ISIL is doing exactly what US wants: Activist
The ISIL Takfiri terrorist group was created by the US and does what exactly Washington wants it to do, says political activist Seth Rutledge.
“ISIS, in my opinion, is largely a creation of US intelligence and is basically doing what exactly the US wants it to do,” Rutledge told Press TV on Thursday.
The terrorists are “attacking governments that the US has geopolitical issues with, in Syria, the government of Iraq,” he said, noting “these are countries with oil that have oil roots or oil pipelines that the US wants to control and ISIS is doing a great job of destabilizing those areas, preventing pipelines and attempting to control the flow of energy from those countries.”
He went on to say that “the US has plenty of intelligence in that region, they’re constantly watching these guys (ISIL terrorists).”
Rutledge also said Washington is militarily supporting the terrorists. “The US is dropping arms to the ISIS in Iraq and commanders in Iraq don’t trust the US.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, he said that the US war in Iraq “really never ended, they’re still trying to break Iraq apart, to support different factions within Iraq and have basically a civil war in Iraq and that’s pretty much the US strategy for that country and the region in general.”
Around 3,500 US troops are currently in the campaign against ISIL with the White House saying they are mostly acting as “advisers or trainers” for Iraqi forces. The US is also conducting airstrikes on ISIL positions in both Iraq and Syria.
Senior US military officials have cautioned the White House against further US involvement in Iraq as President Barack Obama was weighing deploying another 450 military personnel to Iraq last week.
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said the reason behind challenges the US is facing in the fight against ISIL in Iraq is lack of enough trainees.
ISIL militants have been committing atrocities against all religious and ethnic groups and now control areas of Iraq and neighboring Syria.
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M. Wassouf