ISIS AND GOVT

What does this suggest to you?  Russia and the United states and possibly other countries have an agenda.

To start out with remember Vladimir Putin told bush Iraq had WMD's when they did not?

Saddam enjoyed a close relationship with Russian intelligence agent Yevgeny Primakov that dated back to the 1960s; Primakov may have helped Saddam to stay in power in 1991.[49]

Saddam's only visit to a Western country took place in September 1975 when he met with his friend, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac in Paris, France.[50]


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant

In April 2015 hackers claiming allegiance to ISIL managed to black out 11 global television channels belonging to TV5Monde for several hours, and take over the company's social media pages for nearly a day.[328] U.S. cybersecurity company FireEye later reported that they believed the cyber-attack was actually carried out by a Russian hacking group, called APT28, with alleged links to the Russian government.[329]

Russia[703][704] – arms supplier to Iraqi and Syrian governments. In June 2014, the Iraqi army received Russian Sukhoi Su-25 and Sukhoi Su-30 fighter aircraft to combat the ISIL.[705] Security operations within state borders in 2015.[706][707] Airstrikes in Syria (see Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War).[708][709][710]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofacy_Group
The Sofacy Group (also known as APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear and Sednit) is a cyber espionage group believed to have ties to the Russian government. Likely operating since 2007, the group is known to target government, military, and security organizations. It has been characterized as an advanced persistent threat.

The Sofacy Group employs spear phishing attacks, using malware to gain control of systems via a command and control infrastructure.

German attack Edit
Sofacy is thought to have been responsible for a six-month long attack on the German parliament that began in December 2014.[9]

TV5Monde cyber-attack Edit
On April 8, 2015, French television network TV5Monde was the victim of a cyberattack by a hacker group calling itself "CyberCaliphate" and claiming to have ties to the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Hackers breached the network's internal systems, possibly aided by passwords openly broadcast by TV5,[10] overriding the broadcast programming for over three hours.[11] Service was only partially restored in the early hours of the following morning and normal broadcasting services were disrupted late into April 9.[11] Various computerised internal administrative and support systems including e-mail were also still shut down or otherwise inaccessible due to the attack.[12][11] The hackers also hijacked TV5Monde's Facebook and Twitter pages to post the personal information of relatives of French soldiers participating in actions against the organization, along with messages critical of President François Hollande, arguing that the January 2015 terrorist attacks were "gifts" for his "unforgivable mistake" of partaking in conflicts that "[serve] no purpose".[13][11]

As part of the official response to the attack, the French Minister of Culture and Communications, Fleur Pellerin, called for an emergency meeting of the heads of various major media outlets and groups. The meeting took place on April 10 at an undisclosed location.[12] The French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called the attack "an unacceptable insult to freedom of information and expression".[12] His cabinet colleague, the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve attempted to allay public concern by stating that France "had already increased its anti-hacking measures to protect against cyber-attacks" following the aforementioned terrorist attacks on January earlier that year, which had left a total of 20 people dead.[12]

French investigators later discounted the theory that militant Islamists were behind the cyber attack, instead suspecting the involvement of Sofacy.[14]

EFF spoof, White House and NATO attack Edit
In August 2015, Sofacy used a zero-day exploit of Java, spoofing the Electronic Frontier Foundation and launching attacks on the White House and NATO. The hackers used a spear phishing attack, directing emails to the false url electronicfrontierfoundation.org.[15][16]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War
According to citizen journalist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently Russia lied about targeting ISIL in the early airstrikes and missiles around Raqqa. Between 17 September and 13 October they counted 36 Russian strikes against only 2 ISIL targets (with 4 ISIL deaths) and 22 civilian targets (with 70 civilian deaths plus injuries) included hospitals, a fire hall, at least one school and a highway fueling station.[148]

