Deir Ezzor diary part 5A: The road to Al Mayadeen, most important ISIS-caliphate capital.

By: Janice Kortkamp

Date: October 21, 2017

Al Mayadeen was the economic/weapons capital of ISIS until it was liberated by the Syrian Army and allies after a six day offensive against the terrorist group just 2 weeks before we went to visit it last week.

“The heart of darkness” may be an overused phrase but in this case it is appropriately descriptive.

Mayadeen was first captured by the US sponsored extremist and profiteering “Free Syrian Army” then taken over by ISIS in July of 2013.

It was a prosperous argiculture/production/petrol town of 44,000 before the war and sits among rich oil fields whose black gold rests just 2 meters below the surface.

Although the western nations have embargoes against importing of Syrian oil from the legitimate government in Damascus, after the head-chopping, women enslaving ISIS took over, the European Union allowed the below market oil from ISIS areas to be imported to Europe through Turkey. Israel was a big buyer also. It created a huge income stream for ISIS terrorism.

In 2012 the US Defense Intelligence Agency issued a report to the White House describing how the “revolutionaries” in Syria were dominated by ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood and that their plan was to form a terrorist caliphate in Syria. General Michael Flynn, director of the DIA at the time said the Obama administration made a willful decision to treat the groups as an asset in their illegal regime change war against Syria.

Later, Secretary of State John Kerry was recorded on audio saying the US allowed ISIS to grow in order to put pressure on the popularly-supported President Assad.

In 2016, American troops made a massacre against the Syrian Army, killing 132 soldiers who had been fighting ISIS for years. We called it “a mistake”, a mistake that lasted 90 minutes against an army flying several Syrian flags and included a strafing run to mow down survivors of our bombing. The US coordinated with ISIS forces who took over the strategic hillside immediately after the US attack.

The United States under President Trump continues to help ISIS. In fact, American helicopters airlifted many ISIS commanders to safety from the Syrian Army and allies’ assaults.

This is why I went into the center of ISIS land, to bring these truths to you. I am paid by no one, no group, no government … my husband’s hard work and some contributions from friends pay for these trips. What I am is a pissed off American patriot who has seen my country’s governments and allies of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UK, France and Turkey supporting, training, arming, funding terrorists – hideously masking them as “freedom fighters”.

Not only have we used these savages for illegal wars to kill whole nations for profit and to pander to malicious regional allies’ sick ambitions and greed, the same terrorists we support will attack the hands that have fed them as we’ve already seen many times.

So here’s a video on the 40km road from Deir Ezzor to Al Mayadeen. Because of the fight and great sacrifices of the sons of Syria that continues to eradicate the monsters, I was able to travel it. But the fight goes on, later in the day after we left ISIS attacked Al Mayadeen again and were repelled by the Syrian Army.