IPFS News Link • Syria
An Inconvenient Truth
• http://www.lewrockwell.com,By John M. Peterso, announced twenty two year old Kayla Mueller in a You Tube video of October 2, 2011. Unfortunately, for Kayla, she shared a view of Syria which was as myopic and ill-informed as that of her government. If her government had been honest with Kayla and the rest of the American public, it would have informed her that two years into Syria's bloody war, the Syrian government of President Bashar Al Assad enjoyed the support of at least 75% of Syria's 23 million people. However, Obama, Clinton, Rice and Kerry were too busy pushing the false narrative which inspired young idealists like Kayla to let her know what even the CIA knew to be the truth about Assad and Syria.
Kayla spent time in southern Turkey (the base for foreign Jihadist fighters and weapons entering Syria) before illegally slipping across the border into Syria to join up with those she was convinced were the victims of Syrian government persecution. Kayla took up residence in a sector of Aleppo controlled by the terrorists. Fellow Arizonan, John McCain would call them moderates and his friends. Indeed, this was 2012 and ISIS had not been formally announced. Kayla was taken captive in August 2013 while leaving a hospital in Aleppo. Since ISIS did not exist we can only conclude that those who took Kayla by force and held her until her death were the very 'moderates' whom Senator McCain pushed us to back. Alternatively, the 'moderates' who took Kayla by force later sold her to ISIS as they did with Steven Sotloff. That they later developed the moniker of ISIS is irrelevant to the fate of Kayla Mueller. A Jihadist by any other name…