Episode 88 – Ishmam Ahmed: ISIS & The Story With Syria

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The Story:

Many people will see a meme about a military political situation in the middle east and assume that they might understand something about it. However, a complex scenario with many different players, many motivations, prejudices and current interplays of actions is too complex to be condensed down to a few sentences on Facebook.

Is ISIS controlled or funded by the US government? Our guest Ishmam Ahmed says that the evidence points to no. There is a complex narrative behind it, involving Al-Qaeda Iraq’s split from Al-Qaeda, their subsequent organised crime activities, the de facto government infrastructure which they have now built, the rebellion against the current brutal Assad regime leading to the radicalisation of many citizens, other groups fighting against ISIS and the Assad such as the Free Syria Army, and funding of those groups from other countries in the region.

Can you work through the labyrinth of interests, radicalised interests, mixed interests and crossed interests? We review the evidence on the next episode of … The Paradise Paradox!