[Iran Press TV] Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Glenn, political commentator from Idaho, about hundreds of thousands of members of the Shabak minority group in northern Iraq being forced out of their homes by ISIL Takfiri...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
Lion of Islams.
What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Mr. Glenn, first of all how far is the ISIL terrorist group advancing in Iraq?
Glenn: Well if we are to believe in these reports and I think that they probably are accurate, they are advancing rather quickly. The question mark in all of this is how quickly would they be advancing were it not for the direct assistance both in terms of material and in training logistics that this group has gotten from United States, Israel and other Western powers?
This is the big unspoken thing that has to be registered in the minds of people of the world, particularly people of the West is that this thing did not just spring up out of nowhere. These wild dogs are creation of Western and Israeli intelligence and so when we look at the destruction that they are [wreaking] on the lives of all of these people as if Iraq had not endured enough after 20 years of war by the hands of the United States and other Western powers, we have to remember that this is an American operation despite whatever Barack Obama
Ready to Rule from Day One...
may do with his empty words and empty promises or even his empty actions with regards to military action against them.
Press TV: And of course speaking of America, I mean why has the US decided to take limited action now, and of course as a result how genuine is Washington's intentions?
Glenn: Well we have to always assume that Washington's intentions are never genuine. Whenever she is holding out her hand offering something you know that she is planning to take something from you.