New York Times FAIL: McCain No Connections To ISIS?!?Brandon Turbeville From the New York Times, Rick Gladstone writes, The rumors are based partly on images of a Syrian fighter who resembles Mr. Baghdadi, seen in photographs with Mr. McCain some originally posted on Twitter by the senator during his visit in May 2013 to northern Syria. He met members of the Free Syrian Army, an insurgent group that opposes ISIS and that President Obama, in a speech Wednesday on his new strategy for battling ISIS, has vowed to strengthen. Nurtured by conspiracy blogposts, social media and photo-altering tricks, the false rumors of Mr. McCains relationship with ISIS have taken on a life of their own. While the NY Times denies the photographs showing John McCain and Baghdadi together, it freely admits that McCain met with the Free Syrian Army, itself a terrorist organization responsible for indiscriminate killings, imposition of sharia law, murders, rapes, cannibalism and more. Although Gladstone and the NY Times attempt to portray the FSA as moderate rebels, the writer and the publication should remember one of its own articles from as far back as April, 2013, written by Ben Hubbard. Hubbard wrote, Even one of the FSA commanders, Bassel Idriss, recently admitted to openly collaborating with ISIS and al-Nusra, revealing yet another example of the fact that the moderate rebels are not moderate at all. In an interview with the Daily Star of Lebanon, Idriss stated We are collaborating with the Islamic State and the Nusra Front by attacking the Syrian Armys gatherings in . . . Qalamoun . . . . Lets face it: The Nusra Front is the biggest power present right now in Qalamoun and we as FSA would collaborate on any mission they launch as long as it coincides with our values. Idriss also admitted that many FSA fighters had pledged allegiance to ISIS. He said, [ISIS] wanted to enhance its presence in the Western Qalamoun area. After the fall of Yabroud and the FSAs retreat into the hills [around Arsal], many units pledged allegiance [to ISIS]. Abu Fidaa, a retired Syrian Army Colonel who is now a part of the Revolutionary Council in the Qalamoun, corroborated Idrisss statements by saying that A very large number of FSA members [in Arsal] have joined ISIS and Nusra. In the end, people want to eat, they want to live, and the Islamic State has everything. Not only the FSA, but also the Syrian Revolutionary Front has also openly admitted to working with Nusra and al-Qaeda. The leader of the SRF, Jamaal Maarouf admitted that his brigades coordinate with Nusra and al-Qaeda regularly. Salem Idriss, one of the men seen in the photograph with John McCain, is the commander of the FSA, the opposition group touted as a moderate rebels. In reality, of course, the FSA is nothing of the sort. As Daniel Wagner wrote for the Huffington Post in December, 2012, Indeed, the FSA has also been targeting the infrastructure of the country. One of the main power plants in Damascus was knocked out for three days last week, impacting 40 percent of the citys residents. Do freedom fighters typically attack critical infrastructure that impacts ordinary citizens on a mass scale? The FSA long ago stopped targeting solely government and military targets. The FSA is no stranger to atrocities. The FSA is the moderate opposition that was filmed forcing a young child to behead a Syrian soldier. It is also the moderate opposition that maintained burial brigades, a system of mass murder and mass executions against soldiers and those who support the Syrian government. The burial brigades were only one small part of a much wider campaign of terror and executions implemented by the Free Syrian Army. Of course, the Free Syrian Army is merely the umbrella group of death squads carefully crafted to present a moderate face on what is, in reality, nothing more than savage terrorists. Thus, the FSA encompasses(d) a number of smaller brigades of al-Qaeda terrorists in order to cover up the true nature of its own ranks. One such brigade was the Farouq brigade, to which Abu Sakkar was a member. Sakkar, also seen in photographs with John McCain, was the famous rebel videotaped cutting the heart out of a Syrian soldier and biting into it. Yet, for all its noble attempts to protect McCains terrorist sympathies, the evidence the organization provides in his defense is incredibly weak. Note that the only thing the Times can produce in the way of evidence is a counter-claim that simply says the accusations are internet rumours and that the person in the picture with McCain simply looks like Baghdadi. The idea that he is Baghdadi is considered an impossibility. The only other offering in the way of McCains defense is a statement by his own Communications Director, Brian Rogers, who claims that the man in the picture was not Baghdadi but another individual associated with the Northern Storm Brigade, ironically a terrorist organization in its own right. Northern Storm was famous for kidnapping a group of religious pilgrims crossing through Syria in September, 2012. Nevertheless, the comparisons of the photographs and the individuals in them lean toward the idea that the terrorist in the picture is Baghdadi. Regardless of who it was, the individual was a terrorist since McCains defense is that it was a fighter/commander with Northern Storm. The New York Times Gladstone might also be surprised to learn that the false rumors of Mr. McCains relationship to ISIS was confirmed by none other than John McCain himself. On the Sean Hannity Show, when responding to some tepid criticism by Rand Paul regarding the methods taken to support the death squads in Syria, McCain stated, Earlier in the interview, after stating that he could personally show Obama places on the map to bomb in Syria to kill ISIS, he also stated that, in regards to the death squads, I know these people intimately. We talk to them all the time. McCains also referred back to the tired line of Syrian death squads actually being peaceful protesters fighting for freedom. So McCain has met with at least three terrorists and terrorist organizations in Syria. But these groups are by no means the end of the trail of McCains treachery or his connection to terrorism. After all, it must be remembered that McCain traveled to Libya during the assault against Ghaddafi in order to meet with terrorists in that country and promote the barbarism which they would ultimately bring. As Tony Cartalucci writes in his article, John McCain Claims Al-Qaeda Thugs Have Inspired The World, It should also be noted that McCain is extremely close to the color revolution apparatus organization, the International Republican Institute, a wing of the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID.