CIA Created ISIL, Iraqis Say

While the US rallies its allies to launch an all-out war on the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Iraqis believe that the militant group is an invention of the CIA to allow the US interference in the area.

“ISIL is a clear creation of the United States,” Haidar al-Assadi, 40-year-old Iraqi Shiite, told New York Times on Sunday, September 21.
“The United States is trying to intervene again using the excuse of ISIL,” he added.
The opinion expressed by al-Assadi was shared by a large number of Iraqis, stretching from the highest offices in the Iraqi government to the streets of Baghdad, OnIslam.net reported.

"We know about who made Daesh [ISIL in Arabic]," said Bahaa al-Araji, a deputy prime minister in the newly formed Iraqi government at a protest rally organized by the Shi'ite cleric Moktada al-Sadr to oppose the possible deployment of American ground troops in Iraq.

Al-Araji’s opinion was shared by most of the few thousand people at the demonstration, including dozens of members of Parliament.

Sadr has previously blamed the CIA for creating ISIL in a speech last week.