Iraqis Believe America and ISIL are United Hello America. Hello world. From the headquarters of reachmorenow.com in Fort Worth, Texas, this is Ray Mossholder and this is a special report: Suddenly Syria has broken into the news again as the American military has begun striking ISIL there. I'll get to that story today in my very next news report. But as important as it is, another story related to it is even more important. It's a story with a question mark and it comes posed and unanswered from the New York Times. I thank my friend Hal Lindsey for leading me to it. Here's the banner for this story: Suspicions Run Deep in Iraq That C.I.A. and the Islamic State Are United. The article is written by David D. Kirkpatrick and appeared in this past Saturday's edition of the New York Times. The Central Intelligence Agency's accuser is Bahaa al-Araji, a Deputy Prime Minister in the new Iraqi government who, also on Saturday, at a demonstration that was called by the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr to warn against American ground troops returning to Iraq. Deputy Sadr bluntly stated "We know about who made Daesh." (Daesh is Arabic shorthand for the Islamic State.) When an American reporter asked al-Sadr if he believed the C.I.A. made ISIL, al-Sadr answered "I don't know. I am one of the poor people." He spoke in fluent English and got back into his chauffeur-driven SUV as he said "But we fear much. Thank you." What may be simply a conspiracy theory is prevalent in both Iraq and Iran. In a speech last week, al-Sadr was much more blunt. He told an audience of a few thousand that included more than thirty members of Parliament, and repeated to journalists afterward, that the C.I.A. created and trained ISIL. The usually snail-like moves from President Obama when it comes to anything regarding the American military was actually a literal jumping of the gun by him. He had said many times that those air strikes would only follow the installation of the new Iraqi government. But then he failed to wait for that to happen before he ordered the airstrikes by our American military to begin. There is no Defense Minister yet chosen for the new government, obviously a key role with Iraq being split apart by war. Nor is there a Minister of the Interior keeping track of who controls what now in a nation being so terribly torn apart. Even nominees for these vital positions haven't yet been confirmed because the Sunnis and the Shiites can't even agree on who should be nominated. There is a strong belief among both groups that nominations like these are still at least a month away. Saturday's demonstration in Baghdad had just one purpose – to warn the United States not to put boots back on the ground in Iraq. The all-consuming reason they are warning America of this is a simple one. America isn't trusted. Haider al-Assidi, one of those who was among the massive demonstrators, said "The Islamic State is a clear creation of the United States, and the United States is trying to intervene again in Iraq using the excuse of the Islamic State." He said Shiite volunteers and militias had already been going after ISIL without America's help. He warned "These same forces will stop America's boots from being here. The main reason Obama is saying we will not invade again is because he knows the Islamic resistance and he does not want to lose a single soldier." Also on Saturday, the leader of all ISIL, Abu al-Baghdadi, responded to all this by saying "The conspiracies of Jews, Christians, Shiites and all the tyrannical regimes in the Muslim countries have been powerless to make the Islamic State deviate from its path. The entire world saw the powerlessness of America and its allies before a group of believers. People now realize that victory is from God, and it shall not be aborted by armies and their arsenals." There is a great division in the minds of Saturday's protesters. They welcome American military airstrikes, but are in absolute opposition to American military returning for ground warfare. The protesters were not only against American boots but had much negative to say about Iraq's former Prime Minister Nuri Kamal Al Malicki. One of them, Omar al-Jabori, who grew up in a majority Shiite part of Baghdad although he is a Sunni, said about Malicki, "He did not just exclude and marginalize the Sunni people; he ignored the Shiite people too. He gave special help to his family, his friends, people close to him. He did not really help the Shiite people, as many people think. Still, it is obvious to everyone that the Islamic State is a creation of the United States and Israel."

• published: 23 Sep 2014
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