chemTrailActivist · @chemTrailActivi
9th Dec 2013 from TwitLonger
#syria #iraq #iran #saudiarabia #qatar
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Chris Bambery, political commentator, London:
I think we have to connect the terrible sectarian killings in Iraq - some 9,000 or so already this year with what is happening in Syria.
The Salafist groups responsible for these killings the al-Qaeda linked groups both in Syria and in Iraq consider it is one conflict and
they are operating in a state they call Syria and Iraq so they make no division between Syria and Iraq.
They’re involved in a sectarian civil war, which is largely targeting Shia and other groups in both countries and of course
they’re being egged-on by Saudi Arabia and Qatar who’ve encouraged this sectarian agenda across the region because
they see it as weakening their rivals in the region.
They have no interest in a stable Iraq and regard the Iraqi government as being pro-Iran, which it’s clearly not, it’s got an independent force.
But I think we also have to add something else - there are other historical responsibilities for this rise from the American occupation.
When the American occupation could not deal with the Sunni opposition, what they essentially did was to co-opt them and encourage them to turn their guns on the Shias because
the Americans feared the Shias more than they did the Sunnis to be honest because
they regarded them, again incorrectly, they regarded them as simply a proxy for Iran.
And therefore they set up a situation where Iraq was divided into a Kurdish zone, a Sunni zone and a Shia zone and that situation still remains in large part.
It was inherited by the Iraqi government and it is a recipe for sectarian violence.
But I think the principle responsibility as I say is
the situation in Syria and
the encouragement being given these al-Qaeda linked groups operating in both Syria and Iraq
by Saudi Arabia and Qatar who are intent on posing a sectarian agenda right across the region.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/12/09/339074/ksa-and-qatar-plan-regional-instability/
Shouldn't Saudi Arabia and Qatar be on this list?
State Sponsors of Terrorism
http://www.state.gov/j/ct/list/c14151.htm