A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 strike aircraft was shot down by a Turkish Air Force F-16 on 24 November 2015.[157][158] According to Turkey’s claims presented to the UN Security council, two planes, whose nationalities were unknown to them at the time, violated Turkish airspace over the Yayladağı province up to 1.36 miles for 17 seconds.[159] The planes were given 10 warnings within the span of 5 minutes to change their course. According to Turkey, the planes disregarded the warnings and were subsequently fired upon by Turkish F-16s patrolling the area. After the Turkish fire, one of the planes left Turkish airspace and the other crashed into Syrian territory.[159] The Russian Ministry of Defense denied that any of their planes had violated Turkey's airspace, claiming they had been flying south of the Yayladağı province[160] and provided two maps showing two different alleged routes of the airplane (one of them with "impossible" turns and maneuvers).[161] The incident followed over month-long tensions over alleged repeated violations of Turkish airspace by Russian military jets — over nine times in October,[162] one of which Russia admitted[163]— and Turkish declaration from 17 October that it will "with no hesitation" shoot down any airplanes violating its airspace.[164]

Russia in response announced it would deploy additional air defense weapons in the area and accompany its bombers with fighter jets.[165] On 26 November 2015, deployment of S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft systems was reported by Russia′s official news media,[60] to Latakia and on board the Russian cruiser Moskva.[166]

United Kingdom - Prime Minister David Cameron said "It's absolutely clear that Russia is not discriminating between Isil [IS] and the legitimate Syrian opposition groups and, as a result, they are actually backing the butcher Assad and helping him".[228] British troops will be sent to the Baltic states and Poland following Russia's intervention in Syria "to respond to any further provocation and aggression".[229]

Fifty-five Saudi religious scholars signed a statement against the Russian intervention, first addressing the Russians as "Oh Russians, oh extremist people of the Cross", reminding them of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and addressing the Orthodox Russia as the heir of the Soviet Communists, accusing them of "supporting the Nusayri regime" and invading "Muslim Syria", accusing the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church of declaring a "Crusade" and telling them they will meet the fate of the Soviet Union and suffer "a shameful defeat in the Levant" as what happened in Afghanistan.

The U.S. ruled out military cooperation with Russia in Syria.[232] Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and other senior U.S. officials said Russia's campaign was primarily aimed at propping up Assad, whom President Barack Obama has repeatedly called upon to leave power.[233]

U.S.-led coalition - On 1 October, participants in the U.S.-led anti-ISIL coalition called on Russia to curtail its air campaign in Syria, saying the airstrikes had hit Syrian opposition groups and civilians. Such strikes would "only fuel more extremism", the statement issued by the U.S., UK, Turkey and other coalition members declared.[204] "We call on the Russian Federation to immediately cease its attacks on the Syrian opposition and civilians and to focus its efforts on fighting ISIL."[205] U.S. President Barack Obama, at a news conference on 2 October, underscored the coalition statement by saying the Russian action was driving moderate opposition groups underground, and would result in "only strengthening" IS.[206]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raqqa_Is_Being_Slaughtered_Silently

RBSS detailed that the effects of Russian airstrikes in and around Raqqa were targeting mainly civilian targets, and having little effect on ISIL.[18]

In 1992, Director of Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Yevgeni Primakov admitted that the KGB was behind the Soviet newspaper articles claiming that AIDS was created by the US government.[1]
Operation INFEKTION was a KGB disinformation campaign to spread information that the United States invented HIV/AIDS[2] as part of a biological weapons research project at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Primakov

From 1990 until 1991 he was a member of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's Presidential Council.[6] He served as Gorbachev's special envoy to Iraq in the run-up to the Persian Gulf War, in which capacity he held talks with President Saddam Hussein.[7] After the failed August 1991 putsch, Primakov was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the KGB. After the formation of the Russian Federation, Primakov was appointed Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service SVR, serving in that position from 1991 until 1996.[6]

Primakov officially abandoned the presidential race in his TV address on 4 February 2000[25] less than two months before the 26 March presidential elections. Soon he became an adviser to Putin and a political ally.[26] On 14 December 2001, Primakov became President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a position he held until 2011.[27]

