U.S. uses groupings posing threat now to topple regimes in Iraq, Libya - chief of Russian General Staff Academy
MOSCOW. Oct 8 (Interfax-AVN) - The use of radical religious, ethnic and other groupings by different countries in their own interests is becoming "the most important factor of destabilization of regional and international situation," chief of the Military Academy of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff Sergei Makarov said.
"Political experiments by American ruling circles with the use of Islamic radical organizations have being developing further. For instance, to topple 'undemocratic', in their view, regimes in Iraq and Libya, the United States has used the Islamic groupings of these countries, which pose a threat currently for regional and global security," Makarov said at an international conference on Afghanistan on Thursday.
First and foremost, the ISIL terrorist grouping, which is acting today not only in Iraq, but also in Syria, Libya and Yemen, should be treated as such groupings. The attempts at creating and using such radical organizations "as a rule, result in a broader scale of the terrorist threat," the head of the academy said.
"The Afghan crisis proved the impermissibility of ignoring the interests of ethnic minorities in the multinational country, as a result, the conflict is turning into a long national confrontation," Makarov said.
