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NEW YORK. — The United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia have been involved in creating the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group to overthrow the legitimate Syria government, a former US Senate candidate says.
“The United States has introduced all of these terrorists into Syria in conjunction with Israel and with Saudi Arabia and Turkey and its abundantly clear that the aggressor in this entire situation has been the United States,” said Mark Dankof, who is also a broadcaster and pastor in San Antonio, Texas.
Washington has been “acting through these Takfiri extremists at the behest of Israel, which wants a regime change in Syria as a prelude to improving their position for a potential attack on Iran,” Dankof told Press TV.
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The crisis has claimed the lives of more than 250 000 people so far and displaced millions of others.
US warplanes have been bombing purported Daesh positions in Iraq and Syria for over a year now. The US has largely limited its military role to “training” and “advising” Iraqi forces and militant units in Syria.
US President Barack Obama’s decision last month to deploy dozens of Special Operations forces to Syria to “advise” US-backed militants on the ground has reignited the long-stalled debate on war authorising.
On Tuesday, US Senator Lindsey Graham said the US Congress is unlikely to reach an agreement on a war authorisation against Daesh terrorists in Syria, where “the next 9/11 is coming from.”
“I think Democrats and a few Republicans have absolutely no clue as to the threats that we face,” the South Carolina Republican said, according to The Hill. — Press TV
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