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Suspicions Run Deep in Iraq That C.I.A. and the Islamic State Are United
Posted on 9/24/14 at 7:01 pm
Posted on 9/24/14 at 7:01 pm
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NY Times
NY Times
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BAGHDAD — The United States has conducted an escalating campaign of deadly airstrikes against the extremists of the Islamic State for more than a month. But that appears to have done little to tamp down the conspiracy theories still circulating from the streets of Baghdad to the highest levels of Iraqi government that the C.I.A. is secretly behind the same extremists that it is now attacking.
“We know about who made Daesh,” said Bahaa al-Araji, a deputy prime minister, using an Arabic shorthand for the Islamic State on Saturday at a demonstration called by the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr to warn against the possible deployment of American ground troops. Mr. Sadr publicly blamed the C.I.A. for creating the Islamic State in a speech last week, and interviews suggested that most of the few thousand people at the demonstration, including dozens of members of Parliament, subscribed to the same theory. (Mr. Sadr is considered close to Iran, and the theory is popular there as well.)
quote:
The demonstration on Saturday was the latest in a series of signals from Shiite leaders or militias, especially those considered close to Iran, warning the United States not to put its soldiers back on the ground. Mr. Obama has pledged not to send combat troops, but he seems to have convinced few Iraqis. “We don’t trust him,” said Raad Hatem, 40.
Haidar al-Assadi, 40, agreed. “The Islamic State is a clear creation of the United States, and the United States is trying to intervene again using the excuse of the Islamic State,” he said.
Shiite militias and volunteers, he said, were already answering the call from religious leaders to defend Iraq from the Islamic State without American help. “This is how we do it,” he said, adding that the same forces would keep American troops out. “The main reason Obama is saying he will not invade again is because he knows the Islamic resistance” of the Shiite militias “and he does not want to lose a single soldier.”
Posted on 9/24/14 at 7:05 pm to carbola
We create the problem (CIA) and then offer our government services (US Military) as the solution to the problem. The foreign policy MO of the US government pretty much.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 7:07 pm to Bunk Moreland
Your cute little cartoon doesn't make it any less true.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 7:18 pm to carbola
TX Tiger has this shite all figured out. He will be here soon with his pretentious posts and emoticons.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 7:38 pm to carbola
They also used to think that American soldiers had x-ray sunglasses.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 8:31 pm to carbola
The Islamists are convinced that everything bad that happens is because of Israel and the US. Another article denoting their paranoid idiocy is not proof that their paranoid idiocy is correct.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 8:32 pm to the808bass
quote:
The Islamists are convinced that everything bad that happens is because of Israel and the US. Another article denoting their paranoid idiocy is not proof that their paranoid idiocy is correct.
Why do they hate our Freedom?
Posted on 9/24/14 at 8:37 pm to genuineLSUtiger
No way a 70 billion dollar industry could be involved is there?
Posted on 9/24/14 at 8:43 pm to MSCoastTigerGirl
quote:
TX Tiger has this shite all figured out.
He's still trying to figure out why we aren't still fighting for control of Afghanistan and their $trillion special natural resource industry we supposedly went there to confiscate.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 8:44 pm to notiger1997
I thought it wa $100 trillion.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 8:46 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Knowing Bunk's post history, I can safely say he is agreeing with the OP.
But I do find it interesting that many people on this board believe that businesses doing business is some sort of deep dark scary conspiracy.
But I do find it interesting that many people on this board believe that businesses doing business is some sort of deep dark scary conspiracy.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 8:50 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:So does the President of Afghanistan.
I thought it wa $100 trillion.
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