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Iraq Crisis: Sunni Caliphate Has Been Bankrolled By Saudi Arabia
Bush and Blair said Iraq was a war on Islamic fascism. They lostBy Robert Fisk 13 June 2014
So after the grotesquerie of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabias latest monstrous contribution to world history: the Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant, conquerors of Mosul and Tikrit and Raqqa in Syria and possibly Baghdad, and the ultimate humiliators of Bush and Obama.
From Aleppo in northern Syria almost to the Iraqi-Iranian border, the jihadists of Isis and sundry other groupuscules paid by the Saudi Wahhabis and by Kuwaiti oligarchs now rule thousands of square miles.
Apart from Saudi Arabias role in this catastrophe, what other stories are to be hidden from us in the coming days and weeks?
The story of Iraq and the story of Syria are the same politically, militarily and journalistically: two leaders, one Shia, the other Alawite, fighting for the existence of their regimes against the power of a growing Sunni Muslim international army.
While the Americans support the wretched Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his elected Shia government in Iraq, the same Americans still demand the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad of Syria and his regime, even though both leaders are now brothers-in-arms against the victors of Mosul and Tikrit.
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http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/robert-fisk/iraq-crisis-sunni-caliphate-has-been-bankrolled-by-saudi-arabia-30351679.html
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Iraq Crisis: Sunni Caliphate Has Been Bankrolled By Saudi Arabia (Original Post)
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Jun 2014
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yurbud
(39,405 posts)1. can someone please ask our government whether Saudi is the tail or the dog in our relationship?
If they are the tail, then when why are we letting or directing them to do this?
If they are the dog, then we are in much deeper shit than any of us already think.
erglerbergler
(27 posts)2. Good Reads or Garbage Reads?
"The story of Iraq and the story of Syria are the same politically, militarily and journalistically"
what a dumb statement, with such a nonexistent understanding of what's happening and has happened in these two countries there's little reason to read further into the author's article