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"Who's up for dig on Elizabeth O'Bagy"
John McCain, Elizabeth O'Bagy, and 'Allahu Akbar'
Elizabeth O’Bagy, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War who has travelled extensively inside Syria, reports that al-Qaeda and mainstream rebel forces are largely separated from each other and control different pieces of territory.”
O’Bagy’s analysis turned out to be completely off-base. The facts on the ground in Syria now demonstrate that the Islamist groups are by and large the only legitimate fighting forces. The WSJ and Washington Post‘s Syria go-to expert, who was also relied upon heavily upon by Senator John McCain in his push to arm the opposition, was badly exposed as a lying fraud with an undisclosed conflict of interest.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/09/20/john-mccain-o-bagy-and-allahu-akbar/
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Influential U.S. Syria Expert: Not All Islamists Are Enemiesof West
Elizabeth O’Bagy was an "expert"; informing U.S. leaders. Yet she counted Islamists among theSyrian moderates |
The coverage of the downfall of Elizabeth O’Bagy, a very influential expert on Syria who wasfound to have lied about her credentials, is missing an important element: O’Bagy based her
assessments on the notion that not all Islamists are enemies of the West.
O’Bagy burst onto the scene as the leading Syria expert for the Institute of the Study of War
at age 26. She was the center of attention when her August 30 editorial in the
Wall Street Journal
argued that concern about the composition of the Syrian rebels is overblown. It wassubsequently cited by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Secretary of State John Kerry.
“Contrary to many media accounts, the war in Syria is not being waged entirely, or even
predominantly, by dangerous Islamists and al Qaeda die-
hards,” O’Bagy wrote.
https://www.scribd.com/document/169198854/O-Bagy-Paid-Spy-for-AQ
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Elizabeth O'Bagy, senior research analyst, Institute for the Study of War
The US should provide greater support to the Syrian opposition. The goal should be to build a force that is committed to building a non-sectarian, stable state.
The US should look to provide both non-lethal support to civilian groups as well as lethal support to moderate armed forces.
Providing arms through the Supreme Military Command of the Free Syrian Army is the first step in ensuring the army is a professional force that submits to the rule of law.
Providing lethal support to the opposition does entail the risk of unintended consequences.
However, the current policy of inaction carries much more risk.
This policy has not prevented the flow of weapons into Syria nor has it prevented extremists from acquiring arms. Instead, it has prevented more moderate forces from acquiring arms and consolidating their authority while allowing extremist forces to develop their own independent sources of support that are less easily monitored.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-22693333
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“Expert” Lobbying for Syrian War and Cited by Senator John McCain and Secretary of State John Kerry Lied About Credentials
We are going to war at the urging of this fraud and Syrian jihadist advocate?
If you have followed the previous adventures of Elizabeth O’Bagy, the twenty-something Syria expert that McCain and Kerry have been relying on to give the Syrian rebels a clean moderate bill of health, then you know that she’s
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Actually a lobbyist for a Syrian emigre group pushing for US intervention
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Despite that, she gets paid from contracts given by the US government
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She opposed calling Al-Qaeda a terrorist group
But irony of ironies, the woman who is the public face of the expert push for a Syrian War opposed the War in Iraq. Speaking about McCain’s trip to meet with Syrian Jihadists, which she claims to have arranged,
……was against the war in Iraq. Hypocrisy? No, she’s just being a Democrat.
https://www.dcclothesline.com/2013/09/13/elizabeth-obagy-is-fired-expert-lobbying-for-syrian-war-and-cited-by-senator-john-mccain-and-secretary-of-state-john-kerry-lied-about-credentials-geller-atlas-shrugs/
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Seems to be loads on her on net