ROBERT FISK: Bush and Blair said Iraq was a war on Islamic fascism. They lost
Iraq crisis: Sunni caliphate has been bankrolled by Saudi Arabia
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From Aleppo in northern Syria almost to the Iraqi-Iranian border, the jihadists of Isis and sundry other groupuscules paid by the Saudi Wahhabis and by Kuwaiti oligarchs now rule thousands of square miles.
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The story of Iraq and the story of Syria are the same politically, militarily and journalistically: two leaders, one Shia, the other Alawite, fighting for the existence of their regimes against the power of a growing Sunni Muslim international army.
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We will all be told to regard the new armed caliphate as a terror nation. Abu Mohamed al-Adnani, the Isis spokesman, is intelligent, warning against arrogance, talking of an advance on Baghdad when he may be thinking of Damascus. Isis is largely leaving the civilians of Mosul unharmed.
Finally, we will be invited to regard the future as a sectarian war when it will be a war between Muslim sectarians and Muslim non-sectarians. The terror bit will be provided by the arms we send to all sides.
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