THE DONMEH GO TO WAR: Erdogan's and Salman's Sunni Legion marching east

January 6-7, 2016 — Erdogan’s and Salman’s Sunni Legion marching east

The de facto Sunni “foreign legion,” officially known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Da’esh, and a few other names, is beginning to open up an eastern front. Beset with Russia’s entry into the Syrian civil war to protect President Bashar al-Assad’s government from the ISIL’s mercenaries in the employ of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi King Salman and major losses on the ground to Iraq’s army, ISIL has started to sow terror among the Shi’as of Saudi Arabia’s eastern province.

In order to help lay the groundwork for ISIL’s advance, in May of last year Saudi intelligence permitted the Sunni Legion terrorists of ISIL to bomb two Shi’a mosques. On May 22, 2015, the Shia Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque, in the village of Qudeih in Qatif city was bombed by ISIL terrorists. Twenty-one people were killed in the bombing, which took place during Friday prayers. On May 29, another ISIL terrorist blew himself up in the parking lot of the Imam Husain mosque in Dammam. Four people were killed in the attack.

The attacks on the mosques came after Erdogan visited Saudi Arabia in March to shore up his neo-Ottoman alliance with Saudi King Salman. After briefly stepping down as the chief of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and being quickly reappointed by Erdogan, Hakan Fidan was given the latitude to continue recruiting for ISIL in Muslim communities around the world and in establishing new targets for the emerging Turkish-Saudi axis. These targets, as seen in the attacks of May, included the Shi’a minority of eastern Saudi Arabia.

In June, Fidan, working with Saudi-led ISIL mercenaries, arranged for a suicide bombing attack of the Imam Sadiq mosque in the Sawaber district of Kuwait City. Twenty-seven Shi’as were killed and another 227 wounded. On November 24, 2015, it was Fidan who gave the order for the Turkish air force shoot down of a Russian SU-24 warplane, flying missions against jihadist guerrillas in Syria, after it strayed for a few seconds a narrow spit of Turkish territory jutting into Syria. It was also Fidan who ordered Turkoman jihadist guerrillas, fighting for ISIL in Syria and supported by the MIT, to shoot at the parachuting Russian pilots and attack with American TOW missiles a Russian Marine helicopter sent to rescue them.

In November, with the blessing of the Turks and Saudis, ISIL terrorists struck another Shi’a mosque, this time in the southern suburbs of Baghdad. Just like some of the previous attacks on Shi’a mosques, the attack came during Friday prayers. Six people were killed and 19 wounded. The mosque attack followed a week of bloody ISIL attacks on Shi’as throughout Baghdad.

WMR’s sources in Iran have identified Fidan as a radical Sunni jihadist who is bent on a final showdown between Islam and “Rüm,” which encompasses Greece, Russia, and the Western Church in Rome. Fidan is also a welcomed guest at Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan’s seventh floor office in Langley, Virginia. Brennan is also a confirmed Saudiphile who has not only provided cover for Saudi Arabia’s financing and arming of ISIL but who, as the CIA station chief in Riyadh in the 1990s, paid homage to Islam by being given permission to visit the holy shrine of Mecca, something that is only reserved for observant Muslims. Curiously, when sworn in as CIA director, Brennan eschewed the Bible in favor of a copy of the U.S. Constitution.

Fidan has also become much more aggressive in backing Islamist radicals in the Balkans, particularly Albanian jihadists, among whose ranks ISIL has benefited with fresh recruits. Albanian jihadists have flexed their muscles in Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Montenegro, while other Turkish-backed jihadists have become emboldened in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Sandjak region of Serbia, and Bulgaria. Fidan has also ordered Turkish air attacks on Greek warplanes flying close to Turkish airspace over the Aegean Sea.

Saudi Arabia has attempted to create a Communist-style “Sunni International” to bring together various Sunni states in a military alliance. In December, the Saudis announced a multinational alliance to combat “radicalism.” Three countries announced as part of the Saudi coalition — Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia — expressed surprise at their inclusion since they had not been consulted in advance. The Lebanese government, which was also announced as part of the Saudi coalition, also expressed opposition, since the Shi’a Hezbollah party is part of the Lebanese government. Among the countries signing on to the Saudi bloc were all of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations, Turkey, Egypt, and Nigeria. The Saudis and Turkey’s Fidan have made the elimination of Hezbollah a top priority for their alliance.

Iran, Syria, Iraq, Oman, and Algeria were missing from the bloc. The Saudi leadership of the bloc reserved the right to send bloc troops to any member threatened by “terrorists.” This means that the Christian populations of Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Benin, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Gabon could find themselves facing the bayonets of jihadist “peacekeepers” dispatched by the Saudis and all with the blessing of the xenophile CIA director Brennan. Present in the Saudi coalition was the rival, Saudi-backed government of Yemen headed by Saudi puppet president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.

Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi

Yemen is where Saudi and GCC forces, including 800 Colombian mercenaries recruited by the Abu Dhabi-based Reflex Responses company of ex-Blackwater president Erik Prince and who are commanded by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahayan, are battling Zaidi sect Houthi rebels for control of the country. The Zaidis are affiliated with the Shi’a branch of Islam. Prince is believed to maintain close contacts with the CIA and Brennan. The Saudis and Abu Dhabians are impressed with the ferocity of the Colombian mercenaries in combat, many of whom had previously committed heinous executions of civilians, including indigenous peoples, in Colombia.

The Saudi followed their military pact announcement by holding a meeting of Syrian opposition parties in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis and their Turkish allies clearly invited those parties that were in the Ankara-Riyadh orbit. Present at the Saudi conclave were the Ahrar al-Sham guerrillas, who are united with Al Qaeda in Syria, and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Council, which is headquartered in Turkey. What gathered in Riyadh were basically the Syrian cadres of the Turkish-Saudi “Sunni International,” a modern-day Janissary army of mercenaries fighting for the new Turkish “sultan,” Erdogan, and the Saudi Wahhabist King.

Banned from the meeting were the main Syrian Kurdish party, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which has been repeatedly attacked in joint Turkish-ISIL operations; the Assyrian Democratic Party, which is mainly Christian and was not invited by the Saudis and the Turks because they disdain Christianity and seek a Quranically-inspired final showdown with it; the PYD’s armed unit, the People’s Protection Units (YPG); the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance, which combines the YPG with smaller Arab and Christian forces and receives U.S. support; and most notably, the Syrian government of Bashar al Assad.

The December 2015 Riyadh meeting of the Syrian branch of the Saudi- and Turkish-backed Sunni International. Christians and Kurds were not invited and that was just fine as far as Barack Hussein Obama was concerned. Somewhere lurking in the shadows of the conference was Turkish jihadist intelligence chief Hakan Fidan.

As the ISIL fronts in Syria and Iraq stalled, it was time to march the cadres east. Just as Erdogan’s meeting with Saudi King Salman in March 2015 preceded the ISIL bombings of the two Shi’a mosques in eastern Saudi Arabia, Erdogan’s second trip to Riyadh on December 30, 2015 preceded by a few days the execution by Saudi Arabia of a popular Shi’a cleric Nimr al-Nimr and four lesser-known Shi’a clerics. For public relations purposes, the Saudi also mentioned it had executed an “Al Qaeda” terrorist named Faris al-Zahrani who was arrested in 2004. After anti-Saudi Shi’a riots broke out in Tehran and Mashad, which saw the Saudi embassy and consulate in those cities stormed, and anti-Saudi protests occurred in Bahrain, Lebanon, and Yemen, the Saudi PR spin machine claimed Saudi “victimhood” and demanded sanctions against Iran. The Riyadh regime broke relations with Iran and pressured the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait to suspend downgrade their relations with Iran.

The execution of Nimr al-Nimr provided the stage for what Salman and Erdogan want: a showdown with the Shi’as and Iran in the east. The Iran-friendly Sultanate of Oman is also a target where the moderate Ibadi sect of Islam is a thorn in the side of the Saudi Wahhabis and the Turkish neo-Ottomans. Omani Sultan Qabus bin Said is in poor health and no successor has been named. Oman is a perfect target for Sunni International and the jihadist mercenaries.

Sultan Erdogan [right] was in Riyadh meeting King Salman [left] a few days before the execution of Saudi Shi’a cleric. The new Ottoman emperor undoubtedly gave his approval for the execution.

Sitting back and enjoying the show is Israel, which relishes in Arab-on-Arab and Muslim-on-Muslim violence to the point of orgasmic delight. From the beginning, Israel has been a silent partner of the Saudis, Turks, and the Sunni International of ISIL, notwithstanding the official freeze in relations between Erdogan and Binyamin Netanyahu over the Israeli storming of the Turkish Gaza aid vessel Mavi Marmara. Ankara-Jerusalem relations warmed quickly after Israel agreed to pay compensation to the Turkish victims.

For its part in the pending Turkish drive on behalf of its Sunni Legion in the Persian Gulf region, the Turkish military and MIT are establishing a military base in Qatar. The Turkish base in Qatar will coordinate ISIL/Da’esh/Sunni Legion attacks on Shi’a targets in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, and Iran, as well as targets in Oman and Afghanistan, where ISIL is challenging the Taliban for control of the country. ISIL’s units will also scope out potential targets in the emirates of Fujairah and Ras al Khaimah where Iran has port and other business interests.

This neo-Ottoman operation in Qatar, which will consist of 3000 Turkish troops, naval, air, and “special operations” units, will conduct its operations in the shadow of the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East, the Al Udeid airbase. Oddly, it has been Abu Dhabi, not the United States, that has expressed concern over the Turkish base in Qatar. Once again, the record will show that the Obama administration has aided and abetted jihadist terrorism not only in Syria, Iraq, and Libya, but also in the Persian Gulf region.