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Iraq received massive financial support from the Gulf States, above all from Saudi Arabia, and billions in loans from Washington – though these, since the Iraqis were now obliged to import their wheat from the US, had the effect of boosting the American economy
Officially, the West continues to pursue its goal of regime change in Syria, in the deluded hope that the Baghdad government will somehow help defuse the tensions between Sunnis and Shiites – even though their policies are part of the problem
Evidently this trade fired the imagination of the secret services, since the CIA eventually set up a triangular operation to sell weaponry to
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