ISIL operating with help of foreign military power: Gordon Duff

ISIL operating with help of foreign military power: Gordon Duff



by Gordon Duff and Press TV

Gordon Duff, a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War, says the United Sates does not want to target ISIL terrorists, who are operating freely in Iraq with the help of a foreign military power.

Duff, a senior editor at Veterans Today, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday while commenting on Washington’s unwillingness to coordinate its planned attacks on ISIL in Syria with the Syrian government, or share intelligence with Damascus.

“The idea that the US is sharing intelligence with Syria on ISIS is — I have to admit — a little bit absurd. The US doesn’t share intelligence with its own president. It absolutely doesn’t share intelligence with its own people,” Duff said.
“Go a step further, what the US government typically uses for intelligence, the information that originates from the NSA, primarily and to a lesser extent through the CIA, is generally based since the Bush administration on information that comes from private contracting companies — all with the political agenda typically tied to ISIS,” he said, using an alternative acronym for the terrorist group.

The ISIL militants, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, control large parts of Syria’s northern territory. ISIL sent its fighters into Iraq in June, quickly seizing large swaths of land straddling the border between the two countries.

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