`ISIL ‘convenient enemy’ for West: Analyst
A political analyst says that Western countries are not acting resolutely against the ISIL terrorist group, Press TV reports.
“The world, that is to say the Western-controlled international community, is not acting forthrightly, actively and proactively against so-called Islamic State, because this group is really a Western false-flag operation,” Kevin Barrett, an editor at Veterans Today, said in a Wednesday interview with Press TV.
The analyst further noted that the terrorist group has been established and trained by the US and its Western and regional allies to pursue their objectives in the region.
“There are all sorts of evidence that these Islamic State or ISIL people were trained at CIA (the Central Intelligence Agency) bases in Jordan. They were unleashed against the government of President [Bashar] al-Assad in Syria, and now their task is to destabilize Iraq,” he said.
“They’re trying to break up Iraq into three pieces, and if this horrific atrocity-committing, supposedly Islamic extremist group controls a lot of territory in Iraq, then the West has an excuse to …work towards an eventual breakup of Iraq… to ensure Israel’s security by smashing its neighbors into small, powerless, Balkanized ethnic and sectarian units,” Barrett said.
Referring to concerns raised recently in some Western countries about the ISIL Takfiri group, the analyst said, “I think the West is pretending to be in a panic about so-called Islamic State when actually it’s a very convenient enemy for them.”
The ISIL took control of large swathes of Syria before sending its members into neighboring Iraq in June and seizing large parts of land there.
The Takfiri militants have committed heinous crimes and threatened all communities in their terror operations in both neighboring Arab countries.
Last month, US President Barack Obama authorized the use of targeted airstrikes to prevent the advance of ISIL terrorists in Iraq and to protect American personnel and interests inside the country. He has said the air raids could go on for months.
This is while the US administration has been providing arms and training to similar militant groups in neighboring Syria to fight the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
