Iraq crisis: Sunni caliphate has been bankrolled by Saudi Arabia, reports The Independent

Note: This article is originally published in The Independent UK written by ROBERT FISK. Dispatch News Desk (DND) is carrying this article in reference to Iraq crises. 

So after the grotesquerie of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabia’s 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.