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<div class="A_ArtName"><big><big><b>ISIS and the USA: Expansion and
Resistance by Decapitation </b></big></big><span
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<div class="A_AuthName">By James Petras<br>
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<div class="A_ArtSource">Axis of Logic<br>
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<div class="A_ArtDate">Friday, Sep 26, 2014</div>
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<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.65pt;
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mso-height-rule:exactly" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:
10pt; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">Introduction</span><span
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<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.65pt;
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:" times="" new=""
roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us"="" lang="EN-US">In order to
overcome massive US and world public opposition to new wars in
the Middle East, Obama relied on the horrific internet
broadcasts of ISIS slaughtering two American hostages, the
journalists James Foley and Steve Sotloff, by decapitation.
These brutal murders were Obama’s main propaganda tool to set a
new Middle East war agenda – his own casus belli bonanza! This
explains the US Administration’s threats of criminal prosecution
against the families of Foley and Stoloff when they sought to
ransom their captive sons from ISIS.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:
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<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.65pt;
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mso-height-rule:exactly" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:" times="" new=""
roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us"="" lang="EN-US">With the
American mass media repeatedly showing the severed heads of
these two helpless men, public indignation and disgust were
aroused with calls for US military involvement to stop the
terror. US and EU political leaders presented the decapitations
of Western hostages by the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) as a
direct and mortal threat to the safety of civilians in the US
and Europe. The imagery evoked was of black-clad faceless
terrorists, armed to the teeth, invading Europe and the US and
executing innocent families as they begged for rescue and mercy.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
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roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-ca"=""></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.65pt;
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mso-height-rule:exactly" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:" times="" new=""
roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us"="" lang="EN-US">The problem with
this propaganda ploy is not the villainy and brutal crimes
celebrated by ISIS, but the fact that Obama’s closest ally in
his seventh war in six years is Saudi Arabia, a repugnant
kingdom which routinely decapitates its prisoners in public
without any judicial process recognizable as fair by civilized
standards – unless tortured ‘confessions’ are now a Western
norm. During August 2014, when ISIS decapitated two American
captives, Riyadh beheaded fourteen prisoners. Since the
beginning of the year the Saudi monarchy has decapitated more
than 46 prisoners and chopped off the arms and limbs of many
more. During Obama and Kerry’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia,
horrendous decapitations were displayed in public. These
atrocities did not dim the bright smile on Barak Obama’s face as
he strolled with his genial royal Saudi executioners, in stark
contrast to the US President’s stern and angry countenance as he
presented the ISIS killing of two Americans as his pretext for
bombing Syria.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Times;mso-bidi-font-family:" times="" new=""
roman";mso-ansi-language:en-ca"=""></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.65pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:3.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;
mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;
mso-height-rule:exactly" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:" times="" new=""
roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us"="" lang="EN-US">The Western mass
media are silent in the face of the Saudi Kingdom’s common
practice of public decapitation. Not one among the major news
corporations, the BBC, the Financial Times, the New York Times,
the Washington Post, NBC, CBS and NPR, have questioned the moral
authority of a US President who engages in selective
condemnation of ISIS while ignoring the official Saudi state
beheadings and the amputations.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
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roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-ca"=""></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.65pt;
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mso-height-rule:exactly" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:
10pt; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">Decapitation
and Dismemberment: By Dagger and Drones</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"
times="" new="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-ca"=""></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.65pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:3.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;
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mso-height-rule:exactly" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:" times="" new=""
roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us"="" lang="EN-US">The ISIS
internet videos showing gaunt, orange-suited Western prisoners
and their lopped-off heads have evoked widespread dismay and
fear. We are repeatedly told: ‘ISIS is coming to get us!’ But
ISIS is open and public about their criminal acts against
helpless hostages. We cannot say the same about the
decapitations and dismemberments of the hundreds of victims of
US drone attacks. When a drone fires its missiles on a home, a
school, wedding party or vehicle, the bodies of living people
are dismembered, macerated, decapitated and burned beyond
recognition – all by remote control. The carnage is not videoed
or displayed for mass consumption by Obama’s high commend.
Indeed, civilian deaths, if even acknowledged, are brushed off
as ‘collateral damage’ while the vaporized remnants of men,
women and children have been described by US troops as ‘pink
foam’.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"
times="" new="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-ca"=""></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.65pt;
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mso-height-rule:exactly" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:" times="" new=""
roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us"="" lang="EN-US">If the brutal
decapitation and dismemberment of innocent civilians is a
capital crime that should be punished, as I believe it is, then
both ISIS and the Obama regime with his allied leaders should
face a people’s war crimes tribunal in the countries where the
crimes occurred.</span><span
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times="" new="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-ca"=""></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.65pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
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mso-height-rule:exactly" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:" times="" new=""
roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us"="" lang="EN-US">There are good
reasons to view Washington’s close relation with the Saudi royal
beheaders as part of a much broader alliance with terror-evoking
brutality. For decades, the US drug agencies and banks have
worked closely with criminal drug cartels in Mexico while
glossing over their notorious practice of decapitating,
dismembering and displaying their victims, be they local
civilians, courageous journalists, captured police or migrants
fleeing the terror of Central America. The notorious Zetas and
the Knights Templar have penetrated the highest reaches of the
Mexican federal and local governments, turning state officials
and institutions into submissive and obedient clients. Over
100,000 Mexicans have lost their lives because of this ‘state
within a state’, an ‘ISIS’ in Mexico – just ‘South of the
Border’. And just like ISIS in the Middle East, the cartels get
their weapons from the US imported right across the Texas and
Arizona borders. Despite this gruesome terror on the US southern
flank, the nation’s principle banks, including Bank of America,
CitiBank, Wells Fargo and many others have laundered billions of
dollars of drug profits for the cartels. For example, the
discovery of 49 decapitated bodies in one mass in May 2014 did
not prompt Washington to form a world-wide coalition to bomb
Mexico, nor was it moved to arrest the Wall Street bankers
laundering the ‘beheaders bloody booty’.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"
times="" new="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-ca"=""></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.65pt;
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mso-height-rule:exactly" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:
10pt; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">Conclusion</span><span
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<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.65pt;
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mso-height-rule:exactly" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:" times="" new=""
roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us"="" lang="EN-US">Obama’s
hysterical and very selective presentation of ISIS crimes forms
the pretext for launching another war against a predominantly
Muslim country, Syria, while shielding his close ally, the royal
Saudi decapitator from US public outrage. ISIS crimes have
become another excuse to launch a campaign of ‘mass decapitation
by drones and bombers’. The mass propaganda campaign over one
crime against humanity becomes the basis for perpetrating even
worse crimes against humanity. Many hundreds of innocent
civilians in Syria and Iraq will be dismembered by
‘anti-terrorist’ bombs and drones unleashed by another of
Obama’s ‘coalition’.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;
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roman";mso-ansi-language:en-ca"=""></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:" times="" new=""
roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us"="" lang="EN-US">The localized
savagery of ISIS will be multiplied, amplified and spread by the
US-directed ‘coalition of the willing decapitators’. The terror
of hooded beheaders on the ground will be answered and expanded
by their faceless counterparts in the air, while delicately
hiding the heads rolling through the public squares of Riyadh or
the headless bodies displayed along the highways of Mexico … and
especially ignoring the hidden victims of US-Saudi aggression in
the towns and villages of Syria.</span><span style="font-size:
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roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-ca"=""></span></p>
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