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In reply to the discussion: Everyone hates ISIS....So what do you want to do about it ? [View all]JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Installing Al-Maliki as prime minister. Raiding homes, killed, & charged crimes against elected Sunni officials of Iraqi Parliament. Then when the Sunnis protested they were brutally oppressed. All the while the Iran backed Shia militias continued to grow, ISIS offered a protection from the Shia militias.
Sunnis in Iraq Often See Their Government as the Bigger Threat
BAGHDAD A group of Iraqi Sunni refugees had found shelter in an abandoned school, two families to a room, after fleeing fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. They were gathered in the schools courtyard last week when the Iraqi Air Force bombed them.
The bombing, in Alam District near Tikrit, may well have been a mistake. But some of the survivors believe adamantly that the pilot had to know he was bombing civilians, landing the airstrike in the middle of all the people, said Nimr Ghalib, whose wife, three children, sister and nephew were among at least 38 people killed, according to witnesses interviewed last week, as well as human rights workers who detailed the attack on Wednesday.
The attack fit a pattern of often indiscriminate shelling and airstrikes on Sunni areas by the armed forces of the Shiite-led Iraqi government. The strikes have added to a long and bitter list of Sunni grievances, leading many to view the governments leaders as an enemy and some to regard the government as an even greater threat than the Sunni extremists in ISIS.
Overcoming that mistrust is a fundamental challenge facing the new Iraqi government, led by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, as it tries to win Sunni Iraqis over to its side in a fight against the Sunni extremists. And it is a prerequisite of President Obamas new plan to fight the militant group.
Mr. Abadis admirers, including American officials, have insisted that he is an intrinsically more inclusive leader than his predecessor, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whom many Sunnis accused of using the government, the security forces and the cover of law to serve narrow Shiite interests and subjugate the Sunni minority.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/world/middleeast/sunni-mistrust-is-major-hurdle-for-new-iraqi-leaders.html?_r=0
Its all about money & maintaining control & influence over the region. ISIS=Taliban=House of Saud