AMY GOODMAN -- JURNALIST -- DEMOCRACY NOW -
Abdel Bari Atwan: Inside How the U.S. & Saudi Arabia Aided Growth of the Islamic State
Two days after the Paris attacks, President Obama met Saudi Arabia’s
King Salman for a bilateral meeting at the G20 summit in Turkey on
Sunday. The following day, the Pentagon revealed the U.S. State
Department has approved the sale of $1.29 billion in smart bombs to
Saudi Arabia for its attack on Yemen. We speak to Abdel Bari Atwan about
how the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the Saudi funding of jihadist movements helped the Islamic State grow.
