Fake News in Overdrive: President Assad “Created ISIS”
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Journalist Roy Gutman's Hakawati
By Moon of Alabama
The so called “journalist” Roy Gutman is marketing an old fairy tale in three acts. It was the Syrian President Assad who created ISIS. Assad also faked the Al-Qaeda bombings in Syria to get sympathy in the “west”. The Daily Beast even paid Gutman to publish this nonsense:
This series charts Assad’s major role in the rise of Islamic extremism from the inside.
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the regime likely staged bombings of its own security facilities in 2011 and 2012 to foster the impression that al Qaeda had an armed presence in Syria long before it did.
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Syrian intelligence received orders to stand by when al Qaeda fighters crossed from Iraq into Syria in 2012.
But where did Gutman get such extraordinary information? On would think that s...
