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Thu Jul 24, 2014, 07:22 AM Jul 2014

America: Supporting Terrorists While Fearing Their Return

http://watchingamerica.com/News/242918/america-supporting-terrorists-while-fearing-their-return/



The international community is increasingly worried about more Western and foreign citizens joining the militant, terrorist groups in Syria ... (but) Western countries, headed by the United States, are still supporting these extremist movements. ...

America: Supporting Terrorists While Fearing Their Return
al-Thawra, Syria
By Dina al-Hamad
Translated By Jackson Allan
13 July 2014
Edited by Lau­rence Bouvard

As the sun rises every morning, information about Western intelligence agencies recruiting terrorists to send to Syria seeps in. Western officials then come out and say that they are fighting terrorism.

The various media outlets in countries like America, France and Britain pursue them, pretending to cry about national security, warning that the extremists may return to the West, and ignoring the part that Western governments played in establishing, funding and supporting by all available means these extreme terrorist organizations.

One such leak is the new video recently disclosed by The Independent, a British newspaper. The video, which is entitled “No Life Without Jihad” and is no longer than 13 minutes in length, shows a group of five militants who introduce themselves as British and Australian and try to persuade more foreign youth to head to Syria and Iraq to join terrorists organizations like the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and al-Nusra, which continue to commit crimes and acts of terror with support from the West and from within the Middle East. The group, which belongs to ISIL, is comprised of three Brits and two Australians. They speak about their motives for heading to Syria and Iraq to fight and persuading British and Western youth to give up their jobs and possessions and join them to help establish a so-called caliphate.

It is clear in the video that a British terrorist naming himself Abu Barra al-Hindi decided to persuade foreign youth to join the terrorist organization he represents by trying to exploit the state of desperation that they suffer in their countries, especially Britain, which has for years been experiencing an economic recession. He claims that the ideal way to escape their painful reality is to join the jihadis. This is a clear indication of the dangerous psychological methods these terrorists are using to recruit.
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