Americas Covert Re-Invasion of IraqTony Cartalucci The Wall Street Journal in its report, Iraqi Drama Catches U.S. Off Guard, stated: Despite drone flights collecting intelligence, and a 3-year ongoing CIA program (here, here, and here) all along the Turkish-Syrian border to monitor and arm moderate militants fighting the Syrian government, the US claims it was caught by surprise. If drones and CIA operatives operating in ISIS territory werent enough to detect the impending invasion, perhaps the CIA should have just picked up a newspaper. Indeed, the Lebanon Daily Start in March 2014 reported that ISIS openly withdrew its forces from Latakia and Idlib provinces in western Syria, and redeployed them in Syrias east along the Syrian-Iraqi border. The article titled, Al-Qaeda splinter group in Syria leaves two provinces: activists, stated explicitly that: The question remains, if a Lebanese newspaper knew ISIS was on the move eastward, why didnt the CIA? The obvious answer is the CIA did know, and is simply feigning ignorance at the expense of their reputation to bait its enemies into suspecting the agency of incompetency rather than complicity in the horrific terroristic swath ISIS is now carving through northern Iraq. Described extensively in the full New Eastern Outlook Journal (NEO) report, NATOs Terror Hordes in Iraq a Pretext for Syria Invasion, the United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, have funded and armed terrorists operating in Syria for the past 3 years to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars coincidentally the same amount that ISIS would require to gain primacy among militant groups fighting in Syria and to mobilize forces capable of crossing into Iraq and overwhelming Baghdads national defenses. Whats ISIS Doing in Iraq? The NEO report would also post Seymour Hershs 2007 article, The Redirection, documenting over the course of 9 pages US, Saudi, and Israeli intentions to create and deploy sectarian extremists region-wide to confront Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hersh would note that these sectarian extremists were either tied to Al Qaeda, or Al Qaeda itself. The ISIS army moving toward Baghdad is the final manifestation of this conspiracy, a standing army operating with impunity, threatening to topple the Syrian government, purge pro-Iranian forces in Iraq, and even threatening Iran itself by building a bridge from Al Qaedas NATO safe havens in Turkey, across northern Iraq, and up to Irans borders directly. Labeled terrorists by the West, grants the West plausible deniability in its creation, deployment, and across the broad spectrum of atrocities it is now carrying out. It is a de facto re-invasion of Iraq by Western interests but this time without Western forces directly participating rather a proxy force the West is desperately attempting to disavow any knowledge of or any connection to. However, no other explanation can account for the size and prowess of ISIS beyond state sponsorship. And since ISIS is the clear benefactor of state sponsorship, the question is, which states are sponsoring it? With Iraq, Syria, and Iran along with Lebanese-based Hezbollah locked in armed struggle with ISIS and other Al Qaeda franchises across the region, the only blocs left are NATO and the GCC (Saudi Arabia and Qatar in particular). With the West declaring ISIS fully villainous in an attempt to intervene more directly in northern Iraq and eastern Syria, creating a long desired buffer zone within which to harbor, arm, and fund an even larger terrorist expeditionary force, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and others are offered an opportunity to preempt Western involvement and to crush the ISIS cornering and eliminating NATO-GCCs expeditionary force while scoring geopolitical points of vanquishing Washingtons latest villain. Joint Iraq-Iranian operations in the north and south of ISISs locations, and just along Turkeys borders could envelop and trap ISIS to then be whittled down and destroyed just as Syria has been doing to NATOs proxy terrorist forces within its own borders. Whatever the regional outcome may be, the fact is the West has re-invaded Iraq, with a force as brutal, if not worse than the shock and awe doctrine of 2003. Iraq faces another difficult occupation if it cannot summon a response from within, and among its allies abroad, to counter and crush this threat with utmost expediency. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. 