The primary grievances of
most Iraqi Sunnis include the integration of Shi‘a militias into the Iraqi
Security Forces (ISF), attacks by the ISF in Sunni civilian areas, and
political exclusion in Baghdad.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

In June 1919, aboard an Allied warship en route to Paris, sat Damat
Ferid Pasha, the Grand Vizier of a crumbling Ottoman Empire. The elderly
statesman, donning an iconic red fez and boasting an impeccably groomed
mustache, held in his hands a memorandum that he was to present to the
Allied powers at the Quai d'Orsay. The negotiations on postwar
reparations started five months earlier, but the Ottoman delegation was
prepared to make the most of its tardy invitation to the talks. As he
journeyed across the Mediterranean that summer toward the French shore,
Damat Ferid mentally rehearsed the list of demands he would maketo the
Allied powers during his last-ditch effort to hold the empire together.

Monday, October 6, 2014

Qatar and Saudi Arabia have ignited a "time
bomb" by funding the global spread of radical Islam, according to a
former commander of British forces in Iraq.

General
Jonathan Shaw, who retired as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff in
2012, told The Telegraph that Qatar and Saudi Arabia were primarily
responsible for the rise of the extremist Islam that inspires Isil
terrorists.

Though everyone adheres to Washington and its Gulf
allies’ anti-terrorist discourse, everyone understands that it is only a
rhetorical justification for a war that has other purposes. The United States
say they want to destroy the Islamic Emirate which they created and which
performs for them the ethnic cleansing necessary to its plan for the remodeling
of the "Broader Middle East". Stranger still, they