Operation Cyclone never ended: The history of the West’s support for Islamist extremists
NOVANEWS
By Iain Davis
The impression we are given by our esteemed leaders and the mainstream media (MSM) that so compliantly serves them, is that the Islamist extremists represent an existential threat to our “way of life”. The Islamists hate us, in the West, and most importantly, “hate our freedom”. From time to time, depending upon the geopolitical realities of the day, we are reminded that the threat level is severe and asked to be vigilant, prepared to “run, hide, tell” if ever we witness masked men with guns, though they may well be police officers, but it’s probably best to be terrified in any event.
The slight problem with all this is that the Western military-industrial-intelligence complex has been working with, arming, equipping, training and deploying Islamist extremist terr...