In order to explore the history of the Islamic State in its relationship to Saudia Arabia and Turkey, Haneul Na'avi consulted Jeffrey Steinberg, senior editor and counterintelligence director of the Executive Intelligence Review. Steinberg has 40 years of experience working with the LarouchePAC, and is a member of and active contributor to the Schiller Institute in Wiesbaden, Germany. Click here to listen to the full interview.
Haneul Na’avi: Can you give us a brief history of the Islamic State? How did they rise to power after the [2003] US-NATO invasion of Iraq?
Jeffrey Steinberg: You have to go back to when Zbigniew Brzezinski was the National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter, and convinced the president to sign a secret authorisation to begin covert operations in Afghanistan, six months before the Soviets arrived, around Christmastime of 1979.
