Daesh outcome of illegal US invasion of Iraq: Analyst
The re-purposing of US military Humvees into car bombs by the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group is another example of the outcome of the illegal US invasion of Iraq, an American political scientist and radio host says.
Media reports indicate that Daesh Takfiri terrorists have been turning US military Humvees in Iraq into improvised car bombs.
Of the thousands of the armored vehicles supplied by the US to Iraqi security forces, some 2,300 or two-thirds of them have fallen into the hands of the terror group, according to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
After converting the vehicles into moving bombs, the Takfiri terrorists either use them against Iraqi forces or deploy them into Syria to solidify their foothold there.
“Daesh or ISIS (ISIL) is also being funded and supported by one of the United States’ largest allies in the region; Saudi Arabia,” said Dr. Wilmer Leon, a radio talk show host on Sirius Satellite Radio.
US foreign policy is not based on morals and justice but rather on material interest such as access to oil and minerals, he told Press TV on Tuesday.
“When you ignore what is truly going on on the ground, what is happening to the people that are being affected by these policies, you wind up with corrupt, immoral, baseless invasions such as the invasion of Iraq,” he added.
Former US president George W. Bush and his vice president Dick Cheney “lied to the American people and lied to the people of the world about why the United States needed to overthrow Saddam Hussein,” Dr. Leon pointed out.
Late in 2014, the US and some of its allies started conducting airstrikes in Iraq and neighboring Syria against Daesh terrorists, many of whom were initially trained by the CIA to fight against the Syrian government.
However, observers say the attacks have done little damage to the terrorists; rather, they targeted the country’s infrastructure.
The conflict in Syria has left more than 470,000 Syrians dead and half of the country’s population of about 23 million displaced within or beyond the Arab country’s borders.
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