Leader of Fatherland – All Russia Duma faction Yevgeny Primakov meets President Vladimir Putin, 2000
In February and March 2003, he visited Iraq and talked with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, as a special representative of President Vladimir Putin. He brought to Baghdad a message from Putin to call for Saddam to resign voluntarily.[28] He tried to prevent the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a move which received some support from several nations opposed to the war. Primakov suggested that Saddam must hand over all Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to the United Nations, among other things. However, the Iraqi leader told Primakov he was confident that no harm would befall him personally[29]—a belief that was later proven incorrect. Primakov later claimed Saddam's execution in 2006 was rushed to prevent him from revealing information on Iraq–United States relations that could embarrass the U.S. government.[30]

In November 2004, Primakov testified in defense of the former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević, on trial for war crimes.[31] He had earlier led a Russian delegation that met with Milošević during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.[32]

Primakov stepped down as President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry on 4 March 2011.[33]

On December 6, 2015, in a televised interview with the Ukrainian news program ТСН Тиждень (TSN Tyzhden, Ukrainian for TSN Weekly), a former FSB officer admitted that Russia is behind ISIS while ostensibly opposing it.

Former FSB officer codenamed "Yevgeniy" (shown, back toward camera) revealed that Russia's FSB security services was, at the very least, complicit in the Paris attacks carried out by ISIS, and most shockingly that the FSB was involved in the creation of ISIS, which it influences through its agents who staff it as well as other related Islamic terrorist organizations.

The FSB, which stands for Federal Security Service in Russian, was organized in 1995 as the successor to the Soviet KGB. After the KGB was officially dissolved in 1991, it was briefly renamed the AFB (Agency for Federal Security), which was reorganized that same year as the MB (Ministry of Security). In 1993, the MB became the FSK (Federal Counter-Intelligence Service), which was again reorganized into its present form and name as the FSB on April 12, 1995.

Yevgeniy reportedly specialized in both terrorist organizations and counter-terrorism activities within the FSB. Defecting for personal reasons rather than ideological, Yevgeniy told TSN's Andriy Tsaplienko that among the vast number of refugees entering Europe were certain Russian operatives whose task it was to infiltrate the Muslim communities. Financed by the FSB, these undercover Muslim operatives would rise to prominence within their respective communities, in turn providing the Kremlin with valuable intelligence of Muslim activates in Europe and allowing Moscow to exert influence over the communities.

"Being guided by good intentions, human rights activists from Europe would help the people being persecuted in their country to flee. Among them were infiltrators with ready documents and a made-up legend. They would actively infiltrate into Muslim communities. With the support of the security services, they made financial donations, thus acquiring prestige and moving up the hierarchy," Yevgeniy said.

Regarding the Paris attacks, Tsaplienko asked, "Is there any proof which suggests that the Russian special services were involved in the terrorist attacks on Paris, or at least they knew about them in advance?"

Yevgeniy replied, "Given the connections they have in Muslim communities based in Europe, they could not but know that the terrorist acts were being prepared. They knew but did not share."

Tsaplienko interrupted with a follow-up question, "Is it complicity?"

"It is complicity in acts of terrorism. And the complicity could be direct or indirect. By analyzing their connections, one, of course, will be able to see the ties leading to Russia. Primarily Russia could benefit from this, and the Russian security services had all the possibilities to organize this," Yevgeniy responded.

In other words, at the very least there was no way that Russia could not have known of the attacks in advance considering the FSB's active presence within the Muslim communities throughout Europe. The high probability that Russia knew of the attacks in advance but yet did not warn proper European and French authorities, Yevgeniy suggests, is indicative that Russia wanted the Paris terrorist attacks to occur or at the very least was okay with them happening.

