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elleng

(130,942 posts)
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 09:23 PM Nov 2015

Wesley Clark: ISIS "Serving Interests Of Turkey And Saudi Arabia,"

"Someone's Buying The Oil ISIS Is Selling."

'Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark explains that the existence of the Islamic State helps Sunni countries Turkey and Saudi Arabia geostrategically, by countering the shi'ite powers: Iran, Iraq and Syria.

"All along there’s always been the idea that Turkey was supporting ISIS in some way… Someone’s buying that oil that ISIS is selling, it’s going through somewhere, it looks to me like it’s probably going through Turkey, but the Turks haven't acknowledged that."

“Let’s be very clear: ISIS [ISIL] is not just a terrorist organization, it is a Sunni terrorist organization. It means it blocks and targets Shia, and that means it’s serving the interests of Turkey and Saudi Arabia even as it poses a threat to them,” Clark said.

"There’s no good guy in this, this is a power struggle for the future of the Middle East," concluded Clark.'

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/11/25/wesley_clark_isis_serving_interests_of_turkey_and_saudi_arabia_someones_buying_the_oil_isis_is_selling.html

Foul Play: Turkey May Have 'Always Been Supporting ISIL'

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151125/1030724153/turkey-isil-support.html#ixzz3sYdNOYwd

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Wesley Clark: ISIS "Serving Interests Of Turkey And Saudi Arabia," (Original Post) elleng Nov 2015 OP
also targets kurds don't they (isis) w0nderer Nov 2015 #1

w0nderer

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1. also targets kurds don't they (isis)
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 09:30 PM
Nov 2015

and the turks have a big interest there (much bigger than the 9% kurdish population suggests)

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