[1] In fact, he is the current Chairman of the IRI. As it currently stands, the fact that some people are more equal than others is clearly proven in the case of John McCain. While any other American would be immediately imprisoned and possibly tortured as a result of their connections to terrorism, John McCain is rewarded with the title of U.S. Senator and the false label of war hero. While John McCain has proven his disloyalty to the United States time and time again from his scuttling of Congressional inquiries into the existence of American prisoners of war in Vietnam to the support for obvious terrorists overseas, the mainstream media has consistently given him a pass on his treasonous behavior. It is thus important for every American to know that not only is there no such thing as a moderate opposition in Syria but that John McCain is no American hero. If the Americans mentioned in the recent AP report can be investigated, tried, and convicted of providing support for terrorists operating abroad then surely John McCain has earned his day in court. [1]Tarpley, Webster G. Obama: The Postmodern Coup. Mowat, Jonathan. A New Gladio In Action: Swarming Adolescents. Progressive Press. 2008. Pp. 243-270. Recently from Brandon Turbeville: Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelors Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies,Five Sense Solutionsand Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria.Turbeville has published over 300 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbevilles podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com. Sorry, but the old grey whore crapped her own crib one time too many in 2008. I guess I was stupid enough to forgive them about Judith Miller and the aluminum tubes, but giving Wall St. a free pass for too long was what did in their credibility for this reader and former subscriber. They will never sell another war to me again. Does anybody actually believe anything the toilet paper of record prints anyway? The New York Times is most definitely a propaganda rag. Their JOB is to frame issues favorable to certain parties. CNN is scarcely any better. When it comes to US corporate media, the evolution of ideas is being stifled by mergers and consolidations. And reporters who dont toe the line will be sent packing. But is he REALLY a traitor? Thats hard to say. If I am correct and I certainly think I have researched this matter quite thoroughly and logically then it would be extremely difficult to convict him of treason. ISIS is being supported by the West and the US public is being propagandized heavily on this topic. So, while it is unwise for McCain to have posed for such a photo-op, it doesnt rise to the level of treason. It would only rise to the level of treason if ISIS was REALLY an enemy of the USA, rather than a convenient RUSE. The so-called West doesnt trust the region with Democracy. They might use it to build a Death Star or something In fact, the main reason is because democracies tend to demand market prices for their goods and services. But propped-up dictatorships can provide goods and services to their friends at whatever price they want. And when the ultimate goal is to expropriate those natural resources, and to monetize the oil before its even pumped out of the ground in the form of futures contracts, its clear whats going on here. ISIS is controlled by Israel, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Anyone who attempts to fight ISIS will be CALLED ISIS by the West just before the West takes them out. And the news footage will be branded with wonderful claims about how this was a successful attack on ISIS which is simply untrue. Its an attack on ISISs enemies, which are made to look like attacks on ISIS. The refinery that was destroyed was moments away from being re-taken by Assads forces. And rather than allow that, ISIS had its US air support destroy the refinery. Then there are the reports of ISIS being treated in Israeli hospitals. ISIS flags being found en masse inside Israel. ISIS in talks with Israel to give Israel the Golan Heights. And of course, the artillery support ISIS received against Assads forces early-on in the conflict. And nowISIS has planes.hahahahahaha Its laughable. This is just pretext to impose a no-fly zone onto Assad so that hes unable to use airpower against ISIS!!! Viet Cong or ISIS, whats the difference? RIGHT!!! Will he give ISIS the US and alliance pilots corridors of attack and return to base? McCain is right that unlike Paul, hes visited Syria. But that doesnt mean McCain knows whom hes meeting. I know many Syrian students and I wouldnt trust them because they are not objective. The NYTIMES LIES everyday to protect the ELITES. There is no question that John Insane Mccain tried to get Obama to arm the rebelsObama refused and McCain got that evil Prince Bandar of Saudia Arabia to do so. Its time the public realize the NYTIMES, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal are nothing but media FOR the elite, BY the eliteif you believe anything you read in any of these ragsyour nave. The control of the press over whole populations A PNAC tool of first importance. Probably a lesson learned from the Nazis. ON TOP OF NARCOTIC MAFIA ? Narcotics coming from Afghanistan? The Afghans have never produced so much of it before the entrance of the US B-52s over their country McCain has Netanyahus wee-wee implanted in his brain (actually a small ball of mush that passes for his brain). 