Anatoliy Golitsyn, a high-ranking KGB defector who served in the KGB's ultra secretive long-range disinformation Department D, explained in his book New Lies For Old (1984) the then-Soviet Union's reason for sponsoring terrorism:

The objective of violence is to create chaos and anarchy, to impose additional strains on ruling democratic parties, to eliminate their ablest leaders, to force them to resort to undemocratic measures, and to demonstrate to the public their inability to maintain law and order, leaving the field open to the legal communist party to present itself as the only effective alternative force.

Although Russia no longer outwardly projects a communist, Marxist-Leninist ideology, KGB/FSB defector Konstantin Preobrazhensky states on page 21 of his book KGB/FSB's New Trojan Horse: Americans of Russian Descent (2008), "The FSB and the Communist Party share the same ideas." Preobrazhensky notes, "In Soviet times, chekists [name given to KGB officers after the organization's original predecessor the 'Cheka'] proudly called themselves 'the armed unit of the Communist Party." (Emphasis in original.) Preobrazhensky further writes, "the chekists even now remain Communists in their hearts."

Furthermore, current Russian President Vladimir Putin joined the KGB in 1975, and was stationed as an officer in communist East Germany from 1985 to 1990 before resigning with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1991. In 1998, then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed Putin as FSB director, which he served as until March 29, 1999, shortly before becoming president of Russia on December 31, 1999. On April 25, 2005, in his annual address to the Federal Assembly at the Kremlin, President Putin said, "First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century."

Run by a chekist president who regards the collapse of the Soviet Union as the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century, it is understandable how, as Yevgeniy said, "Russia could benefit" from the Paris attacks.

Tsaplienko also asked Yevgeniy if he could "name any Russian agents in the Muslim structures, give the names of the people who get money to destabilize the situation from time to time?"

"A son and two nephews of Hezbollah's security chief. Once they lived in Moscow, now they're residing in Europe, and the SVR manages the Arab-Lebanese cell through them," answered Yevgeniy.

According to TSN, it found out that Yevgeniy was referring to the relatives of Abdul Hadi Hamadi, Hezbollah's head of counterintelligence. The Russian Federation does not recognize Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

The SVR is Russia's official Foreign Intelligence Service, which, like the FSB, is an offshoot of the former Soviet KGB.

Regarding ISIS, Tsaplienko asked, "Can one claim that Russia, the Russian special services are involved in the creation of ISIS?"

"Definitely, and I know that exactly, the Russian special services believed that if a terrorist organization was set up as an alternative to Al-Qaeda and it created problems for the United States as [the heavily ethnic-Russian populated region of Ukraine known as the] Donbas does for Ukraine now, it would be quite good," Yevgeniy said.

In an attempt to verify his claims, Ukrainian experts twice checked his statements with a polygraph test. The results apparently revealed that Yevgeniy's testimony is truthful.

As for his claim that radical Islamist groups are staffed with Russian agents, during the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism (February 18-20), FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov made the surprising announcement that 1,700 Russian citizens were in Iraq fighting for ISIS. "At present there are 1,700 Russian citizens in Iraq and this number has practically doubled since last year," Bortnikov said.

Since Bortnikov's announcement earlier this year, the number of Russians and former Soviet bloc citizens who have joined to fight for ISIS has dramatically increased to around 7,000. On October 16, 2015, speaking at the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Heads of State, Putin said, "There are an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 fighters from Russia and other CIS member states fighting for ISIL." (ISIL is an alternate acronym for ISIS).

Given Russia and the FSB's past history regarding international terrorism, supposed "Chechen" terrorism, and the revelations by the late-FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was trained at an FSB base in Dagestan in 1998, Yevgeniy's revelations of a Russian FSB role in both ISIS and in particular and "Muslim" terrorism in general should be taken seriously and not simply dismissed. In the words of former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev, "The banner of Islam may lead into [the] struggle for liberation." With the FSB reportedly behind ISIS and infiltrating Europe's Muslim communities, it would appear that Brezhnev's "struggle for liberation" has arrived.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/22103-russian-fsb-defector-reveals-kremlin-supports-isis