Wikileaks 2010 cables:
-communications from Hilary Clinton that state Saudi is the no 1 source of
funds for Sunni terrorism
-saudi "almost completely dependent on the CIA to provide analytic support
and direction for its counterterrorism operations"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_intervention_in_Iraq_%282014%E2%80%93present%29#cite_note-NI-30>

this table might not be accurate but is still really interesting to look at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_activity_of_ISIL#Number_of_nationals_fighting_for_ISIL

the flow of violence is really clear and obvious

On 20 September 2015 at 00:39, Amir Taaki <genjix@???> wrote:

> https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html
>

>     -- Possible action:

>

>     -- PLAY ON SUNNI FEARS OF IRANIAN INFLUENCE:

>
> I love the kind of denialism being played out on the internet that this
> is completely normal, that it was only something to make Assad look bad
> or that they were public about this (by giving rebels TOWs early on).
>
> Lets address these points.
>
> The US destabilised the Syrian state not for their publicly claimed goal
> of supporting freedom and democracy, but for supporting their Saudi
> prince allies agenda against Iran by fuelling a sectarian vicious war
> with hundreds of thousands dead, and atrocities of every kind (torture,
> burnings, chemical attacks, mass genocide, mass sexual slavery, barrel
> bombings, refugees).
>
> Basically blood is on their hands.
>
> For those who say it was only a media strategy, the fact that millions
> were pumped into arming (and recently training) rebels, and looking the
> other way while terrorists were so easily able to escape into Syria
> shows this clearly as a proxy war. This is the most fucking stupid
> narrative, and you are a zombie if you believe this.
>
> Lastly this document shows that US influence in this war was completely
> self guided with malicious intent, and that (again) the public has been
> lied to about US intent.
>
> Basically siding with Turkey and Saudi Arabia to hurt Russia and Iran.
> Nice one dickheads. Keep funding terrorism for your petty agendas. I
> look forward to the next guttertrash proxy war.
>
> Meanwhile the west continues to keep supporting Turkey over the Kurds,
> because Turkey is the big power that opposes Russia. That's right,
> Turkey which funds, and supports IS and had absolutely no problem with
> IS sharing most of the border with them is the ally of the US, but not
> the democratic secular Kurds in Syria that are the most effective
> fighting force against IS. The US prefers an Islamist authoritarian
> president of a nationalist racist state (Turkey).
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