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

Middle EastIraq crisis: Sunni caliphate has been bankrolled by Saudi Arabia, reports The...

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. 

 

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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.

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 Arabia’s role in this catastrophe, what other stories are to be hidden from us in the coming days and weeks?

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Asad Haroon
Asad Haroon
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