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The Islamic State terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack in the Spanish city of Barcelona Thursday.
Earlier in the day, a van hit pedestrians in the city’s central Las Ramblas area. Catalonian authorities claim 13 people were killed and over 80 were hospitalized in the attack.
WARNING: Below is a graphic video of the scene captured on a cell phone by a witness immediately following the horrible attack…
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I watched the above twice and I am not really sure what I’m looking at. Paul Craig Roberts has insisted that all these attacks are false flags and not even real. Maria Zakharova, for whom I have more time, said at a Q and A press conference a few months ago that these attacks involved a number of plastic arms and legs. The regularity and frequency with which these attacks are occurring is also suspicious and were there passports at the scene again?
Actually, the fanatical Islamists that cooperate with US/NATO are almost always radical Sunnites. And the Shia Iraqis that were empowered in Iraq (before being targeted themselves as agents of Iran) were not terrorists.
Actually, in Iraq, after the 2003 invasion, the US deliberately destroyed all the state fabric of army, police, education, industry and security institutions, throwing to the street dozens of thousands professionals, who found themselves overnight without a career, job, or resources to survive. Among them, high ranked officers, THEY organized the nucleus of ISIS in the first place and the resistance, anarchy and finally terrorism against the US’ puppets put in power by the occupying army. Same thing happened in Libya, the collapse of the state brought just anarchy and terrorism. The US have never a strategy of “after-bombing”. They… Read more »
Part of the Sunni Iraqi resistance morphed into Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which later became ISIS/Daesh. But this organization was deemed useful by the neocons on two accounts: it helped keep the Shiite Iraqi government under threat and thus in need of US aid and actively damaged Syria. Hence the fantastic amount of support it received from the west in terms of personnel and equipment.
”The US have never a strategy of “after-bombing”. They can destroy a foreign country, but never care how to rebuild it.”
You nailed it.
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