RE: The fall of post invasion Iraq
June 14, 2014 at 2:39 pm
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2014 at 2:49 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Actually, ISIS was never really Al Queda. It was once a franchise of Al Queda. Now it mostly has its own agenda and Al Queda fears it. ISIS in Iraq is better thought of as a Sunni insurgency seeking to carve out a Sunni state to restore the preveliged status enjoyed by Sunnis of the takriti clan under sadam. ISIS's military success owe much to the dispossessed but trained former soldiers and officers of Sadam's old Sunni Takrit clan dominated Iraqi national army.
They didn't take Takrit first in Iraq, Saddam's home town and seat of the Takriti clan, for no reason.
They didn't take Takrit first in Iraq, Saddam's home town and seat of the Takriti clan, for no reason.