Peter Scholl-Latour over the changes in the Middle East, which have resulted from the onset of ISIS
Mr. Scholl-Latour, they have traveled all the Lander in the world, of which many regularly. When were you for the first time in Iraq?
Peter Scholl-Latour: That was in 1951, then was still Konig Faisal and was the Iraq another monarchy. I’ve always traveled the Iraq over the last few years and decades again and again, have experienced the country under Saddam and even after the Americans invasion. Believe that in the face of the youngest development, the existence of Iraq is already past in his previous territorial integration?
Peter Scholl-Latour: Yes, that’s over. In the region, the boundaries were drawn from the colonial yields. Iraq, in today’s boundaries, was invented by the British Agent Gertrude Bell. The division of Iraq is practically as good as completed. There we have Kurdistan in the north, whose independence is trimmed by the enormous OL resources, flanked by the Peschmerga, as an army. In addition to Iraq under Guide Al-Malikis, as well as the West Iraq, where the ISIS troops prevail. The terror group ISIS or. Isil plans to build an Islamic Sunni God in Iraq and Syria. Will ISIS achieve this goal?
Peter Scholl-Latour: This structure already exists, over the Syrian-Iraqi border. Attractions of Isis is Abu Bakr Al-Bagdadi, which the Americans have appointed the most dangerous man in the world. It is indeed for an eerie man who has brought a connection to the scope of his control, which extends from Syria in the Euphrat to the West and north of Iraq. What are the causes, for the strong and the military impact of ISIS?
Peter Scholl-Latour: Isis benefited from foreign support in the Syrian burger war against Assad. The Turks and the West have committed the mistake to fully support the trafficers in Syria. Americans had the goal of protecting the relatively liberal free Syrian army without considering that the Islamist force, consisting of bugged jihadists, who were already active in Afghanistan and Chechnya, the free army were stealed the weapons. This is now in Mol to watch, where weapons delivered by the USA to the Iraqi government army now fell the Jihadist in the hands. Where are the camphor of the Isis?
Peter Scholl-Latour: Al Baghdadi has about 15.000 Isis camphor, but are only the fewest from Iraq or Syria. Rather, it is about immigrant jihadists from the Caucasus, coarse part Chechens, from Egypt, Pakistan and many other countries of the Arab world. Also from Saudi Arabia, the narrow composites of the West, which demanded many of these radical groups and has prevented several times that more moderate forms of Islam come to. Who is the ISIS funded by?
Peter Scholl-Latour: Among the Gulf Emirates, which are considered in the West as a bonded opposite to Iran. In addition, the terrorists are trained in the money procurement, by surfalling, plunners and developing, for example. Already in 2011, they warned in an interview that the Burger War in Syria also overflows on Iraq. They are confirmed?
Peter Scholl-Latour: Unfortunately, yes. In my recent visits in Baghdad, I could find what had a hatred of the Shiites and Sunnis. Baghdad was there as protection before leaning in the enemy Sunnitan and Shiite neighborhoods, as well as the sacred equips of the Shiites. It is a shiite-Sunni burger war, which is now raging from Lebanon to Iraq.
Iran is, measured by its environment, one of the most states of the region
Is the Iran so far the winner of the current development?
Peter Scholl-Latour: Iran is certainly the winner, because we are now experiencing a consultation between Americans and Iranians, a kind of interest solidarity. The new Iranian Prasident Rohani has made it clear that he can not accept a fundamentalist Sunnit state of ISIS. Especially since the shiites in Iraq make the majority. In addition, the ISIS has begotten to conquer the city of Kerbela. So the holiest city of the Shiites overhead. That will prevent Iran. Even if it is notified militarically, which is also in the interest of the Americans. Turkey is probably more likely to consider as a loser of development?
Peter Scholl-Latour: Erdogan had committed a rough mistake when he was so unilateral into the turmoil of the Arab conflicts, flanked by old caliphat dreams. Turkey is now in a complicated situation, as the boundaries to Syria and Iraq are completely open, which is used not only by escape strings, but also by terrorists. For liberation of the Turkish hostages in Mol, Ankara must access the Kurdish Peschmerga camphor. If the Turkey himself became militarically, it became conflicts with the Kurds, both in North Iraq, as well as in North Syria, where the Kurds have also ran away from Damascus. What do you think of Al-Maliki? He will withstand the ISIS troops?
Peter Scholl-Latour: That will certainly not be easy. Maliki took off the mistake, the Sunni minority, which prevailed at times Saddam Hussein, to dismiss. This is about 20% of the population. However, a coarse part of the Iraqi Sunni would have nothing to do with the terrorists of Isis together, which could possibly give a support for Maliki. However, it is a mistake, Al-Maliki now blaming for the development, as in the west hopfish, especially in the US, probably to relieve themselves . Who should also step in Baghdad to the place of Maliki?