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Hillary In Leaked Email: Saudi Arabia And Qatar Are Funding ISIS

2016-10-11

[Daily Caller] Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton sent an email to her campaign chairman John Podesta in 2014, who was then-counselor to President Barack Obama, that said Saudi Arabia and Qatar are both giving financial and logistical support to the Islamic State and other extremist Sunni groups, according to a recent Wikileaks release.

Clinton sent the email on August 17, 2014 to Podesta. It was an eight-point plan to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Clinton’s email said that the United States should support Kurdish forces on the ground with U.S. military advisers and avoid the use of a conventional ground operation.

"While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region," Clinton wrote.

The former secretary of state added: "This effort will be enhanced by the stepped up commitment in the [Kurdish Regional Government]. The Qataris and Saudis will be put in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious U.S. pressure."

Posted by:Besoeker

#10 She's always easy, but never cheap. /sarc needed?

$250,000 an hour. That ain't cheap.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-10-11 15:35

#9 urther, the KSA is responsible in part for Iran's belligerency

So the whole hostage thing, which predates the Iran/Iraq war, wasn't belligerency. Right.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-10-11 13:13

#8 Sorry JQC you're wrong. Hillary would never sell the country for a buck.

She's always easy, but never cheap. /sarc needed?

Posted by: AlanC 2016-10-11 12:23

#7 Hillary is beholden to the Saudis and these other M.E. Arab countries. She took money from them to enrich herself. Better hope she does not get to be POTUS. She will sell the country out for a buck.

Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-11 10:44

#6 #5 Saudi's funded Al Qaeda and got away with it, why not fund ISIS and hope the crocodile eats you last. Posted by rjschwarz

Concur in part. The KSA birthed the original Muslim Brotherhood, incubated and supported Al Qaeda, funds and support ISIS. They are the alligator. When do we light their asses up?

Further, the KSA is responsible in part for Iran's belligerency (the Iraq invasion...), Iran's pursuit of nuclear arms since the KSA supported Pakistan's nuclear program, and for our fight in Gulf War I to protect them against the alligator to the north that they created, and most likely contributed to the Bush mis-step on Gulf War II. They have never been held accountable for the American blood on their hands.

Posted by: Tennessee 2016-10-11 10:26

#5 Saudi's funded Al Qaeda and got away with it, why not fund ISIS and hope the crocodile eats you last.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-10-11 09:49

#4 The Sunni and Shia are only united when Israel and the U.S. are involved.

Popcorn then, amirite ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-11 08:40

#3 What BrerRabbit said. The Sunni and Shia are only united when Israel and the U.S. are involved.

Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-11 08:38

#2 The problem here is the US administration doesn't take the Iran Shiia threat to the Sunni states seriously. For the Sunnis states any Sunni proxy is a good proxy.

Yemen is just the prologue.

Posted by: phil_b 2016-10-11 06:02

#1 Anything Sunni is funded by the Saudis. Where's the Captain Obvious graphic?

Posted by: BrerRabbit 2016-10-11 03:34

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