Commander: ISIS a plot to hurt Iraq’s Sunnis

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Commander: ISIS a plot to hurt Iraq’s Sunnis

Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Wednesday, 30 November 2016

A tribal commander battling ISIS has said he considers the rise of the extremist group a “conspiracy” against Iraq, especially Sunnis, in the most recent statement reiterating the sentiment long-held by some Iraqi Sunnis.

Abdel Rahman Ali told Reuters that ISIS was part of an elaborate plot to weaken Sunnis.

“Everyone knows ISIS will be defeated. The conspiracy was designed to hurt Iraq, especially Sunnis, after we liberate Mosul,” he told Reuters. “Our own politicians are behind it.”

This argument is in spite of ISIS' claim to be a hard line Sunni group.

Sheikh Abdulwahab Sarhan al-Dulaimi, head of the Anbar Tribes Council Against Terrorism, told Al Arabiya English in November that “all those who imagine that ISIS as representative of Sunnis in Iraq are wrong, because ISIS is a vengeful and killing machine against the Sunnis.”

He added: “We paid the biggest price.”

Before the rise of ISIS in 2014, some of Iraq’s Sunnis demanded a federal structure in the country to gain more say on what is happening in their areas.

Continued: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2016/11/30/Sunni-tribesmen-battling-ISIS-demand-federalism-in-Iraq.html