22.04.2017 - 04:33 [ Robert Fisk / Dawn ]

Assad is not the only one ‘responsible’ for rise and deeds of IS

But what we need is evidence. Not anonymous officials and unnamed intelligence sources and all the other comedians on the journalistic stage. Nor the dead whose numbers wobble by a difference of 100,000 bodies… Who are the killers? Who gave them the orders? And this means not just who gave the orders to the killers of Syria. It also means — do not mention here the kings and prince of the Gulf — that we must discover who is really behind Isis? And that, I suspect, is the question of this decade.