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cloudboy -> RE: ISIS Leadership (8/29/2014 10:13:53 AM)
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The older history of ISIS:
• DeBaathification – all members of the Baath party are officially kicked out of the government and their government jobs.
• The IRAQI army is disbanded.
• Some 50,000 armed Sunnis are told to go home without jobs and no prospects to participate in the IRAQ. Many of them are armed, militarily trained, and upset.
• Middle of the road and neutral IRAQIs enter Abu Ghraib American detention and leave radicalized wanting to attack US soldiers in revenge.
• The White House and Pentagon find working with the new Prime Minister, Nouri al Maliki, their hand-selected man, "difficult." He was never really vetted before being installed in office.
• The Ambassador to IRAQ, Patraeus, and the US national security advisor consider Nouri al-Malik to have a sectarian agenda and to be undermining the mission to create stability in IRAQ. All three recommend that Nouri al-Malik be removed from Office. GWB overrules them. He likes Nouri al-Malik and has faith in him. GWB has been mentoring him in the arts of leadership and politics, and GWB wants him to succeed.
• The moment the Americans leave on DEC 18, 2011, Maliki arrests the Vice President, a SUNNI, accusing him of leading death and hit squads in IRAQ. The VP was sentenced to death. He was able to leave the country however and live in exile. Sectarian animosities between SHIA and SUNNIs escalate. The US is not in IRAQ and it is not a priority to the Obama Administration. The US disengages. The US is no longer shaping policy in IRAQ. Obama is characterized as "not wanting to deal with it."
• Maliki purges SUNNIS from all leading posts and the army.
• The Sons or IRAQ, Sunnis funded by Patreaus, shift against the IRAQI government.
• ISIS, a kind of Al Qaeda on steroids, or as one official put it, Al Qaeda 6.0, strikes out and takes large swaths of territory. It releases graphic videos of summary executions. The IRAQI army folds during the conflict.
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