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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
However, cooperation has not been cleared from the Iran side.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-05/top-iranian-lawmaker-denies-k
hamenei-backed-u-s-liaison.html

Now I'm convinced that Obama sees ISIS as a threat. I'll know that the USA is REALLY serious when they ally with Russia against ISIS.

It's been an open question for me how much the USA has been encouraging/ funding ISIS behind the scenes ... or at least benignly ignoring it. The reason is because ISIS is, in some ways, a USA creation... by allowing Saudi Arabia and Qatar to competitively flood Libya with (literally) tons of weapons, providing arms transshipment points from Benghazi, Libya to Syria, and by training various radicals under Jordan's aegis, we allowed and encouraged the development of ISIS as well as the development of al Qaida.

It's not entirely out of the question that we would fund jihadists, after all, we funded the "mujahideen" in Afghanistan (and boy, did THAT come to bite us in the ass!) and Saudi Arabia has been funding al Qaida for decades.

But in looking at the estimated makeup of ISIS, there are not only a lot of Jordanians (thanks, King Abdullah II!) and Tunisians, the third largest group is Chechens.

Now, you may recall that right before Sochi, Bandar "Bush" bin Sultan ("director general of the Saudi Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014.") threatened Putin with turning on the Chechen terror spigot if Putin did not agree to a joint world oil-takeover. Apparently, Bandar "Bush" bin Sultan felt he had some sort of authority over Chechen terrorists.

Shortly afterwards, Putin went to visit Saudi Arabia, as did Obama, and in July of this year Bandar bin Sultan was put out to pasture... er.... " On 1 July he was appointed King Abdullah's special envoy"

I wonder if ISIS was Bandar's special project, which got out of control and earned him a special spot in the middle of nowhere?

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