US Guantanamo detainee killed in Syria while leading NATO-backed death squadTony Cartalucci Curiously absent from The Long War Journals report is any mention of how Bin Shakaran made it into northern Syria in the first place. Clearly this is because it would involve mentioning Turkey, a long-standing NATO member, with NATO being the organization that invaded and occupied Afghanistan, and whom Bin Shakaran had been fighting and ultimately fled from before being captured. The Long War Journal itself is a project of the Neo-Con Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD). The FDD has counted among its membership US politicians and policy makers such as current US Vice President Joseph Biden, William Kristol, Steve Forbes, Charles Krauthammer, Paula Dobriansky many of whom were signatories of the now notorious Project for a New American Century and who had been the chief proponents of the so-called War on Terror and the two costly conflicts fought in its name the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The detention center in Guantanamo is part of the War on Terrors legacy, a continuous point of contention between the US government and rights activists, and clearly a failure in its alleged role of keeping dangerous terrorists off the battlefield. A Pattern That Fits Conspiracy What Bin Shakarans case appears to prove, is that Guantanamo, and the larger anti-terror network maintained by the United States is instead redirecting terrorists from NATO theaters of operation to conflict zones NATO is currently unable to directly intervene in. In Bin Shakarans case, that conflict zone is northern Syria. Bin Shakaran is joined by fellow US detainees like Abdel Hakim Belhadj, who was fighting NATO troops in Afghanistan, was briefly captured in Malaysia and tortured by the CIA in Thailand, before then leading a NATO-backed assault on the Libyan government of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011. Other members of Bin Shakarans militant group were also Guantanamo inmates. This includes Moroccan-born Mohammed al Alami who Reuters reported on in their article, Former Guantanamo prisoner killed in Syria after joining Islamist brigade. In it, Reuters stated: Reuters would add: Throngs of terrorists, whose leaders are former inmates held in US custody, harbored, funded, and armed within NATO territory, and sent into Syria with NATO air and artillery cover fits the pattern of a conspiracy rather than a series of very unlikely coincidences. It was in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hershs 2007 article, The Redirection: Is the Administrations new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism? that prophetically stated: It is more clear than ever, with the Wests own warmongering policy makers admitting terrorists kept at their detention centers are now spearheading the fighting in a war of their own design, that the conspiracy described by Seymour Hersh in 2007 had been executed in earnest in 2011 and is continuing today. The US and its axis partners are not waging a War on Terror, they are waging a War of Terror. While they will attempt to portray the appearance of Bin Shakaran and others in Syria as the unfortunate result of poorly planned policy, it was, by their own admission, all part of the plan, years before the so-called Syrian Arab Spring began. Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine New Eastern Outlook, where this article first appeared. 