iraqi state television.

Only an estimated 350 Islamic State soldiers remain in an area of less than one square kilometre in the ancient city.

Experts warn that the brutal nature of the Mosul occupation is fuelling extremism around the world. While the exact numbers are concealed in the rubble of the ancient city, the mujahideen soldiers of Islamic State, civilians and Iraqi personnel have died in their many hundreds.

As streams of Sunni muslims flee from the pulverised ruins of their neighbourhoods they pass bodies rotting in the intense heat.

More than 860,000 people have fled the city since the Iraq Army, backed by Coalition airstrikes, including from Australia, began pounding the city last October.

Eight months of gruelling combat later Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and encompassing the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, and whole districts of what the Bible refers to as the “Great City”, look like scenes from an apocalypse.

Back then, Army officers boasted it would be mere days before they retook the city where al-Baghdadi declared an Islamic Caliphate in 2014.

While some of the civilians being “liberated” from the city display gratitude, or ingratiate themselves with their new conquerors, it is clear from footage of the frontline that the civilian Sunni population are as terrified of the Coalition-backed Shias of the Iraqi Army as they may once have been of Islamic State.

Human Rights Watch says thousands of Sunni Muslims have been tortured, killed or disappeared.

There are numerous concerns over the behaviour of the conquering Iraq Army, which is backed by both America and Australia. Footage from French television shows officers laughing at dead Islamic State soldiers.

Belkis Wille, Senior Iraq Researcher with Human Rights Watch, told The New Daily the civilian population is “extremely traumatised”.

“The civilians are highly traumatised. Mosul is the largest urban war in modern history. The west of the city and the neighbourhood still under ISIS control are extremely densely populated,” she said.


THE SEVEN PHASES TO WORLD DOMINATION:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2005/08/the_seven_phase.php

The First Phase Known as “the awakening” — this has already been carried out and was supposed to have lasted from 2000 to 2003, or more precisely from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington to the fall of Baghdad in 2003. The aim of the attacks of 9/11 was to provoke the US into declaring war on the Islamic world and thereby “awakening” Muslims. “The first phase was judged by the strategists and masterminds behind al-Qaida as very successful,” writes Hussein. “The battle field was opened up and the Americans and their allies became a closer and easier target.” The terrorist network is also reported as being satisfied that its message can now be heard “everywhere.”

The Second Phase “Opening Eyes” is, according to Hussein’s definition, the period we are now in and should last until 2006. Hussein says the terrorists hope to make the western conspiracy aware of the “Islamic community.” Hussein believes this is a phase in which al-Qaida wants an organization to develop into a movement. The network is banking on recruiting young men during this period. Iraq should become the center for all global operations, with an “army” set up there and bases established in other Arabic states.

The Third Phase This is described as “Arising and Standing Up” and should last from 2007 to 2010. “There will be a focus on Syria,” prophesies Hussein, based on what his sources told him. The fighting cadres are supposedly already prepared and some are in Iraq. Attacks on Turkey and — even more explosive — in Israel are predicted. Al-Qaida’s masterminds hope that attacks on Israel will help the terrorist group become a recognized organization. The author also believes that countries neighboring Iraq, such as Jordan, are also in danger.

The Fourth Phase Between 2010 and 2013, Hussein writes that al-Qaida will aim to bring about the collapse of the hated Arabic governments. The estimate is that “the creeping loss of the regimes’ power will lead to a steady growth in strength within al-Qaida.” At the same time attacks will be carried out against oil suppliers and the US economy will be targeted using cyber terrorism.

The Fifth Phase This will be the point at which an Islamic state, or caliphate, can be declared. The plan is that by this time, between 2013 and 2016, Western influence in the Islamic world will be so reduced and Israel weakened so much, that resistance will not be feared. Al-Qaida hopes that by then the Islamic state will be able to bring about a new world order.

The Sixth Phase Hussein believes that from 2016 onwards there will a period of “total confrontation.” As soon as the caliphate has been declared the “Islamic army” it will instigate the “fight between the believers and the non-believers” which has so often been predicted by Osama bin Laden.

The Seventh Phase This final stage is described as “definitive victory.” Hussein writes that in the terrorists’ eyes, because the rest of the world will be so beaten down by the “one-and-a-half million Muslims,” the caliphate will undoubtedly succeed. This phase should be completed by 2020, although the war shouldn’t last longer than two years.