Monday, September 22, 2014
The
United States has conducted an escalating campaign of deadly airstrikes
against the extremists of the Islamic State for more than a month. But
that appears to have done little to tamp down the conspiracy theories
still circulating from the streets of Baghdad to the highest levels of
Iraqi government that the C.I.A. is secretly behind the same extremists
that it is now attacking.
“We
know about who made Daesh,” said Bahaa al-Araji, a deputy prime
minister, using an Arabic shorthand for the Islamic State on Saturday at
a demonstration called by the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr to warn
against the possible deployment of American ground troops. Mr. Sadr
publicly blamed the C.I.A. for creating the Islamic State in a speech
last week, and interviews suggested that most of the few thousand people
at the demonstration, including dozens of members of Parliament,
subscribed to the same theory. (Mr. Sadr is considered close to Iran,
and the theory is popular there as well.)
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