| How far is 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, former Saudi ambassador in Washington, told the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove: "The time is not far off in the Middle East, Richard, when it will be literally 'God help the Shia'. More than a billion Sunnis have simply had enough of them." This, Patrick Cockburn asserts, is a point that has been reached in the Middle East with the help of Sunni leaders in Saudi Arabia. The ramifications are apparent already: ISIS' takeover of Iraq is one of them. |
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