US is Preparing up to 5k Militants That Would Flee to ISILTony Cartalucci With them, these 3,000 fighters will bring weapons, cash, equipment, and training provided to them by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United States, the UK, and perhaps most ironic of all in the wake of the recent terror attack in Paris, France. Indeed, ISIS and Al Qaedas ranks continue to swell amid this insidious network of terror laundering that is only set to grow. It was an open conspiracy exposed by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his 2007 article, The Redirection: Is the Administrations new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?, that the US and its regional allies sought to use Al Qaeda and other extremist groups to wage a proxy war on Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. This conspiracy has clearly manifested itself today in the form of ISIS. Despite a feigned military campaign waged against ISIS, targeting primarily Syrias oil infrastructure, the true source of ISIS strength, emanating from NATO territory in Turkey, remains unscathed and uninterrupted. Additionally, torrents of cash, weapons, and supplies are working their way across ISIS rank and file through the migration of so-called moderates under their banner. Before this brigade-sized defection, several other vetted moderate rebel groups, armed by the US in particular, have openly pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda. The most notorious incident was when terror group Harakat Hazm, provided antitank TOW missiles by the US, openly pledged allegiance to Al Qaedas Syrian franchise, US State Department-listed foreign terrorist organization Al Nusra. Al Nusra would assume possession of the TOW missiles, using them allegedly in a successful campaign in Syrias Idlib province. The Daily Beast would report in its September 2014 article, Al Qaeda Plotters in Syria Went Dark, U.S. Spies Say, that: One Syrian rebel group supported in the past by the United States condemned the air strikes on Tuesday. Harakat Hazm, a rebel group that received a shipment of U.S. anti-tank weapons in the spring, called the airstrikes an attack on national sovereignty and charged that foreign led attacks only strengthen the Assad regime.The statement comes from a document, purportedly from the group, that has circulated online and was posted in English translation from a Twitter account called Syria Conflict Monitor. Several Syria experts, including the Brookings Doha Centers Charles Lister, believe the document to be authentic. Before the official statement, there were signs that Harakat Hazm was making alliances in Syria that could conflict with its role as a U.S. partner. In early Septemeber a Harakat Hazm official told a reporter for the L.A. Times: Inside Syria, we became labeled as secularists and feared Nusra Front was going to battle usBut Nusra doesnt fight us, we actually fight alongside them. We like Nusra.(emphasis added) This group would later be reported by the Western press as having surrendered to Al Qaeda. The International Business Times would claim in its article, Syria: Al-Nusra Jihadists Capture US TOW Anti-Tank Missiles from Moderate Rebels, that: Weaponry supplied by the US to moderate Syrian rebels was feared to have fallen into the hands of jihadist militants affiliated to al-Qaida after clashes between rival groups. Islamist fighters with Jabhat al-Nusra seized control of large swathes of land in Jabal al-Zawiya, Idlib province, at the weekend, routing the US-backed groups the Syrian Revolutionaries Front (SFR) and Harakat Hazm, activists said. Washington relied on SFR and Harakat Hazm to counter Isis (Islamic State) militants on the ground in Syria, complementing its air strikes. Clearly however, Harakat Hazms surrender was merely the finalizing of its growing alliance with Al Nusra. US Prepares Another Brigade for ISIS When moderates appear inevitably destined for the ranks of ISIS, and with US weapons falling into Al Qaedas hands along with entire brigade-sized defections taking place, what the world would last expect is for the US to prepare another brigade-sized army to arm, fund, train, and turn loose inside of Syria. But that is precisely what the US is planning to do. Stars and Stripes would report in its article, Agreement reached for US to train Syrian rebels in Turkey, that: Officials say the initial round of training would produce of 5,000 trained Free Syrian Army members within about a year. Saudi Arabia in September agreed to host the training of moderate Syrian rebels to assist the U.S. strategy to combat Islamic State insurgents, who control territory in Syria and Iraq. U.S. support of the Free Syrian Army has been criticized as halting by supporters of greater U.S. involvement in Syria, and the group suffered setbacks when units were overrun and driven from their bases in recent weeks by members of another insurgent group, the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front. Only this Free Syrian Army wasnt overrun and driven out by Al Nusra as previously mentioned instead many of these groups had been part of long-running alliances with the Al Qaeda franchise, and simply made it official, bringing their Western arms, cash, and training with them. For the US already, plausible deniability is impossible with revelations as early as 2007 exposing Americas desire to use Al Qaeda as a proxy military force. With Harakat Hazm turning over US-supplied antitank TOW missiles to Al Qaeda, and now an entire brigade-sized defection by so-called Free Syrian Army fighters to ISIS what besides disaster could befall Americas new brigade it plans to start training this spring? Inevitably, these fighters, their supplies and weapons will end up consolidated under ISIS and Al Nusras banner. Terrorism continues to grow in Syria not because of ISIS control over oilfields and revenue from hostage ransoms, but because the US and its partners continue to intentionally feed into its maw thousands of trained fighters, weapons, and billions in cash, equipment, and other supplies. When these terrorists begin filtering into Europe and America, the same interests involved in intentionally creating this massive terrorist enterprise in Syria will wring their hands demanding what little is left of civilization at home be dismantled, after having insidiously and intentionally destroyed it abroad. Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine New Eastern Outlook, where this first appeared. 