Bashar Al-Assad Interview: “Al Qaeda was Created by the Americans With the Help of Saudi Wahhabi Money”. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar Support ISIS

Damascus, SANA-President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Italian TV channel RAI UNO. Below you will find the full transcript of this interview:

Question 1: Mr. President, thanks for the opportunity of talking to you. Let’s start from Paris. How did you react to the news coming from Paris?

President Assad: We can start by saying it’s a horrible crime, and at the same time it’s a sad event when you hear about innocents being killed without any reason and for nothing, and we understand in Syria the meaning of losing a dear member of the family or a dear friend, or anyone you know, in such a horrible crime. We’ve been suffering from that for the past five years. We feel for the French as we feel for the Lebanese a few days before that, and for the Russians regarding the airplane that’s been shot down over Sinai, and for the Yemenis maybe, but does the world, especially the West, feel for those people, or only for the French? Do they feel for the Syrians that have been suffering for five years from the same kind of terrorism? We cannot politicize feeling, feeling is not about the nationality, it’s about the human in general.

World govts secretly trade with Islamic State - terror financing expert

Have people seen the Sophie Shevardnardze interview with Christine Duhaime?

​World govts secretly trade with Islamic State - terror financing expert  

https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/270322-islamic-state-terror-financing/
Duhaime tends to classify ISIS as mostly a criminal enterprise that extends its assets to grabbing territory from which it then extracts product and sells this, and also use of kindnapping for ransom as an important source of income, as well as human trafficking.   Makes it sound like the Italian mafia with a more public profile.  I found that approach an interesting contrast to the way I had been conceptualising ISIS as an ideologically motivated political entity that supported itself with crime. This way it would be more a criminal enterprise that markets itself as a religious state because that works for it. One can then see how it could be used for money making and money laundering by god knows what private individuals and other governments. It also obviously soaks up unemployed or dissatisfied psychopaths, then gets them to explode themselves before they become dissatisfied with the employment conditions. 

I was interested to hear that the ISIS members who self-destructed in Paris whilst the police were trying to extract them were living in circumstances surrounded by drug paraphernalia.  From the perspective of a some time drug counselor, I have felt from the beginning that such widespread gruesome violence (as opposed to that enjoyed by rare psychopaths) carries the hallmarks of methamphetamine use - ICE notably.  You can quickly foster delusions (righteous wars; women as objects of abuse; paradise after suicide) and make addicts utterly careless with ICE.  That would explain how people could be sucked in by ridiculous promises of resort-style living and also how they might blow themselves up fearlessly, on a whim or under pressure, and how they would do anything to continue drug use, or prefer to self-destruct with ICE on board as opposed to being executed without any.