Empire of Fear : Inside the Islamic State by Hosken Andrew

Author:Hosken, Andrew
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2015-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

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Scourge of Syria

2011–2014

In January 2013, the Sunni MP Dr Alaa Makki was in Washington DC and paid a visit to his friends in the US state department. Makki, a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the biggest Sunni party in Iraq, had two disturbing warnings for the Americans. He said, ‘I went to the state department and they became angry. I told them, “You’ve spent billions, like $20 billion at that time, on the Iraqi army but there is no military doctrine in the Iraqi army at all,” and they became angry at that time, but it was the truth.’1 With the resurgence of sectarian violence and killing by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, all that stood between Iraq and disaster was its corrupted and highly dysfunctional police and army.

Makki’s second warning concerned Islamic State of Iraq and was even more chilling. He said:

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