Glenn Greenwald: U.S. manufactured militant threat as pretext to bomb Syria

[wandy]

132. A lot to consider here. One of my problems is I do not have a 'trusted source'.............

I will agree that Democracy Now may be more reliable than corporate media however ............

At times the spin is so pervasive that it is picked up by conventional corporate media. Sometimes a Right Wing Bull Shit Fairytale can gain so much traction so quickly that even normally trustworthy news sources may be taken in and report it as fact.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025613348

Please understand I have no particular problem with Glenn Greenwald. At worst I think of him like the Dragon Lady, Maureen Dowd, "he hates everybody". I also don't necessary consider that a bad thing.

Were I to express my thoughts on our re-involvement or even our initial involvement in Iran I would get banned by virtue of fowl language alone. The problem I have with this particular part of this is that the story so closely follows the RWBSF formula it falls under one of my tests for spin.

When they all start singing the same chapter and verse in three part harmony you know something is wrong.

The storys are too similar using similar wording and almost the exact same dog whistles.

From The//Intercept as told By Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain

The solution to both problems was found in the wholesale concoction of a brand new terror threat that was branded “The Khorasan Group.” After spending weeks depicting ISIS as an unprecedented threat – too radical even for Al Qaeda! – administration officials suddenly began spoon-feeding their favorite media organizations and national security journalists tales of a secret group that was even scarier and more threatening than ISIS, one that posed a direct and immediate threat to the American Homeland. Seemingly out of nowhere, a new terror group was created in media lore.

While the Islamic State group is getting the most attention now, another band of extremists in Syria — a mix of hardened jihadis from Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Europe — poses a more direct and imminent threat to the United States, working with Yemeni bomb-makers to target U.S. aviation, American officials say.
At the center is a cell known as the Khorasan group, a cadre of veteran al-Qaida fighters from Afghanistan and Pakistan who traveled to Syria to link up with the al-Qaida affiliate there, the Nusra Front.
But the Khorasan militants did not go to Syria principally to fight the government of President Bashar Assad, U.S. officials say. Instead, they were sent by al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to recruit Europeans and Americans whose passports allow them to board a U.S.-bound airliner with less scrutiny from security officials.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/28/u-s-officials-invented-terror-group-justify-bombing-syria/


From The National Review as told by Andrew C. Mcarthy.

There is a reason that no one had heard of such a group until a nanosecond ago, when the “Khorosan Group” suddenly went from anonymity to the “imminent threat” that became the rationale for an emergency air war there was supposedly no time to ask Congress to authorize.
You haven’t heard of the Khorosan Group because there isn’t one. It is a name the administration came up with, calculating that Khorosan — the –Iranian–Afghan border region — had sufficient connection to jihadist lore that no one would call the president on it.

The “Khorosan Group” is al-Qaeda. It is simply a faction within the global terror network’s Syrian franchise, “Jabhat al-Nusra.” Its leader, Mushin al-Fadhli (believed to have been killed in this week’s U.S.-led air strikes), was an intimate of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the emir of al-Qaeda who dispatched him to the jihad in Syria. Except that if you listen to administration officials long enough, you come away thinking that Zawahiri is not really al-Qaeda, either. Instead, he’s something the administration is at pains to call “core al-Qaeda.”
“Core al-Qaeda,” you are to understand, is different from “Jabhat al-Nusra,” which in turn is distinct from “al-Qaeda in Iraq” (formerly “al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia,” now the “Islamic State” al-Qaeda spin-off that is, itself, formerly “al-Qaeda in Iraq and al-Sham” or “al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant”). That al-Qaeda, don’t you know, is a different outfit from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula . . . which, of course, should never be mistaken for “al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,” “Boko Haram,” “Ansar al-Sharia,” or the latest entry, “al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388990/khorosan-group-does-not-exist-andrew-c-mccarthy

Predating either article Rush Limbaugh ad-libs a version of the script.
Limbaugh sees through Obama admin ruse of Khorasan Group as distinct from al Qaeda
http://www.mrctv.org/audio/limbaugh-sees-through-obama-admin-ruse-khorasan-group-distinct-al-qaeda

If this doesn't have the appearance of RWBSF and a another orchestrated smear campaign Breitbart and others chime in with supportive information.
Report: Obama Has Missed over Half His Second-Term Daily Intel Briefings
“I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” said Obama.
According to Daily Beast reporter Eli Lake, members of the Defense establishment were “flabbergasted” by Obama’s attempt to shift blame.
“Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s bullshitting,” a former senior Pentagon official “who worked closely on the threat posed by Sunni jihadists in Syria and Iraq” told the Daily Beast.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/29/Report-Obama-Has-Missed-Over-Half-His-Second-Term-Daily-Intel-Briefings

The way this entire script is put together so closely follows the formula started by Josie's account of the attack on Darren Wilson that it is simply imposable for me to take it on face value.