{"id":56819,"date":"2016-07-22T15:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T22:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56819"},"modified":"2016-07-22T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T22:05:18","slug":"you-created-isis-press-conference-scandal-mars-kerrys-visit-to-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/22\/you-created-isis-press-conference-scandal-mars-kerrys-visit-to-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You created ISIS!\u2019 Press conference scandal mars Kerry\u2019s visit to Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<h2 class=\"article__summary summary \"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RT<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">US Secretary of State John Kerry\u2019s visit to Italy was disrupted by a cry of protest at his joint press conference with Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, when a woman in the<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>The press conference was coming to an end, when the woman stood up from the public, her head covered up by a black veil.<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s you who created Daesh!\u201d<\/em> she shouted at the two ministers, using another name for the terror group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainews.it\/dl\/rainews\/media\/voi-avete-creato-isis-donna-protesta-conferenza-stampa-kerry-gentiloni-432094cf-f7d9-4cb5-ac21-de9f2ee10914.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>\u00a0the Italian state-owned television channel RAI.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was dragged away from the conference by the Carabinieri.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"1469224868698_TBOtherPlayer_10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8_fXVc7IY0o?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After meeting with Gentiloni, Kerry said he was convinced that the US-led international coalition would <em>crush ISIS\u201d<\/em>eventually. His Italian counterpart expressed much more caution.<\/p>\n<p><em>There have been steps forward on the ground with respect to the Paris summit. But no triumphalism is warranted, we must continue the armed effort in Iraq,&#8221;<\/em> Gentiloni said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that in the fight against IS\u00a0<em>important progress has been made,\u201d<\/em> although <em>we are faced with a very resilient organization and therefore we must not underestimate it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<div class=\"read-more__title\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/327404-usa-helped-create-isis-marine\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2015.12\/thumbnail\/5683416bc361886a058b45d8.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Erik de Castro\" \/><span class=\"read-more__footer\">\u2018I helped create ISIS\u2019: Iraq War veteran says US policy caused &#8216;blowback&#8217; in Middle East<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The protester in Italy is not the first to accuse Washington of aiding the rise of IS. One former US Marine has blamed the self-proclaimed caliphate on the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.<\/p>\n<p><em>I knew what I was seeing was wrong, I knew it was immoral, I knew it was unjust, I knew it was illegal,\u201d Vincent Emanuele told RT in December 2015,\u00a0<\/em>and <em><\/em><em>I knew that we would pay severe consequences in the form of the blowback as we are seeing with groups like ISIS.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) warned the government that <em>there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in eastern Syria\u2026 and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration made a<em> willful decision\u201d<\/em> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/312050-dia-flynn-islamic-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">ignore<\/a>\u00a0the warning, former DIA Director Lieutenant General Michael Flynn told Al Jazeera in August of last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/331209-italian-woman-kerry-isis\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/331209-italian-woman-kerry-isis\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RT US Secretary of State John Kerry\u2019s visit to Italy was disrupted by a cry of protest at his joint press conference with Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, when a woman in the The press conference was coming to an end, when the woman stood up from the public, her head covered up by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}