An image posted by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) shows insurgents leading away captured Iraqi soldiers, who were later massacred. What began in Syria during the spring of 2011 as a simple uprising by a few so-called rebels has blossomed into a brazen and bloody …
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How far is Wahhabi Saudi Arabia complicit in the Isis takeover of much of northern Iraq, and is it stoking an escalating Sunni-Shia conflict across the Islamic world? Some time before 9/11, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, once the powerful Saudi ambassador in Washington and head of Saudi intelligence until a …
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Crescent International, August, 2014Crescent International is a publication of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT), Toronto, Canada.It was premature to write off Bandar when he was relieved of his duties as the Saudi spy chief in May. He has re-emerged as special advisor to the king.
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