Thursday, April 16, 2015

It's All in the Wording

Washington and its allies blocked a UN resolution to add [IS] to the sanctions list, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday.

The ministry stated that the United States, among others, blocked Syria's resolution to add IS to the sanctions list in the UN Security Council. Currently the group is listed as one of the names for al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).

Washington insists that AQI should be renamed to the Islamic State in the sanctions list, the foreign ministry said.

"The political implications of a such position are clear – to absolve itself of the responsibility for the expansion of activities of the Islamic State and to prove it is not a new organization created as a result of the implementation of plans to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad, but the same al-Qaeda in Iraq."

  Sputnik News
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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