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tives meant another step toward Doomsday. Indeed, these words by
late Mustafa al-Barzani in the Kurdish region of Iraq, that an
autonomous Kurdish region was "ready to become the 51 state" of the
st
USA have to a large extent become a reality now. 5
In one sense these things were all manufactured as a kind of invest-
ment in the future; this instability in Iraq led the way to the emergence
and strengthening of numerous radical groups. ISIL, to which the world
has still failed to find a solution, emerged in Iraq while al-Qaeda was
aiming its attacks mostly against Iraq. Therefore, the factor responsible
for triggering the current state of affairs, not only of Iraq but also of
Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Libya, and even Egypt, was the unjustified war
initiated in Iraq. Instability, terror, and fragmentation came to the region
exactly as planned.
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