There was no Al-Qaeda in Iraq before George Bush and Tony Blair sent hundreds of thousands of Western soldiers illegally to invade and occupy it. There is now. Thousands of them. ISIS - the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria - actually expelled by the Al-Qaeda Chief Ayman Al-Zawahari for being "too sectarian.... too extreme" - are sweeping away all before them. Iraq's Prime Minister seems certain to fall, the Iraqi state is in real danger of collapse. Joining Sputnik this week to discuss what's happening in the land where he was born is Sabah Al-Mukhtar of the Arab Lawyers Network in Britain.
