The whole ISIL is really strange. They come out of no where, beat the crap out of existing armies with the aid of a bit of treachery,and appear to have superior material and tactics than any group in the region. With the possible exception of the peshmerga in northern Iraq. A line from a movie comes to mind, who are those guys? I suspect they are former Republican Guards Groups with former Iraqi General Officer leadership. The next questions is who is paying them? The Saudis? What is going on over there?
‘I suspect they are former Republican Guards Groups with former Iraqi General Officer leadership. The next questions is who is paying them? The Saudis? What is going on over there?’
They are ordinary Islamic terrorists supported by Saudis and Obama who pretend that various faction of ISIS are ‘moderate rebels’ fighting secular governments.
The power or ISIS over other parties comes primarily from the technical and financial support of said actors and also endless line of Islamists including Western useful idiots sharing their ideology and ready to fight for their cause.
I wouldn’t exclude is some soldiers of former Iraqi regime are within ISIS ranks but their number is minimal. Saddam regime these people represented was actually the very opposite to ISIS goals.
If anything they probably have more post-Saddam US-trained Iraqi military with them.