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Saudis Send Violent Prison Criminals to Fill Ranks of ISIS Sand Pirates in Syria
21st Century Wire says…
As 21WIRE had already reported back in June 2013 and also in August 2014, the ISIS phenomenon has always been a marriage of convenience between state actors and hardened criminals released out ‘into the wild’ of Syria’s uncivil war.
Based on past reports, it’s very likely that ISIS’s own initial ISIS ‘troop surge’ in 2014 grew from 3 separate mass jail breaks which took place only weeks apart in the summer of 2013. The progression of events was ignored by the mainstream media who only reported each individual incident, but failed to see meaningful trend. It’s estimated that over 2,000 potential ISIS fighters were collected during these highly organized and coordinated jail breaks. Note: these are actual criminal fighters, and are not the same men as those played by other international actors depicted in numerous staged ISIS ‘execution’ videos.
The detailed report below offers an even more shocking development in the ISIS ‘Sand Pirate’ saga – with Saudi Arabia accused of forcing its worst, violent and psychotic, mentally ill prisoners to fight in John McCain’s wayward ‘rebel’ army in Syria.
Just like the 17th and 18th century pirate epoch, many of today’s ISIS criminal privateers are impressed into a ruthless and unconventional “asymmetric” conflict in Syria and Iraq. Same concept, and almost the same flag (below).
Another Anglo-American international protection racket?
Saudi Arabia commits War Crime by Forced Use of Prisoners in Syria Insurgency
Christof Lehmann
NSNBC
An official and classified Saudi Arabian document reveals that the government of Saudi Arabia releases its most dangerous prisoners who are sentenced to death under the condition that they take part in the attempted subversion Syria. The practice constitutes a serious war crime. Earlier in 2012 PRESS TV and Al Alam journalist Maya Naser was assassinated shortly after he began investigating the same crime being committed by Turkish authorities.
The official, classified document shows that the authorities of Saudi Arabia have ordered the release of a group of the most dangerous criminals who have been sentenced to death in exchange for going to fight in Syria.
Prior to their deployment to Syria, the convicts are to be trained in unconventional warfare, terrorism, or in what is euphemistically described as Jihad.
The group of convicts includes 105 Yemeni, 21 Palestinian, 212 Saudi, 96 Sudanese, 254 Syrian, 82 Jordanian, 68 Somali, 32 Afghan, 194 Egyptian, 203 Pakistani, 23 Iraqi and 44 Kuwaiti citizens. It is unlikely that this group is the only such group that is going to be deployed by Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia’s release of convicts with death sentences and their forced use as insurgents is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions. The Conventions regulate, among others, the wartime rights of civilian and military prisoners.
Their deployment to Syria is likely to constitute forced use of prisoners and could potentially lead to a prosecution of the Saudi government at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
According to the US Special Forces Training Circular TC 18-01 the US military will for the foreseeable future be predominantly involved in irregular warfare. (1)
Post 25th NATO Summit NATO doctrine, which describes the illegal war on Libya as a teachable moment and model for future interventions has underpinned this tendency. (2) It is thus not surprising that Saudi Arabia is not the sole country within the anti-Syria alliance that deploys convicts.
In September 2012 PRESS TV and AL Alam journalist Maya Naser was killed by snipers in Damascus when he reported from the scene of two bomb blasts. According to reliable sources the snipers have been positioned two hours before the blasts. It is highly probable that the targeting of Maya Naser and the timing was no coincidence.
During the week prior to his assassination, Maya Naser was investigating Turkey’s forced use of prisoners. Naser began his investigation after it transpired that several of the killed or captured foreign insurgents in Syria were convicts who, according to their sentences, should be incarcerated in Turkish prisons. (3) Naser had copies of several passports to substantiate the claim.
Some of the killed or captured Turkish convicts had ties to Al Qaeda associated organizations. One of the more prominent among these convict insurgents, was the brother of the mastermind behind the 2003 HSBC bombers.
The bombing of the HSBC bank in Istanbul in 2003 killed 67 and wounded more than 700 people. The Saudi document and the release of terrorism convicts by Turkey indicates that the forced use of prisoners in Saudi Arabia and Turkey is part of a GCC-NATO strategy rather than a series of isolated incidents.
The evidence provided by Maya Naser and the Saudi Arabian document warrant an investigation and prosecution of Turkey, Saudi Arabia as well as against NATO at the International Criminal Court, ICC.
Whether any of these war crimes will be investigated or prosecuted, however, is more than just uncertain. For one it is unlikely that any of the western nations will demand an investigation or prosecution. For the other, both Russia and China are most likely considering the already very tense bilateral and multilateral relations between respectively Russia, China and the USA, UK and France.
Iran, which is currently chairing the Non Aligned Movement is under sustained pressure from the USA, Canada, the EU and its Gulf-Arab neighbors. The Tehran government is likely to think twice before it risks worsening diplomatic relations to the West.
In other words, Turkey’s, Saudi Arabia’s and NATO’s blatant violations of the Geneva Conventions, their forced use of prisoners and their state sponsored terrorism are likely not to be noticed by the ICC, which ten years after the Rome Statute has exclusively prosecuted, imprisoned and sentenced heads of state and government officials who dared to oppose US, EU and NATO hegemony.
If the document ever makes it into western mainstream media, which also is highly doubtful, it may cause a half-baked scandal and it may be used for scapegoating and positioning the one or the other with the implicit purpose of justifying or covering up ones own crimes. It will hardly result in an investigation, a prosecution, or a cessation of state sponsored terrorism and the forced use of prisoners.
Ch/L – nsnbc 10.12.2012
Related articles and resources:
1) SPECIAL FORCES UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE – TC 18-01
2) NATO`s 25th Summit in Chicago in Preparation of Global Full Spectrum Dominance
Dr. Christof Lehmann is the founder and editor of nsnbc. He is a psychologist and independent political consultant on conflict and conflict resolution and a wide range of other political issues. His work with traumatized victims of conflict has led him to also pursue the work as political consultant. He is a lifelong activist for peace and justice, human rights, Palestinians rights to self-determination in Palestine, and he is working on the establishment of international institutions for the prosecution of all war crimes, also those committed by privileged nations. Read more of his work at NSNBC.
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