An
American author and investigative journalist says CIA director John
Brennan who is “a known Saudiphile” has played a key role in the
creation and rise of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL).
Wayne Madsen made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Monday, saying Washington’s trainings and provision of arms and cash to militants in Iraq and Syria gave rise to the brutal militancy.
As with al-Qaeda whose origin is traceable to “the US war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan,” Madsen explained, “we’ve once again supported and trained and given cash to the same elements and now we’ve got the rise of ISIL in Iraq and Syria and possibly they’re going to take this war into Jordan and beyond because they’ve changed their name now to the Islamic caliphate, [or] the Islamic state.”
On Sunday, US President Barack Obama said that “battle-hardened” Europeans who have joined ISIL militants in Syria and Iraq pose a “serious threat” to the US as they “have a European passport” and “don't need visas to get into the United States.”
This comes as Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) said earlier this month that the US has been arming the ISIL militants in Syria. “I think we have to understand first how we got here,” Paul said on CNN’s ‘State of the Union.’ “We have been arming ISIS in Syria.”
Madsen said Brennan has been instrumental in training and arming these militants in Iraq and Syria.
“The fault lies with the current CIA director John Brennan. John Brennan is a known Saudiphile, former CIA station chief in Riyadh. He was there when a lot of Saudi connections were determined to many terrorist attacks against the United States,” the analyst said, citing the Khobar Towers bombing, the attack on the USS Cole and the 9/11 attacks.
Madsen concluded that there is “a terrorist threat against the United States and that is the CIA director” who is training and financing terrorists.
Brennan has overseen the massive proliferation of US drone warfare and other “counterterrorism” programs.
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