Yoshua wrote: Who created ISIS? Most likely Iran, Iraq and Syria to legitimise a massacre of the Sunni populations in Iraq and Syria.
Don't forget the role the Obama administration's ill-fated TIMBER SYCAMORE program played in arming ISiS.
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TIMBER SYCAMORE was the secret CIA program that saw the CIA working with Saudi Arabia and Jordan in training, arming and funding jihadi Sunni rebels in Syria. Timber Sycamore was authorized by President Obama in 2013 as part of his failed effort to oust the Assad regime in Syria. The Obama administration knew that they were training arming thousands of radical jihadists in Syria---"A classified US State Department cable signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reported that Saudi donors were a major support for Sunni militant forces globally, and some American officials worried that rebels being supported had ties to Al Qaeda.[19]"
Even worse, we know now that some US arms sent to Syria went straight to ISIS. "A 2017 study conducted by private company[29] Conflict Armament Research at the behest of the European Union and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit found that external support for anti-Assad Syrian rebels "significantly augmented the quantity and quality of weapons available to [ISIL] forces,"[3] including, in the most rapid case diversion they documented,[3] "anti-tank weapons purchased by the United States that ended up in possession of the Islamic State within two months of leaving the factory."[30]
After 9/11, its hard to imagine anything more stupid then the US CIA providing arms to jihadists, but that clearly happened under the Obama administration where weapons and ammunition purchased by the US went to the Al Quaeda-linked Al Nusra front and to ISiS.
President Obama authorized the CIA to train and arm thousands of jihadi rebels in Syria under the Obama administration, including Sunni jihadists in the al Nusra front and iSiS, as part of his failed effort to topple the Assad regime in Syria.
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