Via Daily Caller:
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki is doing everything he can to undermine his successor, in what may be a bid at mounting a political comeback.
Maliki served as Iraq’s Prime Minister from 2006 until 2014, and is seen as the Iraqi official most responsible for the rise of the Islamic State terrorist organization. After President Barack Obama withdrew U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011, Maliki began a sectarian purge of the Iraqi government and military.
The purges isolated Iraq’s Sunni minority, making them far more sympathetic to ISIS. The military, crippled by Maliki’s purges, crumbled before ISIS militants throughout the 2014 ISIS military campaign.